The Town Hall

animuson

12:00 AM

Maybe the second one includes stethoscopes?

Matt Giltaji

votes reset! go go go!

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Hyper Anthony

@MattGiltaji Maybe. Not necessarily, in my case. We let everyone see who was nominated. The selection was made after discussion by the moderation team, so there wasn't an "election" persay. Not a public one, at least.

Although I do wonder if an election would change things. I guess then you would have to worry about other contending factors, like maybe a popularity contest sprouting up in the voting...

Silver Dragon

hello community moderators!

Undo

Hello!

We're friendly and don't bite (offer not valid if you're a spammer or troll)

animuson

This coming from a dog...

Matt Giltaji

12:08 AM

@HyperAnthony If you don't show the results until after voting is over, you should reduce most of the anchoring effect

Anchoring

Anchoring or focalism is a cognitive bias that describes the common human tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information offered (the "anchor") when making decisions. During decision making, anchoring occurs when individuals use an initial piece of information to make subsequent judgments. Once an anchor is set, other judgments are made by adjusting away from that anchor, and there is a bias toward interpreting other information around the anchor. For example, the initial price offered for a used car sets the standard for the rest of the negotiations, so that prices lower than the...

(no idea who that guy is)

Silver Dragon

a kind request, if you would: I suspect when discussing communities, the specificities of the people makes a fundamental difference. For this reason, I suspect that while asking general questions (such that google might pick it up) is a good heuristics, don't be afraid of posting the specific community in question.

(eg there's a 1000-mile gap between moderating 4chan, and SO)

Matt Giltaji

@SilverDragon does 4chan even have mods?

Hyper Anthony

@MattGiltaji Thanks Matt, I'll give that a look

Silver Dragon

Matt, yup

Matt, recall "Mods are asleep, post ponies" :)

Hyper Anthony

@animuson

hichris123

12:10 AM

@AnnonomusPenguin downforeveryoneorjustme.com/jsfiddle.net

Undo

wow, still no one's put their head on the figurative Chopping Block of Moderators Moderation.

El'endia Starman

@MattGiltaji If I recall correctly, mods are actually banned if they reveal that they are a mod. Then again, that was from a few years ago, so that may have changed since then.

justcool393

@Undo Community won, again. xD

animuson

@Undo If only Shog weren't a Community Manager. He'd be perfect because his head is already chopped off.

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Annonomus Penguin

@Undo Do I dare?

Undo

12:12 AM

DO EET

Matt Giltaji

cmon guys, don't steal all my stars so early

Undo

We should ask Aarthi to come be our overlord.

Annonomus Penguin

@MattGiltaji we all want badges for 10 stars...

badp

@HyperAnthony Essentially, yes

People are going to read our posts and then point out that we don't do as we say

I'm already kinda wanting to delete my account :P

DESTROYING YOURSELF COUNTS AS DESTROYING USERS

@Undo Most of us already have one community to moderate

Undo

true

badp

12:16 AM

Personally I don't wish to burden myself with a second

ARQADE FOREVAH

Undo

I think I could handle it (SR small), but I'm not gonna volunteer. Someone's gonna have to poke me with a very sharp stick if they want me for some reason.

badp

Clearly what we need to do is give everybody a diamond

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Undo

imagines chaos

That'd be interesting.

Imagine how long spam would last.

Mujahid مجاهد

I do wonder what it would like to moderate two sites, but I think I already know

justcool393

"As a moderator, how do I handle a community where everyone is a moderator?"

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Undo

12:20 AM

Come on, we don't have a [pii] tag yet?

Mujahid مجاهد

@badp perhaps a private Q&A sites for (SE) moderators, full privileges for everyone no diamond needed

but that might be a bad idea

Matt Giltaji

@Mujahidمجاهد i thought I saw something like that get declined on MSO

El'endia Starman

@badp Yes, yes indeed. The best people to moderate the moderators are the moderators!

Annonomus Penguin

This is making me mad. I submitted a reduced test case and that got fixed, but when I applied the code to my main code, it doesn't work.

El'endia Starman

Well, the usual process of closing/reopening questions would be screwed up if everyone had a supervote.

3ventic

12:23 AM

But who moderates the moderators of Moderators?

Mujahid مجاهد

@MattGiltaji I can understand why

El'endia Starman

@3ventic Themselves!

Matt Giltaji

@3ventic I said it before, rorschach

hichris123

@3ventic The moderators of Moderators are moderated by the moderators who participate in Moderators but are not moderators of Moderators themselves.

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Undo

oh god

3ventic

12:24 AM

That's way too many moderators.

Undo

make it stop!

hichris123

@3ventic moderators?

:P

Mujahid مجاهد

The prophecies were true, this is a nightmare

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Jamal

Making Shog dictator will solve everything.

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3ventic

Now I'm completely confused.

hichris123

12:25 AM

@3ventic Good. Now the moderators will help clear up your memory.

3ventic

animuson

@Undo Social security numbers pasted on the wall? Remind me never to read a story you write.

Undo

I had to think of something!

Hey, I've seen worse at schools!

El'endia Starman

animuson

Reminds me of the movie 2012.

El'endia Starman

12:26 AM

@3ventic gif > png!

justcool393

@El'endiaStarman JPEG > GIF > PNG (FTFY)

3ventic

Animated PNG > everything else

El'endia Starman

@3ventic No, BMP!

3ventic

:16853313 I saw that!

Matt Giltaji

all this removed stuff

Undo

12:28 AM

Just a little cleanup, move along folks ;)

Matt Giltaji

i alt tabbed at the wrong time ><

hichris123

Cleanup of the cleanup is similar to moderators of the moderators, no?

Undo

I'm gonna whack you with something :P

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Annonomus Penguin

@Undo A giant S?

Mujahid مجاهد

@hichris123 yes

hichris123

12:30 AM

@Undo Ewww, don't whack me with a moderator. That's gross!

Undo

... okay then :P

Annonomus Penguin

I don't know how to respond to that one :)

hichris123

I've done my job, then. :D

Mujahid مجاهد

12:50 AM

It would seem people like hypothetical situation

(not that that is bad)

3ventic

No delay at all

hichris123

@3ventic ...?

3ventic

@hichris123 timestamps

Monica Cellio

@MattGiltaji do we want an election tag or just selection? The one is a type of the other, but does it merit its own tag?

@Jamal "solve" is a strong word. But it would at least affect everything, and be a hoot to watch.

Cupcake

1:42 AM

The Ban Hammer!

That was quick :)

Matt Giltaji

@MonicaCellio this was a riff on an earlier comment

3 hours ago, by animuson

moderator-selection and moderator-elections will be interesting tags. They only differ by moving the "s" to a different spot.

Monica Cellio

@MattGiltaji oh, missed that.

TimWolla

http://moderators.stackexchange.com/tags/technical-assistance
http://moderators.stackexchange.com/tags/tools

Can we get these two synonymized?

El'endia Starman

> Don't forget you can choose this as the accepted answer by clicking the check mark.

Yes, Stack Exchange...I know.

TimWolla

@El'endiaStarman Isn't blue the color for “new users”? Wondering…

hichris123

2:00 AM

@TimWolla hmm?

TimWolla

@hichris123 I'm talking about the username color in chat!

I'm pretty sure the blue ones don't know about the accepting ;)

hichris123

:P

(well, if you're a moderator and you don't know what accepting an answer is... :P)

Seth

Blue actually indicates chat moderators, @TimWolla

El'endia Starman

@TimWolla Ahhh...ha ha. ;)

hichris123

@Seth I think he knows that... ;)

TimWolla

2:02 AM

@Seth I am aware of that : -)

casey

blue chat names wield the diamond, somewhere on stackexchange, but everywhere in SE chat

TimWolla

Gonna head to bed now, though. It just passed 4 am here in Germany.

Seth

Ah.

I guess I'm missing a joke then ;)

TimWolla

@Seth Black simply looks more classy.

Seth

hehe

hichris123

2:03 AM

italic black looks even better. :P

El'endia Starman

@hichris123 Bach in black! Wait, that's germanic, not italic. Never mind...

hichris123

lol

user15026

2:25 AM

Annnnd that is enough of a brain dump all over the site for one night :P

user15026

(once I started thinking of stuff it just never stopped.)

FEichinger

2:39 AM

Sheesh, such a mass of blue.

user15026

We are legion. Or something.

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El'endia Starman

@FEichinger You should see the mod-only rooms. :P Though I admit those are special cases.

bjb568

3:15 AM

Can I pweese get my account unmerged? I want 100 rep here. And global notifications. And there are complaints that I'm multiplying.

user15026

@bjb568 A lot of that we can't directly help you with.

bjb568

Not you, apparently I need a dev.

But you can help me poke them.

user15026

@bjb568 Not really any more than you can, really, here.

bjb568

3:30 AM

WHY??????!?!?!?!?!?!

Undo

Because reasons.

GiantCowFilms

@bjb568 You have 4.9k rep on SO, didn't you get an association bonus?

Undo

His SO account isn't found.

huh, there's some weird stuff going on between Chat and SO

GiantCowFilms

@Undo No kidding...

user15026

The best you can do is contact SE, and if you've done that, and mentioned stuff on meta, I think that's the best anyone can do.

bjb568

3:34 AM

@AshleyNunn Done that. Another user did meta.

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 10 mins ago, by bjb568

@AnnaLear Uh... any plans to unbork my account? I feel if I don't poke people with sharp rods (not sticks, don't make HR investigate) enough nothing will happen.

user15026

Then I suspect you are stuck waiting to hear.

user15026

And we can't really help you here.

bjb568

Nooooo! Mooooo! oink

GiantCowFilms

3:46 AM

5 of my rep just vanished...?

FEichinger

@GiantCowFilms I'm going to assume the answer you self-deleted had an upvote countered (in score, but not in reputation) by downvotes.

bjb568

4:40 AM

This is a test.

Huh... I'm posting as SO user 2888561.

It's like I don't have an SE user entry or something.

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 16 mins ago, by Anna Lear

Our login system is terrifying.

^ bug

Can't post a report, don't have 5 rep.

Mr. Alien

5:36 AM

what bug

Cupcake

5:50 AM

Anyone keeping up to date with the Stack Overflow Academy proposal?:

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Stack Overflow Academy

Proposed Q&A site for programmers who want to learn how to ask good questions on Stack Overflow

Currently in definition.

I thought of a great example question, in my not-humble-at-all opinion: area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/72987/stack-overflow-academy/…

Mr. Alien

@Cupcake I think that will be too limited

we would often get questions saying, "am having this question, where should I post"

Mahesh

7:39 AM

I just came back to read through the chat log and exhausted my stars. :(

Moderators should be renamed circlejerk.se

fredley

@Mahesh I'm looking forward to the flackbot output from the site

badp

8:45 AM

> DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY

Harry Ludlow

9:58 AM

Hey all, about this topic here moderators.stackexchange.com/questions/278/…

Would you regard that as SE-centric, as the answer certainly is?

Hyper Anthony

12:15 PM

No. It reads more like it is using SE as an example, even contrasting it to other types of communities.

Jack Douglas

@HarryLudlow what do you mean 'SE-centric'?

oh wait, this site is not just meant to be about moderation on SE?

how'd I miss that one :)

on the same theme:

I'm speaking from my experience on SE, I've no idea how chat works in other communities and a question about every internet community would surely be 'too broad', wouldn't it? — Jack Douglas 10 secs ago

Malachi

1:08 PM

good morning

someone else said what I said (and a little bit more) and got 2 upvotes, I have 3 down votes? and no comment as to why, and my comment asking for explanation was deleted?

Doorknob

@Malachi As for "why the downvotes" comments, they're pure noise and shouldn't be posted. Link to your answer?

Jack Douglas

@Malachi that's almost an on-topic question for main isn't it?

Malachi

@JackDouglas you know you may be right, should I include the post and answer in my question or make it completely Generic?

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A: What should I do about a moderator who dislikes me and lets that affect how he manages the site?

I assume that there are other moderators on the site that handle things when said moderator isn't online, I would suggest that you become sneaky. By this I mean, don't be online on that site during the time that the said moderator is online, at least for a while, long enough to make said moderat...

sorry didn't see the "Link to your answer?" until just now

@Doorknob how can we decide what a good post is if no one will comment as to why the bad posts are bad? isn't that the point of Private Beta?

Doorknob

@Malachi Speculation, but possibly because your answer essentially amounts to "work around the system instead of following it"?

Malachi

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A: What should I do about a moderator who dislikes me and lets that affect how he manages the site?

What options you have are very specific to the community - both written (and unwritten) rules/guidelines and technologies being used. Depending on the rules some options my be against the TOC/other policies that you have agreed to so check first. Depending on the technologies not all of these opt...

Doorknob

1:15 PM

@Malachi Yes, but posting a "why the downvotes" comment does not help achieve this; it just clutters up the comments.

Malachi

@Doorknob it was the only comment, if it turned into a discussion I would have pulled it here and flagged for a clean up.

Doorknob

@Malachi Still, seeing these types of comments everywhere make us look that much closer to a discussion site or a forum. They aren't useful, so there's no point in posting them.

Malachi

I edited the answer post removing what I thought might be the cause of the downvotes

@Doorknob that's close to saying that we shouldn't need comments at all, isn't it? on a code review site it lends to saying whether code in an answer works or not, but here what is the point of having comments?

Doorknob

> Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements.

Jack Douglas

@Malachi oh, that answer - I downvoted it, simply because I think "become sneaky" isn't the thing to do. The other answer you mention didn't get my upvote but had some good advice.

I guess I could have commented to that effect, sorry.

Doorknob

1:20 PM

That's the placeholder text in the comment box, but I'd argue that the most important reason to comment is simply to either support or disagree with the post being commented on. (And provide further reasoning to that effect as well, of course.)

Malachi

@Doorknob a downvote suggests the post needs improvement

Doorknob

@Malachi No, a downvote suggests that an answer is not useful. "Your post needs improvement, but I'm not telling you what" isn't very effective in improving the quality of the post.

Malachi

@Doorknob exactly my point

Doorknob

That does not support your point of adding noise comments that do absolutely nothing to help your post or the site as a whole.

Malachi

how is my answer not useful but the other answer, that mentions my answer, is useful (or not not useful)?

Jack Douglas

1:24 PM

So you're saying to run from the situation? That never works! And if it does it's a sticky situation and uncomfortable for you. — Undo 3 mins ago

this ^^^ pretty much sums it up for me

@Malachi but to answer you specific question, you'll have to find someone who downvoted your answer and upvoted the other (and that's not me)

Braiam

> I've seen too many instances where a "Why the downvote?" comment poisons further discussion, turning comments into a debate over whether the vote was merited - this is noise, as comments are supposed to be relevant to the content of the post itself.

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source meta.stackexchange.com/a/37123/213575

Malachi

@JackDouglas I am wondering why that answer wasn't downvoted even though it is saying the same general idea as my answer.

we are going in a nice circle.

Doorknob

Wonder why that is

jokerdino

Now that things have settled down a bit, can I bother you all for your opinion on this closed question of mine?

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Q: How to handle conflicts with other moderators?

A moderator group generally works as a team and makes decision together. But there can be cases where there is a clash of opinions between the moderators, one of them not agreeing with the other, etc. How to calm the tension in such situations and resolve the situations in the most amicable way,...

Malachi

because their is a difference between users and moderators. the question is about how a user should handle the situation, there is the Mod side and the user side of the question, a Mod is going to say "Follow the rules and there is no problem" a user is going to say "I am following the rules and contributing to the community, but a certain mod is restricting my contributions" that is what the question states, the answer is what else can you do that is within the rules? avoiding the Mod ....

Undo

1:33 PM

It's crazy how many people are in this room.

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Malachi

is one of those things that you can do when you have exhausted all other options

Malachi

1:58 PM

well I can't make the answer worse, right?

Monica Cellio

@Malachi I haven't voted on your answer. I just left a comment; others seem to be reacting to the "sneaky" thing (which did seem a little "off" to me but it's gone now so whatever), but I'm wondering whether the approach actually works in an asynchronous environment. The other answer seems to be taking a different but related approach: start over (new account) or cloak (new name), as opposed to staying away when the problem mod is active. (I don't know how well that works either.)

One challenge I'm seeing in some answers here is that they sound speculative -- "I would do X" -- where what any SE site really wants to tap into is expertise -- "I did do X, and it had these effects". How do we get more of that?

Malachi

2:32 PM

@MonicaCellio I changed a lot about my answer, I think that any time you have someone that hassles you on a regular basis this can be used, especially on social networking sites, people will find other things to do when you take away one of their toys.

@MonicaCellio thank you for your response.

Cupcake

2:44 PM

Ooh ooh ooh, I thought of another great example question for the Academy! area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/72987/stack-overflow-academy/…

Malachi

@MonicaCellio if you flag things while the mod is not online they won't be able to decline it retroactively, unless all the mods are online at the same time and the site is relatively small.

Undo

@MonicaCellio It's going to be tough, a lot of what we do is either fairly secret or we want to avoid drawing attention to a situation in the past. Or we don't want to even come close to calling out a user.

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Malachi

@Cupcake I can't vote on that that proposal anymore... sorry. that is a good question

Monica Cellio

@Undo indeed. We have to find some way to share enough information about our actual experience to support what we say, while not violating privacy or stirring up old issues.

Undo

which is crazy hard to do, especially on a site so close to 'our own turf'

FEichinger

2:55 PM

Oh, look ... rep cap. Huh.

Monica Cellio

@FEichinger yup. I signed on this morning to find I'd capped sometime overnight. It's been an interesting start. :-)

Undo

3:37 PM

I didn't cap yesterday ;(

Monica Cellio

@Undo I didn't get my email until fairly late in the day, so I'm surprised I did.

Undo

Well I suppose I kind of did, I broke 200 (but since there was an accept in there, I never got to the upvotes-don't-count phase)

Matt Giltaji

3:52 PM

@MonicaCellio you posted great questions Monica, I'm not surprised you capped so fast

Monica Cellio

@MattGiltaji thank you, and I'm pleased to see you here and contributing good stuff too!

Matt Giltaji

@MonicaCellio I'm not satisfied with the quality of my posts yet, so I'm scouring the internet for things to link to for BIU purposes

Monica Cellio

@MattGiltaji BIU?

Matt Giltaji

back it up

Undo

Wow, we still don't have any nominations in the meta thread. Usually there's like three by now.

Matt Giltaji

4:04 PM

/nominate @undo

AJ Henderson

@Undo I'm guessing nobody wants to nominate themselves when we know there are so many great moderators around

I know that's why I haven't thrown my name in

Monica Cellio

@Undo day 1 felt a little early to me for that. I'd like to see how things shake out after a few days before nominating anybody. I don't know if others are doing the same thing or if that's just me.

Undo

I think another reason is that no one wants to curse anyone else with the responsibility :P

AJ Henderson

because you could literally just throw out a ring and make whoever it lands on a moderator

and it would be ok

Undo

16 hours ago, by Pops

@AnnonomusPenguin "nominate"? I was just going to open up the users page and throw darts at my laptop screen. Everyone here wants to be a mod, no?

Monica Cellio

4:07 PM

@Undo eh, dealing with a site full of mods is probably easier than dealing with a site full of Ali and Derfder and Summar etc, right? Plus, if Ali et al show up, we can count on more community support than elsewhere for dealing with them. :-)

Undo

true, but I dunno.

AJ Henderson

@MonicaCellio there will be less issues, but people will be more sensitive when called out on something too possibly

Undo

And if we do have a problem mod-on-another-site-user, it's not like you'd really be able to ask about them in TL.

AJ Henderson

so when things do blow up, they will probably go nuclear fast

Undo

yeah

AJ Henderson

4:09 PM

even if they blow up rarely

Mujahid مجاهد

@AJHenderson I've just nominated myself

badp

One thing is certain, the chat portion should remain well moderated

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Undo

You'd think :P

Mujahid مجاهد

I would not have done so if this community were not full of moderators, I am interested in seeing how moderation would be with a site full of mods

badp

@Undo Hey, usually in the other room that doesn't exist people tend to behave :P

Undo

4:10 PM

Depends on your definition of that :P

badp

@Undo It works for the Bridge.

Nick

Too... many... moderators

badp

Shhhhh... no tears, only diamonds.

Undo

@Nick $(".username.moderator").removeClass("moderator")

Fixes everything. In chat, at least.

badp

$(".username").destroy()

Please continue to be surprised by the amount of moderators to be found in a moderator community, it never gets old!

Also are we literally inside a ban hammer right now?

Undo

4:14 PM

yeah, it's going to be interesting when someone actually uses it. Fasten your seatbelts.

badp

I have a better idea!

room topic changed to The Room With The Moderators: General discussion for moderators.stackexchange.com. THIS IS NOT TL. (no tags)

Nick

@badp Ban-Hammer shaped meeting room :p

Undo

hah

Mujahid مجاهد

Why not just call this room: Moderators Hammer

or something like that

Nick

@Mujahidمجاهد The Ban Hammer sounds better in my opinion

Undo

4:16 PM

I vote 'Dare You To Troll Us'

Nick

Everyone in this room holds a Ban-Hammer

badp

How about "Censorship Central"

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Mujahid مجاهد

@Nick yeah, I think it is good too

Undo

This room is much easier to name than SR's is :P

badp

@Undo "Codez Sending Warehouse"

"This is where we send you the codez."

(assuming that's softwarerec)

AirThomas

4:21 PM

Surely there are other rooms with moderators.

badp

@AirThomas But are they the room with the moderators?

Nick

@AirThomas I think you are underestimating the amount of moderators in here

Mujahid مجاهد

How about "Student Lounge" after TL

or was that proposed already and I didn't see?

3ventic

@Mujahidمجاهد it was

badp

I'm not sure I like the school theme; this is more like cat herding

3ventic

4:22 PM

only in chat though

Mujahid مجاهد

I see

badp

I suppose "Mod Abuse Heaven" has already been proposed, too? :P

3ventic

didn't see that one

badp

"This is where monkeys with guns in there hands go to sleep."

Mujahid مجاهد

"Moderator Lounge"? or should I just forget the word "Lounge" in a room title?

badp

4:24 PM

I'd just try and avoid being similar in any way to the TL

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AJ Henderson

@badp can we make a bot that randomly *s out words?

badp

Minimize the risk of confusion.

Mujahid مجاهد

ok

badp

@AJHenderson pssssh, everybody knows moderators have the dirtiest mouths :P

You can't moderate words you don't know!

Mujahid مجاهد

@badp don't bunch me in with such mods then ;)

Andy

4:26 PM

►

AJ Henderson

@badp if you didn't know the words, you would discover them quickly anyway

AirThomas

If this is not TL... what is TL?

badp

TL is not a thing that exists.

AJ Henderson

just like fight club

badp

This is a thing that exists, so I don't see why it should be like a thing that doesn't!

3ventic

4:27 PM

@AirThomas Sekret thingy for SE mods that totally doesn't exist, ignore the man in black adding to the message.

bluefeet

@badp shhhhh, don't speak of these sekret things

3ventic

I have a feeling someone is going to mod abuse that message.

hint hint

Undo

I'm at a loss for how to abuse that.

badp

@bluefeet The cat is so far removed from its bag, they're now on separate planes of existence

bluefeet

@badp first rule of TL, don't talk about TL

3ventic

4:28 PM

Trying to focus on this crap (link includes inappropriate language in a video)

AirThomas

@3ventic Oh, I see. It's r/lounge.SE.

badp

@3ventic I'm sorry

FEichinger

@Mujahidمجاهد ... by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!

AJ Henderson

@3ventic was that mod abuse to your satisfaction?

3ventic

Moobot's event log is full of ASCII dicks

badp

4:30 PM

@3ventic you should introduce r3k rules in there :P

Mujahid مجاهد

@FEichinger ok, I didn't understand what you just said now, but i guess my question would be why?

badp

(If you post something somebody has already posted, you get banned)

3ventic

I'm technically not a moderator on the channel, but I have full access to 2 of the bots that do most of the moderation

@badp r9k on twitch only prevents the message, doesn't ban

FEichinger

@Mujahidمجاهد It was a reference.

badp

*r9k

@3ventic Oh, so it's already a thing that exists? Cool.

Well, r9k can "ban" you for 1 second

3ventic

4:32 PM

It's in beta but I haven't seen it fail

badp

it just goes up from there

Mujahid مجاهد

How about "The Nightmare"

@FEichinger ok :)

Monica Cellio

4:53 PM

Huh, weird:

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Q: How did I vote 41 times today?

According to my profile on this private beta, I have voted 41 times today. The site is only two days old, so this isn't some accidental mis-allocation of previous votes -- 80 should be the maximum number of votes for the life of the account, but I have apparently voted 81 times. I wasn't paying...

support voting private-beta

Matt Giltaji

5:05 PM

omg, HAX!

AirThomas

5:57 PM

@badp Calling a moderator "literally worse than Hitler" ... gives that moderator a good reason to silence you. Like the Nazis silenced all those Jews, you mean!

I'm onto you, sir.

On to? shrug.

badp

I am a moderator!

What can I say?

AirThomas

@badp "Papieren, bitte!"

badp

BITTE PRESENTIERET PAPIERENS

ARTSZOZSKAREICHGLORIOUSFUTURISCH PROSIT JA

AirThomas

do you accept reddit SilvƎr?

badp

Which reminds me, I need to sneak my translation packages on FEichinger's computer.

TimWolla

6:06 PM

@AirThomas Actually it's “Papiere, bitte!”. Papiere is the plural of Papier.

AirThomas

@TimWolla Whoops; I guess the -n is Dutch.

TimWolla

@AirThomas Google Translate agrees that it is Dutch.

FEichinger

@badp ... No.

AirThomas

I have always thought that having the ability to speak, read, write and understand any human language would be a great superpower. But until such time as everyone is handed the superpower of their choice, I'm pretty much stuck with English.

badp

@FEichinger BADPTRANSLETIERUNGMANDATORIENTISSUNG

They've been only getting worse since I left Munich.

FEichinger

6:17 PM

@badp Well, duh.

animuson

@badp I'm just going to spell that out by each letter like any normal ~~machine~~ human would handle something like that.

badp

@animuson BADP-TRANSLETIERUNG-MANDATORIENT-ISSUNG

very clear. very obvious. very tokenizable.

You aren't even trying, sir.

Matt Giltaji

6:34 PM

this room was so lively yesterday... what happened?

Mujahid مجاهد

@MattGiltaji have you ever heard the saying: "First day is a rabbit, second day is a turtle, third day is a snail"?

Matt Giltaji

@Mujahidمجاهد not until right now

Mujahid مجاهد

@MattGiltaji perhaps because I just made it up :D

it was encouraged by another saying, but I couldn't remember it so I just made something up

Matt Giltaji

@Mujahidمجاهد that explains why I couldn't find it in google :D

AJ Henderson

@MattGiltaji new rooms tend to have lots of new room business

and then settle down more

people can't be super active all the time

Matt Giltaji

6:42 PM

I think its because we changed the name

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Q: What should our chat room's name be?

Right now the chat room is just called "Moderators". Can we come up with something a little more clever than that?

discussion chat

AJ Henderson

hmm.. Ban Camp

3

Matt Giltaji

The Ban Bar: where to go after getting Banhammered

Mujahid مجاهد

"Who watches the Watchers" ?

I think "Big Brother" would be better

Matt Giltaji

6:59 PM

@Mujahidمجاهد then we might get fans of the reality show in here :S

Mujahid مجاهد

reality show?

Matt Giltaji

Big Brother (TV series)

Big Brother is a reality game show franchise created by John de Mol and was originally based in a Dutch show of the same name. The premise of the show is that there is a group of people, dubbed as "housemates" or "houseguests", living together in a specially constructed large house. During their time in the house they are isolated from the outside world and are not commonly aware of outside events. Contestants are continuously monitored by in-house television cameras as well as personal audio microphones during their stay. Each series lasts for more than three months, with at least ten contestants...

Mujahid مجاهد

i had no knowledge of this

Matt Giltaji

no worries

Mujahid مجاهد

i was referring to the book 1984

which had read a while back

Matt Giltaji

7:02 PM

I know, unfortunately this show took the concept from 1984 and dumbed it down significantly

Mujahid مجاهد

@MattGiltaji the state of the world today :(