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2:39 AM

Would this question qualify for rude/abusive for system abuse? It's not even a question.

@ymb1 Known troll

I think 90% of the time, if you see Bannon mentioned on meta, you can probably flag it for attention. 100% if there's a political comic :D

10 Rep

3:00 AM

@ymb1 It's basically the equivalent of alt text, so in case the image can't render, the alt text will be there to explain the image's contents.

Journeyman Geek

it is alt text

Ryan M

tries to come up with an on-topic MSE question featuring a political comic about Steve Bannon

forest distrusts StackExchange

Damn it's gone. I can't see it. :(

Journeyman Geek

@RyanM "Alas! We are besieged by the spectre of misguided political activism, our pristine shores befouled by posts calling out Steve Bannon..."

Catija

Who doesn't care because he does what he does in full knowledge.

forest distrusts StackExchange

3:05 AM

As in he's doing that for the purpose of trolling?

Catija

Nah. I mean Bannon.

forest distrusts StackExchange

Oh. I know almost nothing about him, just that he ran that one far right blog.

(Unless I'm thinking of someone else)

Journeyman Geek

3:22 AM

@Catija TBH - I don't give two hoots about bannon.But he does have these folks upset enough to keep calling them out inappropriately

Catija

3:34 AM

It's reasonable to be upset. It's completely unfair and wrong to make Asians the scapegoat, particularly when it leads to violence.

forest distrusts StackExchange

Is he the guy who called it "china virus"?

Catija

One of them. There's lots of people who are calling COVID that.

(By people I mean politicians and pundits)

forest distrusts StackExchange

It's such a strange thing to call it.

It's not like the Chinese invented it.

Journeyman Geek

@Catija If it was a real person/people on the appropriate time -I'd be less grumpy

And the best way to hurt someone like that is to take away their relevance.

forest distrusts StackExchange

Politicians certainly aren't real people.

Catija

3:42 AM

The thing that amuses me is that the British politicians who used the term suddenly got really grumpy when we started referring to the variant first seen there as "the UK variant"...

forest distrusts StackExchange

ahah wow

Journeyman Geek

We're having issues with racism here cause of the indian outbreak

forest distrusts StackExchange

What hypocrites.

Journeyman Geek

Of course you can't really tell between a local indian and someone who came here recently

forest distrusts StackExchange

@JourneymanGeek Well some of India's problem is US holding on to patents, making it hard for them to manufacture the vaccines themselves.

Journeyman Geek

3:43 AM

@forestdistrustsStackExchange Its also a simple matter of scale and population density

forest distrusts StackExchange

Yeah, hence "some of".

Journeyman Geek

But I'm thinking more the social impact

forest distrusts StackExchange

There's also the issue of pseudoscientific myths/folklore.

Journeyman Geek

@forestdistrustsStackExchange like cowdung being an antiseptic. I know.

forest distrusts StackExchange

And the whole pooping in the street thing.

Cowdung being an antiseptic?? O_O

Journeyman Geek

3:45 AM

Oh, street, no

Ryan M

@JourneymanGeek I feel like cow dung is a proseptic, if anything.

Catija

@forestdistrustsStackExchange that's being looked into. It's absurd in general (makes insulin prices extreme) but for a global pandemic, the drug companies should be taking the goodwill of making them open without the government forcing it. Also, we can remove the patent but (if I understand it correctly) there's other countries that have to agree to that.

Journeyman Geek

But yes "doing toilet in the outer" is a thing.

@forestdistrustsStackExchange Also the US was stockpiling production supplies

and the MRNA vaccines are new enough only a handful of facilities can produce them

forest distrusts StackExchange

I remember hearing about some project the Indian government started to try to convince kids to poop in toilets, so they made this horrible video "take your poo to the loo" or something.

Journeyman Geek

now that they work...

Catija

3:47 AM

Now or not?

Journeyman Geek

@forestdistrustsStackExchange Well - the first step was building toilets and a functional sewage system

forest distrusts StackExchange

Yeah the US is really screwing everyone.

@JourneymanGeek I thought the issue was that they were afraid of the "loo witch".

Journeyman Geek

@Catija Oh, they do work, and they're proven - which means they might be useful fro...

@forestdistrustsStackExchange That's untrue

forest distrusts StackExchange

oh

Well serves me right for getting my news from /pol/

Catija

Yeah. Much safer to get it from late night TV hosts.

forest distrusts StackExchange

3:49 AM

heh

Journeyman Geek

You need to get it from rumours and little children.

forest distrusts StackExchange

Don't forget gut feeling.

Best source of news is gut feeling and prejudice, according to the average American.

Catija

Not restricted to news... to be honest. Also applies to science and geography and all sorts of things.

forest distrusts StackExchange

Humans in general are terrible at judging the accuracy of information provided to them.

Kevin B

4:20 AM

🚽

PM 2Ring

Also see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Rob

5:08 AM

Smokey's certificate expired, but it's still working otherwise.

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 30 mins ago, by tripleee

my browser is griping about metasmoke's SSL cert, is it just me?

Kevin B

6:08 AM

2 more days

Tinkeringbell

until?

Kevin B

subnautica below zero

Tinkeringbell

That's a game, right?

Kevin B

yup

Tinkeringbell

Have fun!

Kevin B

6:09 AM

underwater survival s htuff

Tinkeringbell

Sounds nice, but not my kind of game :)

I think my brothers played it a while though (an earlier version, that is)

forest distrusts StackExchange

in The Side Channel on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 1 hour ago, by Maeher

The lack of feedback when comments are deleted is pretty weird on se. I asked for clarification on a question (not on crypto.se) and judging from the edit history I can only assume that the poster answered, a mod then edited the question to include the answer and the deleted the comments. But there's literally zero indication of what happened and I did not even receive a notification of the response. Seems pretty counterproductive.

Another person lamenting the lack of notification for deleted comments. :/

@Rob "Working otherwise" yeah, just not securely. :P

Luuklag

6:53 AM

@forestdistrustsStackExchange AFAIK @-mentions remain in your inbox until read, even for deleted posts.

Ryan M

7:03 AM

@Luuklag open the MS report, it says why I reported it

Luuklag

well the post contains no spam, but it's not that great to keep.

Ryan M

I mean, the user's contributions to the network include, in their entirety, three posts promoting Stellar's website or tools.

Luuklag

I prefer to moderate posts, not users

Ryan M

What's the saying... Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is ~~enemy action~~ spam.

That site also has a long history of posting cleverly disguised spam on the network.

Re: moderating posts vs. users, it's sometimes necessary to look at the user's history to tell if the posts are spam. In this case, it really does like there are.

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag yes and no

Its useful to flag spam, but patterns are also useful

Ryan M

7:13 AM

@RyanM *they are.

forest distrusts StackExchange

Huh, odd. This user's avatar, when I view it directly, is animated:

rhythmxecho

1

myanimelist

But when SE renders it, it displays a "play" icon over it.

Is this a new way SE is dealing with animated images?

Oh wait, is this just how googleusercontent is displaying it?

Journeyman Geek

That's a bit... annoying

forest distrusts StackExchange

Yeah it is. Having a play icon makes absolutely no sense.

Luuklag

Well it appears that at least google images are fixed again

@forestdistrustsStackExchange yup, that is how it is hosted on google

forest distrusts StackExchange

That's so dumb.

Luuklag

7:24 AM

Well its probably the way google renders thumbnails for gifs

forest distrusts StackExchange

Yeah but... why a play icon? It's not like it's an actual functional button.

Journeyman Geek

Cause... designers?

Maybe someone ~~copy pasted thumbnail code from stack overflow~~ felt it was a good idea to let people know it was a thumbnail of a gif explicitly?

Luuklag

@forestdistrustsStackExchange well usually it links to the full version.

so clicking that opens the real gif

forest distrusts StackExchange

Ah, so this user just used an image URL meant for clickable thumbnails.

(Also, Railgun was a great anime. This dude has good taste)

Luuklag

@forestdistrustsStackExchange would be my guess

Journeyman Geek

7:28 AM

Or SE picked up on that and the user didn't look too closely

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@forestdistrustsStackExchange Google, likely that's what you see when viewing the user's Google profile

@JourneymanGeek SE doesn't pick up anything, it's direct embed of image hosted on Google.

@Luuklag thanks! /cc @Ekadh thanks too for the kind words. :)

Ryan M

The user who posted that Android.SE post I reported to SD has now been destroyed

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@RyanM nice

Meta Smoke site SSL expired today, who can fix it? @Undo isn't around.

forest distrusts StackExchange

Should have used Lets Encrypt. Automatic cert renewal is so nice.

Ryan M

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard Known issue in Charcoal, waiting for one of the people with access to show up

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

7:43 AM

@forestdistrustsStackExchange it's for 3 months, so looks like some free service

Ryan M

@forestdistrustsStackExchange You, uh, might want to check the issuer on the cert ;-)

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@RyanM Shog? ;)

forest distrusts StackExchange

haha

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

Shog9 - you get 9 months of free SSL

forest distrusts StackExchange

I guess they should fix their certbot cronjob then? :P

Ryan M

7:44 AM

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard Let's Encrypt :-p

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

:D

Ryan M

as I'm about to send a complex custom flag, I realize that linking metasmoke in flags at this particular moment is probably not the best timing...

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@RyanM yup

Ryan M

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard whoever put the shift and enter keys next to each other is the worst

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@RyanM you tell me? Happens to me almost daily, though for me with backspace.

I make typo, want to remove it with backspace, and boom! message posted by mistake when I misclick Enter

!!/blame worst keyboard design ever

SmokeDetector

7:54 AM

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard It's forest distrusts StackExchange's fault.

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

hehe @forest

Ryan M

Hmm, your keyboard is shaped differently than mine. Mine's got a backslash between backspace and enter.

forest distrusts StackExchange

:o

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

o:

yeah looked for keyboards on Google now and what I have isn't standard indeed, lol

Journeyman Geek

So do I

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

7:59 AM

@JourneymanGeek yours is custom made, I assume? ;)

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard Not really - Its a off the shelf keyboard, but I can customise the layout

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

Sounds neat

Journeyman Geek

Only change in mine is caps lock is fn-capslock to toggle, and acts as a shift otherwise

drop.com/buy/drop-ctrl-mechanical-keyboard

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

BTW, fitting song for mood these days:

Status Quo - In The Army Now 1986 (HQ Audio, Top Of The Pops)

►

Ryan M

@JourneymanGeek good choice, I've got the same one :-)

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

8:01 AM

> Missiles flying over your head

At least it's not from @M.A.R's place, that would be much more nasty. ;)

Journeyman Geek

@RyanM I slightly miss my keypad but I have a seperate mechanical keypad off aliexpress

Ryan M

@JourneymanGeek if you like it, do you have a link? I've got a cheapo non-mechanical one off Amazon and it is awwwwwful.

(it works but it just feels mushy)

Journeyman Geek

aliexpress.com/item/…

The switches are Gateron

Luuklag

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard No major damages?

@JourneymanGeek feel free to nuke: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/364359/…

Ryan M

Nice, thanks! I wonder if that sends actual numpad codes or not

Journeyman Geek

8:08 AM

@RyanM actually, If I can find my notes, I can check

I was digging into a keyboard years ago

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@Luuklag not in my area, but Israel does have casualties already, think that 5.

Luckily (?) for me I live near important military factory (not base) which has max protection.

Luuklag

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard I guess that's a double edged sword. It would also make your region an important target...

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

I hear the Iron Dome being launched, it's about 20 in few seconds.

Ryan M

This suggested edit seems a bit off, it looks to me like AI is currently sponsored by AWS. If someone knows more and wants to fix it, that might be a good idea.

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@Luuklag yeah, true, and not to mention pollution...

But they don't aim for strategic targets so far, they shoot blindly in order to cause as much damage as possible.

Luuklag

8:14 AM

I hope this entire conflict regarding occupied territories etc. finds a resolution during my lifetime :/

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag I doubt

forest distrusts StackExchange

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard Didn't Israel start the attack on gaza, and they fired back?

I'm seeing a lot of that in the news.

Like 9 children were killed by the Israeli attacks, 50 something civilians.

It's horrible that all this is happening.

rene

@RyanM I made an edit

Journeyman Geek

@forestdistrustsStackExchange Its messy

forest distrusts StackExchange

Yeah.

Turns out people get pissed when you take their land by force.

Journeyman Geek

8:17 AM

But there was apparently a legal ruling over some disputed neighbourhood that apparently Hamas wasn't happy with.

forest distrusts StackExchange

And then people are born in the stolen land and now it's not so simple since they were born there.

Journeyman Geek

@forestdistrustsStackExchange Don't forget quite a few countries using the palestinians for proxy wars

forest distrusts StackExchange

@JourneymanGeek I had heard Israel started the attacks, and Hamas only retaliated after Palestinian citizens were killed.

Tinkeringbell

@forestdistrustsStackExchange It's called sharing. Toddlers can do that. :P

forest distrusts StackExchange

true

Luuklag

8:17 AM

Lets not have this conversation guys, there are only losers in such a conflict

Journeyman Geek

@forestdistrustsStackExchange You believe in the toilet fairy...

forest distrusts StackExchange

@Tinkeringbell Well, it's not that simple. Toddlers are also taught not to steal!

Toilet fairy :D

Tinkeringbell

Of course it isn't but I agree with Luuklag ;)

Journeyman Geek

At the end of the day, the people who make the orders arn't the ones who suffer

forest distrusts StackExchange

yeah :(

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

8:18 AM

@Luuklag no way, lol. Best we can ever hope for is long time truce.

@forestdistrustsStackExchange not this time. Israel started the conflict by denying entry to Muslims into their holy place.

Not a nice thing to do, and very silly, I can't deny, but not rockets on their population.

forest distrusts StackExchange

Well, at least I know a bunch of Palestinian kids were killed by Israeli missiles prior to Hamas attack.

Also weren't we supposed to change subject or something? It is a sensitive topic.

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@forestdistrustsStackExchange well they claim it's from our bombings, our experts claim it's their own misguided rockets. Can't know the truth.

forest distrusts StackExchange

"our experts" eeeeeh

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

One thing for sure, 100000% - Israel will NEVER aim for target having kids in it on purpose. That's enough for me to have clean conscience.

forest distrusts StackExchange

hah. hahah. hahahahha

Luuklag

8:21 AM

It will always be he-says, she-says

forest distrusts StackExchange

Remember that little girl who got sniped?

Tinkeringbell

Okay, this is indeed derailing enough to have our experts say to drop it.

forest distrusts StackExchange

ok

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@Tinkeringbell +1

forest distrusts StackExchange

New topic: kittens!

Tinkeringbell

8:21 AM

@forestdistrustsStackExchange Meh.

forest distrusts StackExchange

Ah shit I had an adorable picture of a kitten open somewhere and I closed it. :(

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@forestdistrustsStackExchange my kids are scared the cats outside will get hurt.

Tinkeringbell

I'm more of a puppy person.

Luuklag

@forestdistrustsStackExchange nyan.cat

forest distrusts StackExchange

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard Other way around here. My kid is scared of my cat.

But that's because she's literally evil and will attack anything that moves.

Luuklag

8:23 AM

haha nice

Our cats get along with our kids better and better

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@forestdistrustsStackExchange lol totally opposite from my kids, yeah :D

@forestdistrustsStackExchange ohh

We never had cats in our home, kids got attached to all the street cats they can find.

Luuklag

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard cute and sad at the same time

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

To the point they both say they won't get married or have children because they'll have only cats.

Ryan M

But if you get married you get help caring for the cats...

Luuklag

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard haha crazy cat kids. Great!

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

8:25 AM

(it's not their idea; they know the woman who feeds all those cats, and that's what she said.)

Journeyman Geek

@RyanM paste.ubuntu.com/p/mH8F6bDpdq

0.1234567890, then I turned off capslock and the same

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@RyanM small chance, more likely spouse won't like cats. Why? My wife doesn't like cats. ;)

They're sure that whatever happens in our family applies world wide to everyone. lol

@Luuklag :D

Ryan M

@JourneymanGeek do you mean num lock? Also, what tool is that so I can look up how to interpret that? ^^;

Journeyman Geek

Yes

paste.ubuntu.com/p/mHbzpZJKxb ls from device 12

@RyanM I tend to use evtest

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Ryan M

ah, cool, I'll have to learn about that

thanks :-)

Journeyman Geek

8:30 AM

Looks a lot like they popped in a 'standard' USB keyboard controller and just left out everything but the keypad :D

forest distrusts StackExchange

8:47 AM

reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/ig9jia/…

oh. my. gooood

I can't tell if this guy is a troll, but if he is, hats off to him.

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

heh, totally.

How Dexter's sister would say? "Jesus on a stick!" :D

forest distrusts StackExchange

> Airchaeology ( history o ceevilization) Fikosophy (abstract thochts)

> Telekinesis es a form of movnig ebjocts with yor maind.

It's incredible.

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

forest distrusts StackExchange

I was going to go get sleep but then I found this.

Tinkeringbell

It will still be there tomorrow. Go sleep :)

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

8:57 AM

lol

forest distrusts StackExchange

Yeah but... 9 articles a day for 7 years... how can I sleep knowing such gold is out there?

Luuklag

9:24 AM

wow that wiki really is a mess

Also don't know how they can discuss like this

meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/…

if that isn't a wall of text, nothing is

Meta Andrew T.

@Luuklag That's... how commenting work on Wikimedia :)

Luuklag

Well it doesn't work ;)

nice complaint post you deleted @journ

Funny that OP made an edit after your delete

yay for grace periods

Journeyman Geek

9:45 AM

.... His issue was resolved by a legend

Journeyman Geek

9:55 AM

@Luuklag wish list. Be able to send people videos of "You gotta calm down" or Rickrolls as part of mod messages.

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek no url's in modmessages?

Journeyman Geek

no youtube embeds :D

also, uh

it lacks proper gravitas

Luuklag

@JNat cross site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/20103730/digital-teacher?tab=accounts

I don't know what it is, but it aint spam

Journeyman Geek

10:15 AM

I think its an attempt at a self answer

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@JourneymanGeek yeah probably

JNat

@Luuklag gone

Rob

11:13 AM

@forestdistrustsStackExchange Found it:

Ryan M

d'awwww.

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

lol

Luuklag

11:40 AM

@Rob where are the laserbeams?

mmmm the frontpage has been P. Mort(ified) ;)

Rob

CylonCat doesn't need any.

Luuklag

11:54 AM

:8871133 k

I wonder how long it will take SE to re-write their job ad for VP of CM

Tinkeringbell

6-8 :P

Luuklag

@JNat cross site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/21572967/andrew-moore?tab=accounts

Rob

12:19 PM

Getting banned install tool is used to solve issues which encounters while spamming Server Fault website. — Robert Columbia 15 mins ago

1 moar

Ryan M

boop. Always happy to help spam find its way out.

Rob

👉👃

Luuklag

12:34 PM

Things just start to get busy here, when I need to leave for the dentist

Hi Juan and g3rv4

Ryan M

Also that spam is especially unfortunate because it's using a website that used to be legitimate and has several existing links on the network :-\

g3rv4

12:51 PM

@Luuklag o/

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

!!/coffee \o

SmokeDetector

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard brews a cup of jQuery for @\o

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

lol

Journeyman Geek

@RyanM wouldn't be too hard to fix with the help of the respective site mods

ymb1

1:29 PM

I think the reason this is only shown on the Taxonomist badge being awarded is because there was a concern raised a while ago that showing it for all tags would result in people gaming the badge by applying a tag they created to a bunch of random questions. Restricting the display to cases where it was already awarded would mitigate that issue. — Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog 6 hours ago

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog sorry I don't follow. How would showing the creator without being linked to an award be gamed?

JNat

1:46 PM

@Luuklag gone

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@JourneymanGeek 1000th answer on meta! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Journeyman Geek

@EkadhSingh not a very exciting one :D

9999 was somewhat better.

Also I have 1,081 answers in total :D

Ekadh Singh

Still, you’re probably one of the few users to hit 1k on meta

👍

Wait are 81 of your answers deleted?

it shows up as 1,000 exactly for me

Journeyman Geek

2:02 PM

yup

I occationally wade into... controversial stuff

or make mistakes

Ekadh Singh

Well 1,000 answers visible to most people on the network🎉🎉

Journeyman Geek

one mo, I go delete something XD

Ekadh Singh

Nooooooooooooooooooo

@JourneymanGeek wait high rep users make mistakes 😱

Journeyman Geek

@EkadhSingh sure

Ekadh Singh

next thing you know you’ll be saying high rep users actually sleep :D

Journeyman Geek

2:14 PM

I do leave most of my downvoted stuff in place

@EkadhSingh Allegedly I do. Just that no one seems to know when

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek @Luuklag and @rene can probably tell you when I sleep :P

SPArcheon

Free rude flags

Tinkeringbell

@SPArcheon Already gone I think, I got linked to the question and not a comment.

Ekadh Singh

@JourneymanGeek 14 downvoted posts left in place and at least 81 deleted posts... imgur.com/gallery/cIAg6

Journeyman Geek

Sure

SPArcheon

2:19 PM

@Tinkeringbell I still see it.

Tinkeringbell

@SPArcheon Lemme check again... yeah, now it links me there too. Okay, flag added.

My work laptop is quite slow at times, I blame that.

SPArcheon

@Tinkeringbell based on the comment below (warning: language), probably better to just delete the user instead.

Tinkeringbell

@SPArcheon Trainwreck...

Get that popcorn you had leftover yesterday.

SPArcheon

If we are lucky, they may get JNat or Catija vist quite soon.

There is some coal to deliver, Jnat. Take your Santa disguise while I look for the fake reindeer red nose for the lucky dog that will pull the sledge.

Journeyman Geek

I've custom flagged it for mod attention

I don't think we'd need a CM attention

Ekadh Singh

2:34 PM

Poll: Which currently employed CM does the most work

Kevin B

define work

Journeyman Geek

@EkadhSingh tbh - a lot of CM work seems to be behind the scenes

And its a little unfair when we went from a badly depleted team to one that's rapidly being built up

Ask that in a year ;)

Ekadh Singh

@KevinB idk, whatever you choose in your answer

Kevin B

like, CM work, or marketing

Ekadh Singh

What’s the difference?

@JourneymanGeek okay :)

Journeyman Geek

2:42 PM

Also - you don't want to hear about stuff some CM teams do. If something that involves the trust and safety team, and it involves the "safety" part of it...

Things have gone horribly wrong :D

(Part of the job's also crisis management, and I can tell you from experience... its hard)

Kevin B

the opposite seems a bit easier

Mithical

@EkadhSingh the heck is sleep

Journeyman Geek

@KevinB Trust's also hard, but you can build it up. Like a resistance to iocane powder.

Mithical

INCONCEIVABLE

Journeyman Geek

THAT WORD! IT DOES NOT MEAN WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS!

Kevin B

2:53 PM

what is the plural of crisis

rene

@Tinkeringbell yes, that is when you're snoring, right? Pretty loud.

Journeyman Geek

Also crisis I think

Mithical

@JourneymanGeek To be a bit less ominous but no less concerning: CMs have been SWATted, mods have been stalked, people have been threatened. Sometimes things that start online don't always end online, and some people take things way too seriously.

Journeyman Geek

@Mithical true

Meta Andrew T.

@EkadhSingh I'd prefer a poll for "which currently-employed CMs have the most backlogs" :p

Tinkeringbell

2:54 PM

@rene I have very cute lady snores! My dad though....

Journeyman Geek

But that shouldn't be an essential part of any of that, and what they do, its what they deal with

No one, ever, should be harassed

Mithical

@KevinB "crises".

Journeyman Geek

@Mithical and yeah, that's true.

rene

@Tinkeringbell all in the family ... I move on ...

Journeyman Geek

I kinda was thinking with respect to the site in general

@Mithical on the other hand - those are situations where I think the affected party should have the choice of revealing it - and that it happens is bad too ._.

Mithical

2:56 PM

I mean yeah, of course it's bad

Attempted murder over internet moderation is a tad extreme

Journeyman Geek

@Mithical Attempted murder is generally, impolite.

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek Would dueling count? I thought dueling was rather polite :P

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell Most duels were actually kinda non lethal

Unless it was explicitly a duel to the death, I suppose

Mithical