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Dec 12 07:53

And, of course, your adopting the username "Shadow the Hedgehog Wizard" after I made an off-hand comment of how your name reminded me of the Sega character, which in turn inspired me to adopt my current username

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Dec 12 07:51

Q: Hidden message embedded in image

There is a hidden message embedded within the below image just below the graphic of Shadow the Hedgehog that cannot be viewed using a normal image viewer. Can you find it? Hint 1: Hint 2: I'm looking for an answer that also clearly explains the trick I used to obscure the text and wh...

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Dec 12 07:50

@ShadowWizard That's on Puzzling

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Dec 12 07:48

@ShadowWizard You could if you like

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Dec 12 07:44

From web.archive.org/web/20131006101747/http://…

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Dec 12 07:44

@ShadowWizard Heh, I think I may have voted in that poll?

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Dec 12 07:43

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Dec 12 07:43

Took some digging, but found the actual avatar:

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Dec 12 07:40

I couldn't find the exact avatar (yet), but I did find this bio which referenced it.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Dec 12 07:38

@AndreascondemnsIsrael For crawls before April 2014, you have to change meta.stackexchange.com to meta.stackoverflow.com.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Dec 12 07:37

@ShadowWizard "What's on your mind?"?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Dec 12 06:34

@ShadowWizard This question reminds me of your avatar from 2013

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Dec 10 05:58

@AndreascondemnsIsrael @ElementsInSpace ^

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Dec 10 05:58

discord.com/channels/628507458452586497/628507458910027777/…

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Dec 10 05:46

Seven years on Meta.SE as of today

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Dec 3 04:20

> The Foundation refused to [disclose the info], and appealed the order. That appeal came to a close without requiring that data be disclosed to ANI

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Dec 3 04:19

Wikipedia talk:2024 open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation

Almost 400 signatures signed by established editors and multiple admins. Perhaps it's time for WMF to make a statement on the situation. Ratnahastin (talk) 02:48, 9 November 2024 (UTC) Somebody tag WMFOffice please Djano Chained (talk) 14:10, 9 November 2024 (UTC) 400+ now. At the present rate of growth, I estimate we'll have 500+ signatures in a little more than ten hours, but it'll probably slow a bit, so make it twelve or so. In the last ten hours, we've had an average of 5 new sigs/hr. In the first ten hours after the signature opened, that was closer to 18. Cremastra (u — c) 15:12, 9 November...

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 25 09:44

Many years ago there used to be a 48-hour delay on authors deleting their questions if they got closed.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 25 09:43

@ShadowWizard I wasn't advocating for that. There's a longstanding feature request to impose a 24-hour delay on self-deleting questions if they get answered, to allow for time for one or more upvote(s) or other answer(s) to be provided. Also note that high-rep users aren't subject to the imposed-on-authors limits when voting to delete others' posts.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 24 15:53

The most common case I see this is people deleting their questions immediately after they get answered. Given that the system blocks authors from deleting their questions if they get multiple answers or if they have a single answer with at least one upvote, users tend to think that deleting their own question that gets a single answer before it has a chance to be upvoted is allowed.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 24 15:50

@VLAZ Well, some people conclude that "if the system allows me to do something, it's probably not against the rules" or "if it's really against the rules, they'd have put in measures to stop it but they didn't" and so do it not knowing it's against the rules.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 16 21:25

@Tinkeringbell Okay, thanks! Looks like that's broken as well.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 16 21:24

@Tinkeringbell Here it is: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3122/formatting-sandbox/…

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 16 21:23

@Tinkeringbell I'm going to post an answer to that question and then if you could please convert it to a comment.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 16 11:22

I'd like to see if this is actually true.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 16 11:21

@Tinkeringbell You available for a brief science experiment?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 10 10:16

@starball ^

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 10 10:16

Q: Answer that was deleted by a moderator was undeleted by normal users; why was it allowed and can it be fixed?

Since 2011, normal users have been prevented from voting to undelete posts that were deleted by moderators. However, today, this answer was undeleted by votes from normal users after having been deleted by a moderator. It appears that a bug was introduced when the logic for checking if a post was...

bug deleted-posts vote-to-undelete

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 10 09:26

It seemed strange that there was an undelete vote on a mod-deleted answer, so I tried voting myself and the system allowed it.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 10 09:23

Hey, I wanted to test out a bug: can a non-mod vote to undelete this answer? Afterwards, @rene can you re-delete it? It seems like this system change is allowing normal users to vote to undelete answers. I'd like to see if the answer actually gets undeleted.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 5 16:07

One of our biggest store chains realized they couldn't raise prices beyond a certain point or it would reduce their demand, so they ran a campaign of how they were reducing prices when they were simply partly undoing their earlier changes.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 5 16:06

The price of a can of salt doubled here in California compared to five years ago

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 5 09:40

They're flying in 8 AM and out 8 PM Thursday.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 5 09:39

Also, how's the weather there? The forecast says it'll rain a lot when they get there - does that seem true for you right now?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 5 09:39

@JourneymanGeek Any other place you'd recommend for sightseeing? I think Sentosa is a bit too far out of the way since they're only in Singapore for 6-8 hours in the literal (hopefully not figurative) sense.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 5 09:35

@JourneymanGeek My parents are the ones going - they say they want to go gold shopping mostly. They have two transit stops, one on the onward and one on the return

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 5 02:04

@JourneymanGeek What do you recommend someone with a day transit stop in Singapore do?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 3 09:29

@ShadowWizard It's a non-useful duplicate - it doesn't contain additional search terms that would help find the target. There's a reason why the system allows high-rep users to vote to delete answered questions - because they're evaluating the usefulness of the question. The answer author can repost their answer on the target if it gets deleted, or request that the posts be merged.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 3 09:27

@ShadowWizard Now we know why

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Nov 3 09:26

@Tinkeringbell A little curious why you cleared the pending delete vote on meta.stackexchange.com/posts/403921/revisions

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Oct 25 18:51

Daily flag allowance temporarily raised to 100 base, up to 1000 max

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Oct 21 18:11

Chat upgrade incoming!

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Oct 19 17:34

@ShadowWizard Not that I'm aware of.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Oct 19 17:23

I said so before

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Oct 19 17:23

Sep 3 at 22:13, by Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard When a user's post is manually reported, they are automatically blacklisted, and future manual reports of posts from the same user will thus show as "Blacklisted user".

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Oct 19 17:23

@ShadowWizard Command not necessary - users are automatically blacklisted on manual reports

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Dec 10 02:53

!!/report meta.stackexchange.com/a/404819/377214

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Nov 21 07:05

!!/report meta.stackexchange.com/a/404420/377214 "rude or abusive"

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Nov 14 20:50

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Oct 19 16:50

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