Perhaps it has to do with all the election madness. I agree with monkey that we can have separate rooms, but this seems quite sudden now. When I first entered chat this morning, I saw all of that. There was nothing updated on Meta nor was I notified in the mod room. But, okay, if this does become a bit too much, then maybe a CM can chine in. I do wonder if Pops already knows about this room.
I know that I've tried at least three varieties of Woodchuck, regular Angry Orchard, Strongbow, McKenzie's Black Cherry Cider, and there's a couple varieties we picked up on the Outer Banks that I can't remember the names of off hand.
I hate pointing fingers like this, but it seems to have started when Q became more active. It might have triggered something or perhaps it was just the final drop.
@CodeX You obviously don't know me very well. Any web project I worked on would be Scala + Lift running in a JVM web server such as Tomcat, Jetty, etc.
The revised "Be Nice Policy" states:
Don't be a jerk. .... Inappropriate language or attention. Avoid vulgar terms and anything sexually suggestive. Also, this is so not a dating site.
When a clarification about how this applies to Chat room on the Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) sites, the...
I have created a chatroom for talking about programming that I hope to keep clearly distinct from being anything "official" by any measure. It is called "Standards & Conventions". The room owners aren't set to a couple of teenagers who were among the first that rolfl voted off the island.
I haven't looked into the events that led to this room being frozen at all; I just woke up and it seems that Tim and the SO mods have handled it just fine. However, I do want to address the notion of double-standards regarding topicality that've been raised here...
Rooms that are clearly off-top...
The revised "Be Nice Policy" states:
Don't be a jerk. .... Inappropriate language or attention. Avoid vulgar terms and anything sexually suggestive. Also, this is so not a dating site.
When a clarification about how this applies to Chat room on the Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) sites, the...
@Vogel612 Gordon wrote a good answer. This is what we expect from moderators - to do what's right even when unpopular, and to calmly explain why when asked.
Exactly what is considered strictly off-topic there?
Anyone can assume the obvious: NSFW (Not Safe for Work) are off topic, and should be flagged.
Anything else?
anyone with concerns over the earlier events in the 2nd Monitor who can't keep it civil when discussing them here would do well to wait for @Mast's post & chime in there, where they'll be able to review and edit their words at length before and after posting them.
@Vogel612 I think that they were created because Scala doesn't have the static construct that Java has. I think the language designers felt that the static parts it was too easy to overlook staticness. By putting it somewhere else altogether, it's pretty much impossible to miss.
Trusted users are allowed to perform trusted actions, including:
Voting to delete answers with score of -1 or lower Voting to undelete answers except those deleted by a moderator Voting to delete questions with a score of -3 or lower immediately after they are closed Editing tag wikis without needing approval
How much idle chatter do we tolerate in the 2nd Monitor? Nearly all of it.
Unless there is site business or a programming discussion occurring. Then there is absolutely no idle chatter is tolerated. None. Anything not relevant to the conversation needs to go unsaid, or be said elsewhere.
Is t...
But it's got to do with people either looking for help, or being around to help others, if you're not up for either of those, then I see no reason to be in the room
I'd say that the following could be an non-exhaustive list about what's on-topic and off-topic for the CR chat, which also includes the idle chatter we should tolerate and which we should not tolerate.
The good things
Being in the room as a new user to ask a question about CodeReview, or to di...
I feel inclined to post it in The 2nd Monitor, but I don't want to stir up a discussion there
The revised "Be Nice Policy" states:
Don't be a jerk. .... Inappropriate language or attention. Avoid vulgar terms and anything sexually suggestive. Also, this is so not a dating site.
When a clarification about how this applies to Chat room on the Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) sites, the...
Exactly what is considered strictly off-topic there?
Anyone can assume the obvious: NSFW (Not Safe for Work) are off topic, and should be flagged.
Anything else?
How much idle chatter do we tolerate in the 2nd Monitor? Nearly all of it.
Unless there is site business or a programming discussion occurring. Then there is absolutely no idle chatter is tolerated. None. Anything not relevant to the conversation needs to go unsaid, or be said elsewhere.
Is t...
I'd say that the following could be an non-exhaustive list about what's on-topic and off-topic for the CR chat, which also includes the idle chatter we should tolerate and which we should not tolerate.
The good things
Being in the room as a new user to ask a question about CodeReview, or to di...