Hi.

Hi

blog

blog indeed

perhaps I'll join lifehacks.se and ask about getting content for blogs

how are you @KitFox?

I'm OK.

Yesterday I was horribly hung over and had to leave work early.

oh dear. after staying the night in a hotel?

Yes.

I had an awesome fun time out.

:D

And also forgot that the stout I like is a double-bag.

double-bag?

So I got drunker than I meant to off two beers.

Twice the alcohol content.

ah

at least you didn't crash and burn on the ice!

Yes.

How are you @MattЭллен?

I'm OK. somewhat tired.

I put it down to either not waring a shirt to bed or the thing banging on someone's balcony of one of the flats near mine

something is banging in the wind and sometimes it's loud

I've started watching Sword Art Online on netflix. it's quite good (if you like anime)

Banging thing? How annoying.

yes indeed

Also, were you wearing pajama pants?

yes

Fleece? Flannel?

flannel

I should stop thinking about that ... hey, I have yet more writing commitments!

they're nice and comfy

So why no shirt then?

@KitFox oh! how did your short story go?

Did you vomit all down your front like I did?

@KitFox oh, well I recently changed to my winter duvet and I didn't want to overheat

@MattЭллен Not finished yet.

@KitFox oh dear! no :D

phew

@KitFox coming along ok?

hello people who are seemingly just arriving!

eh. I had the plot worked out mostly, but I didn't write it down on account of drinking and making new friends.

well, we're running out of time to do the twice-annual EL&U blog update

will the chair entertain a motion to reduce it to an annual update :)?

annual? if you think we've got the content ;)

actually there is a post waiting editing

dicey

@KitFox good excuse as any :D

I might put together a blog post summarising our year (to the best of my abilities), focussing on the good things and pretty much just sweeping bad things under the carpet.

Yes!

In honor of Hat Dash.

anyone got some high points they'd like me to add?

We had elections.

that's true

That's not a high point, but it is a significant thing.

yes. I will mention it

We hit some nK questions milestone, I'm sure.

It might be nice to see how many new 20K users we have this year.

Or even 10K.

and maybe some gold badge summaries

Yeah. Something like that.

I'll find some good questions, too

asked this year

hopefully

I'll try and give it a buzzfeed title

ten things about EL&U you won't believe

it'll be more than ten things and they'll be totally believeable

Perfect.

Ten Reasons to Love (Or Hate) English Language & Usage

Stuff That Happened On EL&U...the result may shock you!

Hey @Mr.ShinyandNew安宇.

@KitFox lol, yes!

oops, this is the wrong wroom

:(

I saw that Matt and Kit were here and I was like "That's the room for me!"

it is the room for you!

Now I see it was a ruse... a trap to get me in here to discuss blogging

stuff that happened this year on EL&U that should be in a year's summary post

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Aww.

Man, I wish I had some soda pop right now.

I am snacked up on garlicky cheese.

@MattЭллен What sort of things do you have so far?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 election. note people who passed the 20k mark. interesting gold badges achieved. noteable questions

no specifics as yet

feel free to mention anything

I wish we could do the controversies. The excitement! The intirgue!

We could do that

I'm going to leave that typo. It's somehow apropos.

by we I mean someone other than me

Nah, no sense in it except for sensationalist stuff.

Also, so much of it is confidential.

true

We could call it EL&U confidential.

:D

And give everyone aliases.

if someone who's not a mod wrote it, then they wouldn't know anything confidential, probably

@KitFox we could mention controversies, if they were generalized and there was a lesson to learn.... some message to give out to remind people of how to play nicely

@MattЭллен True. Then they could just make stuff up.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Well, that would require careful thought. I am pretty sure the point of dirt is to rile up the userbase.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 how many members the mods have killed put on long term suspension, maybe

Maybe we could discuss goals for 2015

sounds promising

mmm goals.

Revamping the custom close reasons.

<small>posting to the blog</small>

I think Matt should have a regular column about being a mod.

I thought you wanted to do something like that

looks evasive

Well, I got a bit soured on the idea.

ah, fair enough

Well, there could be a mod summary... how goes the fight against the trolls and spammers, how many flags are you clearing, brief recap of your regular duties

Just to remind people of the great job you're all doing

We should have flag clearer of the month awards.

Then Andrew would win them all.

:-)

:D

heh

He's very thorough.

indeed

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 do you mean for the end of year post? or the possible regular mod column?

@MattЭллен Either way

Since there is no regular mod column, it could go in the end of the year post