The Junk Drawer

10:00 PM

@Whaaaaaat ... okay, okay, you win there. But I do have this advantage:

They make for excellent plot devices in low budget horror films since it is hard to open them with your hands covered in blood — PlasmaHH May 26 at 10:17

Whaaaaaat

@Doorknob's mortal enemy: Doorhandle.

brb.

Doorknob 冰

Could someone please edit the [help] tag out of this question? :/

Whaaaaaat

@Doorknob冰 my new profile:

Door Handle, /dev/urandom

351 9

Shokhet

@Doorknob冰 I don't have the edit privilege yet; can't help you.

@Whaaaaaat @Mew!! :P

Whaaaaaat

@Shokhet I am now Door Handle.

Shokhet

10:04 PM

@Whaaaaaat That's not confusing at all :)

J. Musser

@Doorknob冰 done

Whaaaaaat

@DoorHandles are more preferred than @Doorknob冰s by people with arthritis.

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Matt S.

@MattS. So you're asking him to prove non-existence? — Origin 3 mins ago

Shokhet

@Whaaaaaat We need door, so that it can show up in your profile (and maybe @Doorknob冰's also ;-)

Whaaaaaat

@Shokhet YES.

Doorknob 冰

10:07 PM

@Whaaaaaat If you set your parent chat profile to Lifehacks, you can be @DoorHandle in chat. :P

J. Musser

@Whaaaaaat Or carrying groceries.

Door Handle

hi

did that work?

Shokhet

@DoorHandle Yes it did.

Doorknob 冰

@DoorHandle It did!

Door Handle

@Shokhet Added.

@Doorknob冰 Add a feed to this room please.

Any new question from main gets posted in here

Doorknob 冰

10:11 PM

@DoorHandle I think that would be too much clutter.

J. Musser

@DoorHandle NO!

Door Handle

The rate at which questions are posted here...

J. Musser

That's too much. Have it show in the dropdown.

Doorknob 冰

That would quadruple the volume of feed messages posted in here.

Shokhet

@Doorknob冰 In Bam, new questions show up in a dropdown on the top.

J. Musser

10:12 PM

40 secs ago, by J. Musser

That's too much. Have it show in the dropdown.

Stack Exchange

Doorknob 冰 has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

Doorknob 冰

Personally, I find that somewhat annoying, but sure, I could do that.

Shokhet

Someone ask a new question, please!

Door Handle

i already did something with doors

brb thinking

Shokhet

I had to reach way back to ask my chicken question....I really hope it gets a good answer here (against all odds)

J. Musser

10:14 PM

I can only change feeds in the GL room.

Door Handle

brb posting

Shokhet

@J.Musser Are you an elected mod, or an appointed mod? ....does it make a difference?

J. Musser

feature-request - add me as a room owner in this room.

@Shokhet I'm the only room owner there.

Shokhet

@DoorHandle nm, I just got a dropdown w a whole buncha questions in it

Door Handle

feature-request - make me an owner because i know how to put tags in chat :D

Doorknob 冰

10:15 PM

@Shokhet The feed just caught up.

Shokhet

@J.Musser Room owner. Got it.

@Doorknob冰 Yeah, I noticed :)

Doorknob 冰

@DoorHandle coughthatlinkstomainnotmetacough

Shokhet

@DoorHandle ([meta-tag:tag-name])

J. Musser

@Doorknob冰 matters so much

Door Handle

and question posted.

now we wait.

Doorknob 冰

10:20 PM

Oh by the way, I've updated our meta feed chat user:

chat.stackexchange.com/users/-318

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Shokhet

@Doorknob冰 Cute!

Door Handle

@Doorknob冰 So, have you announced the room owners?

Doorknob 冰

@DoorHandle Hrm? The room doesn't currently have any owners.

Door Handle

@Doorknob冰 Exactly.

Doorknob 冰

@DoorHandle Exactly what?

Door Handle

10:24 PM

@Doorknob冰 we need owners

Doorknob 冰

Why?

Door Handle

Why not?

Doorknob 冰

"We need owners because reasons" isn't exactly the most convincing argument ;)

Door Handle

to manage the room when the mods are gone.

Doorknob 冰

There's not really much to manage, is there?

Door Handle

10:25 PM

well, there can be some things.

Doorknob 冰

I mean, the PPCG room has gone three years with no owners (and still has none).

J. Musser

@Doorknob冰 Because then we can moderate the room without moderator intervention. That's why SE is such a good idea.

Doorknob 冰

@J.Musser Moderate the room how?

J. Musser

@Doorknob冰 km bad users, edit anything as necesary, etc.

Door Handle

@Doorknob冰 deal with flagged posts, etc.

Doorknob 冰

10:27 PM

@J.Musser Owners can't do either of those.

@DoorHandle Owners can't do that either. That's a 10k rep privilege.

Door Handle

@Doorknob冰 (1k here)

or 10k network wide?

Doorknob 冰

It's network wide.

Door Handle

/me creates tons of accounts everywhere

J. Musser

@Doorknob冰 I can kick-mute GL chat users, change the feeds, tags, name, anything.

Doorknob 冰

@DoorHandle Only accounts with 200+ rep count

@J.Musser Are you sure? Owners can't kick users, last time I checked.

Door Handle

10:28 PM

Let's test

MacGyver's Hangout

Off-Topic General chat room for Lifehacks. Negativity is *not*...

Doorknob 冰

The only powers they have IIRC is changing the room name/feeds/stuff and pinning messages.

Oh, and also, moving messages to different rooms.

J. Musser

@Doorknob冰 I'll get a screenshot.

Door Handle

@J.Musser I tested it

it works

Shokhet

Hi all :)

I'm baaaaack!!

Door Handle

okay. i can't edit or delete posts

Doorknob 冰

10:32 PM

@DoorHandle Huh, I never knew owners could do that.

Door Handle

Owners can't edit/delete messages though.

Doorknob 冰

Just found this:

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A: Is there a list of SE chat privileges, and the minimum reputation required for those privileges?

Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Exchange each have their own chat; the rest of the network (Super User, Server Fault, Stack Exchange 2.0) has a combined chat site. Privileges apply based on your (total) reputation or moderator status on the associated site(s). public: read messages in non-private...

I guess it's inaccurate, then.

Shokhet

@Doorknob冰 can you kick users here?

J. Musser

Doorknob 冰

@Shokhet Yes.

J. Musser

10:33 PM

I can also pin/ustar messages.

Door Handle

so can i

Shokhet

Got it. Interesting.....

Door Handle

i can't move things here though

Doorknob 冰

@DoorHandle You should be able to.

room -> move/delete messages

Shokhet

@Doorknob冰 Can you pin/unstar messages in rooms-not-your-own?

Door Handle

10:34 PM

← 6 messages moved from MacGyver's Hangout

ah. there we go.

Doorknob 冰

@Shokhet Yes.

J. Musser

Anyway, feature-request: add room owners here.

Shokhet

@Doorknob冰 Aha. I guess I'll just have to become a moderator, then.

Doorknob 冰

There, I fixed the list on meta.

Door Handle

@J.Musser I propose @J.Musser and @DoorHandle for owners

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i can't clear stars...

nevermind i can

I think someone seconded my proposition.

Shokhet

10:40 PM

That was me ;-)

Door Handle

strawpoll.me/3164808 - Room owner election (plz only pick one)

Shokhet

I'm outta upvotes for today....someone ping me in an hour and a half if I don't delete this comment. This is an awesome answer!! — Shokhet 7 secs ago

Doorknob 冰

@J.Musser Room ownership will be automatically added to very active users anyway. It doesn't really matter this early.

Door Handle

@Doorknob冰 I can't move anything to Recycle Bin.

J. Musser

@Doorknob冰 true.

Door Handle

10:50 PM

i also propose we use the other chatroom

it has a cooler name

J. Musser

Looking at the new questions list, you can tell we're all out of votes.

MacGyver

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Q: Do questions only have one answer?

As per the discussion on this answer, are we to consider that any answer, by default, claims to be the only possible solution? That, unless an answerer either prefaces each and every answer with "This may or may not be the only solution to your problem" or exhaustively defines any other possible ...

discussion

Shokhet

yesterday, by Shokhet

I upvoted this question, and was told I have 5 votes left today....can we have the vote limit lifted for private beta, in the spirit of "vote early, vote often"? — Shokhet 19 secs ago

J. Musser

@Shokhet yep.

Shokhet

11:05 PM

@J.Musser meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask

J. Musser

How did I just get rep from a vote? I hit my cap.

@Shokhet y?

Shokhet

@J.Musser If it took an accept to hit 200, you can get more rep from votes

Even though (apparently) you can get Mortarboard by hitting 200 including accepts

J. Musser

@Shokhet I got three empty votes after hitting the cap. Then a +4 from a question upvote.

Shokhet

@J.Musser Lift the vote limit

@J.Musser Odd. Downvotes?

J. Musser

@Shokhet It's a dead link. :/

Shokhet

11:08 PM

@J.Musser Really? ....it should go to MSE's ask question page

^^^ I just tried it; it's a dead link. Odd

J. Musser

@Shokhet lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/25/…

Shokhet

@J.Musser meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask

J. Musser

There you go.

Door Handle

And, 40 votes done.

J. Musser

I don't wanna ask that there.

Shokhet

11:09 PM

The number 220 doesn't make sense.

@J.Musser That's not the place to ask that?

J. Musser

@Shokhet I know what I'll get and I agree with it.

Shokhet

@J.Musser ?

J. Musser

@Shokhet Ask and find out. ;)

Shokhet

......you think it won't be a very popular request, to put it lightly?

J. Musser

@Shokhet No, and I agree with the reasoning as to why.

Door Handle

11:12 PM

I NEED MORE REP

Shokhet

....are you going to tell me that reasoning, or are you going to make me ask a MSE question for it?

@DoorHandle Same.

Door Handle

only 50 minutes

J. Musser

@DoorHandle 4 wat?

Door Handle

new day

more rep, more votes

J. Musser

3 mins ago, by J. Musser

@Shokhet Ask and find out. ;)

Shokhet

11:13 PM

I'm 15 points from the rep cap today......

J. Musser

:D

Door Handle

@Shokhet answer a question of mine :D

J. Musser

@Shokhet can't help, oov

Shokhet

@J.Musser I didn't know that that was an acronym :)

J. Musser

@Shokhet is now.

@DoorHandle 4 wat?

Door Handle

11:14 PM

@J.Musser Get to 1k

Shokhet

@DoorHandle You only have 3. I'll try one......

J. Musser

@DoorHandle Ah. I am closer than you...

Door Handle

How'd you get to 518 already?

the site only launched 2 days ago...

Shokhet

@DoorHandle I don't understand this one. Are you asking about soda in a bottle, or soda poured into a cup?

Door Handle

@Shokhet soda poured in a cup

Shokhet

11:16 PM

I have an answer for both (though the cup one was answered already)

J. Musser

@DoorHandle association bonus, then two hitting caps...

Door Handle

i see now

i wanted to hit cap yesterday.

Shokhet

@J.Musser A random +4 ;-)

J. Musser

@Shokhet yeah

Door Handle

in MacGyver's Hangout, 32 secs ago, by Zach Saucier

too many repwhore questions, not enough actual ones

Shokhet

11:20 PM

@DoorHandle In that case, it's answered already. Ask me a new question that I can answer ;-)

Something about knives, maybe ;-)

Door Handle

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Q: How do I sharpen a knife in the wild?

I went camping the other day, and realized that my trusty pocketknife was pretty dull. It made my camping experience not too fun. Is there any way to get a knife reasonably sharp without real tools?

knives

Shokhet

@DoorHandle I saw a Youtube video on that a while back. Hang on a minute

J. Musser

cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/21716/… — J. Musser 22 secs ago

Shokhet

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A: How do I sharpen a knife in the wild?

I saw a Youtube video on this a while back*....can't find it now, but I'll post whatever I remember. Basically, the way knife-sharpening works is that you shave off little bits of metal, in order to make the edge of your knife V-shaped. Ideally, you'd use a steel or a specialized stone for this,...