The Nineteenth Byte

Rainbolt

8:00 PM

And then it got messed up

Runer112

we can at least alternate Q&A up to max easily

Kevin Stricker

nao answers users users close :P

Apparently I'm not paying enough attention

oops

Hosch250

What?!

Nothing?

Optimizer

what ?

Kevin Stricker

ooo

Runer112

8:08 PM

restarts coming in, bleh

Kevin Stricker

after traffic gets up have to start prioritizing quality over Q&A

Which should be soon

GiantCowFilms

we are miles ahead

Optimizer

@GiantCowFilms what SE ?

GiantCowFilms

blender

Kevin Stricker

the early downvote decay happened

twice in a row...

Nathan Merrill

8:11 PM

baha!

Codebots are back

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

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Optimizer

wow, blender is really miles ahead

will probably win in 250

Kevin Stricker

inb4 quality decay :P

Rainbolt

Hmmm. If we had voted quality over answer, then we would have not only avoided that decay, but gone up one heart.

If quality is tied with something for lowest, always prioritize it IMO

Kevin Stricker

*When traffic is above 2 hearts.

Rainbolt

There we go

users next

Since quality just hurt it

Go upvote

Runer112

8:14 PM

this might be a max here

nope.

Kevin Stricker

dv

GiantCowFilms

full hearts!

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Code Bots: Multi-Threaded Bots Yep, you heard it. Code Bots are back! This time, we are going to be following multi-threaded design. But, lets get back to the basics: Variables Bots have 4 variables: A, B, C, and D. These variables can only store a number from 0 to 23, start at 0. Threads...

Kevin Stricker

wrong

Rainbolt

Yea, I think that one was off too

Users drops this turn. Questions might hold?

Whoah...

Way off lol

Runer112

8:15 PM

I don't get quality

it definitely decays faster than the others

Rainbolt

I don't understand it either

Why isn't users dropping ever?

Kevin Stricker

quality and answers next

Rainbolt

We downvoted three times since the last users

Kevin Stricker

Users is resilient at this stage

Runer112

it dropped a bit ago

Rainbolt

8:16 PM

Have our users matured?

Kevin Stricker

It's hard to get rid of users with high traffic maybe?

Rainbolt

Quality over answers when they are tied

Kevin Stricker

We can't seem to get the downvote vote when needed still :/

Rainbolt

We could have prevented that decay

Runer112

question and user decay

Nathan Merrill

8:17 PM

I believe the "oddness" we are seeing is simply due to rounding

Rainbolt

User is like stuck or something

Runer112

hmm, just question

Rainbolt

It's been like ten rounds at least for user

Runer112

answer and user?

what the hell

Rainbolt

We're being raided by users!

Runer112

8:18 PM

I'm convinced RNG definitely plays a role now

Optimizer

we are becoming the SO of PPCG

Nathan Merrill

this was definitely the wrong time to create a meta post. All of you are too busy voting XP

Kevin Stricker

interesting strategy

Rainbolt

If users is stuck, that makes downvote really valuable.

Kevin Stricker

quality is going next

or full

Rainbolt

8:19 PM

Meh

Runer112

quality goes every damn day

Rainbolt

Everyone goes answer when it is a tie

Oh we pulled it out

Kevin Stricker

woohoo

Rainbolt

Woo!

We max if questions holds.

Runer112

users might drop

Optimizer

8:20 PM

lets see if we win before 275

Rainbolt

Users is going for like 12 rounds now

I think we can safely ignore it most of the time

Again we max if questions holds

Well, this is weird

DigitalTrauma

who is flagging? raiders?

Rainbolt

Exact same pattern for two whole iterations is bugging me

If it repeats, quality degrades

Runer112

there, pattern broken :p

Rainbolt

Then questions

Not yet

There goes quality

Questions next

Kevin Stricker

8:22 PM

rounding will eventually save us

Rainbolt

Three whole iterations

Exact same pattern

GiantCowFilms

aming for 245

Runer112

pattern broken

Rainbolt

Questions, Quality, Answers, Quality, Questions, ....

Ahhhh

Kevin Stricker

didnt we just do questions

Rainbolt

8:24 PM

Yes. When we are maxed we should downvote

Keep quality from degen

Hosch250

Some people have a hard time forgiving.

umm

woah

questions?

We're being restarted :(

Kevin Stricker

8:25 PM

I went ask

Runer112

we just voted quality

I'd be very surprised if quality can drop the day after we boost it

it can.

Hosch250

I'm going to stalk them and flag them for moderator attention now that this conduct is banned.

They had to post it somewhere because it is getting more intense the higher we get.

Geobits

@Hosch250 Probably not worth it.

Nathan Merrill

I bet that randomness is included, but not just negative randomness, but positive as well. This would mean that long streaks where an option doesn't need voting will happen

Hosch250

Ok.

Kevin Stricker

8:27 PM

Users tends to decay if we downvote while qual is full

Hosch250

@KevinStricker Duh, it says so right on the thing.

Kevin Stricker

So why do we keep doing qual when everything is full, trolls?

Runer112

we really slipped up there

quality decay

Hosch250

I think the culprit is in this room.

Kevin Stricker

The trolls seem to have moved grom restart voting to strategy de-optimizing

Hosch250

8:31 PM

I think they saw my post about flagging them.

Sorry I got you chat banned earlier, but that was me who flagged the posts to draw moderators in.

Runer112

what the hell

did users just go up on its own

Nathan Merrill

oh man

I almost restarted mathematic's site right before they graduated

2

Runer112

don't do that

Unionhawk

@Hosch250 For future reference, if you click on the little arrow on the left of a message, you will find a button that says "flag for moderator attention" - which only goes to mods for more detailed action

Nathan Merrill

there were two opposing votes, and I voted for restart, and won the 33% chance for restart

Hosch250

8:33 PM

OK.

Optimizer

@Runer112 looks like

Runer112

quality decay incoming

every single time we've voted answer on 4343, it goes to 4442

Hosch250

So the way I did it, you guys could see the comments were being flagged?

Runer112

whereas all but one time we voted downvote on 4343, it goes to 4344

jeez, 3 decays, rough

Hosch250

Game Dev, haha.

Kevin Stricker

8:34 PM

ew

Hosch250

Game Development

Game development and other polite discussion. Game development...

whew

lol

I think this is going to be a sub-270 time

Kevin Stricker

squeee

Runer112

8:36 PM

pretty good for us

Kevin Stricker

It might beat my 266

Nathan Merrill

I wouldn't consider myself a restart troll, as I don't vote for restart the second time

Runer112

quality decay

Hosch250

Most of them are being all right, some are a bit irked, but aren't resetting.

Optimizer

256 for blender

that means 266 adjusted for flag

Kevin Stricker

8:37 PM

ahh

Optimizer

we will do in 270

or 272

quality decay

#7 :D

too much troll

256

Days :D

Calvin's Hobbies

8:38 PM

When to downvote vs close?

Hosch250

Someone on CR sure is persistent.

GiantCowFilms

I'm so pround

@Calvin'sHobbies Close when you're 2 down on the Qulity and full on the question

Nathan Merrill

I wish that the little red buttons would do something

Kevin Stricker

272?

Runer112

I'm not sure we should ever close

Hosch250

8:39 PM

Yeah! CR took another!

Runer112

did arqade just get restarted or something?

Unionhawk

yes

Runer112

I thought they were about to hit graduated

wtf

Hosch250

What crook is doing this?

Kevin Stricker

274

Runer112

8:40 PM

alternate in private beta

Optimizer

which is not really any better

@Runer112 actualyl, lets go top bottom

Kevin Stricker

Seems good that we can match solo attempts as a group :P

Runer112

no, alternate

Hosch250

Yeah, we won too!

Runer112

I guarantee there will be no decay if you alternate here

Optimizer

8:41 PM

but things wont be faster

Hosch250

You guys sure made the system demand a lot of users.

Runer112

they sure will now

Hosch250

CR only needs one user because it is so inactive.

Runer112

if we jack questions up to max, answers will decay back to 0

Optimizer

anyways, i am off to bed.

Hosch250

8:42 PM

I'm leaving.

Have fun!

Runer112

answer pls

our voter population is getting dangerously low

PhiNotPi

I'm back after two hours away. What shenanigans have I missed?

Runer112

if we answer, questions may decay

Rainbolt

Wow. This exists? beer.stackexchange.com

PhiNotPi

Yep.

Runer112

8:45 PM

we need help

Rainbolt

Lately I only cast votes when I notice people trying to restart

Kevin Stricker

So who's going to post an optimal vote bot using 23 characters of golfscript?

Runer112

pls no

PhiNotPi

Does anybody know the optimal strategy?

Runer112

this is going to be bad

Nathan Merrill

8:47 PM

absolutely: vote on the lowest value

Runer112

we're going to get boned

quality in alert for 2 turns in a row

Rainbolt

I think we won some extra hearts out of it. I purposefully ignored each warning for a turn.

I bet we profit.

I mean, it can't go below zero. And we didn't get shut down. I call that a win.

Calvin's Hobbies

What actually happens when you ignore something for long enough? I've never seen.

PhiNotPi

Does it shut down?

Nathan Merrill

we should test that

Runer112

8:49 PM

rumors say you lose

TheBestOne

It gets rid of a flag.

Runer112

test it in some other site :p

PhiNotPi

Oh.

TheBestOne

(source needed)

Rainbolt

I definitely don't want to vote the same thing twice in a row

That's a waste

Calvin's Hobbies

8:49 PM

@TheBestOne Isn't that only if you choose flag?

Kevin Stricker

That's right. If you don't downvote your site gets shut down

lel

Rainbolt

Ignore

next round we do quality

Kevin Stricker

Oh yeah we're down a flag.

Or do we get another later.

Rainbolt

No we arent

Runer112

no, we have all our flags

Rainbolt

8:50 PM

We get another when we graduate

Kevin Stricker

k

Rainbolt

We graduated at 117 last time right?

users next?

PhiNotPi

Let users go into a warning.

Rainbolt

Crap sorry

We'll klet quality go to warning

Or not

Forced to go quality that time

Runer112

umm

Kevin Stricker

8:51 PM

f users lol

user23013

What's the current strategy?

Rainbolt

I feel like we have a hive mind

Join it and you'll understand

Kevin Stricker

click the buttons that aren't restart

Runer112

guys, we're 8 days behind gaming

but further on the progress bar

PhiNotPi

:( -> :)

Runer112

8:53 PM

ballin outta control

Kevin Stricker

No questions. Downvote those useless users!

PhiNotPi

If something goes into warning twice, does anything bad happen? Or only on the third.

I think we only get free hearts when it goes into warning twice.

user23013

So it is not exactly qaqu anymore?

Runer112

I dunno

PhiNotPi

We have a restarter...

Kevin Stricker

8:55 PM

Twisted fi restarter.

PhiNotPi

I say we let quality go into a double-warning.

Runer112

looks like we have no choice but to raise quality

Kevin Stricker

Oh wow, NASCAR actually caught someone leaking air out of tires. Apparently there are stupid professionals out there.

PhiNotPi

What we should o it figure out which stat is closest to losing a level.

And vote for that.

user23013

Does anyone knows whether upvoting decreases other stats?

Rainbolt

8:58 PM

@PhiNotPi By that same logic, we should never vote the same way twice.

PhiNotPi

And we shouldn't vote for a stat that just went down.

Kevin Stricker

Except quality in phase 3

PhiNotPi

Maybe...

Rainbolt

Even if it's the only thing that isn't maxed?

Kevin Stricker

Because it goes down 2 in a row.

Runer112

8:59 PM

yeah, except for quality in phase 3

that gets momentum and drops like a rock

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