The Bikeshed

Mast

9:00 PM

As in, wow, that doesn't even look like an answer.

If you don't know the answer, don't try writing one!

Air

@Mast BUT WE ARE GRINDING REP AND BADGES

flails

Mast

@Air Yea, that's basically the most important thing on SE for half of the users.

Air

I mean, I don't know that I'd make so sweeping a generalization, but definitely perverse incentives up in here.

Madara Uchiha

Air

Whoah. The image upload dialog is all fancy today.

(On the main site, that is; not chat.)

Mast

9:08 PM

Vote capped.

Or as we say on CR: Out of Ammo.

At the vi site, pretty much everything was upvoted in the first month orso. Even some unsightly questions, and very dubious answers... Things have settled down by now, but please, remember that downvoting is just as (if not more) important than upvoting! — Carpetsmoker 32 mins ago

Air

9:23 PM

What would you do? If you were asked to give up your dreams for freedoms?

The Meta Tracker

10:35 PM

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Q: This site have only a few hours and we have the 5 Vox Populi badge. It is normal?

I see in the Badge page that we have now 5 users with Vox Populi badge, but we have only a few hours online and only 40 questions. It is normal?

Unihedron

Mortarboard!!!

I'm in the 300 club!

0

A: This site have only a few hours and we have the 5 Vox Populi badge. It is normal?

I quote from my message in the site chat room: who are we? USERS! are we targeting badges? GET ALL THE BADGES! (source)

HDE 226868

@Unihedron Nice.

Unihedron

:)

HDE 226868

Things seems to be tapering off a bit.

Unihedron

An hour and a half and our ~~votes come back~~ ammo gets refilled, get ready :P

HDE 226868

10:40 PM

Is anyone else getting a delay for the critic badge?

Unihedron

I've already gotten it.

Badges comes in batches, so sometimes you wait longer.

Good things comes to those who wait, if you consider badges good.

Doorknob

Oh hey I didn't realize this was a thing now

Unihedron

os.se?

Doorknob

yes

Unihedron

:D

Welcome aboard!

Ohnana

10:43 PM

\o/

derobert

opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/154/… ... just me, or does that yellow "please don't close me" read more or less like a programming on a boat justification?

Or web comics for programmers, or music for programmers, or... all from early SO days

Air

I got mortarboard on Meta :[

No sweet repz, just the system taunting me

Unihedron

:)

Air

In other news, I have overtaken @Mast as the Downvote Batman of OS.SE

Doorknob

nananananana AIRMAN!

Air

10:55 PM

The next time you silently downvote someone and they beg for a comment, tell them I did it

HDE 226868

In other news today, Robert Cartaino has gone through all 48 first posts.

Air

@HDE226868 ...how do you know that?

HDE 226868

Why is our icon "FOS"?

@Air Check the review queues and go to "first posts" stats.

Air

Oh, I see.

Yeah, we won't have anyone who can work those queues for another day or so.

Unihedron

I wanna review!!!

ratchet freak

11:06 PM

no-one to convince to give you diamond access?

Air

Is it just me, or is this group exceptionally opinionated about closing and reopening?

I have only a handful of other launch experiences for comparison.

HDE 226868

We also seem to like starring Madara Uchicha's chat posts. Or, rather, he seems to like making good ones.

There are a lot of closed questions, now that I think about it.

Gilles

that's because there are a lot of crap questions

I'm very disappointed by the site's content

it seems that 50% of it is very basic questions about licensing and the other 50% is very broad questions about participation in projects

HDE 226868

I count 12 total questions on hold.

Gilles

and at least that many that should be

HDE 226868

11:16 PM

~28%.

Air

28% is not that high, though, is it?

Unihedron

numbers

HDE 226868

It kinda is.

Air

I recall a facetious comment on some meta somewhere about how Progs (?) should have 70% close rate

Unihedron

anyway, glad to meet you all here, see you around :)

i'm going to get a nap

hopefully wake up and see some rep gain :D

HDE 226868

11:18 PM

Sleep tight. Don't let the licenses bite.

rolfl

Code Review, over all time, has about 25% closed, including all deleted questions too

7K7 closed over about 30K questions

Unihedron

numbers over big numbers

Air

11:37 PM

@HDE226868 You might want to put the original title of my question in your meta post, so that people don't have to click through to figure out how it's relevant. I even wrote it and I was confused until I realized you had put the raw link in, and it was pulling the current revision. :)

HDE 226868

@Air Done.

Given this, should the software tag be used for this?

Air

@HDE226868 I would say no; the history of open source is the history of open source software, because that's its origin.

HDE 226868

@Air Okay, I'll leave it as-is.

Air

You know people are going to give you hell for asking what some person's individual motivations are. :)

HDE 226868

Oh, crap. . .

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