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2:30 PM

dangerous spam, really need to be remove

@damadam dangerous?

@terdon really well hidden, probably not as dangerous as I think, sorry, I do some mistake today

and i can't edit the message :(

@damadam Actually, I don't even think it's spam. I opened the link (in a VM since you scared me! ;) ) and found this in the comments of that irrelevant article:

Looks like a very, very confused OP, not really spam. And not dangerous at all as far as I can tell.

Eliah Kagan

I also thought it was spam, but you are right. I've retracted my spam flag and voted to close it as unclear.

wtf, the link seems like a spam, i use lynx to verify it (to try to block JS hidden script); i definitively see a spam

2:44 PM

@terdon Just out of curiosity, did you dismiss all spam flags as helpful or were they automatically dismissed as helpful after the edit?

I dismissed them as helpful manually. I am not actually sure that did what I wanted it to do. I wanted to mark the flags as helpful because I can understand why people would call that spam, but at the same time not apply the spam penalty to the OP who I think is just confused and not spamming.

So I closed the question, removed the link because why not, and dismissed the flags as helpful. That may or may not have done what I wanted it to do. We'll see...

@terdon just a question : where did you take this picture from? Is it from a previous deleted post?

yawns

@damadam No, it's from the link in the post here. If you open the link, then scroll down to the comments, you'll see that.

Eliah Kagan

@damadam I am able to find that picture if I open the scary link in the Tor browser and scroll way, way down in the comments. (I used the Tor browser for that not to stay anonymous, but because its default security settings are quite good and it throws out accumulated state on exit.)

2:49 PM

@terdon You back to moderation?

Or just for urgent things?

terdon never left moderation

they're taking a break from regular day to day modding

but are available when needed

such as for pings done here, or in certain urgent cases :)

ahh okay, so i'm totally faulty, sorry to have scared you :/

@damadam No worries. Better safe than sorry!

i can't even removed my message ... argh !

@ThomasWard Oh yeah!!!

Eliah Kagan

2:52 PM

@damadam If you mean your chat message, I don't think that's causing any harm. The context that immediately follows it clarifies for any future readers that it might not be accurate.

@Kulfy Neither. I am actually going to be stepping down. I've asked SE to remove my diamond, but they haven't done so yet. I'll be posting on meta at some point but the summary is: I don't feel like I can do this any more. I have too many diamonds (3) so I am putting down two and staying on only on U&L which was my first diamond.

I'll still be around, but I just don't feel up to moderating 3 sites in the current situation.

@terdon Bleh i'll need to ask for a mod election then for 2 more people.

@terdon sorry to see you leaving :/

OK am I dreaming or is this for real?

... i mean, unless we want to turn this into a bureaucratic dictatorship under my thumb... whistles nonchalantly

3

I guess Mitch and Oli lurks around oftenly.

So I think dictatorship isn't near

2:56 PM

@Kulfy Byte and fossy too!

@ThomasWard Dunno, maybe I'll come back at some point, but it's just become too draining.

@terdon Yeah the latter one closed a question today :D

And somehow I feel that being a multi-site mod sends a message of support for SE that I don't want to send. I now feel this is a morally bankrupt company, and I just don't want to be involved with them so much.

(Not because of the CoC changes or pronouns, by the way, but because they've refused to do anything to ameliorate the harm they caused by dealing with things publicly instead of privately).

blade19899

> "

As Destiny 2 is moving to steam, it would be a logical next step to support Steam Play / Proton Wine for running Destiny 2 on Linux.

" - Allow Linux users to play Destiny 2

Has there ever been a change.org petition that actually accomplished anything?

@terdon nope

blade19899

3:06 PM

@ThomasWard That's too bad!

I really liked Destiny 2

@blade19899 even if i never played a Destiny game, I got a Windows dual-boot just for that (that helps a lot when you try some fangames)

@ThomasWard Actually, wikipedia lists a few that did seem to have an effect.

E.g.:

> On the morning of February 2, 2012, Stef Gray, a 23-year-old graduate in New York, held a news conference at the Washington offices of Sallie Mae where she presented the results of her Change.org, Sallie Mae, the "nation's largest private student-loan provider" petition, which had received about 77,000 signers. That afternoon the company changed its forbearance fee policy.[26]

blade19899

@damadam I'm a Linux only user. No Windows. On my Work and personal laptop. So, I guess I'm not playing Destiny anymore.

@blade19899 I cry with you : youtube.com/watch?v=eJuvKn5j_kE

That seems utopic to be able to run each Windows software on Ubuntu, with current OS market place