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@AlUmmatمجاهد For starters, I never saw the flag. Which is a bit moronic, given that I was in the room when it was casted. It went to a couple of moderators but not to the site's moderator that was in the room.

Al Ummat مجاهد

10:21 PM

@YannisRizos I see

Yannis Rizos

It should really go to the site's mods first and then everyone else. No reason to annoy people across the network, especially when one of the site's mods is in the room.

Jimmy Hoffa

I just stumbled upon single assignment C. Interesting.

wandering around in old questions on P.SE there are some randomly interesting things, this in particular is awesome:
http://augustss.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-basic-not-that-anybody-should-care.html

Al Ummat مجاهد

10:40 PM

Q: Let me opt out of viewing chat flags

I'm not a moderator. I have ~50k rep on Server Fault. I am a regular in chat. Because chat allows all 10k+ users across the network to act on chat flags, I (and many other regulars in SF chat) see some problematic users from other chats flagging things that aren't actually offensive. I disagree...

Q: Opt-Out for chat flags

Today, we had a user in the PHP chat bug people by repeatedly asking the same question. The user would ping individuals with the same message. I've asked the user to please stop bugging people and moved the messages to bin (message trashcan). Unfortunately, the OP continued, so I started to fla...

feature-request chat flagging

psr

The lack of context on chat flags is the killer for me. I don't feel what you get is enough to make a reasonable decision, so I never do.

Al Ummat مجاهد

@psr that is why it is recommended for mods and or 10k users to read the transcript

I know some people who say to just ignore them if it is not your room

this is the best advice

Jimmy Hoffa

@psr yeah, the few chat-flags I've seen I could not make heads or tails of what was being talked about

Al Ummat مجاهد

@psr also, here's a feature request you might find interesting meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/86597/…

Yannis Rizos

@AlUmmatمجاهد I don't want to opt out, I want the system to prioritize correctly. Chat flags casted in a room should go to the parent site's mods first, especially if they are in the room at the time.

user20683

10:50 PM

@Dynamic @mikebrown You were worthy opponents, I'm honored to have competed with you.

Al Ummat مجاهد

@YannisRizos yes, agreed

Jimmy Hoffa

@WorldEngineer nice victory walk, but get all those flags taken care of already, I'm waiting patiently for you to handle them so I can make some more.

Yannis Rizos

Attention everyone: @WorldEngineer has just accepted the mod agreement, which means he is now officially out of excuses. Let the games begin!

@WorldEngineer You have to accept the mod agreement on Meta too, technically it's a separate site. Although I wouldn't really blame you if you didn't ;)

user55340

MPE.SE? or M.SO?

psr

@WorldEngineer - Don't sign. Tell them they aren't paying you for Meta.

user55340

10:57 PM

I bet they'd double his pay for meta if he asked.

Yannis Rizos

@MichaelT Meta ProgSE. If moderating Programmers involved moderating MSO, I'd quit (or wouldn't run at all).

user55340

@YannisRizos But then you couldn't close the breast enlargement questions....

Jimmy Hoffa

@YannisRizos does the agreement say anything like "I solemnly swear to bla bla bla for life and goodness and puppy dogs bla bla bla" or is it more like a EULA "The aforementioned parties (hereto referred to as "Party" except when expressly dissociated with the mentioned terms per subsection 3g, regardless of addenda or appendix thereafter) ..."

Yannis Rizos

@JimmyHoffa programmers.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement

Jimmy Hoffa

ah the former

user55340

10:59 PM

Ya know... I bet we could ask Leslar to come back and ask some questions for @WorldEngineer to work on...

Jimmy Hoffa

@MichaelT I'm just glad merge powers have been revoked so we don't have to worry about the newbie accidentally merging one of us with leslar goma

user20683

@JimmyHoffa or merging all of you into Community

Jimmy Hoffa

I'd be ok with that, I'd answer all the questions with impugnity as THE COMMUNITY

user20683

@JimmyHoffa We are the Stack Exchange...lower your firewall and surrender you disk. Your syntactical and semantical distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your content will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

Jimmy Hoffa

I think I've flagged more today than in all the time I've been here before. I think I see why @gnat enjoys it so much, it's fun

gnat

11:26 PM

@JimmyHoffa not that I enjoy it much here; at Programmers most of my flags involved substantial effort. Real fun was at SO when they just opened Late Answers queue... it felt like a shark hunting...

...for about a week or something I've been easily using all the flags up to the limit,...

...it took me just 10-15 minutes a day to raise and none was declined

pure clean easy not-an-answer, spam etc

those were the days

made me understand how Andrew Barber could reach his 8800 flag count at SO...

...I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Late Answer queue just borrowed some SEDE query he has been using for years :)

at Programmers, it's not that much fun, except for some tricky cases when the challenge is to condense compelling issue explanation into limited flag message

user20683

@gnat ready when you are

gnat

@WorldEngineer preparing a flag to convince you to influence developers to merge me into ChrisF... gotta take a while to wordsmith

500 chars are fairly strict limit

user20683

@gnat Not if you speak Chinese or APL

Jimmy Hoffa

@WorldEngineer if he spoke APL he wouldn't need to convince any one of anything, he would already have his answer

gnat

11:46 PM

okay gotta learn Chinese and APL after I am done with C#, this shouldn't take long