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12:02 AM

I hate that after my close-votes on NS evaporate, I am not allowed to re-close-vote it. I wonder if it were to eventually get closed, it would report more than 5 closers?

tchrist

12:34 AM

Kitty cuisine festival, and not in a good way.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

1:11 AM

@tchrist Norton edits it back out and an edit war ensues which forces the post to become community-wiki, thus denying Norton the rep.

tchrist

He can’t edit. He’s banned.

Or do I not understand?

RegDwighт

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Q: The current review system encourages faux reviews: some people upvote everything rather than actually fixing it

I went to a Late Answers review queue that had 4 items in it and started reviewing the first one by editing it into shape rather heavily. By the time I was done, someone else had reviewed the same post simply by upvoting it. So I only got a "Next" button, not an "I'm done" button. My edit still...

tchrist

Nice tags. :)

RegDwighт

I spent quite some time on those, actually.

I have no idea about tags on MSO.

tchrist

We’ll see what they make of it. If they don’t like them, they can change them.

RegDwighт

1:15 AM

So I went all stream-of-consciousness on the tag field, trying to get it to return something meaningful.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@tchrist Well, I haven't kept up-to-date on Norton. But his MO was to use a sock-puppet account to post questions, which would eventually get merged with his banned account once the sock-nature was discovered. But merging accounts preserves rep, so sock rep was being added to the banned NortonnS account.

tchrist

He has 1 rep.

Because he's banned.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

The rep comes back once he's unbanned.

and FF was editing Norton Sock account posts, not already-merged posts. At least, he was. dunno about now.

tchrist

I guess I really have to ask FF to know.

It just seems like he has some discrete purpose.

I just can’t divine it.

@reg and @wai and @sim Do you know why FF does that?

RegDwighт

Yeah if I weren't lazy I would dig up the comment in which he said he would always do that.

Actually I already did that once in this room, but I can't even be bothered to dig up that.

Anyway, no real reason other than to alert people to possible Nortonn socks.

tchrist

1:24 AM

I see your MSO post has garnered quick upvotes.

RegDwighт

And of course exactly nobody gets alerted and exactly everybody keeps wondering what the heck that exclamation mark is supposed to mean.

tchrist

I can’t believe I’m going to bed before you tonight, but I’m on my way up now.

RegDwighт

@tchrist yes, the first two thanks to this room.

tchrist

You aren’t supposed to be able to know that. Are you a closet dev? :)

RegDwighт

@tchrist I'm waiting for my wife to return from a paper chase game.

simchona

1:26 AM

It was originally to drive the posts into CW.

tchrist

Is a paper chase game something having to do with Russian bureaucracy? :)

simchona

So that he would never get points from it.

RegDwighт

@tchrist I just saw the count get up from 0 to 2 within five seconds of my mentioning the question here.

tchrist

Suuure. :)

@simchona Ah, thanks.

RegDwighт

Paper Chase (game)

Paper Chase (also known as Hare and Hounds or Chalk Chase) is a racing game played outdoors (best played within a wood or even a shrubbery maze) with any number of players. At the start of the game, one person is designated the 'hare' and everyone else in the group are the 'hounds'. The 'hare' starts off ahead of everyone else leaving behind themselves a trail of paper shreds (or chalk marks in an urban environment) which represents the scent of the hare. Just as scent is carried on the wind, so too are the bits of paper, sometimes making for a difficult game. After some designated time, th...

tchrist

1:27 AM

Never heard of it.

RegDwighт

It's fun.

tchrist

Better than a snipe hunt? :)

RegDwighт

I never played as a ground soldier, I'm always the HQ guy.

tchrist

@Sim My current approach is to close all but actual good questions of his as not constructive, then delete. Am I doing the wrong thing?

But isn’t it dark out?

RegDwighт

It is. That's the fun in it.

tchrist

1:28 AM

Are you below freezing?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Well, I just spelunked into the transcript to find the conversation about the ! thing but I see that sim is here to answer straight from the cat's mouth, so, I guess my work here is done.

Jul 21 at 3:21, by simchona

Trying to force him into another edit war to make his latest post CW

tchrist

Oh.

I doubt that is very productive.

Since as soon as merged, he can’t edit.

RegDwighт