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Uniqueke kittean ate Unidoggy

3:25 PM

Always nice to dupe hammer questions about the dupe-hammer...

lol

no more father christmas....

@rene but it's not, it's about mod hammer. :)

@ShadowWizard OK, you win!

Uniqueke kittean ate Unidoggy

@UniquekekitteanateUnidoggy noooooooooo! @JonEr why not keep that name for a little longer? :(

@rene giveh heem teh cazh prizshes.

3:28 PM

\o/

Pops

@Derpy Uhhh... code-related question, defer to balpha.

He's asking how much longer the WB page is going to stick around for

Still coding related-ish

(taking it down is probably done via code)

not particularly, I'm sure management can say "Let's turn this off right now" and stuff will go through

3:39 PM

@Quill but Pops isn't management.... I think.

at the end of the day, however much longer it says is a management decision, enacted by code

Pops

You think I'm management? Hang on, taking a screenshot to show my friend...

LOL

@ShadowWizard He's a CM which are somewhat of mediators between management and community

@Pops "To hang up on my wall" would've been better

@Quill but not management, more like a parallel team to the development team.

Shog is management. Jaydles is management. David is... etc. ;)

(needz to makez diagram)

3:41 PM

hey, I'm a CM, not management. The "manager" in the name is a red herring.

(earlier title was "coordinator", which was considerably more accurate)

@Shog9 huh! Start a bug report

Oh, silly me. There's already a page with all the real managers! stackexchange.com/about/management

consistency

@Shog9 let's phrase it this way: you are the highest ranking SE employee that is available to us, mortals, no? In chat, and in MSE. (I don't think the actual managers go over MSE too much)

or instead of manager in CM, PM, etc, use officer: PO, CO

What's this fixation on rank? This ain't the army.

3:45 PM

@Shog9 you can get things done. That's quite important. :)

that is important

the workforce is a battleground

ugh. No.

bluefeet

@ShadowWizard :(

there was an underlying question behind the title discussion wasn't there?

8 mins ago, by Quill

He's asking how much longer the WB page is going to stick around for

3:46 PM

@bluefeet hmm? Which part triggered this? mentioning to self: no panic

Good day CMs. How goes your Monday?

umm...... we have a problem.

> Josh "Shog9" Heyer, Stack Overflow user #811, has overall responsibility for Q&A quality and will be the public face of the company on metas. As such he's the closest we have to an "ultimate authority". Since he's usually right, I recommend listening to him.

Focus:

> As such he's the closest we have to an "ultimate authority".

So.... isn't it management? :D

And this was posted by no other than Joel. :)

@ShadowWizard The "usually right" part pulls him out of management.

@Andy that's a shame... :[

Jon Ericson

@ShadowWizard It was causing me split personality disorder.

3:49 PM

> "Guys, I have to take today off, I have... another job to do"

@JonEricson lol, so you chose the easy path. Oh well! :)

4:12 PM

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4:22 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: How To Make Your Alpha Fuel 720 Look Amazing In 6 Days by geoffreyaolson on stackoverflow.com

sd k

xkcdBot

5:00 PM

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5:18 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Where to get GeniusX Reviews by Therinez on superuser.com (@bwDraco)

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5:38 PM

Yay I can has first accept on PPCG after 48 answers :DD

5:56 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: How to change color of CAGradientLayer like screensaver? by moe on stackoverflow.com

Lynn Crumbling

6:12 PM

@SmokeDetector can't believe this spam is still up

Q: I was just suspended for a 365 (!!!) day cooling off period from “Science Fiction & Fantasy” for deleting my own comments

6:24 PM

-1

I’ve been suspended for 365 (!!!) days from “Science Fiction and Fantasy” and I am past dumbfounded. I kindly request this suspension be removed. I previously posted about improving the user suspension message I received when I was suspended for 7 days on “Science Fiction & Fantasy.” I was happy...

discussion account-suspension

Drama. :?

Sterling Archer

That whole site seems to be a trainwreck

We would need to hear both sides

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: How do I unlink my Youtube account from my gmail account? by user112104 on webapps.stackexchange.com

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. nah, just disengage, you've found the correct dupe, let's close it

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Appears to be a unilateral mod decision made without warning or discussion (neither with JakeGould nor with other mods). The mod in question may need to be warned by the SE team.

6:38 PM

@bwDraco None of my business.

I wouldn't be able to intervene, anyway. Guess I'll just sit back and watch.

popcorn anyone?

with ham

@rene Ice cream, preferably with Yannis flavor.

Lynn Crumbling

@rene mmmmmm popcorn

7:02 PM

@bwDraco You aren't helping. You do not know the mod's reasons and you are getting one side of the story. Saying that it's an abuse and suspicious circumstances is not helpful.

2

@Andy As I said, this needs investigation. I can't really help here, anyway. Another mod would need to investigate this case to get all the facts. Something is telling me that not all the facts have been presented but we can't say for sure until a mod comes forward.

Then stop throwing around "abuse" and "suspicious circumstances"

@Andy +1

There's no need to be this mean. My apologies for this.

@bwDraco How do you know the user has told you everything?

7:05 PM

> Something is telling me that not all the facts have been presented

Do I need to be suspended?

In my experience, in situations like this, even people that are right stop telling all the truth temporarily.

@Andy Decided to star this. It's my fault.

@bwDraco ASAP

Shall I go and feature-request that? ;)

yes

It's a joke, of course.

I guess I overreacted a bit.

I'm trying to keep my cool, but sometimes things happen. Sorry, everyone.

7:07 PM

We take everything serious here

Drama's always exciting, esp. for fire breathing creatures.

@MadScientist “Why are you going through old comments and deleting them in the first place?” Because while the vast majority of the SE network places low value on comments, SFF:SE seems to treat comments as content. And I just don’t want to participate with content in that way. Thus my decision to delete the comments. — JakeGould 32 mins ago

Hmm... might be an oddity with the way that site is governed.

I don't have much experience with Science Fiction & Fantasy but I can certainly say that on my main site Super User, comments are supposed to be second-class citizens.

Right, don't see anything harmful in deleting comments.

In any case, I won't be able to say much more on this situation until the mods come back with a response.

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7:23 PM

@SmokeDetector removed by OP, I assume.

@nicael yes

7:45 PM

sd fp-

8:12 PM

Why are spammers asleep when I'm looking for flags?

They're trolling ya

Look for at 6:00 GMT :)

Free one: webapps.stackexchange.com/a/88595/45867 even on a terrible question

Hmm, that's when I'm waking up to ash and dust
I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust
I'm breathing in the chemicals

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. one more unflagged by me : stackoverflow.com/a/34730304/1699210

another one untouched: stackoverflow.com/a/34730302/1699210

@bummi (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

8:28 PM

angry ?

user202362

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. how do you know that they are sleeping? maybe their machine broke down or maybe their internet connection was off

@bummi No, that's a loving hugging happy thanking anime character.

@TelkittytheWebDeveloper 'cause those never happen.

The only people that have a spare something are ones you don't want to have the spare.

8:45 PM

3

I have no idea how did it manage to creep into my favorites

Though an interesting proposal ;D

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Calculating the hydrostatic pressure difference across the cell membrane? by Xiaoxuan Liu on physics.stackexchange.com

@SmokeDetector why

@bummi Body - Position 543-548: serum

2

@SmokeDetector fp

@bummi Registered question as false positive.

user202362

8:48 PM

didn't know community moderator is a thing

@TelkittytheWebDeveloper Didn't know people think stuff between quotation marks are considered things.

user202362

it's like calling someone a 'software technician'

bjb568

9:33 PM

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: How to draw a man clickable man,whose muscles can be selected individualy by Arslan on stackoverflow.com

!!/test serum

> Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title
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Title - Position 1-6: serum
Body - Position 1-6: serum

10:11 PM

> Url in title, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title
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Title - Position 1-19: http://odt.repair/
Body - Position 1-19: http://odt.repair/
Title - Position 1-16: http://odt.repa

That's a more interesting result.

bjb568

10:35 PM

"Why does this do this?" is a debugging question, "How can I do this?" is not a debugging question, and as long as it is narrowly scoped clear and on-topic, it does not require code at all. Saying that this site is debugging centric is false at best, actively harmful at worst. And everyone was a beginner at some point, so there is no real way to tell if the asker of a great question was a beginner when they asked the question. Honestly, if you only ever want to answer debugging questions, that is up to you. But please don't mislead users into thinking those are the only questions we accept. @b — Tiny Giant 2 hours ago

This guy is being way too pedantic.

He's almost as bad as me!