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Rob

19:00

Who were you talking about?

Luuklag

@jnat hoping to start a backlog of cross site spammers: stackexchange.com/users/20263452/freevfxdownload

@Rob Prashanth right?

Rob

You replied to me, about a discussion of Ayo.

👨‍💻⚙️💥

Luuklag

@Rob I replied to this message, especially the last part "even the CEO has no diamonds"

@Rob Well he has a diamond now, but only one on MSE, and no Staff button...

Gues their onboarding is still being onboarded?

JNat

19:44

@Luuklag gone... sorry for thwarting your hopes there ;P

Tinkeringbell

19:59

Okay, so the trick now is to keep some list in notepad and just post all of them on Friday. During happy hour ;)

Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog

A: Why are mods declining flags to add [featured] to pertinent questions?

On any other site, featuring a question on meta features it on that site (only). Moderators can and do use the "featured" tag locally to highlight things that are important to their communities. Here on Meta, featuring a question features that question on every site on the network. We don't hav...

Rob

@Luuklag They are probably overprotective about their N̶a̶u̶g̶h̶t̶y̶ Staff Bits. Perhaps there's a special procedure, after The Incident.

Luuklag

20:22

@SonictheCuriouserHedgehog Good reference

Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog

20:42

@Rob The hacker didn't have general staff access, only moderator access, which is what gave them away. (Had they had staff access, it's likely they would have slipped under the radar, as we'd have thought they were just a new employee.)

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Rob

21:42

@Luuklag A 3rd party blog on the hack says that they gained CM privilege to obtain a backup/restore of a deleted developer's account, obtaining developer access; ultimately this allowed them to gain admin access (owner of the computer). References: theregister.com/2021/01/27/stack_overflow_2019_hack_was zdnet.com/article/… - and links from meta's post of the SO Blog.

So it's likely that one must pass the gauntlet to flip the bit.

Shadow Wizard is Vaccinating

@Luuklag maybe.... only Nick can turn that bit on, and he's away on vacation. ;)

Rob

You need to be careful not to nick your bit.

Journeyman Geek

22:25

@ShadowWizardisVaccinating I think Nick is smarter than having explicit bus factors

Luuklag

22:49

@Tinkeringbell mu flag got declined: Can we get this featured please? – Luuklag 7 hours ago declined - We won't be featuring this post because Shodipo would like to keep it on Meta only, as is.

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag Ah so...

There's a ruie that we need explicit consent about featuring posts about people

I've tended to play fast and loose with it when I know the person is ok. I don't know Shodipo well enough to do that, so I passed it on to the CMs

Rob

23:27

8 hours ago, by Rob

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