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bobble

00:13

I feel a bit bad for suggesting to a new user to post a question, as the question is being downvoted...

bobble

04:16

Should a feature-request which was implemented later as part of a general update be closed as a dupe or answered with a note that it is now status-completed?

I thought I knew the answer but I'm doubting myself...

Rob

04:45

@bobble Search for the text "Should I answer ...":

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Q: How should duplicate questions be handled?

What should I do when I see a question that is a duplicate of another one? Should I answer it? Should I downvote it? Should I comment? Should I edit the question to indicate it's a duplicate? If I can, should I (vote to) close the question? What happens when I vote to close as duplicate? Or: Wh...

bobble

@Rob I was unsure if it would count as a dupe

Is asking "please implement X bit of formatting" a dupe of a post that says "We've implemented a bunch of formatting updates"?

Rob

Seems that way, more of a guess at edge cases without a link to the question. Edit the FAQ to include the necessary information to answer your question, or ask a new question.

Back in a bit.

bobble

Specific questions: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337979/… meta.stackexchange.com/questions/353446/new-post-formatting

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@bobble If it's specifically mentioned there, close as dupe. If not (e.g. it ended up becoming a non-issue due to another change and your feature change isn't specifically mentioned), do the latter.

bobble

> Refinements for revealing spoilers. We now reveal this on click / tap for a more consistent experience across devices—fewer accidental reveals as well, since it’s no longer a :hover interaction. Clicking again does not hide the spoiler. We also now add a badge to the top right corner. You can see how these work on our design system documentation. It looks something like this:

does it specifically mention keeping spoilers distinct from blockquotes once clicked? Honest question, since it definitely gets close

Meta Andrew T.

05:13

I think the current grey background for spoiler blocks is now... permanent? Looks dupe to me.

Yeah, the announcement ammended it with "I’ve made sure to continue highlighting spoilers in gray."

but the answer was posted later? huh?

oh, countered by this answer, so, yes, it's a dupe now.

Rob

05:49

@bobble I don't see a duplicate because the issue hasn't been fixed, nor is this a duplicates. I checked all the answers in your second link, and there's no mention of it, the first link was asked long before asked Aug 25 '20 at 17:41 (the time of the second link's announcement); the first link should have been marked a dupe sooner. Now the first link is an old request, and too long after the announcement; it might be bumpable (with a

necessary edit), but that won't help it much. This is what I see using.my browser:

Notice under "Draft saved" the bold vs non-bold.

It just hit the review queue, and I reviewed it consistent with the above.

Rob

06:25

@bobble I stand corrected, MAT's link is correct; sorry it took so long to answer, in the middle of something. Changing review.

The part about the boldness still stands for Mobile FF and Chrome; left a comment.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

06:41

@Tinkeringbell who did you arrest? ;)

Meta Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector yeah, who doesn't like Drupal Gummies...

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Neighbours, parents, brother.... :P

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

07:08

@Tinkeringbell brother?! Poor kid.... :-D

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 "Poor kid" is 20 years old...

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Tinkeringbell :P

Luuklag

07:28

o/

Tinkeringbell

\o

Luuklag

Wow, seeing my message to yaakov collect 4 stars over the weekend feels strange...

Tinkeringbell

You'd rather see them gone, or?

Luuklag

Nah it's okay. People felt the need to star it, thats fine. Just feels strange to me personally. But I can't mold the world after my own likings

Tinkeringbell

Yeah, most of the times people are weird ;)

rene

07:46

I value your weirdness. Just so I can fit in more easily ...

7

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

08:01

@Luuklag make it 5

(I appreciate people who can apologize, it's hard to do, and I talk from experience ;))

(I don't know what you apologized for, but it doesn't really matter ;))

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 You can read the logs ;)

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag meh I'm lazy :D

Also if it was something bad you said about Collectives, he's not part of that. At least not active development, I asked him. ;)

Luuklag

Nah it wasn't "work" related

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

oh

Now I'm curious

setting bug fixing aside

ohh this. lol, can't see it as offending in any way, but still nice of you to apologize. :P

back to bug fixing

Oh hello when you arrived? @Cole

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

08:43

@SmokeDetector k

ColeValleyGirl

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Back again -- one of those mornings when I'm having to do everything in little bursts -- too much to do, not enough time.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

09:03

@ColeValleyGirl all good!

!!/coffee Cole for better performance

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 brews a cup of Macchiato for @Cole

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Shree I see you, even though you're sleeping for over 100 days. :D

Luuklag

1m seen, 111d chatted, nice

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Open tab, somewhere lol

Impressive that his computer didn't even restart for that long. ;)

Shree

:) , tavern is best place to understand update ( what's going around) .
Silent reader.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

09:11

@Shree aka lurker ;)

So what's up? @Shree

Shree

Nothing new .
V2 of lockdown (45+ days)
I was forced to stay at home.
Some projects slip through the fingers, but that's okay :D

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Shree sorry to hear.... hope you'll get back to normal life soon, and get your fingers on some nice projects. :)

ColeValleyGirl

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Much appreciated while I'm having a break from wresting with some stroppy code (somebody else's stroppy code at that)

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@ColeValleyGirl heh, know too well what you mean.... :O

I'm usually working in the GUW technique when having to get something done with code written by our main programmer. Guess Until (it) Works. :D

It's a branch of Trial and Error, just that it doesn't have a way to see errors, so I'm stuck with guessing different ways until something works. lol

For example, he wrote whole new framework, from scratch, to render HTML. One letter off, or in wrong place, and you get empty page.

</rant>

Tinkeringbell

09:30

Oh, if that's the worst XD

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Nah it's just example lol

Worst... hmm. Probably one of the production bugs?

Tinkeringbell

;) That kind of guessing sucks though. I encounter it a bit once in a while too.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

And before you ask "So why don't you ask him for help or to solve his bugs?" the answer is that he's always super busy with more important stuff. :D

ColeValleyGirl

I've been staring at a function definition all morning (no comments, of course, or meaningful names) and going: what on earth is this supposed to achieve? because as far as I can tell it adds no value. Except if I remove it, everything breaks.

Mind you, everything broken's with it in as well :)

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Heh.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

09:33

@ColeValleyGirl omg.... I've been there so many times. And more than few times, with my own code. LOL

ColeValleyGirl

Plus the person who wrote this did not believe in using handy-dandy well-proven library modules; they always rolled their own code to duplicate the libraries.

John Dvorak

@ColeValleyGirl caption: SOInc looking at CMs during the mess, 2019, colorized

ColeValleyGirl

So it's just a completely tangled ball of string.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@ColeValleyGirl sounds like my chief programmer! D:

Tinkeringbell

@ColeValleyGirl No... tangled balls of string are easier :D

(I like untangling tangled balls of string/yarn...)

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

09:35

@ColeValleyGirl well seriously though, sometimes fresh set of eyes can see things that just evaded you, which can be trivial... if you can share the code maybe we can help?

Tinkeringbell

I guess my programmer life is easy then. Most of the code is readable, the only thing really lacking is test/build automation (and as such there are quite a few production bugs but no one gets angry if you make one)

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Also what's the goal? Removing fluff from the code, in general?

ColeValleyGirl

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Thanks for the offer, but this ball of string is 8000 lines long and not properly modulrised.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Tinkeringbell yeah you're spoiled. ;)

@ColeValleyGirl ohh. ouch.

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 For once... :P

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

09:37

lol

Now to change the code so that school can't register players if the team was not approved. Sounds easy, but might have some pits in there, code isn't 100% my own. Wish me luck! :D

ColeValleyGirl

Goal is moving it from Lua 5.1 to 5.3, and adding in some missing functionality. Subsidiary goal is removing the fluff, injecting some structure and improving the UI. But I'd settle for just working in the new environment right now.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

hehe, and you can't just keep it as-is?

ColeValleyGirl

No -- doesn't work in Lua 5.3 but 5.3 is what we now have in place. Except for the users who haven't upgraded, so it actually needs to work in 5.1 and 5.3 but that's actually not hard. Or it shouldn't be if it wasn't a complete mess in the firs tplace.

So minimum is 5.1 and 5.3 compatibility, and then the extra functionality (because the 5.3 environment will support things that the 5.1 didn't, and users who have upgraded are clamouring for stuff they've waited a long time for).

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

10:09

huh. And error message isn't helpful? Stack trace? @Cole

ColeValleyGirl

10:24

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Stack trace, stepping through line by line, dumping variables at various points... I'll be here until Doomsday. Almost considering starting from scratch and recoding the whole thing -- if I use libraries instead of the roll-your-own approach it will be less than a third of the size, and I can re-use some fairly decent chunks of code.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@ColeValleyGirl recoding is ideal, if you have the time and stamina for that.... :)

Luuklag

@ColeValleyGirl Oh how often I do this with my own code

And multiple times with the same piece of code, when I find out I'm re-using an old bit instead of the current version

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

heh, lol

VBA? @Luuk

ColeValleyGirl

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 I'm honestly thinking it will be quicker -- and the end result will be better.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@ColeValleyGirl well depends what's the error/problem of course, but yeah... that makes some sense.

ColeValleyGirl

10:32

At least the next time I need to do some work on it, it would be well-structured and documented. Even if some of the comments are: 'And this bit is magic I don't understand' :)

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 yup

I copy pasta too much

but then again VBA propperly warns you when you use an invalid name etc.

Luuklag

10:43

Hi rob

@SmokeDetector k

I finally put out my extra post I had laying around, to request a better location for username autocompletion on comments: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/366928/…

Good thing to do while waiting to clear your post-vaccination wait

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

11:07

@Luuklag well VBA is pretty much closed programming environment, little room for mistakes... from the little I know about it.

Luuklag

Depends on the options you set ;)

But generally the errors are helpful enough to see where you went wrong

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Like swimming in a swimming pool, vs. swimming out in the open sea. ;)

You can still drown, but less likely.

Luuklag

Well, things can get funny when you start calling in other applications, like browsers etc to scrape HTML for example

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag it's only 15 minutes, no?

Used it to complete WhatsApp reading backlog lol

@Luuklag ohh, yeah.

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 I filled in that I had some allergies, so the doctor extended my wait to 30 min.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

11:10

That's like having a stormy day, even inside swimming pool you'll get in trouble

Luuklag

But yeah, usually only 15 min.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag ouch. First dose or second?

Luuklag

First

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Nice, will do, for now. Kudos!

Second dose in two weeks?

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 no 5

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

11:11

@Luuklag oh, Rob isn't the typical lurker, he can't be pulled out like the rest of them. :D

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 haha, an @-mention would also help to awaken him, but no need

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag long time. What kind of vaccine?

Luuklag

pfizer I think

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag you'll risk facing his wrath, that's risky. :D

Angry Rob ^

Luuklag

haha

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

11:17

Angry @Wolf ^

tempted to make an Angry Shadow selfie

:P

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 You wouldn't see because of the mask xD

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag so I'll wait a month until I can change name again, to Shadow the Angry Wizard.

:P

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Hopefully you don't need a mask anymore then

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

11:34

hehe, won't happen, people here are too ~~dumb~~ ~~arrogant~~ "know-it-all".

Luuklag

God will protect them, right ;)

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

lol

tripleee

there was a rude/abusive flag on one of the messages in chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/52513348#52513348 but I'm thinking the entire chatroom should be closed and deleted

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

I wish it was only "them" (the ultra orthodox) but it's like that with people from all around.

Journeyman Geek

@tripleee needs a SO mod?

Luuklag

11:38

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Let "the" move to settlements, and then put a fence around it ;)

tripleee

true, though chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/197438/the-meta-room looks rather quiet at the mo

Luuklag

Keep them safe from being infected xD

@tripleee yeah a nuke wouldn't be out of order there

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag funny but that's the case already, sort of.

@Luuklag yeah, it's extreme case of a bored troll...

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 I think I've seen one of the two already suspended once somewhere

@SmokeDetector k

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag he was trouble here, but self deleted his account, dunno if he got suspended. Probably though.

If it was new user I'd say it's even the same person, but exposing an old identity like that is dumb so probably two different people. Though something is off. meh

Wolf

11:50

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 very nice picture i kike it

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Wolf thanks! blush but you can't see due to my mask ;)

@Wolf you know @Rocket?

Friends?

Luuklag

12:08

@JNat cross site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/21727803/driving-defences?tab=accounts

Luuklag

12:21

@SmokeDetector k

Luuklag

12:40

@SmokeDetector why

Luuklag

12:52

spamnuke? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/366933/…

rekire

Hey guys, sorry for that stupid question, but is Stack Overflow dead? I asked some questions with tags like android or javascript and I get almost no clicks and no interactions

Luuklag

No its not dead, quite the contrary

your question is most likely off the front page quickly, and then organic trafic is low

rekire

the good old days back (~4 years ago) I can remember that there were almost wars to answer questions as quickly as possible. wild west things haha

Luuklag

Also your PWA / WPA question is far too broad for SO

rekire

Yeah I know I was expecting lots of downvotes haha

But I did not even get that

Luuklag

12:58

And the transaction one, well yeah its an android question I guess...

rekire

true thing

that other mapping thing has also very low clicks

Luuklag

In the android tag you have about 2 hours of time on the frontpage, if you don't attract anyone, then you're out of luck after that basically

rekire

anyway thanks for the expected downvote :-D

at least something is still working as expected

Luuklag

@rekire that wasn't me ;)

rekire

the timing was so close, never mind :-D

Luuklag

13:02

np

rekire

I really wondering where to get help nowerdays. Reddit? I'm really running out of ideas where I could find people which are willing to share their knowlage

rene

@rekire I've left you a comment

rekire

wohoo

Tinkeringbell

@rekire Well, if I were you and it's this important you get help/knowledge from others, I wouldn't rely on anything where people share for free, and start hiring/paying :P

rene

as for this one: stackoverflow.com/q/68157850/578411 do I really need to look at or build a github project to have a code sample we can reason about. Your question seems simple enough but it would improve a ton if answers and future visitors could match their understanding of your problem with an MCVE in your question

rekire

13:09

@Tinkeringbell those js questions are for a playground projects to learn something new with absolutely no option for me to make money with that knowledge. therefore I'm not really interested in spending money for that

@rene this question is about a library of the google architectural components, if you know that lib, no code is required out of my view. If you are not familiar the official code project is helpful... The minimal code sample would be not much smaller then that linked git repo. I see there no reason so share non working code

Not sure if that is a stupid idea of me

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@rekire simple and easy-to-answer questions on SO get quick answers. That's the sad reality.

rene

@rekire I wouldn't call it stupid but if you take lazy as an option, be my guest.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Complex questions, or questions that require actual effort to answer usually wait long time before getting answer, if any.

rekire

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 if i would raise the attention of the right people they could answer quickly. I would guess the answer would just require up to 5 lines of code

Tinkeringbell

@rekire Oh well, at least there's no hurry/real need to get an answer from others then. Just keep at it, learning how to figure it out is as important as learning the answer :)

rekire

13:17

@rene got your point. But the minimal example requires about I would say 100loc

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@rekire if you know who to ask and can get their attention elsewhere, no need to ask on SO, probably... ;)

rekire

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 well also true... however I guess I know one 300k rep user which might know the answer of the question, but I have no direct contact to him

Tinkeringbell

While that's not so great for you, I bet he's happy no such feature exists! XD

rekire

haha that's true

a couple of years ago I met him on a congress. cool guy^^

Tinkeringbell

Ah yeah, the good old times when there were still congresses.

Luuklag

13:21

@rekire Should have exchanged buisness cards then ;)

rekire

I was young and had none haha

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag lol

@rekire sorry but no good advice in mind. If that user is active in chat, you can take that path.

lol @Glorfindel's edit floated old crap upwards :D

(for Smokey to catch, but no idea if really spam)

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 it 404's

@SmokeDetector f

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

lol a spider just landed nearby

all the way from the ceiling.

oh, no. I got busted. :(

in Discussion between Rocket Nikita and Mava on Stack Overflow Chat, 3 mins ago, by Rocket Nikita

Stop trolling the trolls which are trying to troll someone else

lol

Tinkeringbell

Perhaps stop feeding all of them attention, except when stuff needs flagging?

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

13:34

Trying to figure how they operate

Tinkeringbell

Meh.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Also trying to see if they know each other from before... (Rock and that new (?) person)

Luuklag

Does something need to be a -3 to be deleted?

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag question, yes.

Answer can be deleted at -1

Glorfindel

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 the circle is complete then, I encountered that post after Smokey detected this post.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

13:46

@Glorfindel huh! lol

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

14:00

hiding behind @M.A.R

Luuklag

haha, I just found out my daughter is friends with the daughter of a politician

Thank you lady from the Balet school, who just puts every students first and last name in one big pdf file

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

LOL

Well you can now ask for some favors... ;)

Luuklag

Nah, he is in a party I have no connection with

And also 1 parliment member doesn't do much xD

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

My little daughter had in her kindergarten "class" the great granddaughter of Rabin. (One of Israel's most famous past Prime Ministers, who was assassinated.)

Luuklag

Rabin?

Meh I was 4 when that happened

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

14:05

Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin (; Hebrew: יִצְחָק רַבִּין‎, IPA: [jitsˈχak ʁaˈbin] (listen); 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77, and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. Rabin was born in Jerusalem to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and was raised in a Labor Zionist household. He learned agriculture in school and excelled as a student. He led a 27-year career as a soldier. As a teenager he joined the Palmach, the commando force of the Yishuv. He eventually rose through its ranks...

Luuklag

no wonder I don't know the name

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag so you do know lol

Rocket Nikita

haha

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Google did ;)

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

lol

Anyway, the granddaughter of Dalia went to same kindergarten as my own daughter. ;)

Feeds

14:08

What makes a great IT consultant – and how you can become one

Ryan Donovan on June 28, 2021

7N is an international freelance agency that has been connecting the best IT consultants with leading organizations around the world for more than 30 years. Here’s the five qualities that make the perfect consultant.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

The mother has only Hebrew Wikipedia page. :(

Tinkeringbell

@Feeds Oh, I know this! They're trying to make me one. 1st rule is to make a lot of overtime, and the 2nd one is to never be critical of anything your manager suggests you can do besides working 40 hours a week for a client!

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

!!/coffee jan

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 brews a cup of Americano for @jan

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Another lurker bytes the dust?

janw

14:21

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 :D Always on the lookout?

Lurk-out?

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@janw whenever I'm in here, sure. ;)

e.g. I saw @Ollie arriving now. :D

@janw nice! ;)

I take lurkers out of the shadows

Ollie

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 There are multiple Ollies on MSE ;)

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Ollie only one here though ;)

Very rare to have more than one with same name in same room.

Ollie

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 also only one with more than 101 reputation

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 instantly changes name to rene

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Ollie I dare you ;)

Ollie

14:27

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 chickens

anyway, the profile page won't let me change it for 30 days if I do that, AFAIK

Or it doesn't when it comes to Unicode characters.

Spevacus

You could ask an exceptionally nice mod to change it back.

I didn't initially think that needed deleted, but that list of stuff really is useless...

Ollie

@rene bang bang

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Ollie 15 minutes grace period

@Ollie knock knock

Ollie

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 who's there?

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Ollie Your boss

Ollie

14:34

Er... what does he say?

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Ollie you got a raise

You get extra 5 @bobble's every week

bobble

I object to being used as currency

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@bobble objection denied

:P

Ollie

@bobble I object to your objection.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

!!/tea bob

SmokeDetector

14:38

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 brews a cup of lemon tea for @bob

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Now you should be fine. ;)

bobble

in The Reading Room on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, May 28 at 2:39, by Sciborg

You'll have some visitors very soon

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@bobble good, a stash!

> The Attack of the bobble

Horror movie ^

bobble

Also, lemon tea? Seriously? Chrysanthemum tea is much better.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

head spins

Time to publish my bug fix, cya soon!

Ollie

14:40

@bobble you can sdc for posh tea.

Rocket Nikita

@bob I remember you meta.stackexchange.com/users/482670/voldemorts-wrath

bobble

The Sphinx's Lair had a bobble-fying trend a while back

Kevin B

🚽

Spevacus

📝

Ollie

🔥

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

14:46

🧻

Ollie

🔥 + 🧻 = ****

Spevacus

🍩☕

Juan M

@Rob Thanks for stepping up! I'll let my fellow CMs know so that we can start the process to get you in there!

Rocket Nikita

🗑

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Note to self: new mod appointment process is very simple

Spevacus

14:49

lol

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Can't onebox SVG

Tinkeringbell

Juan M

@Spevacus ok, I'll add your name to the Temp list :D

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

lol

@Tinkeringbell no pineapple

Tinkeringbell

Ollie

14:50

@Tinkeringbell fake. Something more artistic please.

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Was working on it!

@Ollie You'd rather have one of those commercial pizza's, that use glue to look like they have loads of melty cheese? :D

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 That's just a waste of dough.

Ollie

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 yuck. No. Aaaargh.

Rob

@JuanM You're welcome.

Ollie

14:52

@Spevacus the tag's gone.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Ollie retry

Spevacus

@JuanM If I may, I'd like to add that I feel @Rob is an excellent user. He's typically well-reasoned and I feel as though he'd be a definite boon to the team over on Freelance.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Tinkeringbell retry

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Still a waste of dough.

Spevacus

@Ollie Feel free to post dragon, I'll edit in the closure/deletion stuff to my own answer.

Tinkeringbell

14:53

Where's the meat!

Ollie

@Spevacus done already.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Tinkeringbell eaten

Rob

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Hey, I was eating that; before you edited it and replaced the image!

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Rob fellow crabs resisted

Tinkeringbell

A pizza should be a tiny bit tomato (if it can't be switched for a better base) and perhaps pineapple. The rest should be meat.

bobble

14:54

I like mushroom, olive, and salami as toppings

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Tinkeringbell meat better have its own place. ;)

Tinkeringbell

@bobble mushroom maybe, depends on what else is there... olives... bleugh :P

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 I mean, pizza with meat is an excellent emergency dinner if you can't just get meat :P

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Tinkeringbell

Is that ham and spinach?

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Tinkeringbell Dunno... it's meat. Not sure which animal. ;)

Tinkeringbell

14:57

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Too much leaves though :P

Ugh, I'm getting hungry :P

Juan M

@rob @Spevacus would you both visit the page and share your intentions there?

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Tinkeringbell lol

Spevacus

@JuanM Absolutely. I considered writing something earlier but I felt that I should peruse the site more to get a deeper feeling of what I'd be getting myself into.

Juan M

yes, that's a good move. ^^

bobble

Tinkeringbell

15:00

@Spevacus Meh :P You can always ask other moderators and get plenty of opinions on what you should be getting into :P

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Spevacus trouble?

Tinkeringbell

@bobble I'm thinking dinner will be ready within 5 minutes anyways, I'm expecting a call any minute now!

Spevacus

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Tons :)

Rob

@JuanM done

Juan M

thanks!

Rob

15:01

Spe, should have looked before you leaped

Juan M

@Rob I think it would be good to have you participate on the site and build your reputation a bit more. It will also help to get your name out there so other members can get to know you and get used to seeing your activity there.

rene

@Tinkeringbell it that the time left on the microwave?

Tinkeringbell

@rene No, it's a combination of smells I can smell in my room and hearing doors slam downstairs which means dad is home.... somehow he never has to be silent with the doors.

Though... it seems likely my 5 minute estimate was of.

rene

6 to 8?

bobble

s/of/off

Rob

15:04

@JuanM Yes, the two of us have 202 reputation between us; perhaps a record low; for non-employee.

Tinkeringbell

@rene Hopefully, and hopefully not much longer!

Juan M

@Rob I'm not very proud of my 101....but yes, it's there!

Rob

I'll search for an unanswered Q.

Juan M

great start!

rene

@Rob are you a freelancer?

Juan M

15:06

I think the team will want to see more action before any moderator appointments are made.

Spevacus

@JuanM This is why I'm fairly tentative in how I approached the situation. Having an outsider (for the site, not necessarily for SE as a whole) request appointment doesn't inspire much confidence. Ideally, users with at least some reputation should be trying to step up, but we wouldn't be in this situation if that was happening, would we? :(

Juan M

Exactly, that's what's going on.

Rob

I have been, currently a volunteer. I prefer full time long term employment; but these are difficult times for the support staff.

Tinkeringbell

@rene 6 to 8 was right!

rene

@Rob I see. I didn't know. Looks like some questions have overlap with the workplace.

Juan M

15:09

@Spevacus I understand the hesitation, I think it's a healthy way to approach this. Know that you're not being singled out or put on a "must activate" list. Take your time and let's see what happens.

Spevacus

:)

Rob

@Spevacus I agree, if the users prefer one of their own I'll not stand in their way - as we have both said a few times now; the Team is also an acceptable candidate, many hands make light work. @Juan

Ollie

15:50

@Spevacus gone.

Spevacus

thank ya

Ollie

Nice work on the burnination stats @Spevacus. I'll try that on the next one, other duties permitting.

Spevacus

I just kept the list of questions that, at the time of your burninate-request's creation, had the tag, in a new window and kept that window open on my work PC. Then I could just scan through and do a rough approximation of what all happened with 'em.

I should get dangerous with SEDE and do it that way. It'd be much more efficient.

But thank you :)

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