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Ekadh Singh - Reinstate Monica

1:25 AM

@Tinkeringbell prehistoric age? :P

Feeds

The bruises on my fingertips are my proof of work.

caird coinheringaahing

1:41 AM

@Feeds Rip Feeds

Tinkeringbell

6:55 AM

@EkadhSingh-ReinstateMonica Oh, but that encompasses a lot of other ages, as it's basically anything before people started to write.

We were/I was talking about having a specific age that's characterized by pointy stick use. Much like paleolithic = stone tool use, and neolithic = stone tool use but also farming.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

8:54 AM

So rude. Spammer using a stock photo as avatar. :D

At least put your own picture!

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 You mean all spammers are not curiously photogenic white people who look like stock photos?

SAY IT ISN'T SO

@JNat One for the spammer backlog stackexchange.com/users/21236345/printerfield

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@JourneymanGeek amazing, isn't it? :P

Journeyman Geek

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Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

9:09 AM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 ...the product they're spamming

Luuklag

9:56 AM

@JNat spammer for you: stackexchange.com/users/22509172/aakil123?tab=accounts

JNat

10:46 AM

@JourneymanGeek gone

@Luuklag gone

Luuklag

@JNat hey, what happened to the backlog ;)

JNat

I am determined to not having one

...for now

Luuklag

Isn't it a little early for newyears resolutions ;)

JNat

as arbitrary making a resolution now as it is making one on New Year's ;P

Tinkeringbell

We should just start a timer, see how long it lasts this time.

Luuklag

10:51 AM

@Tinkeringbell are you taking wagers?

Tinkeringbell

I should make a business model out of that....

Rob

11:12 AM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 The photo is from the company called "Women of Color in Tech stock images" - Taken at Microsoft NYC - wocintechchat.com

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Tinkeringbell 6-8

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 But it's always nice to know the units too ;)

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Rob color of spam.

@Tinkeringbell that's the magic, no units! :D

Rob

magic units?

133

A: Why are potions always brewed in extreme bulk?

Exact Proportions. The ingredient ratios in a potion must be very precise. The easiest way to achieve this is to brew a large amount. Suppose you need 1 litre of swamp water, 10 grams of ant juice and 0.5 grams of butterfly testicle powder, and can reliably measure anything up to the closest half...

That's one site I'm not a member of, one of a couple.

Tinkeringbell

Worldbuilding is fun to read at times :) I even have my very own question there!

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

11:24 AM

> butterfly testicle powder

creating account on that site

:D

Tinkeringbell

surprising...

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

hehe turns out I already have, with single suggested edit. lol

Rob

11:54 AM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 LOL, basically the only activity is some Autoflags; you joined to leave a giant S.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Rob not auto, result of good old Smokey here, but I don't count that as real activity. :)

The suggested edit is my only real activity on that site.

(it was HNQ, read the question, couldn't help but fixing it.)

Rob

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 The unnecessary edit was not only approved, but wrong too: collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ratio

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

Hmm turns out I did this on 15 different sites. Single suggested edit, no post.

@Rob well, there was also Removing redundant word and improving title, so edit wasn't pointless.

Rob

12:12 PM

You made the other unnecessary changes to get over the character limit. :\

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Rob nope, I didn't. If I don't reach the limit I just don't suggest edit.

My initial fix was the double sex; then title; the ratio was just a bonus, for me. ;)

Rob

Ultimately:

-1 for the idiotic accepted answer. — ksjohn Aug 18 '17 at 10:28

Butt, you polished it.

Shree

Ahhh, site allow to upvote with associate rep.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Shree yup with the association bonus one can upvote on all sites, but not downvote.

@Rob it's always polished

Shree

12:30 PM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 Don't really recall but need 150 rep must of site ?

Ekadh Singh - Reinstate Monica

@Shree you need 125 rep to downvote (I think that’s what you meant?)

Spevacus

Could a moderator please delete this spammer's profile? meta.stackexchange.com/users/1076753/sophia-grace

Multi-time offender D:

Tinkeringbell

poof

Spevacus

tyty

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Spevacus so you know who to call ;)

Spevacus

12:34 PM

:)

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Shree 125, except MSE where it's only 100. And the association bonus does count towards the 125, so you have to earn only 25 (well, 24 technically) on the site itself.

Only protected questions ignore association bonus.

Shree

Hummm thanks.

Rob

There's anonymous feedback (downvote) which doesn't require any reputation.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Shree np

@Rob and has no real effect/value.

Shree

Associate bonus always upvote , but DV need extra rep ? No that's not happen for all sites.

Rob

12:39 PM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 Source?

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Rob until proven otherwise, it has no effect/value. If you can prove it has some effect/value I'll be proven wrong. ;)

Rob

You suggested it.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Shree exactly.

@Rob here is a unicorn then.

> Unicorn: grants its owner a pass from one task.

Shree

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 This time you are wrong.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Shree how so? MSE? It's the only exception, mentioned before.

Meta Andrew T.

12:41 PM

15 rep to upvote, 125 rep to downvote. 100 rep for association rep bonus

well, except private beta I guess, you can downvote all you want...

136

Q: What are the reputation requirements for privileges on sites, and how do they differ per site?

Formerly Reputation requirements compared. What are the reputation requirements for privileges on the various sites in the network? Also, how do reputation requirements for various privileges compare on different Stack Exchange sites? Specifically, the following types of sites: Designed sites e....

Spevacus

Downvote ALL of the thingz!

Shree

That's what want to say. Thanks for all post.

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Rob wine is boring, getting pizza ads now.

Rob

1:29 PM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 How many unicorns do you have: ocf.berkeley.edu/~jfkihlstrom/SocialCognitionWeb/… in.bgu.ac.il/en/Global/Pages/General/Grades.aspx

You are the one who hammered this question: meta.stackexchange.com/q/292837/282094

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

1:47 PM

@Rob 80

@Rob true.

Feeds

2:02 PM

Check out the Stack Exchange sites that turned 10 years old in Q3

Juan M on September 30, 2021

Ten years on the internet is a long time. Let’s celebrate the Stack Exchange sites that, as of Q3, have hit that milestone.

Mithical

@Feeds why aren't the links https

Ekadh Singh - Reinstate Monica

@Feeds check out the oneboxes that have turned 10 years old in Q3

Kevin B

2:15 PM

🚽

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

@Mithical testing the readers

SPArcheon

2:59 PM

this is kinda weird but I am curious of the reactions here.

Short story. Genshin Impact players were mad for the anniversary rewards last Tuesday, so they riot and start posting bad reviews for the game.

Ryan M

@Mithical because the links are 10 years old from before they had HTTPS, obviously /s

SPArcheon

On. Others. Games.

Ryan M

@SPArcheon like, not even from the same company?

SPArcheon

@RyanM Exactly.

Ryan M

Reaction: that's 1) obnoxious and 2) nonsensical.

SPArcheon

3:08 PM

@RyanM nonsensical, obnoxious and.. tragically true.

Ryan M

Yikes. What on earth is wrong with people...

Kevin B

wdym

clearly the tactic has been effective at drawing attention

Meta Andrew T.

3:25 PM

@SPArcheon wow, I think at this point I have a reason to hate Genshin fanbase, even though I never interact with them...

(except, both of you on the Anime.SE chat room, you're different :p)

SPArcheon

@MetaAndrewT. Fanbase... That is not the fanbase in the same way as every other bad group in every fanbase.

and probably some are just people jumping in in the mess for either fun or personal gain.

Yet... I fear that at least a part of those are from real people who really wanted to do that.

caird coinheringaahing

3:53 PM

@MetaAndrewT. I call it the "Rick and Morty rule": any sufficiently large fan base will inevitably have a faction of fans who do stuff like this

Ryan M

@cairdcoinheringaahing To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand posting bad reviews to other apps in protest of an underwhelming reward. The strategy is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical app store optimization most of the techniques will go over a typical reader's head.

(explanation for anyone who is wondering what on earth I'm on about)

caird coinheringaahing

@RyanM Turned themselves in a bunch of bad reviews, funniest sh*t I ever seen

(context for those who don't know)

Spevacus

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to be able to recognize that you have to have a very high IQ to understand posting bad reviews to other apps in protest of an underwhelming reward. The ability to recognize that one's IQ is massively above average and thus point out such a requirement being required to recognize such influential movements is a rare aspect in today's society.

SPArcheon

4:27 PM

@Spevacus So... looking at this flower, how many stars are there in the sky tonight?

Spevacus

4:39 PM

@SPArcheon Pinkie Pie? More like Pinkie Pi

SPArcheon

@Spevacus I don't know if the joke she makes is well known somewhere, but.. the author never said what they had in mind for the answer. Most think it is nitpicking on the unit of measure, so just saying a number is wrong (Twilight never says "stars" in her replies)

more probably.. just trolling.

Spevacus

Sounds about right.

Ollie

4:56 PM

@Mithical also, are the ————————————— meant to be horizontal rules or do those not work in the blogs?

Kevin B

7:19 PM

it's wordpress, doesn't wordpress have a horizontal rule button

bobble

8:09 PM

Did someone delete the merging-site-proposals tag...?

Mithical

looks like it might've been merged into area51 ...?

bobble

8:24 PM

Possibly. I was confused because I had retagged some merging Qs to be more specific and now those edits and their summaries don't match up

Journeyman Geek

hm

Kevin B

🤔

Spevacus

10:28 PM

@RyanM I'm so confused. That last lost soul...

Rob

11:22 PM

They'll always have chicken: knowyourmeme.com/memes/leeroy-jenkins

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