Tavern on the Meta

16:00

... and I indeed am being distracted from the normal election flow, exactly like Shog9 describes. let's stop thinking about it.

Shadow Wizard

@FélixGagnon-Grenier being top user is... impressive.

HTTP

> until at least 1 year has passed from the end of your last suspension. [...] to fade from memory

Shadow Wizard

(if he is indeed, didn't bother to check)

HTTP

@HTTP forgetting it? I don't think it's gonna happen...

Shadow Wizard

Maybe @Shog used some ready template for that? That message doesn't look very... personal.

> /templates/mod_message_for_users_nominating_themselves_after_being_suspended_on_‌other_site

Shog9

16:03

@ShadowWizard Eh... I wrote an email for this purpose a couple of years back and mostly just send variations on it now.

Clearly, I personalized the precise number of suspensions.

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HTTP

@Paparazzi drinks? I have a dream. Proletarian revolution: no cops, especially not bad ones. We can make it so, Vote Evan Carroll in the next Moderator Election. — Evan Carroll Feb 12 '17 at 19:32

Shadow Wizard

@Shog9 I knew it! :)

Derpy

to be fair, Shog9, I would have deleted that nomination just because of the rude comments he made, even if he hadn't been suspended. Before.

come on.... he basically called you folks "dirty mean people"

Shog9

This required me to read less.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy dirty they might be, we can't know... mean for him, that's for sure. So...

:D

Shog9

16:08

To be fair, I am kinda dirty

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And average

Shadow Wizard

wondering

Shog9

an average level of dirty

Shadow Wizard

Aren't we all?

Shog9

donno. You could be an outlier

Shadow Wizard

> a younger rock formation isolated among older rocks.

Yep that's me ^

HTTP

16:10

never seen someone promoting Yahoo! Answers on SE...

Bart

@ShadowWizard "younger" ... pffff

Princess Luna

@ShadowWizard lol

HTTP

(enough stalking from me... time to sleep...)

Shadow Wizard

@HTTP yikes! It's not even a valid "ad", it doesn't link anywhere

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

@HTTP I... have a draft in the answer field on that page

Princess Luna

16:12

@HTTP spam?

Shadow Wizard

@Bart younger than.... well... o_O :D

John Dvorak

I propose removing it as offensive

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

I am clueless about how I did that

Shadow Wizard

@FélixGagnon-Grenier lol that's automatic draft :)

We all get it

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

oh

ahem

Shadow Wizard

16:14

:)

Bart

Ssssst, let him think he's special.

Not like us, we're speshul.

Derpy

in RPG General Chat on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 19 mins ago, by Derpy

^ bitcoin miner

Shadow Wizard

appearance not nefarious enough

M.A.R.

Daily thanks to @Sha for the daily ping

@PrincessLuna known network wide troll

HTTP

what a shiningly bright star wall...

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Princess Luna

16:23

@M.A.R. But why settle for a ping a day when you could be SHOWERING in pings with this great new investment opportunity. For the low, low price of $0.0 you can create a second account to ping yourself on a minute-to-minute basis!

M.A.R.

@HTTP shiny black

Princess Luna

@M.A.R. Soon a banned network troll if he keeps it up

M.A.R.

@PrincessLuna I'm not crazy

Maybe

Princess Luna

Catija

@Shog9 Take a shower?

HTTP

16:25

Shower stand

Shadow Wizard

making a black dent on @HTTP's star wall

HTTP

D:

Shadow Wizard

:D

huh, maybe @HTTP is doing that on purpose just to get stars. Brilliant! :P

Princess Luna

Who goes around wanting stars? Something smells fishy about that @sha. maybe even starfishy

Shadow Wizard

@Bart

Bart

16:27

I don't want stars, I attract stars.

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Shadow Wizard

@Catija shower to the mind? :D

MetaEd

16:48

@ShadowWizard Just adhere to our motto here at camp. Clean Mind, Clean Body. Take Your Pick.

Princess Luna

You can't have both! :p

user315433

> I don't like the stars but the stars like me... youtube.com/watch?v=6EefPcht54c

user315433

20:07

Wow. My vote was the decisive one in Wordpress election, 145 to 144.

user315433

Of course, 144 other voters could say the same. But still.

user315433

What if it was a tie?

Catija

I don't think it can be? There was an odd number of voters.

But, wow... the votes were so close.

Give them both diamonds :P

user315433

If I didn't vote, it would be.

user315433

And yes, it was not easy to decide.

user315433

20:13

I think the tiebreaker for me was "fresh blood" argument (a member for 1 year, 9 months, with a lot of activity in that timespan).

user315433

SO could use more of the same.

Catija

Yeah, who do you like so far?

I can't vote so I'm just sort of playing along on the sidelines.

user315433

I'm waiting for until after the primary round. There will probably be more nominations, and some will not make it through.

user315433

> we are not renaming our current sites like a garish sport stadium to the highest bidder.

user315433

I first understood it as "current sites will not be sponsored", and was wrong.

user315433

20:25

> the immediate focus is more on companies wanting to support our existing sites. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307861/…

user315433

So... decorating current sites like a garish sport stadium to the highest bidder.

user315433

But not renaming.

Catija

Seasoned Advice by KRAFT foods.

Movies & TV by The Weinstein Company.

rene

20:44

@Catija Ouch ...

Shadow Wizard

Why not Disney?

> Revenue: 55.14 billion USD (2017)

0.01% of that will be enough to create awesome new things in SE... ;)

Jon Ericson

Not the worst case scenario.

rene

Can we go Infinity and Beyond then?

Shadow Wizard

@Catija or a shared diamond, each getting half. :D

Andy

Nope, just to 55.14 billion.

Catija

20:47

@ShadowWizard I think we call half diamonds "triangles" :P

Shadow Wizard

lol

Jon Ericson

21:04

Should be "moder" and the other person can be "rator". (Have to share the "r".)

Catija

Eh, the m is wider, and the t is narrow. I say go with "mode" and "rator"

M.A.R.

@Catija I call them trapezoids

user315433

Depends on how you cut it. Could be a parallelogram.

M.A.R.

Trapezoids are the coolest shapes in the universe

Catija

They are?

M.A.R.

21:17

After sphere physicists of course

user315433

... now I'm trying to decide how to cut a diamond in two parts of equal area with a shortest cut. It's not the obvious cut from one corner to another.

M.A.R.

@FTP it's gotta be a curve. It's always a curve

God was messing with us. He knows we can't draw a circle

Every cool thing that's the -est path is a curve

user315433

It's this one. Makes two trapezoids. :)

user315433

The red line is perpendicular to two sides and passes through the center.

user315433

21:27

@M.A.R. For a general shape, the optimal cut is either a line segment or an arc of a circle. It has to have constant curvature, and meet the sides at the right angle. For example, for the regular triangle it's an arc centered in one of the vertices.

M.A.R.

I am so not used to English math terminology

@FTP this image is so cool

user315433

22:20

Also an example of "symmetry breaking": the shape is left-right symmetric, but the optimal cut is not.

user315433

(Of course, there is no "the" optimal cut: there are two, and the set of optimal cuts is symmetric as it must be.)

Shadow Wizard

23:16

Good job with the math @FTP, now we need to find proper unicode character for that. ;)

user315433

23:44

That's it for Stack Overflow. Was good knowing you...

user315433

> DelegateCall by @loomnetwork is the first truly decentralized blockchain powered web3.0 app, and it just so happens to be a StackOverflow killer. bitfalls.com/2018/03/13/… … -- Bitfalls.com at 3:57 PM - 13 Mar 2018

Journeyman Geek

twitch

medium.com/loom-network/…

> Users earn karma points when their questions and answers get upvoted. But unlike traditional Web 2.0 sites, on DelegateCall these karma points can be redeemed for a tradable ERC-20 “DelegateCall token” on Ethereum mainnet, allowing users to earn rewards proportional to their contributions to the site.

That's definately going to go well. Especially when, if it is even slightly sucessful, people start hitting it with voting rings, and you can't roll back....

user315433

[Feature request] Add meta section

user315433

Good idea. And they already invented "put a tag in the title for no reason".

user315433

I get that it uses blockchain, but what is it about?

user315433

23:49

Most of the front page is about the site itself.

user315433

I guess it is about blockchain.

Journeyman Geek

I believe the term is "Circle Jerk"

they basically want to write a Q&A site where reputation is cryptocurrency.

user315433

Surprisingly, none of the questions on SO mod questionnaire are about blockchain.

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