The Litter Box

Lix

9:00 PM

i think there was ~8 users who all had a username starting with tim

So @_tim (lets not bother a real tim) would summon a mass riot of people annoyed at the number of pings...

and... you can only change your username once in 30 days...so...

Baarn

In a short timeframe it is possible to change it more often, just did that a few days ago

Ankit Sharma

Our Litter Box looks full today

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Lix

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Q: Avoid pinging multiple users in chat

Several chat room users are becoming annoyed by a certain feature of the chat room notification system. When there are two people in a chat room, say John and JohnSmith, and someone pings @John, JohnSmith is also pinged. This is naturally annoying to JohnSmith, especially if someone is having a l...

Baarn

@AnkitSharma seems that the members of pets.SE have become house-trained as they are all using it ;)

Lix

lol

Ankit Sharma

9:09 PM

I think its not a duplicate

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Q: Are street animal question on topic here?

Some people like to interact with street animals like cats/dogs. By feeding them playing with them but doesn't adopt them because of liabilities. So the question regarding them going to be allowed or not?

discussion on-topic

alteast the referred question doesn't provide answer to it.

Baarn

I think the answer from the "duplicate" fits well…

If you can consider that animal to be a pet, it can be an on topic question. otherwise it probably isn't.

Ankit Sharma

@Baarn i think i will going to ask one sooner.

Atleast it got entry in Community Bulletin.

Baarn

A question like "There are too many dogs roaming my city, what can we do?" sure is off topic in the sense of pets.SE

Lix

@bam - agreed

Baarn

"Should I feed a cat that shows up on my doorstep?" might be on topic (although it polls for opinions which is baaaad)

Ankit Sharma

9:15 PM

@Baarn but what about ** what should i give to my pregnant street cat which roams around our house**

Lix

If the context was to eventually bring the cat in as a pet then it would fit...

Baarn

@AnkitSharma just ask the question. Worst case is that it gets closed, which I still consider to be good, as we might learn from that.

Ankit Sharma

@Lix but if someone doesn't want to take permanent responsibility and only want to take care him from distance?

@Baarn willl surely ask it later

Now its too late....its already 2:48 a.m and tomorrow has to go to office

Anyways Good night guys(Adjust it with your time zones ;) ).... c u all tomorrow

Baarn

good night, ankit

What sounds most familiar to a native speaker when talking about fresh water crabs? crayfish, crawdad, mudbug or something else?

Oh and: one hundred internetz for the person who guesses about which animal my next question is!!1!

Lix

@baa - unicorns?

Monica Cellio

9:34 PM

@AnkitSharma good time zone

@Baarn this is highly variable; in the US it's regional. (Though I've never heard mudbug.)

Baarn

I think I simply go with the first translation the dictionary proposed (crayfish)

Lix

does anyone know how tag synonyms work on p.betas?

Baarn

both other options are tagged [Am.], don't want to exclude British folks

Monica Cellio

@Lix you mean how to define them? Ask someone with a diamond, since it takes >1k rep and nobody has that yet.

Baarn

@Lix post them on meta

Monica Cellio

9:37 PM

@Baarn or that. :-)

Baarn

that's what I always have to do… I never have the required 5 upvotes on those tags…

Lix

behavior/behaviour worth it?

Baarn

do they both exists?

Lix

only one post with the British spelling..

Baarn

in that case … yeah, I think so

Lix

9:38 PM

guess i could just retag

Monica Cellio

@Lix I don't think substring synonyms are ever worth it; once you start typing it'll offer you the tag.

Lix

true...true...

Monica Cellio

I think retagging the few behaviours is the way to go. I did that for singular "cat" earlier (to "cats").

Baarn

No idea what our stance on BE/AmE is yet? Or is there a network wide guideline?

Lix

i think the majority takes it...

Monica Cellio

9:39 PM

Somewhere on meta (maybe the behavio(u)r question) there was mention that SE tends toward AmE.

Lix

and in that sense, network wide we are stuck with AmE

Monica Cellio

I don't much care either way, so long as we just have one for any given tag. :-)

Lix

@mon - your blue username makes everything you say much more authoritative :P

Baarn

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Q: Create a tag synonym for behavio(u)r

We have both the behavior and the behaviour tag. At the moment, American spelling is winning 6:2 but we should probably settle on the one and make the other a synonym. I'm not sure who has the power to do this, but it seems I can't anyway.

support tag-synonyms

ah, that was the question you were talking about

there is even a link to that network wide decission

Lix

now we just have to make sure no one uses that tag for a day or so and it'll disappear

Baarn

9:43 PM

Oh, I guess someone will manage to use it again ;)

Lix

@baa - did you just create the crayfish tag? :P

Baarn

of course… it really bothers me that those cute little guys all ended up in our filter :(

Lix

that's the before image I assume

Baarn

yeah, I didn't take one of their remains ;)

Lix

all I remember from our pond back in the day was the frogs...

there might just be a post somewhere in there :P

Baarn

9:50 PM

actually I haven't seen them clogging the pump, but I trust my dad to distinguish between crabs and foliage

Monica Cellio

@Lix ooh, I forgot about the intimidation power of text color. :-) (I use CSS overrides to make the site easier to see, and one casualty of that is the different link color -- so I keep forgetting about it. :-) )

Lix

can you summon joel with a single ping? ;)

oy... they are multiplying!

Monica Cellio

@Lix I guess I could, but there might be consequences and I'm fond of my diamond...

Lix

a wild blue username enters the room

Monica Cellio

Who's multiplying?

Oh.

Baarn

9:55 PM

Is this one case of "don't say biggie smalls three times"?

iKlsR

@Lix ♦ is my body and blue is my name.

Lix

@baa - I don't quite get that reference

bows

iKlsR

@Lix southparkstudios.com/clips/155321/biggie-smalls

Baarn

thanks @iKlsR :)

iKlsR

:)

Lix

10:00 PM

haha

Baarn

Wow only a few days into beta and tags are already full of plagiarisms

fish WP: Fish

iKlsR

The mods will be in for quite a bit of work the rate this site is moving.

Monica Cellio

blink I'd completely forgotten that I created the behavior tag; I just got a Taxonomist badge for it. I'd figured that only dogs and cats would be that popular by now.

@Baarn oh joy. I don't see a way to flag tag wikis; if you notice them and can't fix them, I suggest rolling back.

Baarn

10:15 PM

I don't know how to roll back. Simply deleting the content isn't possible and I don't see an edit history on tags …

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Q: Wikipedia plagiarism on tags

fish WP: Fish It always happens that user populate a tag with content plagiarized from Wikipedia. What do you think about this?

discussion tags plagiarism

I will list other tags there as soon as I spot them

snakes, too…

iKlsR

@Baarn Good initiative, btw, snake link needs fixing.

Baarn

thanks

I am normally pretty relaxed on copyright issues, but when the content is free already, I think the people who spent their time at least deserve attribution.

The same problem will come up with unattributed pictures, sooner or later, too

Monica Cellio

10:32 PM

@Baarn good idea with compiling the list on meta. (I suggest changing the last part of your question from "what do you think?" to "what should we do?". Let's not model bad behavior on meta (i.e. that would be bad on main). :-)

Baarn

@MonicaCellio true, I changed that bit. :)

Lix

10:44 PM

good night from GMT+3! see you soon

iKlsR

@Lix Cheers. o/

Baarn

good night @Lix

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