The Axon Terminal

8:09 AM

8:20 AM

@H.Muster New socks?

@StevenJeuris Not me. Just thought that they somehow fit to the site recently...

Good morning, btw.

Morning!

Yeah I know ... at least it's not all drama. Some really good content got added in the process.

4 hours later…

12:00 PM

@H.Muster We haven't had any recent;y. I keep a close eye on it. They're easy to spot

All come from the same IP, and the socks are always low-rep throwaway accounts

We have a list in our mod room and in our mod tools of possible sockpuppets. I annotate the users when I see em

12:20 PM

@JoshGitlin And I totally ignore stuff like that, since @JoshGitlin is much better at it. :) @H.Muster I totally missed your reference to sock puppets there by the way, haha. :) I just thought you meant CogSci has been a bit 'crazy' as of late.

@StevenJeuris I think you spend too much time on Stack Exchange, give how the above is actually a literal sock puppet. To us mods now we hear the term sockpuppet and think about users not actual socks placed on one's hand :-p

Either that or you need more coffee ;-)

@JoshGitlin Coffee it is, and onwards to failing more students. :)

Hmm .. apparently not. Paper writing it is then.

@StevenJeuris Be gentle with them! Use a thin red pen when you draw those giant F marks :-p

@JoshGitlin I prefer the not being gentle, smack all their mistakes in their face approach. Much better way to learn.

And then of course be open to discussion. :)

Extensive feedback works better than 'being gentle'. :)

hahaha, gotcha :-)

so lots of red freehand circles. I don't know why you didn't do better on MSO @Steven!

12:26 PM

@JoshGitlin I did awesome on MSO. ;) I feel partly responsible for the revised close reasons. :)

Well at least it's one of the main points in which I mingled myself during the discussions.

Even got one of the first revisions pushed through.

@StevenJeuris Oh I know, and I know the discussions we had regarding MSO, I was just poking you :-p I love the new close reasons

Hey there @Ben

Ben Brocka

@JoshGitlin hello

@JoshGitlin Don't trust IPs. You just need two different devices to get around this "trap".

@H.Muster Oh I know it's more than that, but it's also more than just devices

Note that two devices behind the same router share an IP

If you have a specific concern please create a chat room with me and I'll make it private, or email me directly @H.Muster!

@JoshGitlin Exactly, only if they are behind the same router.

Ben Brocka

12:33 PM

IP may be pretty easy to get around if you know what you're doing, but that doesn't mean the majority of people still won't/won't know how to get around the IP thing

Yeah

Easiest way to get around having the same IP would be to use Tor, which I have seen also

@H.Muster I think I know what your concerns are and don't want to speak to them publicly, but I am fairly sure we don't have any sockpuppets at the moment

@JoshGitlin Nope, easiest way would be using a PC and a mobile phone.

Interesting ... grabs his phone

Personally I'd find tor a lot easier than typing on a phone :-)

@StevenJeuris make sure wifi is off otherwise I'll catch you ;-)

I have to step AFK shortly @H.Muster. Shoot me an email if you like and I'll respond in more detail

Or I can create a private chat and we can respond non-realtime (like comments on the site)

welcome @Beofett!

@JoshGitlin Hi!

12:41 PM

@JoshGitlin I am pretty sure that you know what or whom I am thinking about. It's probably not a common thing that someone awards all his rep to one and the same person before he/she quits.

@H.Muster It's not common, no, but Taal was not a sockpuppet

I need to step AFK now but I'll respond in more detail when I return

Have fun.

I'm looking to find out more about whether there's a drastic increase in people with autism, or whether the increased awareness/prevalence of the ASD diagnosis more strongly correlates to the improved diagnostic codes. However, since I haven't posted here before, I wanted to check for feedback in chat before asking, to make sure the question is appropriate

@Beofett It is.

@Beofett I think it's totally appropriate and from what I know from watching The Charlie Rose Brain Series the answer is: we're not sure. Might be an increase in detection or it might actually be occurring more.

12:45 PM

@StevenJeuris Excellent, thanks. I'll start drafting it, and I'm of course open to suggestions for improvement :)

@JoshGitlin I suspected that was probably the answer, but it would be good to see a collection of the data supporting the various possibilities

@Beofett Indeed. Seems like an interesting contribution. Looking forward to the writeup!

@Beofett Oh absolutely, I don't have nearly enough experience to answer, I'm looking forward to seeing what others say!

Going AFK now though, back later!

I've got to run in a few minutes, so if I don't get the question posted immediately, I'll finish it up later :)

and thanks both of you!

1 hour later…

2:10 PM

My question is posted, but I wasn't sure about some of the possible tags I was considering, so I left it just autism

@Beofett Great question/great motivation.

The only way I see you can improve it is by fully referencing your sources so if the links break it is still possible to know what you are referring to.

Thanks.

I would want to perhaps find better sources, then, since the ones I listed weren't particularly authoritative, but rather blog/articles that were rather light on details

I'll see if I can find the original CDC studies, and add some quotes from the other sources. Thanks for the feedback :)

@Beofett Blog articles are fine enough. You just have to show your motivation for asking your question. Better sources do make a better question, but definitely aren't necessary.

@StevenJeuris I've already found the CDC reports, and I'm working on an edit... I'm glad I looked it up, as it is interesting reading :)