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7:50 AM

@Luuklag I have gold badge in all the required tags, so can close as dupe any question on MSE. Why?

@Luuklag ohh, I can reopen this one but can't close since I've already cast a close vote. :/

Anyway not worth spending time on, it will be Roomba'd soon.

@tripleee that's always a good idea IMO

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog :-)

@Mithical to be honest, these days most people who don't like ads are using ad blockers and they don't see ads anyway. So they won't even notice. Those without ad blockers are the people who can live with ads, as long as they're not too intrusive, so @star's suggestion does have some merit.

Mithical

Half the time people are on mobile, where ad blockers aren't as effective.

It will get negative score and won't be done, but still something that's worth discussing. ;)

@Mithical oh, didn't think about it. So maybe put ads only when the view is large, i.e. not mobile.

@Journeyman are you ready for the Happy Hour?

> Starts in 15 hours (in your timezone, that's 1:00 on Saturday), lasts 60 minutes. This is a regular event, happening every 7 days until 12/18/3000.

@starball will you still be here in 12/18/3000?

That's only 978 years, not that much. There are turtles who live more. I think.

Mithical

Turtles? I don't think so. Greenand sharks, possibly.

hmm let's ask ChatGPT

Forget about that, they require phone verification. lol

Google already has my phone.

Well turtles indeed live up to 200 years only, so won't be here when Happy Hour ends.

However...

> One study in the journal Aging Research Reviews notes a deep-sea sponge from the species Monorhaphis chuni lived to be 11,000 years old

Mithical

8:09 AM

I think ginkgo trees beat that out

wait, no, I misread that

@Mithical tree can't attend Happy Hour though

starball

@ShadowTheKidWizard *goes and asks on biology.stackexchange.com: "how to become immortal?"

rene

@ShadowTheKidWizard because they are rooted?

@rene exactly

@starball huh!

PM 2Ring

8:33 AM

@ShadowTheKidWizard On SO, gold badgers can edit the dupe list, without having to open & re-close the question. Can't you do that on MSE?

9:19 AM

@PM2Ring yeah, actually I can. But still, it feels wrong, kind of erasing wrong answer with eraser and writing on top of it.

PM 2Ring

9:46 AM

@ShadowTheKidWizard But you don't have to erase anything. You can just add another dupe target to the list. It would be nice if you could rearrange the target list order, but I can't see a simple way to do that.

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Unihedron

10:54 AM

@ShadowTheKidWizard lol

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Journeyman Geek

12:07 PM

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Feeds

1:08 PM

stackoverflow.blog/2022/12/09/…

Meta Andrew T.

1:34 PM

@Feeds Continuous nobox

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3:00 PM

Hi moderators, I'd like to ask a question. Now that I'm no longer banned from MSE chat, I can create a room here, right?

I think we laid out the rules for the whole bunch quite clearly before issuing suspensions, including 'no more new rooms'.

@Tinkeringbell But why can't we have any more new rooms? You actually didn't say that in the suspension and added that later...

Oh, now I get it, sorry, I know we shouldn't have created that many TFCs at that time. But can we still create a new TFC or have our old TFC unfrozen?

In fact, we kept forgetting you kinda said no more rooms back then after our "99-day RO chaos," but I don't think this should mean we can't just have one room where we won't do anything wrong, right?

@Tin Um, am I getting any response?

3:34 PM

Am I getting time to respond? But you already figured it out, and the rules haven't changed. No new rooms.

@Tinkeringbell When can we have a room?

I mean, ever?

Not. Use the existing rooms, where other moderation is present.

You have shown to need it.

Um, can we get the old TFC unfrozen?

Journeyman Geek

@TechExpertWizard there's three servers here, with more mods. Why here?

@TechExpertWizard No. I shall clarify what I just said: Use the existing unfrozen rooms, where other moderation is present.

3:36 PM

Okay.

JNat

4:06 PM

@rene gone

@DavidPostill was already gone before I got to it; suspended network-wide anyway, in case they come back

@ShadowTheKidWizard gone

@JourneymanGeek gone and gone

@JourneymanGeek gone

@ShadowTheKidWizard gone

@JourneymanGeek gone

@JourneymanGeek handled somewhere above

@ShadowTheKidWizard gone

@rene gone

@JourneymanGeek gone

@rene gone

@ShadowTheKidWizard gone

@rene gone

@SPArcheon dunno what this was referring to

@ShadowTheKidWizard gone

Spevacus

4:31 PM

@JNat It was likely referring to a thereafter removed SmokeDetector report. Likely this one, which links to this user, which is deleted on Skeptics, but you may want to follow up and see if any remaining network profiles are around.

JNat

@ShadowTheKidWizard gone

@Spevacus will look shortly

@ShadowTheKidWizard got rid of it altogether

and that is all, I believe

nobody

4:47 PM

When does winter bash start?

Glorfindel

winterbash2022.stackexchange.com

@Glorfindel that's NAA

Or link only answer? ;)

Glorfindel

tries to flag message as Not An Answer but fails to do so

@Spevacus no, JNat should not really do that. When we ask for their help we're expected to post a direct link, not set a goose chase.

Kevin B

Soon

4:56 PM

And it's impossible to find what @SPA was referring to anyway, unless we start to compare timestamps in Chimney.

Spevacus

@ShadowTheKidWizard That's exactly what I did :)

@KevinB that's a good generic answer.

@Spevacus where? I didn't notice you posting link to profiles.

@JNat thanks x10 :D

And with those 10, I'm now at 170. :P

Spevacus

@ShadowTheKidWizard The "this user" part of my message is a link to skeptics.stackexchange.com/users/66707

5:11 PM

@Spevacus ohhhh

Here's your prize!

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starball

7:48 PM

Thanks @JNat :DDDDDD

@Glorfindel but I'll be OLD by then D:

rene

8:39 PM

Statusp-review? SmokeDetector is seeing SE API errors 10,704 times more often than normal (2022-12-09)

9:10 PM

Anyone here watching soccer, that can tell me if the neighbor is finally dying a painful death or it's just the soccer match?

Catija

Apparently The Dutch are tied with Argentina

(according to Twitter, anyway)

Ah, okay..disappointing.

Hope they lose, and the shouting/yelling stops XD

Kevin B

9:36 PM

soccer is just basketball with a bigger hoop