@ArtOfCode one fish many fish, many fishes. Fishy. Ghothi phishes

@ShadowWizardWearingMask Call Dr. Gogo?

@JourneymanGeek How is it your explanations, both just now (here) and in discord when tensions are high, are so on point? Really nice answer, man.

Thanks? :D

(I was a bit worried about that one tbh)

I don't wanna make it sound like I'm beefing you up about it or anything but like... I dunno. If there was a way to answer that question... I think that one's it, to be honest.

Or, if not a full on answer, a good response.

I dunno...

Soo... uhhh...

!!/tea

@Spevacus brews a cup of darjeeling tea for @Spevacus

@Spev Beef up or butter up?

Beef would be done there (with context), butter here; with or without.

All of the culinary references.

Twitter Hack Update.

nuke-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/352530/…

@JohnDvorak it's back

@JohnDvorak is there more context to this? i.e. is this not the first time we've seen this guy on Meta trying to get out of a suspension?

@NobodyNada lemme put it this way....

evading suspensions in order to get out of a suspension is a bit like a war for peace.

it just dosen't work

Same person appears a few times, and with a different delay (different poses); and next to different people.

Wisdom of the day:

> If you are sincerely looking for help understanding a situation, please avoid using terminology that escalates the situation and puts people on the defensive - it generally leads to people reacting negatively. It's a self-fulfilling action.

@JourneymanGeek but then again 10 years is a lot

@JohnDvorak you don't start at 10 years

Why SO is asking for my location?

It comes from an ad. Supposedly they need that to prevent fraud.

@JohnDvorak 275 is thought to be the maximum.

@Rob 3000 for chat :)

I thought I saw 9999 somewhere ...

99,999÷365 = < 274

@Rob Someone figured out how to bypass the 99999 by fiddling with the value sent by the browser. ArtOfCode if IIRC

→ 17 messages moved to Chimney

@M.A.R. okay, only for this day then ...

@JohnDvorak I think it's for browser profiling. Block it.

I do.

Some people don't get it...

...

Well. The comments were deleted cause they were noisy and argumentative.

With the current direction of the comments, I'm sure that will happen again sooner or later.

😁

Let's try the gentler solution first

Let's see if he got the hint now.

Well... Also if you feel it's someone who doesn't get it... There's better uses of time 😁

Also that's a useful tool. Even if what I really wanted was comment suspensions

Whatever gets the job done.

@JourneymanGeek It's good practice and there was just a sliver of hope it may have worked.

Hence the answer.

@Catija - since you handle HNQ features, I wonder which way would be more convenient for you. This is about that 2% parameter, you probably saw recent MSE posts about it. First I wanted to make FR to change it, then I got lost in how it works and instead asked for explanation, and some time later I figured it myself and self-answered. Now I'm back to request for changing it but can't make my mind whether it would be better to "convert" my initial question to feature request or post it separately

^^^ I am looking for what's better as a matter of "bookkeeping" - don't intend insisting on implementation. Before asking here I also tried to figure which way I would prefer myself walking in your shoes but ended up uncertain

Looks like I missed a non-dramatical drama on MSE

@rene Public chaos from tomorrow 👍

Ah, suspension bridge

@gnat Considering you've self-answered your question, won't changing the question invalidate the answer? It really sounds like you have a follow-up question.

@gnat a few things to consider

MSE is a little too eager about duplicates IMO , so your mileage may vary with the question-FR referencing your question-explaination

the ideal time would be when its a topic SE is actively working on, and as such can be status-reviewed,

but of course, that involves waiting, and that its actually something in the queue

since its your own Q/A pair, you might edit, move the information from the current answer at present and change it into a question, and hope no one gets too grumpy

It's meta. There's always someone grumpy.

hah

ha

I'm meta, I'm always grumpy

@Mast that's a good point and initially I simply wanted to make a straight follow-up feature request (possibly even dupe-closing my first question having newer as a target, to help readers see the connection - @JourneymanGeek). But when drafting that future follow up I noticed that it can be rather smoothly incorporated into my original Q&A, without invalidating the answer. It just turned difficult to decide which way would work better, that's why I asked here

@gnat but if its anwered, what's there to do? :D

@Mast and bumpy

Could probably make a haiku out of that.

and lumpy

Ah, the double posts show up here too.

@JourneymanGeek you mean, if the question gets converted to feature request? In this case the prior answer would work as an auxiliary note / data point regarding the request. I saw this many time at meta how people post such answers with reasoning for or against proposed change, if memory serves we even had discussion at MSE where this was quite thoroughly covered. Such answers per se are routine thing, it is just that "conversion" from support question to feature request seem to be rare

yup

cause its a change in scope

indeed, scope change has to be the reason. And this is possibly also why I consider this for my question, because as I mentioned there was a scope change in it already. I first planned it as FR (first half of the question is just a copy from that FR draft). It was only after I discovered that I coudn't understand some important things about feature, I modified it and changed scope into asking for explanation

If you leave the current question as-is, regardless of whether your request is fulfilled, it may be a good target for potential future questions to dupe against.

I am not going to radically change it anyway (as I mentioned, stuff I drafted so far seems to merge quite smoothly), so it most probably would remain suitable for dupe target after conversion as well

Isn't the error message below incorrect?

Shouldn't it say Downvotes cast by those with less than 125 rep?

It should

I'd kind of like to ask a question about that...

I'm guessing it's the 125 reputation that's the variable value in that message...

So same message for up and down just with a different rep number.

I've a feeling I've commented on that before, and my conclusion is they probably use a single template like "Votes cast by those with less than {rep_to_vote}..."

ninja'd by a parrot

It should be possible to verify the hypothesis through Transifex?

I guess? I wouldn't know where to start using that, though.

Wait, I'll check it...

I can't check the other error messages anymore because of the Association Bonus.

Though I'm not complaining :)

(Same here, and not complaining either ;) )

Can we change that to say "Downvotes"?

Seems a little confusing.

But only a little.

> Thanks for the feedback! Votes cast by those with less than $repRequired$ [reputation]($link$) are recorded, but do not change the publicly displayed post score.

That's the template

Yeah. Then changing it to downvote won't work.

Because people will see a message when they upvote that says they downvoted, which will be even more confusing.

You could perhaps ask if they're willing to make this two messages...

Hmmmm...

sdc coffee Tinkeringbell

@Ollie brews a cup of Mocha for @Tinkeringbell

will be a dupe of meta.stackexchange.com/questions/280979/…, which is a dupe

Heh. It's an old problem, apparently...

@MetaAndrewT. yeah. Neever mind

Can Smokey bake cookies as well as make coffee?

umm, not yet..

Do edits on later-deleted posts count?

I've edited two, my counter shows only one.

So?

@Mast so why isn't it showing two? One of those edits is on a (now deleted) post. Why doesn't it show?

Could well be that deleted ones aren't counted. But does it matter?

Both counting deleted ones and not counting deleted ones makes sense depending how you look at it.

Can't have 'em both.

@Mast not really. Just curious.

@Mast it also didn't show the reason for the +2 rep in my Achievements icon.

Going now.

Ta!

@MetaAndrewT. Almost, there's: !!/lick, !!/wut, !!/coffee, !!/tea, and !!/brownie

owl figure TP holder? I like.

Didn't work out as well as it could have, alignment issues that weren't repairable.

I thought the eyes were for screws, but I like this one too

🐧

Why are review privileges awarded at 2000 rep on Meta, and 500 on AskUbuntu? Is it that way for all Meta/normal sites?

The review queues available on other sites at 500 rep aren't available on MSE.

Meta is special.

Wasn't the saying Meta is murder?

Kind of special special

Meta is special murder.

:D

I watched The Shining today. Then I napped and dreamt a grotesque mutant is chasing me into claustrophic situations.

Now I want Jack Nicholson on meta

Ah, the Shining, yes. I remember when I viewed that movie in the local cinema. We had good laugh.

@M.A.R. Now I'm imagining Nicholson sticking his head through the wood saying "here is meta"

@rene Yeah I get it. The only scary thing for plants is dehydration

@Mast I'm imagining @rene as Delbert Grady

This is when he sees a require downvote comment FR

w00t

Tomorrow last day of quarantine! Woo hoo!

Since I work from home and wife doesn't, she has the most burden, having three children cling to her all day long... still, it backfires at me as well.

So glad it'll be over. :D

@Ollie The First Posts and Late Answers review queues don't exist on Meta, so the lowest rep review queues are Suggested Edits and Low Quality Posts, both of which require 2,000 rep, the same on the other sites.

@rene you said "I viewed" then "we had" - so, you and your... hands?

;)

Also, if horror movies make you laugh.... something is wrong either with the movie, or you.... :D

I have faint memory of the book, read it as teenager or in my early 20's... it was actually scary.

I didn't watch the movie, but now that I know it exist, might do it. ;)

@Rob you're too silent, all is well? ;)

Before I forget, wanted to give @Inf some attention so she might stick around this time. :P

So, hey @Inf!

@ShadowWizardWearingMask 👨‍⚕️ Nuh-uh!

Yes, I'm well thanks. Spoke less than an hour ago.

@ShadowWizardWearingMask 14 days is Tuesday ...

🤲🔙

@Rob still not often enough. ;)

@DavidPostill well, it was posted when it was still July 20 for me (or early night of the 21st), and the two weeks are from last contact with the infected person, which turned out to be at Sunday, July 19th, at 4 PM. :)

I should have said started, not starting, perhaps. ;)

lol

@Rob I've seen exactly one episode of that and I still recognized her.

Weakest Link - Doctor Who special

Anne Droid the Dalek: tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Anne_Droid

I want to ask if there is a site where users "unjustly" banned from forums/casinos/etc., congregate to potentially help each other; a "banned user union" of sorts. Would this question be appropriate for Community Building, Interpersonal Skills, Software Recommendations, Super User, or Web Applications?

@user10478 I doubt it

@user10478 No

!!/standby teward

teward/Osiris is switching to standby