Oy @hichris123

Wow, you honestly created this?

@hichris123 Created what?

Do you spend like your whole life on obsolete comments?

@hichris123 No, just the past month or so.

@Undo You honestly created a chat room to talk about your tool to remove obsolete comments

@hichris123 Technically speaking, Manish made it.

Oh, well that makes the difference.

Heh

Why is this on chemistry beta?

@hichris123 Because Manish mods Chem and likes to have power over my rooms.

Ah...

So back to plotting.

@hichris123 Yes.

We need a troop of flaggers

Ten would be about right.

But how are we going to get them?

But I've got to go now, be back soon.

Okay, see you later.

I return.

Let the plotting commence.

Okay.

The first step of good plotting is to figure out what our goal is.

I think we have an invader.

Yes...

@RobertHarvey What doth bring thee to this neck of the woods?

Yeesh, we can't even start to plot without being spied on.

Are you a room-owner?

@hichris123 Yes, but room owners can't do anything to mods.

Well, I assume you can't kick mods out.

No.

Too slow (me).

If we had Manish here he could kick Robert out.

Mods can kick other mods out?

@hichris123 Manish knows some sekrits.

(because I felt like it)

Okay, I wondered why my window randomly refreshed.

Heh

Thanks for telling me, @StackExchange

@RobertHarvey If we were to create a flagging club that met once a week and flagged 1000 comments, would there be any grumbling mods?

The mod is gone.

Yay!

I'll be back in a few minutes.

@hichris123 Tell me when you're back.

We can do a flag strike while animuson is eating his lasagna.

Sure, right now?

Yes

Using the tool

1...2...3... GO!

I hate the rate limits.

I do too.

@hichris123 Are you using the webapp?

No, I'm doing the mark my answer as accepted from my query one.

I probably should, but don't feel like opening up chrome.

@hichris123 Oh. Okay, good.

I still need to make it multi-user friendly.

I should pull in some new comments.

@hichris123 Any ideas for a good search?

(to find bad comments)

The one I did yesterday.

Please accept.

Variations.

Hm..

Someone got to most of my flags.

@Undo You finish all of your flags, too?

And you just helped me earn my first gold badge

:D

@Undo What queries do you run to get the comments?

@Undo I mean specifically, what words do you look for? It looks like edit, accept answer, and some others.

Are "Please help me" comments too chatty?

@hichris123 Yeah, they are.

I might put those in.

@hichris123 I look for edit, please accept, added, fix

I'll have to think if there's any more you could use.

I really need to get a local copy of the comments DB

I might have a machine that's up to the task.

A dual-core iMac w/ 1T drive.

@hichris123 How big did you say the comments table was?

(space-wise)

Comments is like 5 GB in MySQL.

Ok, not bad.

A little lower, around 4.5 ish.

Thanks

Welcome.