Who were you talking about?

@jnat hoping to start a backlog of cross site spammers: stackexchange.com/users/20263452/freevfxdownload

@Rob Prashanth right?

You replied to me, about a discussion of Ayo.

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@Rob I replied to this message, especially the last part "even the CEO has no diamonds"

@Rob Well he has a diamond now, but only one on MSE, and no Staff button...

Gues their onboarding is still being onboarded?

@Luuklag gone... sorry for thwarting your hopes there ;P

@Luuklag They are probably overprotective about their N̶a̶u̶g̶h̶t̶y̶ Staff Bits. Perhaps there's a special procedure, after The Incident.

@SonictheCuriouserHedgehog Good reference

@Rob The hacker didn't have general staff access, only moderator access, which is what gave them away. (Had they had staff access, it's likely they would have slipped under the radar, as we'd have thought they were just a new employee.)

@Luuklag A 3rd party blog on the hack says that they gained CM privilege to obtain a backup/restore of a deleted developer's account, obtaining developer access; ultimately this allowed them to gain admin access (owner of the computer). References: theregister.com/2021/01/27/stack_overflow_2019_hack_was zdnet.com/article/… - and links from meta's post of the SO Blog.

So it's likely that one must pass the gauntlet to flip the bit.

@Luuklag maybe.... only Nick can turn that bit on, and he's away on vacation. ;)

You need to be careful not to nick your bit.

@ShadowWizardisVaccinating I think Nick is smarter than having explicit bus factors

@Tinkeringbell mu flag got declined: Can we get this featured please? – Luuklag 7 hours ago declined - We won't be featuring this post because Shodipo would like to keep it on Meta only, as is.

@Luuklag Ah so...

There's a ruie that we need explicit consent about featuring posts about people

I've tended to play fast and loose with it when I know the person is ok. I don't know Shodipo well enough to do that, so I passed it on to the CMs