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3:07 AM

@RyanM your algorithm fails in this case!

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A: 2019 Community Moderator Election Results

Why is nothing displayed on the election summary for 2019 (see below) even though Charlie was a candidate that became a mod? Furthermore, it says "2 candidates" but only one shows up here:

Ryan M

@user1271772 that does appear to be a bug, arguably. I would expect that Charlie's name would show in the results.

It seems wrong that it doesn't.

user1271772

According to how things worked on the recent Fitness.SE election results page, and the algorithm deduced from that behavior, I would think that Charlie would be listed there, haha

But it was in the early days of pro tempore elections.

Ryan M

Yeah, I'd expect it was due to pro-tem elections being somewhat experimental at the time. I know they've done a bunch of work with the election tooling in general recently.

user1271772

Yea true

2019 was not TOO new for pro-tem elections, a few had been done in 2018 already.

But the behavior we're seeing now might be the result of some of the new elections infrastructure that was recently added.

I'm just guessing.

Rob

3:25 AM

It's precisely the way I explained yesterday, compare the results with the second banner: spanish.stackexchange.com/election spanish.stackexchange.com/election/1

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

7:46 AM

@Rob just a name

Luuklag

9:15 AM

@JNat cross site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/22370727/sjain?tab=accounts

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

11:56 AM

@Luuklag k

Rob

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Should have chosen a different one.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Rob Scatter?

Rob

Scitter

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Does it have a meaning?

Rob

Google search thinks so.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

11:58 AM

> scitter is scottish for dioahria and can be used 2 insult a person

Hardly a meaning.... :D

Rob

Needs better spelling.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Post on UD.Meta

Rob

scoot.meat

Luuklag

12:13 PM

WTF is this:

(click for larger version)

Mithical

has existed pretty much forever... it exists pretty much as a fallback AFAIK

Luuklag

well perhaps I jumped the gun then... meta.stackexchange.com/questions/369006/…

I was used to see a simple text above the answers

Mithical

Were you perhaps editing the post at the time?

Luuklag

nope, but might be because this a windows, and not the mac I'm used to

Meta Andrew T.

@Luuklag at the very least, it's using this JavaScript function: StackExchange.notify.show("message")

Luuklag

12:21 PM

@Mithical Could be that the PC came back from sleep / installing updates automagically (FFS stupid windows)

Rob

12:44 PM

@Luuklag Used to be below the top bar, so it's a question for the sticky top bar announcement.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Rob nope, I'm pretty sure it was always there.

Luuklag

@Rob I've never seen it in Orange before though, if you wan't you can add it as a comment to my Q

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

It's some old version of live refresh.

Mithical

@Rob No, it's always been above.

(When the old-style banner appears.)

For instance, on Area 51 when you're logged out you can see the same style banner.

Rob

That orange was another issue. It looks like they are adding their bugs together and revisiting them.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

12:52 PM

@Rob nah

Not this time.

I dislike the change of top bar and yet another feature they take away without any warning, but it's not related to what @Luuklag reported.

As others said, it's some fallback due to connection blip.

@g3rv4 you are now a dev right? You can put an end to this never ending discussion with one look in the code. ;)

sips Mocha slowly

Spevacus

In an interesting turn of events, I join the chat sufficiently caffeinated this morning.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

:D

g3rv4

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 :) what's the discussion?

Luuklag

The monstrosity on my screenshot that is an orange bar in top

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Q: Can we please remove the weird looking orange banner that appears when a new answer is posted while I view a question?

I don't know when this came to be, or if this is the reason we can't have nice things like disabled stickyness on the topbar but it looks godawfull. What was wrong with the old pop-up above the answers?

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@g3rv4 this:

47 mins ago, by Luuklag

What cause it to appear on MSE

I don't think it's a bug, just fallback when the ordinary AJAX fails.

g3rv4

1:04 PM

ugh, that's ugly

Mithical

@Luuklag boom

Rob

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Ya

With over 500 results there should be an orange tag.

Luuklag

@Rob lets add more META tags :)

Rob

1:20 PM

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Probably COVID related:

John Dvorak

@Rob the forbidden fizzy drink

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

2:15 PM

@Rob isn't that a cure for COVID19?

Mad Scientist

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 if you drink it, it's probably a cure for everything including life

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Rob

Tequila and Corona = thedrinkkings.com/coronavirus

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Didn't you need to drink Bleach according to Trump?

Tinkeringbell

I thought you were supposed to drink it to cure autism, and inject it to cure Covid.

Bleach really is an all-purpose cleaning supply ;)

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag Trump is down, so need to think of new, better, ideas! :D

Mad Scientist

2:25 PM

@Tinkeringbell It does kill viruses very efficiently, that is sure

Journeyman Geek

@MadScientist also... quite a lot of biological cells

Tinkeringbell

@MadScientist It kills clothes too. And then there's that one time at work I didn't realize someone had just put another cleaning thing in the toilet, and I went about cleaning them with bleach as usual... the resulting stench nearly killed people too XD

Mad Scientist

most organic chemicals don't react well to strong oxidizing agents

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Tinkeringbell ouch lol

I love playing a game "Blue to Yellow" when possible. #noNeedToExplain

:D

Mad Scientist

@Tinkeringbell depending on what you mixed that was either chlorine gas or chloramines, both are very nasty

Tinkeringbell

2:31 PM

@MadScientist Yep. Every bottle clearly states 'Do not mix with other cleaning supplies'... but that requires you to know that someone just squirted a bunch of other cleaning supply into a toilet.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Tinkeringbell stick a paper on the door, whoever clean will have to write down exact time and what they put in the toilets. Problem solved. ;)

Mad Scientist

Strong oxidising agents are also a favorite way of setting the solid waste bins on fire in the lab if you're not careful

Tinkeringbell

@MadScientist Yeah, I think the bottle said chlorine gas.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

(or if you mean toilets at work have only the janitor clean the toilets with those things)

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 I doubt it would've worked. Most co-workers at that job were mentally disabled to an extent, and would probably have just ignored the form or not known what to do with it.

Luuklag

2:35 PM

@Tinkeringbell can't help myself: (Is that why they hired you? ;) )

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Most likely :P

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Tinkeringbell so my other option; don't let them use anything, except toilet brush. Leave the chemicals to a janitor.

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Ouch! I was a well respected cash-register worker, not a janitor! :P

We didn't have a janitor there.

Mad Scientist

aren't most of them coloured anyway? So you'd usually see that there is something already in there

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Tinkeringbell so hire one? ;)

@MadScientist yeah at my work place they use something blue-ish.

Luuklag

2:38 PM

@MadScientist The bleach I have is just uncoloured I think

Tinkeringbell

@MadScientist Yes, most of them are... This one was yellow and didn't show up all that distinctly in a toilet so old that it too looks yellow.

That, combined with the fact that I prefer not to look at what customers have done to the toilet and just douse it in bleach.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Fair!

Tinkeringbell

XD Of course it is... I'm not entirely stupid :P

SPArcheon

2:58 PM

@Tinkeringbell Napalm

Tinkeringbell

Bit too drastic.

Dude coinheringaahing

@SPArcheon I love the smell of Napalm in the toilet :P

SPArcheon

@Tinkeringbell the drastic solution was alkaest

Tinkeringbell

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkahest?

SPArcheon

yes that one.

> which was supposed to be capable of dissolving any other substance,

Basically, the one that should already be used for spam posts.

Ryan M

3:16 PM

@Ollie I even said they were super nitpicky! ;-) I debated putting it up at all, but I figured it was waaaaay too nitpicky for a dedicated question, so if I wanted the phrasing fixed it was either post an answer now or forever hold my nitpicky peace :-p

...and of course that promptly gets more upvotes than my answer pointing out help center phrasing that's objectively wrong 😂

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 orange-flavored cure. I see nothing wrong with that

Spevacus

@RyanM I'm sad that I'm the lone upvoter on that one.

Ryan M

@Spevacus No, someone else has upvoted it now :-)

Spevacus

ayyyy

@JNat Cross-site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/22574812/reviewmonkey

Rob

3:37 PM

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Q: Review queue workflows - Final release

All good things must come to an end and so must the review queues project. This project would not have been successful without the community. Thank you all for the hours of reviewing, testing, and sharing your feedback along the way. With that said, this will be our final major release. In this p...

discussion review announcements

Kevin B

"final"

a better title would be wrapping up the "review queue workflows" project, surely it's not the final change to the review queues!

Rob

4:12 PM

> "What about issue X, Y, Z?

As mentioned earlier, this is our final major release. We will not be pursuing the proposed suggested tasks feature at this time. We didn't feel that it was going to significantly increase curation activities on the site and therefore didn't warrant the high development cost." .

Kevin B

final major release of what?

the review queue workflows project?

Ryan M

What was the proposed suggested tasks feature? I think I missed that one.

Mithical

4:32 PM

Farewell to Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00002, Jarrod Dixon

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