> Zombie infested 5k obstacle course race - Protect your brain and run for your life. This is one race where your legs giving out are the least of your problems. Run For Your Lives is a first-of-its-kind event, one part 5K, one part obstacle course, one part escaping the clutches of zombies — and all parts awesome.

@random that looks awesome, I am now considering participating

Did the timeout on messages in the chat recently change.

I can't post a second message to the first like I used to without these annoying as hell "you must wait N seconds"

I'm not spamming, I just hit enter instead of SHIFT + ENTER and BAM my messages are now 10 seconds apart and broken up

I'm somewhat confused. Shift+enter makes a newline in your current message; enter sends the message. You won't get the error if you're pressing shift+enter between messages, because you haven't sent the message yet

yes I realize that

i'm saying

I hit it by accident and want to send my next sentence or code block

often I will onebox and item and want to give it a title afterwards but have to then wait 8-9 seconds

I'm wondering did this recently change? seems to be more of an issue recently than it did before

I don't think it's changed, but it does adjust each time. If you post 8 messages in a row, the mandatory time between them will start to go up

But just two messages back to back only need a second or two apart

@MarkTrapp oh no!

i was trying to be so nice and helpful to him, too :(

oh! see you shoulda edited it to say that, @MarkTrapp

shame on you

@MarkTrapp aarthi should undelete it :) modabuse

VOTE TO UNDELETE

THERE I UNDELETED

it already had two

@Aarthi I don't have any votes on meta :P

just up and down

My whole meta experience changed when I unlocked left and right votes

:D

@MarkTrapp THERE. never say i didn't do things for you

@MarkTrapp you love me? d'awww

:D

THANKS MAN

meanwhile: so it looks like Reddit is getting curbstomped by feminist press again

@MarkTrapp no, i completely agree

plus: CreepyShots is a horrifying experience

even just reading about it made me want to take several showers

not to mention the numerous jailbait subreddits

it's funny, but I was talking to a friend of mine about GoneWild and some of the other subreddits

it's kind of sad, really: they consistently reinforce the idea of light skin == beautiful, across all races and cultures. reddit is an international site (even if a huge portion of its userbase is US-based) yet the things that top the pages are always women who look exactly the same in most respects.

I would enjoy a version of reddit with slashdot's custom rating system

Where I could positively or negatively weight posts based on where the poster appears in my friend/blocked network

@MarkTrapp Isn't that why we have LadyBonersGW? (Which, incidentally, is way more diverse than GW, and it's not that diverse, either, though the content ranges from nudes to clothed figures.)

I can't read Reddit without RES anymore; I need the ability to block the 50k stupid novelty accounts

Novelty accounts?

(Lol I use tumblr not reddit, 'cause double-x-chromasomes)

@MarkTrapp unfortunately RES can only utilize data Reddit sends to it. It can hide things I don't want to see, but it can't show me things I want to see that Reddit didn't send.

@MarkTrapp that sounds awful.

Those are by far the least ridiculous ones. There's at least 6 bots that do nothing but convert units in the post. If you mention "5 feet", it'll auto-reply and say "btw that's 1.5 meters"

I've seen posts with three separate replies from three separate bots, all doing the same convertions

@Aarthi there are reddit accounts named "whatsthatinmetric" and "picsofspiders" which post the obvious things. there are more creative ones, too. one guy writes fanfiction about your username. another explains math in jokes.

useful bots and novelty accounts aren't exactly the same thing, but they overlap

@MarkTrapp aren't those for the visually impaired?

wow, reddit sounds even worse than I thought.

I know some people thing the SRS subreddit is filled with crazies

but honestly, after seeing some of the worst of reddit...they don't look so insane

It's not bad if you stay on smaller subreddits. Once a subreddit hits a certain size it's useless

@MarkTrapp also, RES doesn't know about OTHER people's votes. Slashdot allows me to apply weights to friends of friends, and foes, and friends of foes, and even people who have me marked as friend or foe

Slashdot became MUCH more useful, for finding information and discourse rather than just a place to read conversations, when I started using those features

There are a couple of subreddits like askscience where the mods are completely dictatorial, and those subreddits are amazing, and nobody on reddit can understand why

@MichaelMrozek even if that's an effective model, it doesn't scale. 10 mods for a 1000 person subreddit is easy. 10000 mods for a 1000000 person subreddit is hard.

but if a subreddit has that many people

probably 5% or fewer are really participating

the rest are passive watchers -- that's been true since the 90s

i mean participants, mostly

@MarkTrapp SO takes advantage of a lot of automated feedback and community filtering

more than slashdot, even

@MarkTrapp which: bananas when you put it that way

@MarkTrapp SO also lets users do a lot more. The number of times I've wanted an edit button on reddit posts is crazy

Reddit users can...flag. Not even with a message, just "this post is bad, somehow"

reddit users can downvote, which will make the post disappear for other users IFF the post gets more downvotes than upvotes

@MarkTrapp what. are you serious? i'm NEVER being a mod over there.

oh lord. Godwin's Law in that extreme, huh? :(

man, reddit is scary. people talk about tumblr's "social justice brigade," but frankly I find them more palatable. at least they're trying to change the world for the better, however misguided.

@MarkTrapp seriously?! :<

persecution of jews != persecution of pedos

sorry not sorry

@MichaelMrozek I never understood the appeal of Reddit until I found out if you registered you could unsubscribe from all the default subreddits

@mmyers It's a running joke that /r/atheism and /r/politics are in the default list to make people want to sign up and unsubscribe from them. I'm not sure it's a joke, really

@MichaelMrozek And /r/pics, and /r/(notactually)funny, and...

I don't think I've ever been to those

i guess i'll just never understand how reddit's admins can allow the worst of the network to persist, or even defend stuff like r/jailbait and r/jailbaitGW and r/creepyshots....

@MichaelMrozek I thought they were defaults

@Aarthi Their entire MO, as I understand it, is "Free speech at all costs!"

Ugh.

Everything about this makes me unhappy.

This is why I hang out everywhere else.

Oy vey. Kill me now.

@Aarthi where do you draw the line for jailbait? 20 is illegal some places. 18 more. 16 more. 14 more. It's odd to me that a meta-forum moderation team would pick an arbitrary line.

The easy answer is: if they're still in government-mandated state education systems? they're too young

eh i rescind this one.

The age argument isn't nearly as popular as the "what constitutes jailbait" argument. Which I'm really hoping we don't reproduce here

ok

wasn't gonna

i hate those arguments, too

anyway, I agree that reddit is a lot more palatable if you ditch most/all of the default subreddits

sometimes it amuses me how little technological quirks affect our impression of things

I don't even follow /r/programming anymore; I used to live on that one

if it was subreddit.reddit.com instead of reddit.com/r/subreddit, would people infer less connection between subreddits?

@MichaelMrozek I followed r/aww for a while but meh i'm pretty much over it at this point

many people make comments about reddit as a whole... but rarely do you hear the same about other meta-forums with less cros-pollination despite still running on the same hardware and software

like stackexchange :)

both true and untrue

People talking about Programmers bitch about "Stack Exchange" all the time, but those people are usually on reddit so I ignore them

@Sparr What ^^^ said. also, some people do connect SO and SE, so "mod issues" that arise on SO sometimes will be painted across the network

Frankly, it's a model borrowed from LiveJournal

and Usenet

Don't forget the reddit pitch forks @_@ (Imagine being at the end of it)

gotta run, i need to spend more time here. i wish there was an irc gateway to this chat system

One day, @MarkTrapp, I want you to write a memoir about that first year and a half.

There was a nice timeline of Gaming's history for their anniversary; somebody should make one of those for PSE. It would be much more entertaining

@MarkTrapp I like it. But you should still write it.

@MarkTrapp I wonder who posted this

@MarkTrapp I think it's mandatory that all works of this type be titled "There and Back Again"

ha.

i still think such a thing would be entertaining informative and interesting

aww

but.... grabby hands

@MarkTrapp mmm Portland Beer and Tillamook Cheese

bastards

other than having its own domain name, is stackoverflow distinct from the other stackexchange sites?

it's the flagship

it's the biggest distinction

it's also by and large the biggest site on our network

i believe it alone is like 50% of our traffic

code, features, etc

oh! from that perspective?

oh, sure, it's where I have the most rep, I was just curious if it was not-fully-integrated

uh.

or if it remained a fork

oh it's totally integrated

i consider it part of the network now

but it does have a distinct identity outside of SE

And with that, g'night everyone :)

@MarkTrapp always a pleasure

I participate on SO/SE a lot less lately than before SE started, but I've just started participating more again

just discovered the review tab, and a few other features

@Sparr There's some stuff that's different or unique on SO compared to the other sites, but it runs on the same code, it's just site-specific settings