The Sphinx's Lair

Level 51

00:57

oops

@GentlePurpleRain that wasn't the answer I had in mind, but that's pretty cool, actually

phenomist

it's an indirect ana though

Level 51

the longer people take to solve this the more i feel like i must have made some kind of mistake, or my cluing is bad :S

phenomist

01:13

is it an indirect anagram?

well ok you don't have to answer that

but generally synonymizing a word and then anagramming it is considered a no-no

Level 51

nah it's not an indirect anagram

although maybe it would be better with a question mark at the end

Sphinx

05:56

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Q: Why Do You Love Me? (Part II)

Thank you so much for your help in scoring my last date. The date went really well, and we have so much fun. However, after that date she didn't reply to my texts for days, only to hit me with this: Well, I've been agonizing over them since. Looks like she has upped her difficulty too, after s...

Mithrandir

06:53

@rub puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/50156/ikonlie

Deusovi

08:58

yeah, I think I know what you're referring to by the question mark? but I'm not sure

Mithrandir

09:41

@rub puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/50160/…

Erik the Outgolfer

@Mithrandir heh that one even has a profile picture

and...4 accounts

Sphinx

14:52

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Q: A fire pales in comparison to how brightly I burn

More deadly than a gun, As fiery as the sun. Looking to escape me? Instead, breathe and be free. Control me or be aware, Else I lead you to despair. What am I?

riddle rhyme

Gareth McCaughan

17:21

@Mithrandir Terminated with extreme prejudice.

Mithrandir

@GarethMcCaughan curious - did you extract the info that Rubio was collecting?

Gareth McCaughan

Er. Probably not. Oops. What did he want?

Mithrandir

shrugs ask the dog :P

Pretty sure email, username, and IP at least

Erik the Outgolfer

fortunately, I don't think accounts are permanently deleted, and I think they're still visible to mods, no?

Gareth McCaughan

After being destroyed? IP address info and account name are still there. Nothing else, I think.

Erik the Outgolfer

17:28

I think the posts are just deleted (IIRC by Community), have witnessed it happening once

hm, maybe it has to do with the fact that the posts are anonymized after account deletion (so after account destruction which contains deletion in itself too)

but, eh, after all, just 2 accounts aren't a great loss, are they? ;)

(and Gareth wasn't that wrong anyway, the site already had a stink...)

Mithrandir

17:46

@EriktheOutgolfer Accounts get hard deleted. No way to restore.

Erik the Outgolfer

like they never existed before? I think SE employees are able to restore them, maybe not mods

Mithrandir

No. SE employees can reassociate posts.

North

@GarethMcCaughan puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/50161/nba-draft-2018

Gareth McCaughan

I'm going to leave that one alone in case Rubio wants to record information about it before blowing it away :-).

GentlePurpleRain

18:01

@Level51 If you want, I'd be willing to review the CCCC for you (which would obviously preclude me from solving it), if you're worried it's invalid.

North

Hmm

So Rubio collects information for what reason?

GentlePurpleRain

I think Rubio is collecting statistics on spammers, to help identify future spammers.

Erik the Outgolfer

as I said before, nothing too bad probably happened

29 mins ago, by Erik the Outgolfer

(and Gareth wasn't that wrong anyway, the site already had a stink...)

let's just move on, shall we?

North

@EriktheOutgolfer I suggest we take Dragonrage's suggestion and close the site all together! :P

Dragonrage

18:17

@North i didnt say to close the site. just to ban all users and delete all questions

banning all questions and deleting all users would also probably be similarly effective

Erik the Outgolfer

what is different from closing the site then?

mods abusing powers to still use it?

North

Heh

Dragonrage

@EriktheOutgolfer well, the mods could still moderate, but they wouldnt have as much of a workload

mods can technically still use the site even if they are still suspended, and can even unsuspend themselves

Erik the Outgolfer

I mean, asking/answering questions when all other users have been banned

if a mod gets suspended then it probably means that they've committed a major felony

Dragonrage

or it was science

Erik the Outgolfer

18:21

science like testing the diamond temporarily? that can only be done by SE employees as far as I'm aware

North

Or they just did it for kicks

Dragonrage

i know two mods did science it just to see what happened

though if you actually get suspended as a moderator, you should probably not unsuspend yourself, and figure out why you were suspended

Erik the Outgolfer

like, suspending themselves? I don't think so much is known of the details of this notorious story

I think that if you get suspended as a moderator, it's technically not abuse if you only use the mod powers o_o

Dragonrage

@EriktheOutgolfer they didnt suspend themselves. one mod suspended the other for science. i forget who they were though

there is a post somewhere on MSE about it iirc

Erik the Outgolfer

btw, there's already an established procedure in case a mod needs to get de-modded forcefully, and somebody is "recording the minutes"

wait, were you through that?

Dragonrage

18:25

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Q: Do moderators have the authority to suspend *other* moderators?

Suppose a moderator has politically incorrect "inclinations" as observed (fairly often) in, say, a chat room. In the event that a couple of users take offence at this, can another moderator possibly "deal with" (and not remove) the offending moderator? By "deal with", I mean chat kicks, bans and...

discussion moderator-tools moderators

there are some linked questions there that go into more detail

Mithrandir

@EriktheOutgolfer ...or had a disagreement with a CM, as in a recent case (no, you don't get juicy details).

Erik the Outgolfer

(no, I don't ask for juicy details, I'm not a stalker)

Mithrandir

I've suspended a mod before, on chat, for science.

(mods can't be suspended on chat BTW)

Dragonrage

@Mithrandir they can be de room ownered though

Erik the Outgolfer

tests can happen any time, as long as everybody agrees

mods don't need RO status

wait, so, if a mod's message gets flag-deleted, the chat account stays intact? (please don't try)

Mithrandir

18:33

@Dragonrage Actually having room ownership doesn't matter for mods, with one exception.

Dragonrage

@EriktheOutgolfer not most of the time. though there was one instance that something in chat broke and they needed room owner.

Mithrandir

@EriktheOutgolfer correct

Dragonrage

i think it was @badp that broke the chat once over in arqade and thats why we have a policy that all mods are RO's for any room they are in

but it was before I joined, so I dont know all of the details

Erik the Outgolfer

yeah, better not accuse for events long in the past

John Dvorak

18:57

I'm curious...

GentlePurpleRain

20:51

Is there a URL (something like [puzzling.stackexchange.com/self]) that will take any user to their own profile page?

North

@GentlePurpleRain I think it's puzzling.stackexchange.com

and then current user

I don't know the exact url but that's the idea

Erik the Outgolfer

puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/current?tab=profile

North

YeaH THAT

Erik the Outgolfer

that's the best user I've ever seen

North

I know right

So skilled and awesome

How does he she do it?

GentlePurpleRain

21:17

Thanks

Level 51

23:11

@GentlePurpleRain uh sure, that'd be great! how do i pm on this thing

Erik the Outgolfer

yeah, that's a problem here @ SE :P

Level 51

do you guys not have a discord server or something? :o

Avigrail

Good idea

Erik the Outgolfer

AFAIK, no

Avigrail

Probably they want to keep everything here though

Erik the Outgolfer

23:13

(although PPCG has a few Discord servers :P)

Level 51

i spent my first month at PSE trying to find the chat that everyone kept mentioning

:I

Avigrail

But you made it to level 51 already. Nice!

Erik the Outgolfer

heh

Level 51

haha, that's just the name i use for literally everything online

Avigrail

Everything? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Level 51

23:16

oops i just doxxed myself

Avigrail

Interesting word

"doxxed"

Anyway, I'm going to sleep. See you around!

Erik the Outgolfer

like, revealed PII

now we know "Level 51" is the same person everywhere over the internet :p

Sp3000

I'm pretty sure the C4 has something to do with recent English-Irish pop music, because the def looks like it's "A band One D"

Erik the Outgolfer

and...how does "indecent period" have anything to do with that

Sp3000

(Twasn't a serious comment)

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