The Sphinx's Lair

Rand al'Thor

00:04

Hmm, "disturbance" could be an anagram indicator.

Rubio

I assumed it was, but not getting an answer out of it yet

Rand al'Thor

But even "in the force" is only 10 letters, so if it is, then "drops" must somehow indicate adding letters rather than removing them.

Rubio

well. it could be (disturbance in:the force)-(drops:four)+walls

or even (disturbance in:the)+(force) and so on

but I can't get any answer from either, let alone the one I'm almost positive it should be

Rand al'Thor

"the one I'm almost positive it should be"?

DISCHARGING is only 11 letters :-(

Rubio

nah. It almost has to be FLAMETHROWER but I can't make it work

weapon:def ; fire=FLAME, THRO from the disturbance of the force and the dropping of something, and I'm not sure how to get a WER after that

but it feels right hehe

@Deusovi for an earlier C4 of mine, the first version I came up with had "Termination of a terminated roof's termination, or [...def...]" - intending to give termination=END, terminated (roof's termination)=EAV[e], and literal OR → ENDEAVOR. I changed it because I wasn't sure "of" was allowed. Would it have been?

Deusovi

00:16

I think it'd be okay, but not ideal. "Termination of" ==> END might be arguable, but definitely not the best option.

Alconja

Possibly "Terminate a terminated roof's termination..." would have been cleaner then?

Rand al'Thor

Dec 12 at 21:01, by Rubio

CCCC: Terminate an unterminated roof's termination, or the younger sibling of a vanished civilization. (8)

Rubio

@Alconja yeah that's what I ended up with :)

Saw the problem almost immediately so I fixed it within the edit window

er. unterminated, whoops. i guess either word would have worked, wouldn't it :)

I'm still mad I botched the spelling. oh well

Sphinx

00:32

1

Q: The Mathematics Department

After a whirlwind tour of the English department, the tour entered the Mathematics department. Upon entering, I immediately heard some interesting conversations: "It's like a puzzle, that game..." "I think the key is to rationalise it, by making a recurrence..." "You have to us...

Alconja

@Rubio oh, my mistake. :) (and I think unterminated is better anyway)

Rubio

yeah definitely hehe

Rand al'Thor

01:05

Well, I'm not clever enough to solve any of the CCCCs, so I've had to post my own cryptic clues as a puzzle on the main site rather than in here.

I'd post a link, but the Sphinx will bring it in a minute.

Saiid

lol

Volatility

@Randal'Thor didn't you post something similar to the first question in chat? or was that someone else?

Display name

Dec 11 at 15:44, by Rand al'Thor

The western hemisphere in a cross posts puzzles (6).

Rand al'Thor

Shhhhh ;-)

TheGreatEscaper

Morning all!

Rand al'Thor

01:10

Dammit, busted.

Ah well.

I liked that idea enough that I felt it deserved to be used somewhere, and I'd never actually used it in a CCCC.

You won't get far with that one clue though. It was meant to be the easiest anyway :-)

@TheGreatEscaper Evening :-)

In fact, goodnight. It's late enough in Europe that I'm off to bed.

Volatility

Night!

Sphinx

0

Q: A puzzling newspaper headline

The following clues are not quite your usual crossword fare; they do fit the standard guidelines for cryptic clues, but each of them contains an unusual twist which (hopefully) makes them harder than average. By putting together all four solutions, you will discover a meaningful sentence. The w...

cryptic-clues

Saiid

Took you long enough, Sphinx

Rubio

he's distracted, trying to get Christmas shopping done no doubt

Saiid

01:35

I've got something for three, but nothing else

I'll share it as partial, I guess

ah, wait nvm, I don't

Rubio

tease :)

Saiid

01:57

?

me?

TheGreatEscaper

02:48

Bit quiet around it seems

Saiid

03:05

@TheGreatEscaper Yes, indeed

TheGreatEscaper

The charms of timezones...

Saiid

Yup

Rubio

03:25

timezones are a myth

Saiid

03:38

@Rubio like global warming?

Rubio

and Canada. Yes.

Saiid

I see. thanks for enlightening me

TheGreatEscaper

How does one start a chatroom with a member who is not currently in a chat room?

Saiid

03:53

Difficultly

TheGreatEscaper

Alrighty then

Saiid

yup

Sphinx

04:41

0

Q: What makes for a Balanced State of Capital?

If the capital city of a US state conforms to a special rule, I identify it as having a Balanced State of Capital™. As it turns out, only 8 of the 50 state capitals qualify for this Balanced State. Those 8 state capitals, in alphabetical order, are: Atlanta, GA Boise, ID Juneau, AK Nashville, ...

pattern

0

Q: Why does everyone keep incessantly saying this?

Why does everyone keep incessantly saying this in all the chatrooms, ALL THE TIME?!?! If you see cay If you see cay then what, noone posts anything after it, are there implied foul language, controversial topics, conspiracy (at this point im so desperate to get to the bottom of it, i'll believ...

cipher wordplay mystery unsolved-mysteries

Volatility

04:54

@Alconja @Rubio FLAMETHROWER, def: "Weapon", FLAME+TH(ROW)E+foRce

Pretty good clue!

Alconja

That's the one. :)

Sid

05:26

Is it common for cryptic clues not to contain definitions?

Deusovi

No, it absolutely is not.

Techidiot

@Sid- Do the numbers speak of enumeration in your puzzle? I dont think they do.

Sid

I won't reveal that,now. You need to find out what he was doing

And possibly,all the answers as well..

@Deusovi And every word in the clue needs to be involved somehow with the answer?

Deusovi

Yes.

The only way to not have a word involved is if it's a "connector" - for instance, you could have "(definition) is (wordplay)" or "(wordplay) leads to (definition)".

Techidiot

Yeah. Updated a little more.. They fit well but not sure if I am interpreting it right

Sid

05:40

@Techidiot Nowhere near,I am afraid.

Volatility

Ok, finally got a sorta nice clue:

CCCC: Lighten every day before going around in tats too regularly (9)

Techidiot

Hmm. . 9 words after lighten should give 9 letters..

Deusovi

"Regularly" could also be the definition.

Techidiot

Yeah

Deusovi

(Or "too regularly", for that matter.)

Sid

05:45

"Regularly" could also mean that you only take some letters and not all letters... like alternate stuff..

Techidiot

May be regularly taking a letter from previous words

Yeah

TheGreatEscaper

Ooh, the chats woken up a bit

What is CCCC?

Cryptic Crossword Clue or something like that?

Deusovi

"Chat cryptic clue chain"

Sid

^

Deusovi

A week or so ago, one of our users decided we'd start a chain of cryptic clues. If you solve one, you post the next.

Sid

05:49

More than a week ago..

Deusovi

Oh yeah, it has been a while. Hold on...

Whoa, that was a month ago!

Nov 15 at 3:53, by Alconja

New chat game: the person who answers the most recent chat cryptic clue has to pose a new one.

Apparently I have no perception of time. Nice.

Sid

Time passes quickly in the virtual world of puzzling.

Sconibulus

well, Rogue One was better than I expected

Rubio

06:20

@Volatility So... I still don't get the flamethrower explanation. can someone spell it out for me?

Volatility

"fire" = FLAME, "disturbance" = ROW (i.e. causing a row), inside THE, and then "force" with the four letters on the outside ("four walls") dropped off

Rubio

oh. hah. nice

I had the answer but couldn't figure out why :) good job

@Sconibulus I enjoyed it quite a bit

Volatility

Can "with" be used as a hidden word indicator?

Deusovi

Hm... how exactly?

Volatility

06:37

e.g. Inca person with hat (3) for CAP (bad example, because "has" can be substituted for "with", but you get the idea)

Deusovi

hm, I don't think so

Volatility

ok, thanks

Sid

06:51

Anyone gone through Rand's puzzle?

Deusovi

The one with the cryptics? No, not yet

Sid

Now that you have seen it, I doubt, it would last long...

Deusovi

Well, these don't seem to be standard cryptics...

USHER is definitely wrong - for one, that would require anagramming without an indicator. For another, H and S from HORSE doesn't make much sense.

Oh, and definitions have to be on the end of the clue - not in the middle.

Sid

I knew usher was wrong,anyway...

It's probably alternate letters of Horse followed by first and last letters of faster but I don't get anything significant in that..

Deusovi

07:07

"Alternate" could only apply to "routes" or "...faster by".

Ah, got it.

Browser keeps crashing. Give me a second.

Back.

Sid

Got everything?

Deusovi

Nope, just clues 1 and 2.

Rubio

Bah. You're clearly slowing down - it's been at least 20 minutes already ;)

Deusovi

Now 1-3.

It's 1am for me and I just took a chemistry final a few hours ago.

The last one is some sort of homophone clue, at least partially.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Rubio

07:24

i wanted it to relate to Nike, but no idea how it would

Deusovi

If "you are" → UR, here's a list of possible words:

Rubio

are they all excluding def's btw?

Deusovi

aura baur blur burd burg burk burl burn burp burr burs bury curb curd cure curl curn curr curs curt daur dour dura dure durn

duro eure euro four furl furs fury gaur gurn guru hour hurd hurl hurt iure jour jura jure jury knur kurd kuri kuru lour lure lurk lurs mure murk nurd nurl nurr nurs ourn ours pour pure puri purl purr purs rurp ruru scur slur smur sour spur sura surd sure surf tour turd turf turk turm turn ural urao urde urds urdu urdy urea ures urge uric urim urns ursa urus urva waur wurm your yurt zurf

Nope, only the first.

Rubio

first one is the only one i got. good to know.

Deusovi

0

A: A puzzling newspaper headline

Partial Answer (clues 1-3 solved) The western hemisphere is never xenophobic first. (6) Horse moves right, left, faster, by alternate routes. (5) A most outstanding fate awaits the poor easterner later on. (5) I do it, you are it, so it sounds like you should do it? (4)

Posted partial answer.

Any ideas for the last clue?

Rubio

07:29

how is outstanding fate awaits → F_ ?

Deusovi

outstanding fate

F_E

the "out"-standing letters

Rubio

oh.

I need a layman's guide to every cryptic indicator or something :)

most of these I only know from seeing y'all use them in C4s

Deusovi

they aren't standardized

you should be able to read them as instructions (loosely)

i'd never seen "outstanding" used that way before

I still don't get the "meaningful sentence".

boboquack

Maybe 'outstanding' refers to the letters that haven't been referred to yet, as in 'A', giving F_TE

Alternatively it could be 'A' is out standing (away from) the rest of fate.

Deusovi

yeah, I just edited with the latter theory

Sid

07:34

How do you get the "R"? Last letter of Easterner?

Deusovi

Eastern letter of poor.

("Eastern" being "rightmost".)

So the "easterner" of "poor" is R.

Rubio

you're not really using awaits in either though

Sid

Hmm... interesting

Rubio

especially not the latter alternative

Deusovi

Yeah...

Sid

07:35

2 directions have been used in 2 clues. Probably the sentence has got to do something with that..

Deusovi

"Later on" → AFTER seems like a good def though, and the rest fits.

Sid, the sentence is from the solutions apparently

SPHINX TROTS AFTER...

Sid

Time?

But, that doesn't seem to fit with the clues..

Deusovi

I don't see how SPHINX TROTS can start a meaningful sentence.

boboquack

So maybe it starts yet another cryptic clue...

Rubio

Well. for the 4th, I don't see any way the def can be the end of the clue; it's the beginning (perhaps, dubiously, VOWS for "I do"), or nothing

Deusovi

07:39

But it just says we have to find the final sentence.

Ooh.

VOWS sounds promising.

"Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow"

Rubio

I can't think of anything that works for the homophone end

Deusovi

Neither can I. :/

Rubio

but yeah, I forgot about that vow thing :)

boboquack

Vowels? Maybe that's the trick in this clue.

Sid

4 letters,isn't it?

Deusovi

07:40

Huh?

boboquack

@Sid Vows is 4 letters.

Sid

You wrote vowels,right?

Deusovi

Where do you get "vowels" though?

boboquack

@Sid I was thinking of something that was a homophone, and vowels was the only close thing.

3 mins ago, by Rubio

I can't think of anything that works for the homophone end

Sid

How does the homophone work for that? I am confused...

Rubio

07:43

Alternatively, "I do it, you are it" may all be a clue def for something SE related, like HINT or CLUE, which would give a meaningful if not well motivated sentence solution and also give something easier to homophone there

boboquack

@Sid Remember, rand al'thor said '...but each of them contains an unusual twist...'

Rubio

well - the first had no def

the third I'm not convinced we've explained, though the answer is probably right, so whatever explains either the missing letter or the apparently unused "awaits", depending which solve path you look at, is likely the twist there

the second seemed pretty vanilla

Deusovi

I'm not sure what the twist for the second could be.

And the first's "twist" was... kinda breaking the rules of cryptics.

(Unless it was meant to be "hemisphere".)

Anyway, it's nearly 2am. I'm off to bed. See ya, and good luck!

Sid

How is hemisphere a definition for Sphinx?

Rubio

it's not

there is no def in #1

Sid

07:51

Awaits is possibly used as a connecting word... Although, that is odd..

Rubio

rand more or less admitted he used a clue he mentioned some days ago here, where "western hemisphere" meant left half of sphere → SPH

"awaits" may be the twist.

cuz otherwise there really isn't one

Sid

Hmm, the last word remains.. I liked URGE but I can't explain how G and E appeared. So, it's probably wrong.

Sphinx

0

Q: Help a man to recover his PIN number

A man forget his 6 digits PIN number, but fortunately he remembers the clue for his PIN number. The n-th digit is the first digit of (product of other digits multiplied by n) The number is not 000000 If the pin is abcdef, then : The 1st digit = The first digit of $1 × b × c × d × e...

mathematics number-theory

Rubio

08:22

good morning, afternoon, evening or night, @MOehm

M Oehm

@Rubio Hello Rubio! It's morning here; half past nine. Which is it for you?

Rubio

half past 2am :)

Sid

Bah... No one has really seen my puzzle....

Good morning, @MOehm

Rubio

@sid Saw it, read it, enjoyed the setup, realized I'd need to steal Ankoganit's device away from you to figure out what you had in mind ;)

Sid

Like I said, that was the find of the Century...

I proofread that thing twice. I am certain,it is solvable without too much trouble unless you have never seen the thing I am trying to describe.

Sphinx

08:43

0

Q: How to "pop one out" on a Rubik's Cube?

I am trying to follow this tutorial for solving a Rubik's Cube: https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/how-to-solve-the-rubiks-cube-beginners-method/. Step two says, among other things: If the white corner piece is where it belongs but turned wrong then first you have to pop it out. What is me...

rubiks-cube

Techidiot

09:37

@TheGreatEscaper- Is @MOehm heading in the right direction?

M Oehm

11:28

@Techidiot Given that humn has almost solved it now, I think not.

TheGreatEscaper

11:42

Hullo!

It's almost there, I think

I'm not sure if your solution explains why 9 is a loop with a tail, and not just a solid circle with a tail!

I think MOehms idea of a diamond grid is really good... but I think no matter what, to make it clear 9 has a hollow space, there needs to be a bit of 'evolution' in the maze

As far as I know, there are two fairly simple ways to 'evolve' the maze and makes things super clear

Display name

11:55

Would it be OK to nominate oneself for a new room owner? I'm talking about this comment by CipherRiddle, and just wanted to know whether you agree it's OK.

Beastly Gerbil

I guess so as it is ultimately the community that decides by voting on the post

Display name

That just indicates that they don't want him as a room owner, though. (not if it's OK to nominate oneself)

But I guess as long as there aren't real guidelines concerning that, he can do it.

Gareth McCaughan

I don't see any obvious problem with self-nomination. But of course "X nominated X" is less evidence that X would be good than "Y nominated X" is.

Beastly Gerbil

problem with nominating someone else is they may not want to do it too

Gareth McCaughan

True enough. But of course they can just say no at that point.

Beastly Gerbil

12:05

How many new room owners are we looking for anyway?

Display name

0-2 more, I'd say :P

We weren't actively looking for more anyway, it's just that more room owners wouldn't hurt and that instances like the latest AK-case can be handled quicker.

I agree that we don't need more room owners. But we can certainly use more room owners, even if their "powers" are only exercised rarely. As I mentioned in my comment on the question above, we did encounter a recent situation with a disruptive user where there were no mods available to kick-mute them. It wasn't serious, and it was handled, but if one of the regulars who were there had been a room owner, the situation could have been nipped in the bud. Since there is really no downside to having additional owners (assuming they don't abuse their "powers"), let's err on the side of too many. — GentlePurpleRain ♦ 10 hours ago

Beastly Gerbil

Ah Ok, I missed most of this, was focusing on exams

Gareth McCaughan

@Displayname I think you would be an excellent room owner. As it happens I've just nominated someone else, but that wasn't in any way a response to your musings about self-nomination :-).

Beastly Gerbil

I'm just trying to think of people who are active. @Displayname is one, there are a few others as well...

Display name

Thanks. And yeah, I hope no one interpreted my comment as "I'm secretly asking whether or not I can nominate myself, and am using CipherRiddle as a scapegoat", because that wasn't the intended message.

Beastly Gerbil

12:18

@GarethMcCaughan yeah @Rubio would be a good choice.

IAmInPLS

Hello all o/

Gareth McCaughan

boo

Beastly Gerbil

hi @IAmInPLS

IAmInPLS

Riddle still unsolved! I thought this was going to be pretty fast but I guess I was wrong

Beastly Gerbil

Yes I've been thinking about a while but can't get anything to fit all the clues...

IAmInPLS

12:22

Speaking of room owners, as much as I enjoy Rubio being here, he's 2-months old here. Is that a problem for being a room owner?

Beastly Gerbil

Yes, he is rather inexperienced...

But I still think he's a good choice

Display name

... and earned over 7,000 rep over these two months. Not sure, but he seems enthusiastic about PSE and I don't think he'll leave us soon :P

Beastly Gerbil

He certainly has potential to be a top puzzler

IAmInPLS

Reputation is not everything lol. I was just wondering if this was a problem or not

Display name

@IAmInPLS I just used the rep example to show how active he is (104 answers, 10 questions). Are you concerned about whether he is too inexperienced to be a room owner? Or that there's a high risk of him leaving?

IAmInPLS

12:29

@Displayname Well, maybe a bit of both. He's indeed a very good puzzler, we can all agree on that. Maybe my personal experiences want me to say that we need someone who has spent more time on this site.

But it's true that he's really active since he's here so...

The pros and the cons! Anyway, I think we don't need one more RO for now

Sid

Woah, people are active in weekends?! Surprising..

Beastly Gerbil

@Sid usually there are a few hanging around. I usually am, nothing else to do except puzzle :P

Though I make a rule not to post qs on weekends.

Sid

Yeah, I made a mistake yesterday.

Should have waited till Monday and brushed that one up more...

Beastly Gerbil

Weekends are the days I focus on making not posting

Sid

Why exactly would we want more room owners now that AK issue is settled?

Beastly Gerbil

12:35

How is it settled? Was he banned from chat?

Sid

Suspended

Beastly Gerbil

Until Jan 13... OK, hopefully he'll learn

Display name

yesterday, by Ankoganit

@Displayname Users suspended in their parent site can't talk.

His parent site is Physics, so I'm not sure.

Actually, now it's Meta

chat.stackexchange.com/users/249754/arbitrary-kangaroo

Beastly Gerbil

So he can still talk?

Display name

Nope, I'm blind: "This user is suspended on the parent site and cannot chat for 27 days."

So I guess it only matters what your parent site was when you got suspended.

Beastly Gerbil

12:39

I wonder if he will bother coming back

Sid

Why not? As long as he stops being annoying, I don't think it would be a problem.

@GarethMcCaughan Have you seen Rand's cryptic clue puzzle?

Beastly Gerbil

14:01

Just thinking about the ROs, if we want to pick people, why not look at the frequently in room list?

Sconibulus

both people put forward so far are in the top ten there

TheGreatEscaper

How does rubio manage to be around almost 24/7? Doesn't sleep exist?

Beastly Gerbil

Which is good. Quite a few mods are in the list, so the people in top 10 who are available are:

Display name

Weird sleep cycles, probably.

Beastly Gerbil

Me, dcfyj, sconibulus, rubio, sid

(Display name doesn't want to do it)

Display name

14:07

I.e. once he sleeps from 20:00 to 02:00. The other time from 00:00 to 06:00 or something.

@BeastlyGerbil I don't remember me saying that, but you're actually correct.

Beastly Gerbil

@Displayname you didn't? Gareth suggested and you said no did't you?

2 hours ago, by Display name

Thanks. And yeah, I hope no one interpreted my comment as "I'm secretly asking whether or not I can nominate myself, and am using CipherRiddle as a scapegoat", because that wasn't the intended message.

Display name

I was just talking about not nominating myself, not about other people nominating me

Beastly Gerbil

Oh I took that as I don't want to do it. Apologies

Display name

No problem, I would probably decline the offer anyway if someone nominated me. (I just was confused why you seemed to know that :D)

Beastly Gerbil

@Displayname Mind reading powers

Display name

14:25

Is any room owner actually here right now? (as in: following the chat, not just in the chat room) I know it's the weekend so this doesn't mean much, but I could imagine that there's still a certain window where no room owner is on (especially on weekends).

Beastly Gerbil

I don't think so. Thats a good point that proves we do need more.

Display name

So weekends could become spammer's paradise :P

@BeastlyGerbil I think it would be better to post an answer for each nominee individually, so people can vote on each of them.

Beastly Gerbil

I took the liberty of nominating those I mentioned as 'frequently active.

@Displayname, I considered that but thought it would clutter the page.

I'll put comments underneath which can be voted on

Display name

Fair enough

Beastly Gerbil

Okay added the comments

Sid

14:32

Err... @BeastlyGerbil Remove me from there... I am not really interested.

Beastly Gerbil

@Sconibulus @Sid and @dcfyj if you don't want to be a RO notify me and I'll remove you

@Sid thanks, I'll remove you

@Sid okay removed you

Sid

And the comment as well...

Beastly Gerbil

Yep

Display name

Considering BG is more active than Sconibulus on weekends (according to the user profile stats), I'll have to vote for him. (dcfyj is too inactive anyway IMO (especially on weekends), although I could of course be wrong and he's lurking 24/7)

Beastly Gerbil

Your existence has been wiped from the face of the page

I dont think @dcfyj is in the room at the moment anyway

@Displayname dcfyj is actually fourth most active

But I don't think he is on weekend

Display name

14:42

Oops, sorry. I confused him with someone else... I'm not sure if we need more RO during the week, so I think I'll just stick with my vote.

TheGreatEscaper

What are room owners for? Do the other rooms even get much traction other than this room?

Display name

@TheGreatEscaper Everything in the ordered list here

Beastly Gerbil

edit the room name and description
pin a message (a pin is a super-star)
remove stars from messages
grant explicit read or write access (for when a user might not otherwise have it)
grant room ownership
modify chat feeds
move messages to a different room
schedule chat events
kick-mute disruptive users

Display name

I wonder whether @GarethMcCaughan / @Rubio / @BeastlyGerbil would be willing to become a mod in the next election? (I'm asking only these three because they are the ones I voted for as the next ROs)

Sconibulus

Yeah, on weekends I often lurk,but go in and out constantly so don't always join conversations

TheGreatEscaper

14:51

Hmm, I know this is a bit off topic, but with all this discussion of room owners I couldn't help realise that the subject of this room name, 'Sphinx', is the first answer in that recent cryptic puzzle

Beastly Gerbil

@Displayname as much as I would love too, I consider myself too young to have such a burden placed upon these juvenile shoulders. A responsibility of that magnitude should by left to adults.

TheGreatEscaper

@BeastlyGerbil how old are you?

Sconibulus

In large part because the lurking that happens is often on my phone

Beastly Gerbil

@TheGreatEscaper 13

TheGreatEscaper

The average user age of PSE seems remarkably young. I'm 15 here, and I know one of my friends on PSE is 12/13

Display name

14:53

@TheGreatEscaper Better not say who that friend is if he's 12 :P

Beastly Gerbil

If your friend is 12, he shouldn't be on the site. You have to be 13

Sconibulus

Wow, now I feel super old

I'm 27...

Beastly Gerbil

I think the reason people seem young is because the yunguns are more active as they don't have to go to work

TheGreatEscaper

Ahaha I think he's passed that barrier, he was 12 at some point last year, and I don't really keep track of birthdays much (shame on me, I know)

Display name

The average age is actually 29 (of course people could lie on their profile)

Beastly Gerbil

14:55

Sounds about right

Rubio

15:09

@Displayname I know next to nothing about how mods here work or how they're elected. I'd have to look into all that before I could give an informed answer.

Beastly Gerbil

I think Gareth would be a good mod though

Display name

Do you know why he didn't run for mod last time?

Beastly Gerbil

No idea. Maybe he simply didn't want to.

Who votes AK for Room Owner? :P

Rubio

We already had that conversation :)

Beastly Gerbil

Proves that we should vote for him then :P

TheGreatEscaper

15:35

Who is AK? I ankoganit?

Display name

Arbitrary Kangaroo, West Bengal, India

1 7

TheGreatEscaper

Oh... An Arbitrary Kangaroo signed up for Test Solution Please Ignore a day ago or so

What's their significance?

Beastly Gerbil

@TheGreatEscaper he's the one who would remove every comment he ever posted. He really annoyed everyone and all that chat would show would be [removed]

Display name

He likes to annoy other chat users (and delete messages).

Beastly Gerbil

ninja'd :P

Display name

15:40

Wow

TheGreatEscaper

Ah alright

There were a few [removed] jokes here and there and I didn't really question them much but I suppose this is the context

Rubio

He also started doing things deliberately to annoy people and goad the mods into dealing with him. He started starring all the most random messages in here just to fill the star board with noise, was being intentionally rude in chat and comments, and for a brief time was using a sock puppet to post puzzles that were intentionally bad, plagiarized.

Or both.

He's temporarily suspended for a month, expiring I think Jan 12.

Beastly Gerbil

Jan 13th

1 more day of bliss :P

TheGreatEscaper

Ahaha wow. Are permanent bans not allowed? I mean, if he was as bad as you all say he was...

Beastly Gerbil

Bans you usually go 1 week, 1 month, year and then deletion

He got week for plagiarsm an is now on month for rule vialation

TheGreatEscaper

15:50

Alright. That ban system is pretty lenient for online standards!

Anyway it's 10 to 12 pm here in Aus, and slowly losing consciousness

Beastly Gerbil

It is flexible, thats the system for minor offences. Major offences can jump straight to a year, or even straight deletion

TheGreatEscaper

I should grab some sleep!

Gnight all, happy puzzling :)

Beastly Gerbil

Good night!

Mithrandir

16:47

@BeastlyGerbil I downvoted your nominations for new room owners because you have 3 people in there. If you split it, I'll upvote at least 2 of them.... Not that i'll say which :P

Beastly Gerbil

@Mithrandir did you see what I said at the bottom of the answer?

Mithrandir

Yes.

I just think that you should split it, and not worry about 'clutter'.

Beastly Gerbil

Oh @dcfyj are you ok with me nominating you? Or would you rather I removed your name?

@Mithrandir like I said in comments I'll split it if it gets down to two....

dcfyj

@BeastlyGerbil I have no issues with a nomination. I would certainly do the job as required if I were raised to that level.

Mithrandir

And then I can vote on each individually.

(I voted for you in the comments though)

Beastly Gerbil

16:51

@dcfyj okay. I'll split the nominations now @Mithrandir as I know that everyone nominted wouldn't mind

Mithrandir

Thank you :)

dcfyj

Anyhow, I'm almost always available (even if I don't get on usually). If I get pinged I usually sure up pretty quickly unless I'm sleeping or preoccupied with something.

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Beastly Gerbil

Uuh now I have to write up 3 new answers

Mithrandir

Good for you.

Sid

He he, this room was known as "The Green Llama" earlier. Lol, no wonder it needed a better name.

Mithrandir

16:55

That was quite a Puzzling name.

gets annoyed at these GCI mentors If you don't tell me what's wrong, then I can't fix it. >.<

Seriously?

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