The Bridge

Wipqozn

4:00 PM

I'm scared guys

ardaozkal

til: you can't make a wood wooder

Unionhawk

augh why

badp

how much wood!Unionhawk could a woodchuck!Unionhawk chuck if woodchuck!Unionhawk would chuck wood!Unionhawk

Wipqozn

If @Unionhawk becomes a mod he should change his avatar to this picture

Unionhawk

Ha nice

Tim Stone

4:04 PM

Hmm, @Unionhawk needs more Link, He Come To Town in his nomination

Unionhawk

No

Wipqozn

@TimStone cc @AshleyNunn

Grace Note

HALLELUJAH

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk -1 then, MINUS ONE

Kevin van der Velden

IT'S RAINING LINK

Wipqozn

4:05 PM

I can't believe we've only had 3 nominees so far

It's been, like, 22 hours

Tim Stone

I don't want to kill @Unionhawk's vibe

Grace Note

20

Wipqozn

@GraceNote oh right, 5pm my time not 3pm my time

badp

where's @TimStone's moderation comparsion webpage thing

I require @TimStone's moderation comparsion webpage thing

Tim Stone

elections.stackexchange.com

Really @PrivatePansy did most of the work, so it's his :P

Unionhawk

4:08 PM

Hmm, I wonder how close I am to sportsmanship

Wipqozn

I'd rather give all the credit to @GnomeSlice

Unionhawk

Oh, not

user4704

@Wipqozn Major US holiday weekend though, maybe nobody saw yet

Yuuki

I was not aware of elections until just a few hours ago.

ardaozkal

@Wipqozn shush, I want to be a mod

Wipqozn

4:10 PM

@Yuuki Oh my

Yuuki

Even though you pinged me on running for mod yesterday or something, I didn't think about elections coming up.

MadMAxJr

As moderator, I will close all questions, ensuring bad answers are not possible (or answers at all)

Wipqozn

The moral of the story is

Yuuki

Nov 17 '15 at 0:11, by Yuuki

Grabthak's First Axiom: User cannot be offensive or spammy if user does not exist.

Nov 17 '15 at 0:11, by Yuuki

Grabthak's Second Axiom: Question cannot be off-topic if no such thing as questions.

MadMAxJr

Oh, I remember that gag now.

Vote Grabthak.

ardaozkal

4:14 PM

for some reason all my cookies decided to delete themselves

MBraedley

@TimStone Won't load at work because of stupid corporate firewall.

ardaozkal

I need to relog everywhere

MBraedley

(Not blaming you, blaming IT)

GodEmperorDune

@badp election chat has the raw SEDE query for that app

ardaozkal

@TimStone lol, I confused Ppansy's RL (and old) name with Jin Yang.

badp

4:17 PM

@GodEmperorDune Stack Exchange Data Exchange?

GodEmperorDune

@badp something like that

in Arqade 2016 Election Discussion, 5 hours ago, by angussidney

By the way, if anyone was running in the election only to see their mod score thingy, please run this query: http://data.stackexchange.com/gaming/query/298418/candidate-score

Now I can track my modrater pro much gamerscore when the election isn't

Tim Stone

@MBraedley Really? :o

The whole domain or something else?

MadMAxJr

I am totally unqualified to be a moderator. Vote Grabthak

MBraedley

@TimStone the entire gaming.SE subdomain is blocked

And for some reason, chat.SO is blocked, but not chat.SE

Unionhawk

Nice

Dragonrage

4:23 PM

good morning bridge

MBraedley

(Chat/Social Networks are supposed to be blocked, as well as gaming sites.)

Yuuki

Apparently, I need to submit a portfolio to apply to Airbnb.

MBraedley

I suspect that most IRC web interfaces are blocked as well, but I haven't tested any.

@TimStone So your page loads, but won't load any of the election info.

two bugs

MY score is probably bad

My mod score

Unionhawk

I'm pretty sure *.stackexchange is allowed completely, or it doesn't filter subdomains

badp

4:30 PM

@twobugs spoiler alert: somehow it's lower than ardaozkal's

MBraedley

@Unionhawk Your work filter maybe, but not mine.

badp

your pro much core mod raterhood needs a lot of work

two bugs

@badp Considering that my account is younger, that's not really surprising

@Unionhawk One of my jobs blocked the answers.stackexchange domain

So I could view the question list, just not any individual question

Or something like that

ardaozkal

@badp wat

causus isn't +10 meta

caucus is visit election and have enough rep

badp

you may find a comment to this effect

SaintWacko

4:33 PM

MY mod score is 30

That's probably low

Tim Stone

@MBraedley They blocked the API then maybe? Heh

two bugs

@badp I wasn't really thinking of running anyway, but a few people have encouraged me so I'm considering it

Tim Stone

No APIs allowed at work!

MBraedley

@TimStone Any requests to gaming.SE, which I assume your page makes. It loads the first item in the list, but can't go any further.

Tim Stone

They should all be to election.SE or api.SE, I don't think there's anything directly to gaming

MBraedley

4:35 PM

Actually, it fails for other sites as well. Not sure what's going on then.

@TimStone The api.SE subdomain isn't blocked, but there may be specific calls that get blocked.

two bugs

Haha, North Korean state media is calling Donald Trump a "wise politician"

4

Dragonrage

so did i miss anything in my 4 day vacation?

Tim Stone

@MBraedley Huh, interesting

two bugs

A new era of relations with the DPRK begins!

Unionhawk

@SaintWacko Eh, mine's 34, I think the big things I'm missing are copy editor, basically

ardaozkal

4:40 PM

@Dragonrage arqade elections and 2 lost clan war.

s

MBraedley

@TimStone I know that the filtering doesn't only work on domains and subdomains, it can work on directories as well. For instance, reddit.com isn't blocked (for some unknown reason), yet reddit.com/r/gaming is.

Tim Stone

Ah ha

badp

@Unionhawk my moderator score is 35 btw

Dragonrage

a questions for all candidates; A question confuses @badp, what do you do?

cc @Robotnik @uni @ardao

Unionhawk

@Dragonrage Destroy the user. Next question.

Tim Stone

4:42 PM

I can't believing logging into SEDE doesn't take you to the right return URL, whoever hasn't fixed that is the biggest jerk

MBraedley

@Dragonrage Close it as unclear and wait for the fallout.

@TimStone I know.

Private Pansy

@TimStone Hmm, I'm getting CORS errors on the elections.SE site

ardaozkal

@Dragonrage lock it so that he can't close it.

Tim Stone

My mod score according to that query is 12. I really shouldn't run, then

@PrivatePansy For the API? :o

ardaozkal

@TimStone is that query broken or smth?

Wipqozn

4:43 PM

@twobugs I really hope that Donald Trump starts quoting North Korea saying he's wise

Unionhawk

@badp I figure 34/40 is better than my GPA so

And now I'm sad

Tim Stone

@ardaozkal Not that I'm aware of, I just have bad gaming participating apparently :P

badp

@TimStone that's like only 5 lower than Ardaozkal

ardaozkal

@TimStone just checked. works good

Private Pansy

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at http://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/users/20306;28182;87186?site=gaming.stackexchange&key=LYwuXpduJM2Kk9Twsc008w((&filter=!*Mq.)f.7fClai1MW. (Reason: CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' missing). <unknown>

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at http://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/users?site=gaming.stackexchange&key=LYwuXpduJM2Kk9Twsc008w((&pagesize=30. (Reason: CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' missing).

Tim Stone

4:44 PM

O_o

Unionhawk

lol

Tim Stone

Are you behind some proxy that's stripping those headers or something?

badp

@PrivatePansy AHHA NOW WE HAVE YOUR SUPER SECRET KEY THING!!

Wipqozn

My mod score is 37

two bugs

I don't know how much stock people put in moderator score. That could be a big blow against any possible candidacy

I was just encouraged by a few people to think about it so I'm mulling over my options I guess

Tim Stone

4:45 PM

Access-Control-Allow-Credentials:false
Access-Control-Allow-Methods:GET, POST
Access-Control-Allow-Origin:*

Dragonrage

@Wipqozn i was surprised to see you haven't nominated yourself yet

Tim Stone

(should be what the API returns)

Private Pansy

@badp The key is throttled on an IP address per key basis anyway

two bugs

@Dragonrage You can only nominate yourself, it's more of a declaration

Wipqozn

@Dragonrage Yes

badp

4:46 PM

@twobugs like I told @ardaozkal it might just be too soon.

like, if you don't even have 10k tools... get 10k tools first?

ardaozkal

@badp like I replied that it isn't.

Unionhawk

Yeah, for pro tem you can nominate anyone, but for election it's yourself only

Wipqozn

@badp @ardaozkal, he's just not ready

ardaozkal

@badp if I spammed answers I'd have 10k by now.

Wipqozn

ONLY CANADIANS WILL UNDERSTAND

two bugs

4:46 PM

@badp That's perfectly reasonable. I wasn't even really considering running for the reasons you listed

Unionhawk

@Wipqozn I watch John Oliver so I understand

Wipqozn

and maybe @LessPop_MoreFizz, since I assume he followed the Canadian election enough to get it

Unionhawk

TAKE THAT, TURTLE

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk oh right

Dragonrage

@twobugs i know, i was surprised he hadnt nominated himself, aka stated he wanted to run

Tim Stone

4:47 PM

@badp I mean, I guess technically my mod score is ∞ since, y'know, diamond

badp

@ardaozkal if you spammed then we would look down on you, yes.

@ardaozkal I just do not feel that you are ready in general, I am sorry.

ardaozkal

@badp which is better? Good Q&A and actually helping people or internet points?

badp

that's just my feeling.

Wipqozn

@ardaozkal His point is that having 10k tools gives you a lot of experience that you'd use when you're a moderating, and shows folks that you have that experience.

MBraedley

@TimStone I'm getting the same (or similar) errors as @PrivatePansy

ardaozkal

4:48 PM

@badp alright. you are free to not vote for me.

Wipqozn

You don't need access to 10k tools to run or being a good mod, but it certainly helps to have that experience.

Dragonrage

that query doesnt seem to return anything for me, maybe im doing it wrong?

badp

I'm pretty sure there are 10k-specific review queues, for example

Dragonrage

@badp deletion iirc

maybe more

Tim Stone

@MBraedley Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Kevin van der Velden

4:49 PM

Reopen as well I think

ardaozkal

Unionhawk

@badp It's not a queue per se as much as it is a list of posts with active delete/close votes

and also some other things

Wipqozn

@Dragonrage your mod score is 14

badp

@Unionhawk right.

ardaozkal

not a queue.

two bugs

4:49 PM

@Dragonrage You plug in your user ID

badp

anyway. Even the way you're handling my feedback right now is not very encouraging

"That's just you"

"You're wrong, I'm just not spamming"

Dragonrage

@twobugs i did. i thought. 174621

@Wipqozn thanks. i figured it would be around there

two bugs

Someone emptied the coffee and didn't start a new brew. I hope they die

Dragonrage

@KevinvanderVelden reopen is 5k iirc

Wipqozn

@badp yeah, as a mod you're going to need to deal with a lot of criticism. Especially early on in your modship.

Kevin van der Velden

4:51 PM

@Dragonrage oh right

ardaozkal

@badp you aren't returning any constructive information.

*critism

MBraedley

@TimStone I'll try again when I get home. The firewall does some funky stuff. For instance, I can't watch YouTube in Chrome, but can in IE.

two bugs

Reopen is 3k, 5k is just tag wiki edits

badp

@ardaozkal oh really

Kevin van der Velden

@Dragonrage that's your chat id, not your arqade user id

badp

4:51 PM

I'm certainly not suggesting anything that you can fix in the span of two weeks

Dragonrage

@KevinvanderVelden ah, that would be why it wasnt working

badp

what I'm suggesting is that you have a long life ahead of you and this is not going to be our last election and you might just get burned out by trying to run too early

and that would be a shame

ardaozkal

@badp 1) yes, hence I'm asking for constructive critism 2) I don't think that I'll get burned out

user15026

The things is that with elections, everyone is looking for people who do mod type stuff already, and who pretty much just need a diamond slapped on them and then they pretty much just keep on doing the same stuff they did to help care for the site but with a bit more power.

badp

yes. it's one of those things when you are recognized for the moderationery things you already are doing, and then you get to do more of them.

Lazers 2.0

4:54 PM

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user15026

So if you struggle with being able to prove that you do the things that mods do (well, insomuch as you can), that's where the concern is.

user15026

@badp with extra explosion skills.

badp

also destruction.

lots and lots of destruction.

Dragonrage

I think a key question you should be able to answer before considering whether or not you should run for mod is the one i posted on the election thread

murgatroid99

@ardaozkal I think that the constructive criticism here is: get more experience with moderator responsibilities, and then run again when you have it

badp

4:55 PM

anyway it's not like I have a button that kicks you out of the race

well

I kinda do

but I'm not pressing it just for that

so feel free to disregard

Unionhawk

Is it the same button that kicks people out of being able to post stuff?

badp

yes

MadMAxJr

I happily announce my non-candidacy for moderator.

two bugs

@badp I think those are all points that are completely valid about me as well, so I'll think those over before I do anything

badp

@MadMAxJr want to make that final? :}

Sterno

4:58 PM

Guys, I got my wife a present. Crisis averted

Kevin van der Velden

@Sterno did you get her flowers?

badp

yusss

Unionhawk

We were all so concerned

MadMAxJr

I am in no way qualified. I would likely abuse power.

Sterno

@Unionhawk I know, right? I didn't want you losing sleep over it.

two bugs

4:58 PM

@MadMAxJr Sounds qualified to me

badp

@MadMAxJr if we give you power, we'd give it with the full expectation that you would ab/use it

user15026

@Sterno hurray for no crisis

Wipqozn

@ardaozkal Just a warning that you're going to be asked things a lot more harsh/worse/whatever than what @badp is doing right now during the election. Elections can be really brutal for the candidates. And some of it won't be constructive. It'll be stuff like "On this day you did this specific action. That seems like an abuse of power to me, and I don't think you'd make a good mod because of it".

Unionhawk

@badp Well, within reason, of course

MadMAxJr

Minecraft questions are now only allowed every second and third tuesday of a month, if the moon is in a waning phase and retrosaur sees his shadow during a new game release.

Wipqozn

4:59 PM

@Sterno thanks man. What did you get her?

badp

@MadMAxJr excellent

where do I sign up?

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