@Vincent Congrats!

You now have the diamond

So, are you going to lower taxes or start a war with the middle east... Hmm maybe you could mandated that everyone upvote my posts ;D....

@Ryan thanks! Can I comfort you by asking you to have a good beer and relax in that luxurious bed in that hotel suite of yours?

@DevelopersPedia will do!

@Dom thanks!

@cockypup Thanks! Yeah, will have to find a good pic now... :S

@ZachSaucier thanks! And congrats on the new outfit, looks good on you! :P

@Scott good thing you know how to take a joke :)

@JohnB ooh, that's a great one, I'm all for it!

@Darth_Vader thanks, comrade Matt

@Darth_Vader Not asleep, just watching Daredevil

spending quality time with the bf

@GiantCowFilms thanks! I'll have to consider getting a secretary in a blue dress, I suppose :P

@Vincent Congrats :) best choice won

well, I'll just have to prove that point, no?

No

will try and prove it anyway :)

@Vincent for me it came down to the fact that your often present, have inrelligent comments and are in my time zone (more or less)

ooh, time zone discrimination!

I could have gone for ryan also as first choice but all the other mods are on the murican continent

that ain't true, Yisela is in Germany

well i said so didnt i in my endorsement

yeah :)

Yes but the european timezone gets less natural user mioderation

actually we would need somebody in china-india-japan axis too but we dont seem to attract amany shuch people

Aussie or Kiwi might help as well

Yisela used to be a kiwi

yeah, might be more natural

anyway we basically have 3 timezones out of which we dont much use the 3rd one

Our timezones are early to midday european- US and then when both of these sleep

I get the impression we're quite set for the moment. Although I can see an influx of traffic for Asia, especially India

so from one topic to next, what kind of companies hire technical illustrators?

but if there's users that contribute there, they might also do some mod tasks

don't forget that it's essentially the community that moderates, and not the mods :)

yes my point exactly

id like to stab at something like that

@joojaa phew

@Vincent so the best mod is one that does not really moderate unless they have to

check!

is there way to get the demographics of GD.SE

huh? as in user location?

yes so say get a by country demographics of say top 30% of the site etc

technically, I guess. but since that's personal info that not all users choose to share, I don't think it's information we're allowed to review :)

ah ok

makes sense

re: companies... that would be all kinds of research companies

tech companies developing products

but also architects

Im not working with architects @Vincent it the thing that makes building (civil) engineers do so bad jobs

hey, just naming options :)

How do you like Daredevil, @Vincent?

@JohnB (that was meant to be five stars, but it gets truncated to three by the chat parser)

Haven't finished it, but only two moer eps to go

you?

hey @Zach

Hey, Mr. Mod!

got rid of your costume again?

No, apparently this one is attached to the profile with the most rep, which points to my SO address

hmmm, I think you could escape the asterisks to show your approval... \*\*\*\*\*

*****

@MarkMussler so this doesn't work? :(

@JohnB, ah, neat trick

I have to re-watch episode 7, or the end of it at least

fell asleep watching it last night. But I do enjoy it, so gorey though...

hehe, it's 16+ here on Dutch Netflix, and that's saying something

I do love how they really use the fact that this is not network television to get some realism and grit in. Make that a lot of grit

this is a good month for serial tv: first this, and Orphan Black's third season kicking off next Friday. I alwyas say that I don't watch tv, but I do watch movies and series :)

for sure

> In order to avoid losing its place atop organizations, design must deliver results. Designers must also accept that if they don’t, they’re not actually designing well; in technology, at least, the subjective artistry of design is mirrored by the objective finality of use data. A “great” design which produces bad outcomes —low engagement, little utility, few downloads, indifference on the part of the target market— should be regarded as a failure. - interesting read

Can't say I agree 100% as often times the purpose/goals of the product are simply bad, not the design

should the mod questionnaire be removed from the featured metas? meta.graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/2517/…

we back?

did it go down or something?

yeah, for a short while

@ZachSaucier good point, done

now there's even more blue in the chat xD

huh? what do oyu use blue for? Mods?

your name is blue now

ya, mod names are blue

ah, that way. I thought you were referring to the message bodies -- someone here mentioned using an app to color those, no?

(or have I been dreamin up things again?)

I use an extension, yes

anyone heard from Scott yet? He said he'd quit if his candidate of choice didn't get elected...

he will be missed

sorely

I got 10 profile views since last night, hahaha

Now I need to post an answer and get it featured so more people will look at the profile :D

that's all me, re-re-re-re-reloading the page

it doesn't work that way :P

can't get enough ❤

♥ <-- this one is easier (alt + numpad 3)

yeah that one

ah, thx.

can do lots of things by combining numpad + alt in different combinations

☼ (1 + 5), ↓ (2 + 5), ♫ (1 + 4), etc

hey @Ryan

sorry for nabbing it, bud. nice competing against you.

No reason to apologize, I almost dropped out entirely so really don't mind at all.

good. I'd like to work with you and some of the points you named in your nomination -- you have some great ideas.

whoahhhh

new profile page just released!

ahhhh

~69k people reached :D

oooh, that is a really fun metric!

oh sweeeet!

Ya, biggest thing I was looking forward to

ok, looks like my new goal is to hit 2 million so that I can put on my résumé that I've "helped millions"

lol

apparently, they want me to do the same for 'half a million' :)

Scott is at ~7.1 million

dang

wah? I'm the only copy editor?

Apparently :)

I'll get there eventually, haha

Next badge for me it lists "Marshal", a badge I can't get :\

where does it show that?

ah yeah found it

yeah, for me too. That's the badge I gave up yesterday :/

but you can choose which badge to track

ahhh you should have combed the site for a few hundred obsolete comments! oh well :)

@JohnB I did that to get it on SO, haha

ah frak, yeah

it auto deletes comments with certain phrases, so can run a query to find those

people have written scripts to find those kinds of comments to help their flag count

yup

:D

oh well, I'll set it to inquisitive for the time being. My question count can use some work

@Vincent that's what I just did as well

this is a really nice upgrade. Kudos to the SE people that worked on this

the badge tracking is great. I used to do those with some ugly app you had to feed your id number to

I love that you can see top network posts on profiles now. Although slightly embarrassing that two of mine are about cats...

now I look like a crazy cat lady man

meow?

lol

ok, these recent comment flags have me suspicious of who is raising them...

:D

Was testing

(we aren't shown who flagged it for comments)

oh wow this is amazing

t.co/VIqRQYzbFE

it doesn't auto delete just "accept" comments

ah

interesting that Fanatic badge progress can be made public now

consecutive daily visits wasn't otherwise public before

Hm. Checking out the trol... @Scott's profile, I wonder if it'd be possible to have that blue rectangle just mention 'top user'?

morning

hey Matt

how is it coming?

slowly

I already made my first error, so that's out of the way

Oh lord no @Vincent. I don't want it to say anything like "top User" :)

why not? it's the truth, no?

I really think the 'top .68%' looks really awkward

top .16% :) And I don't want that specific target on my profile :)

sorry for getting the numbers wrong.

There are some people that woudl just focus on THAT and it woudl alter their interaction with me.

hm. point.

you are too modest, Scott :)

I dislike "fame" :)

what? you're not into musicals?

or you just hate Irene Cara?

They remade that ya know. "Irene Cara" just dated you incredibly :)

hahahaha.. top and bottom... high larious

@Scott says who? :P

found another bug because of my query :P meta.stackexchange.com/q/253464/215485

@Scott oh, that wasn't even my intention

Someone equally dated :)

sup scott..

So.. @Vincent you been exploring the mod tools today :) Reviewing old deleted nasty stuff? :)

Hey Matt

exploring, yes, deleting no.

if you find any muck, feel free to publicise and warn me. or not.

is it only wed =(

yup.. only Wednesday.. but TAX DAY too! Half price burgers at Sonic!

ya so after you feel like being taken advantage of by uncle sam dont worry we'll ease your pain and only charge you half price, lol

@Scott no no..

no no.. what. Never had a chat comment deleted before :)

but rest assured, your secrets are safe with me

power...

Scott's secret (?)

oh bummer

ok, the day's almost over here and my sense of humour deteriorating

Oh if only I had Deniro's money :)

I'm still in my boxers, lol

so nice to have mornings with no class

I have no class all day long! Bam!

get to do work uninterrupted

@Scott you don't have any class

that's what I meant :)

I am.. class-less

facepalm

you don't have to gloat over it

Well if I failed to gloat... that would show some class.. and I have none!

sigh On my first day as a mod, I get a 'do you want to move this to chat' warning. Way to go.

I told you'd I'd screw up :)

righty. time to leave the premises. See ya folks later

later!

see ya!

later

ok.. I'll ask that one question, ideas...

I need some ideas on how to make a car site and Im stumped for inspiration or ideas.. this is unusual for me.

Like any other site. Forget the product.. design for the audience.

ya but im still stumped.. design block

you guys see the new profile roll out?

yeah .Like the new profile. Badge tracking is neat :)

oh how lovely, just saw this e-mail

zip file contains a ".doc" file (really a JS file)

I get stuff like that all the time

it's my first! yay

I'm certain anyone else here would have just opened this...

I think a lot of people fall for it.

er, and by here I mean at my company, not in this chat haha

I got a really good one a couple weeks ago from my Bank. Looked 100% legit with a .zip and an .exe inside the zip :)

they tried obfuscating this code, but it appears to download and run an exe

red flag line: downloader_get = downloader_get + \'".exe\';

ha!

So I have a client who apparently wants a new logo every 10 years.... no matter how much I speak with them and try and convince them that consistency is better... they just don't "get" it :)

well, that's ...interesting

And the moral is... save your sketches... you never know when you'll have to rework that logo :)

the Oregon Ducks of companies?

It's moronic if you ask me. They have a good solid, universal logo.... now they want something "trendy"

(they have different uniforms for every game because Nike pours money into their program)

yeah the Ducks are funny... Around here you see a big O on a window and you have to look twice... yellow for ducks,, white for Oakley :)

hah

nah.. nothing similar there at all.

When I first got here I wondered why everyone had yellow Oakley logos on their cars :)

@JohnB I dont even bother opening half of the stuff

usually GMail is better at catching stuff like this. I am surprised

You mean the NSA

maybe the NSA opened the attachment and ran the code!

I should alert someone just in case

tweet at Obama maybe?

Yeah I'm sure he reads his tweets :)

Heck yes. Just realized my physics hw is due next Friday, not this one! :D

I have time to work on personal projects now!

that's a great feeling

Any of you use StackOverflow Careers?

I made a profile so they would quit bugging me but haven't touched it since

Just seems to be only code based careers :)

yes, definitely

Maybe a test market since SO is so huge.

I suspect that is how SE makes most of their money, they have a looot of staff that work only on Careers

Interesting.

@Scott yes, it is a test market. They have a blog post about what they want to do with careers somewhere...

Well I could see it being useful here. But I'd look like a dumb puppy at SO :)

Floppy ears and all!

Compare 5 matches for "Ads sales" and 82 matches for "Careers Sales" on this page

Oh I always find the "company photos' pages kind of creepy :)

at least we have as many designers as ad sales people, there used to be only Jin doing all the design stuff

128GB thumbdrive for $30! tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/…

yowza

decent reviews as well

I've never had an issue with TigerDirect or PNY thumbdrives (have a coupel dozen smaller ones)

$.99 shipping as well...arggg well I guess I need at least 1

yeha it's one of those deals that too hard to pass up.. it is .99¢ EACH for shipping. I bought 3.. shipping was $2.99

I'm in for 2, thanks for the heads up

off to the warehouse, later!

@Scott should just wait and get em black friday

errr.. that's in November :)

I get a hand full and give them away to friends and family members. Got a 32gb one this past year for 5.99??

Ill mail you one... oh.. you're not a friend... lol

but if you go to dealnews.com they arent too bad

they look like a crawler

yeah I picked up a bunch of 64GB last year for dirt cheap. I only need about 5 or 6 regularly. I just tend to upgrade them as the sizes become more affordable :) I've got a stack of 64GB ones around already :)

ive only gotten 16gb and 32gb

lol.. pagemaker question

I've got ranges form 4MB to 64GB and I think 1 128GB... but I paid way too much for that one.

Yeah I think that PM question is from 1987 and just just NOW posting :)

ooooo. I added the 'pagemaker' tag :)

well, the intro + outline for this answer I'm writing is already 500 words...

would it be bad to make a meme and use the guy from ancient aliens and underneath have it say example images... so anytime we get a question with no examples we can use that image as a comment?

to post it publicly, I believe it would be bad. People could easily interpret it as us making fun of them/not respecting them

yeah... would be seen as rude most likely... even though it would be fitting. I always want to post "My mind-reading keyboard is on the fritz."

in chat or something it'd be alright

I know its bad =P i just dont understand people's logic

<-- no clue about ancient aliens or underneath... assumed tv shows but wouldn't know the reference at all.

my background image question is getting fairly good traffic for not being on our hot posts

err... add an image to an existing photoshop file...

yeah that's a horrible question as well :)

The logo one was tagged with illustrator indesign font-id... jsut random tags :)

link

Oh, I fixed it... and you closed it :) graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/51213/…

oh wondered why I didnt see it

I forgot I was leading my Bible study on the wrath of God tonight, haha. Time to stop writing the answer I was working on and write some things down for that

hi guys

o/

helloooo

hey @Voxwoman and @DevelopersPedia

Hi. I just finished my income taxes and I'm fried.

also broke :)

phew, that's quite last minute! But a relief to be done

LOL I've run the clock out worse than this (before e-file, I remember one night going to the main Post Office in Philadelphia at 11PM)

ah, are you still in the Philly area?

No I'm in NJ, more NY metro now.

where are you?

ah gotcha. I'm in the Philly suburbs

cool! Which one? I lived in Germantown for a few years

muuuch further out, central Bucks county area

"farm land" as I've heard city people refer to it as :P

Nice.

Part of me wants to move out into the wilds, but another part likes being one 45-minute train ride out of Manhattan

yeah it's about 90 minutes by train for me to get to Center City, I'd love if that were shorter haha

taxes next year will be easier. I'm bartering design and web work for bookkeeping services from someone else.

oooh nice

I like Philly so much better than NYC. But my kid want to be an actress.

really? I hate how dirty it is around the outskirts. It makes me just want to go around with trash bags and pick it up myself

I wouldn't mind NY but not if it means a rent increase :P

I lived in North Philadelphia for a short while, near Luzerne St. But I'm too much of an outdoorsy person, I'm happier further north

I'm talking center city. It has all the features of NY, but smaller. I'm also mostly going on memory. I haven't been hanging out there in at least 10 years, probably more.

yes, Center City is fun

Like back when NYC was a stinkhole and you took your life in your hands near 42nd street

are you a freelancer?

nope, I do print stuff. Mostly pre-press, though I do some screen printing myself on the side

time for me to run, talk to you later!

bye

'lo

@gburning hey