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For this question on Meta SE, can someone tell me what the upvote/downvote count is? I'm aware of the score, but I'm curious about the upvotes/downvote ratio (yes, I have an opinion, no, I will not discuss it here)

Example person

Neither can I see vote counts in Meta SE... :(

Journeyman Geek

+359 -59

Example person

@JourneymanGeek you got any info on the outage? its not read-only now

Journeyman Geek

@Exampleperson no

I don't have any folks on the SRE team I can badger 🦡either

Example person

I guess it wasn't a DDoS attack. Since they just set it to read-only mode...

Journeyman Geek

5:46 AM

@Exampleperson whole network was down :D

So, lets wait for a response, but from what I saw everything, including chat was down for a bit

Example person

oh wow

@JourneymanGeek Final Assumption: It could've been a DDoS attack that did a lot of INSERTs to the database.

Journeyman Geek

uhhh

I'm not assuming anything lol

Example person

DDoS attack explains the periodic outage

just like before

And INSERTs explain the read-only mode thing

Journeyman Geek

lol

Readonly is probably "lets get something lightweight up while we sort this out"

Example person

umm...

Maybe they just did the maintenance early because of the issues

after all

Journeyman Geek

5:55 AM

uhh that's speculation

Or when there's issues. Its fairly standard

Example person

@JourneymanGeek that doesn't seem correct though

M.A.R.

6:11 AM

Chat was down. HOW DARE THEY

I mean everything else too but how dare they

cocomac

6:26 AM

@JourneymanGeek Thanks!

M.A.R.

@cocomac +539 BTW

rene

@cocomac if you don't have a problem with running userscripts you can install this one: stackapps.com/questions/8977/… it will give you the split, or open api.stackexchange.com/2.3/posts/… that leverages the stack api directly.

Wolgwang

6:46 AM

What happened to the notifications counter badge?

rene

6:58 AM

It broke / got messed up

Catija

It wasn't a ddos

Example person

Then what was it?

Catija

I have no clue. I wasn't involved in fixing it. But it's now Sunday pretty much everywhere and we're losing an hour of sleep on top of a day full of unplanned work... so maybe leave it be until Monday?

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Rob

7:22 AM

There have been several spikes of it being offline throughout the day, see: downdetector.com/status/stackoverflow

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

@Rob heartbeat

It's good, means SO still alive.

Rob

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar More like porcupine, under attack:

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Can also be cute.

Nord The Lofty Wizard

8:01 AM

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar are those hedgehogs? also Hi :)

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@NordTheLoftyWizard yeah, they're close enough to porcupine. Hello!

Nord The Lofty Wizard

been a while :) also started to learn some javascript

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

@NordTheLoftyWizard awesome! Bit late into the party, but there's place for everyone. :P

Popular Demand 101 ^

Journeyman Geek

9:11 AM

@Exampleperson ..... I blame dyslexia

M.A.R.

9:22 AM

@JourneymanGeek way to shift the blame

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

@M.A.R. left shift or right shift?

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar probably both because dyslexia

Har har har

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar Other left!

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@JourneymanGeek right!

Journeyman Geek

Well yes! Left! NO NO OTHER LEFT

(this literally happened while gaming with a friend)

Example person

9:37 AM

@JourneymanGeek you can still edit that message though, as you are a moderator

Journeyman Geek

@Exampleperson yes, but why?

Chat's a permanent record - warts and all

@M.A.R. corrected me

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@JourneymanGeek awesome! And you both ended up dead? :P

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar wierdly no

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

lol

M.A.R.

@Exampleperson he's lazy, ignore his philosophical speech about warts

Journeyman Geek

9:39 AM

it worked perfectly and unlike the actual russian army, we performed a beautiful flanking attack, routing the enemy, and killing no civilians.

M.A.R.

Yeah right

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@JourneymanGeek Gold Medal

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar its a game. I think there's people IRL who deserve it more :/

M.A.R.

For example me

I'm real

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

@JourneymanGeek meh, can't give it IRL, so should be happy with our virtual online life. ;)

Journeyman Geek

9:41 AM

@Exampleperson eww gaslighting

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@M.A.R. you deserve Brown Medal

M.A.R.

I deserve a gold medal for participation

Journeyman Geek

If it had been noticed by me before anyone else, and I'd fixed it sure

M.A.R.

Also, I fed a bird the other day

Journeyman Geek

/me hits @M.A.R. over the head with the wooden spoon and then hands it to him

M.A.R.

9:42 AM

I didn't do it for the medal of course

Journeyman Geek

Ok

M.A.R.

@JourneymanGeek golden wooden spoon? cat puppy eyes

Journeyman Geek

takes it away, hits @M.A.R. over the head with it, and hands it to mythical

@M.A.R. well no, a wooden wooden spoon

M.A.R.

I'm concerned that if you don't award my selfless feeding of the bird with a gold medal, justice will not be served

Journeyman Geek

Wooden spoon (award)

A wooden spoon is an award that is given to an individual or team that has come last in a competition. Examples range from the academic to sporting and more frivolous events. The term is of British origin and has spread to other English-speaking countries. == Wooden spoon at the University of Cambridge == The wooden spoon was presented originally at the University of Cambridge as a kind of booby prize awarded by the students to the person who achieved the lowest exam marks but still earned a third-class degree (a junior optime) in the Mathematical Tripos. The term "wooden spoon" or simply "the...

M.A.R.

9:44 AM

The balances of the universe, the yin and the yang, do not let darkness prevail, give me a gold medal

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R. much justice is served with said spoon. Mostly hitting you over the head with justice.

and absolutely no clementines. I mean clemency

M.A.R.

How will that help me get my medal

Example person

@JourneymanGeek can moderators actually see any deleted message in chat or any comment in any post?

Journeyman Geek

@Exampleperson yes

Example person

@JourneymanGeek I mean "any deleted comment"?

M.A.R.

9:44 AM

@JourneymanGeek ew they turned the razzie awards into a spoon

Journeyman Geek

@Exampleperson Yes

M.A.R.

British origin, but of course

They do not deserve gold medals.

Example person

@JourneymanGeek wow you moderators have so much power here

M.A.R.

@Exampleperson it's all make-believe, they don't even have medals

Journeyman Geek

@Exampleperson most of the time though, you don't really want to read deleted comments

M.A.R.

9:46 AM

Yeah mods are boring people, which is why they're in charge of deleted messages

Did you just compliment mods?

See, this is what I meant by the universe hanging in the balance

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

Reading deleted comments is like walking inside a sewer....

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar well, if you wanna go with that analogy, when the smell of the sewer is directed at everyone else and you only get to enjoy seeing their faces, it's not so bad.

But, as is common knowledge, the mod contract involves losing your soul to the devil in exchange for great powers

Such as seeing deleted messages

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@M.A.R. that you deleted yourself! buwahaha

Ultimate Power

M.A.R.

See, you haven't lost your soul yet. It was a close thing with that last election

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6 candidates! Crazy!

M.A.R.

9:56 AM

Are there even that many users on that site?

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lol

Think only 70 voted

But seriously, COVID saved the site, I'm pretty sure without it, site would be dead by now.

At least 80% of the non crap questions there are COVID related.

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar You mean they went through all this COVID trouble to make their elections exciting? Typical NWO MSM fake news alternate fact liberal commie socialist George Soros media.

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@M.A.R. yup

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

10:22 AM

@M.A.R is it worth buying? ^

Spammer has wrong About Me

plz-delete compile code @rene @Sonic @Spevacus @Glor

M.A.R.

11:36 AM

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar hey, I don't get into sensitive politics man

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R. you mean, he can't handle the truth?

Or is there some great pistachio rivalry?

M.A.R.

But generally Iranian everything is worth buying, because of how dirt cheap it is. Of course, if functionality is important for you stick to pistachios and dates.

@JourneymanGeek how would I know if I don't get into politics

Journeyman Geek

I'm sure there's a word for buying a date...

M.A.R.

Sure, "purchase"

Journeyman Geek

Strange

who buys one date?

ONE SINGULAR FRUIT?

M.A.R.

11:42 AM

Desperate runner near the end of a marathon

Journeyman Geek

Why not two?

It would be a double date?

Also I thought it was bananas

M.A.R.

Then they'd need water

Journeyman Geek

Radioactive and fruity

M.A.R.

It'll have a hard time going, three wheels and all

@JourneymanGeek I'm still waiting for the James Bond movie where the villain would make an antimatter laser gun by an abundance of bananas

Journeyman Geek

a banana dirty bomb

Or a pina colada

DavidPostill

12:16 PM

@JourneymanGeek No bananas in a Pina Coloda

Journeyman Geek

._.

That's why he's evil

(I forgot. Pineapples isn't it?)

DavidPostill

Yep

There is a Dirty Banana cocktail

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

12:48 PM

@M.A.R. buying magic pills

@DavidPostill what made the banana dirty?

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar Now now, we're a safe for work chatroom

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@JourneymanGeek as long as @M.A.R and myself are around, together, nobody is safe. No body.

:D

Nose might be safe, it's above the body.

Journeyman Geek

Hm, question is what is no body safe from?

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@JourneymanGeek from our dirty minds, of course!

Well, my own, but he boost it. :D

!!/protect

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar No such command 'protect'.

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12:52 PM

:(

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1:23 PM

!!/coffee Smi

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar brews a cup of Latte for @Smi

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hmm

Coffee goes to the left one.

oops. Well, the other left.

Account merge never works well with chat.

Good chance poor soul can't even chat. :/

Oh they can

15 hours ago, by Smitop

which is why I assume they are doing layer 7 attacks

Bets are open! When will Peter edit this off topic question to insert code formatting?

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar 6 minutes

Smitop

1:41 PM

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar yep, looks like I'm in my premerge account on one computer and the postmerge one on this computer

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@Smitop it's random, ask @SPArcheon

They were even here once with both in same time.

And since in SPA case the two accounts had different names, it was really funny. :D

In your case can only tell if it's the real account or zombie account by clicking on profile and trying to reach the parent site, @Smit

M.A.R.

2:56 PM

@JourneymanGeek my scathing satire rips the veils of hypocrisy to shreds. Tyrants tremble at my keyboard's approach. No crime shall remain in darkness while I still chat.

opens a bag of chips

Journeyman Geek

steals chips

M.A.R.

Bill Gates?!

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burns chips with magma hot chocolate

M.A.R.

There art thou! Hold fast! In the name of the law!

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showing law what I think about it

M.A.R.