The Assembly

Thomas Owens

00:00

@WendiKidd No one applied to work at his company. He was trolled. Hard.

WendiKidd

@ThomasOwens Haha I can't even imagine trolling someone in person. That must have been hilarious. What was he even thinking?? That's like saying "French and English are the same thing."

ManishEarth

@WendiKidd They used to be

WendiKidd

@ManishEarth But they're not now!

ManishEarth

Or more of France and England as the same

badp

@WendiKidd There are words in a rather strict order in both and they both have like nouns and verbs and they both suck at numbers in different ways

rm -rf

00:01

@WendiKidd French is English - German - 2/3 of the syllables.

ManishEarth

@WendiKidd Tomayto tomahto

Aarthi

@rm-rf heeeey its youuuuu

rm -rf

@Aarthi :)

ManishEarth

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

Aarthi

\o/

Thomas Owens

00:02

A few more slots in the hangout btws.

WesleyDavid

ManishEarth

> Aarthi: Hey, it's rm -rf

Aarthi

aaaah

ManishEarth

(lag update)

WendiKidd

@WesleyDavid haha cool!

rm -rf

00:02

(just got that here as well)

badp

@ManishEarth see? a minute.

ManishEarth

@badp yeah. was 2mins before

Robert Harvey

@WesleyDavid I can't look away.

ManishEarth

still confusing

badp

PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE MY BEING CORRECT IT IS VERY IMPORTANT

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ManishEarth

00:03

> Aarthi: Hey, they just got me saying "Hey, it's rm -rf"!

Aarthi

Yeah i think the lag caught up? :D

ManishEarth

@Aarthi that's not possible unless you guys are accelerating really fast :P

Aarthi

shrug IDK!

Krazer

ManishEarth

HAHAHA @Hiroto "without where clause" :P

badp

00:04

@ManishEarth Google+ must've compressed the rickroll parts

Rory Alsop

@Krazer oooooooooooooooooooo

WendiKidd

@Krazer o.OOOO

ManishEarth

@badp yeah

badp

If you rickroll yourselves enough WE'LL BE SEEING YOU FROM THE FUTURE

Please begin immediately. For SCIENCE.

Aarthi

whoa dizzying

@badp hahaha

Thomas Owens

00:05

@badp never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down

badp

@ThomasOwens never gonna turn around, and hurt you.

WesleyDavid

@Krazer What is thy bidding my master

Hiroto

it's a disaster

skywalker we're after

ManishEarth

@Aarthi The lag is OK. When the hangout folks leak into the assembly, it get's really confusing

Except you.

Aarthi

ahhhh

awww <3

Thomas Owens

00:07

@ManishEarth Are you saying I leak?

ManishEarth

@ThomasOwens :P

Michael Mrozek

@ThomasOwens We do hear the bonk every time you get a message

@ThomasOwens BONK

user20683

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ManishEarth

@Aarthi OH I LOVE THAT YANKOVIC SONG

Aarthi

hahaha

Thomas Owens

00:08

FIXED!

ManishEarth

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wax eagle

kids ^ :)

rm -rf

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ManishEarth

@Aarthi it's called an icicle

Aarthi

rofl

badp

00:09

in The Bridge, Sep 29 '11 at 7:16, by badp

Aarthi

shaddup

ManishEarth

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Q: Chat notification sounds have become like icicles repeatedly driven through my ears

(Yes, I said "through my ears", not just "into my ears".) It looks like HTML5 <audio> elements are now used to produce notification sounds in chat. And good heavens have they become startlingly loud. Please lower the volume of these notifications — or do whatever it is that needs to be done to ...

Aarthi

@waxeagle awww

wax eagle

thanks :)

ManishEarth

Meta has a nice one

> Aarthi: Isn't Boltclock usually ...

badp

00:10

@WorldEngineer my ears are burning

ManishEarth

@Aarthi The DMZ

Aarthi

What about the DMZ?

dee-em-zed hahaha

ManishEarth

...is an active room

@Hiroto You bridge people are crazy. Due to that room, I got a Reversal Badge. On Gaming. Meta. Where I have 101 rep. O_0

Aarthi

ahhh right

user20683

@badp link the Gnomeslice poster

badp

00:12

(that's his own creation)

Aarthi

ahahahaha

omg

ManishEarth

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A: Can we unban GnomeSlice from chat.SE?

Here, have this handy dandy countdown from http://whendoesgnomeslicecomeback.weebly.com/

WendiKidd

@ManishEarth Wait, they can't just wait 10 days? I'm clearly missing something here.

ManishEarth

@WendiKidd The post is 6 months old

WendiKidd

@ManishEarth Ahhh. That explains it.

badp

00:16

@Aarthi I don't think reddit has one

ManishEarth

@Aarthi Reddit doesn't look managed :P

Aarthi

hahaha

maybe? i can't imagine they don't have any at all

ManishEarth

@Aarthi Not really, you can make your own reddit if you step up as a mod

Thomas Owens

The reddit CM: reddit.com/user/hueypriest

ManishEarth

@Aarthi Ping Zaslahardname, he apparently spends time in reddit

jcolebrand

00:17

@Aarthi meetup.com/The-Austin-Community-Managers-Meetup-Group/messages/…

ManishEarth

> They just caught up to me assuming reddiit has CMs

rm -rf

Just replace freehand circles with bacon and narwhals and you have a typical reddit CM's daily feed.

jcolebrand

apparently you need to come back to TX

badp

@ThomasOwens "Team Periwinkle". RESPECT LOST.

DOWNVOTE ALL THE THINGS

jcolebrand

@ManishEarth who doesn't spend time in reddit?

ManishEarth

00:18

@jcolebrand No, like properly

Not sure tho

@Aarthi Wikipedia has a pretty nice system. The users manage support emails; at least most of them (some emails are special)

badp

@jcolebrand there's a few people around who hate Reddit rather strongly, like LessPop and Origami

Aarthi

@ManishEarth technically you all do, too -- flags, meta psots, etc.

ManishEarth

@Aarthi Yeah, sort of :)

WendiKidd

@ManishEarth I have a hard time picturing that ending well. I guess if it works for wiki that's good for them

ManishEarth

@Aarthi But this is different. You have like 300 people replying to email tickets

badp

00:19

Unrelated (from Heavenly Nostrils)

ManishEarth

@WendiKidd WP is huge. These are veteran users, usually admins or crats.

@WendiKidd They have a whole interface for categorizing and handling support tickets

I actually am part of a similar system that helps with account creation problems (a lot of those occur)

Aarthi

hahaha

@ManishEarth that's incredible.

WendiKidd

@ManishEarth Ah, well if it's organized then that's pretty cool.

ManishEarth

@WendiKidd With a huge userbase, you both need and can afford to have some hierarchy and task delegation

@Aarthi Yeah :D

WendiKidd

@ManishEarth Yeah. I was picturing all the new users spamming and trolling support replies ;)

ManishEarth

00:23

@Aarthi @WendiKidd

Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team

The Volunteer Response Team is a group of volunteers who answer most e-mail sent to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. The team uses Open-source Ticket Request System ("OTRS") software to organize and process the e-mail that it receives. The OTRS software provides an organized way for multiple people to categorize and respond to third party e-mails, so the team can be interpreted as a kind of Wikimedia-wide customer service e-mail team. Volunteers must have an exceptionally good track record on Wikimedia projects, and may be required to provide personal identification to the ...

badp

please more spam flags on the youtube video - youtube.com/watch?v=rrkKpd8PXhQ

WendiKidd

BYE @AARTHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3

ManishEarth

@WendiKidd @Aarthi actually it's 600 :O

Thomas Owens

YouTube comments can go suck it.

Rory Alsop

@WendiKidd This!! It's only 1.25 here

ManishEarth

00:24

@Aarthi 5:53AM :P

BYE!

badp

@ThomasOwens Their flags suck

WendiKidd

@RoryAlsop I got 7:24pm, I'm all set

WesleyDavid

@Aarthi Nice talking with you - make sure to ping me for the next chat. =)

Rory Alsop

@WendiKidd hahaha

ManishEarth

@Aarthi That's my normal sleep schedule when @university during vacations.

Rory Alsop

00:25

seeya later Aarthi!

ManishEarth

:P

Rory Alsop

<H...U...G...S>

Aarthi

Thanks so much everyone!

ManishEarth

Yw :)

Aarthi

I really appreciate everyone coming and saying hi!

And especially those of you who stayed up late to see me.

I can't tell you how much that means to me.

And seeing @RebeccaChernoff again!

WendiKidd

00:26

<3 <3 <3

Aarthi

Holy crap.

:D

ManishEarth

We're happy to have you back, even if the username is no longer blue :D

BoltClock

Came back here to say thank you to @Aarthi for doing this <3 <3 <3

ManishEarth

Thanks for doing this

Aarthi

Aww. <3

ManishEarth

00:26

*hugs*

Aarthi

Y'all knew I couldn't stay away forever.

Thomas Owens

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ManishEarth

@Aarthi Yeah! Will this happen again?

Aarthi

Maybe in a few weeks? Not sure, honestly.

But if the CM team doesn't mind, I'm happy to have a go again.

5

The youtube video link will go here when it's live:

badp

Don't make it recurring or it'll become routine and therefore boring

ManishEarth

00:28

@Aarthi That would be nice :)

Thomas Owens

You just just randomly pop into Assembly and be like "sup?"

ManishEarth

@badp Yeah

Just...every now and then

WesleyDavid

@Aarthi Dooo eeeeet

ManishEarth

@ThomasOwens Nice idea, I've already got the room starred :D

Aarthi

Yeah, not every month or anything. Maybe in September, near my birthday?

I'm sure there will be lots and lots of things changing by then.

badp

00:28

ooooh, I'll be in Berlin for that.

Aarthi

:D

ManishEarth

@Aarthi caaaaake

Thomas Owens

Whenever you go for a trip someplace, you should ping people, too, if you want impromptu meetups.

ManishEarth

I wish Skype had a broadcast feature

Then again, if I'm lucky by september my university proxy will be replaced by a transperant thingamabob

Aarthi

@ThomasOwens yeah! definitely.

badp

00:30

At any rate

Aarthi

All the mods should have my email address still. :) Feel free to reach out.

ManishEarth

(I found a major major security vulnerability and reported it, along with a solution)

badp

End of Aarthi-Cast #1

We may now return to our previous levels of inactivity

Rory Alsop

@badp <shutting down>

badp

puts back on his ~~wizard~~ mod hat and robe

WendiKidd

00:31

@badp nah, wizard is good

badp

@WendiKidd modraters are like monkys with wasnd in there hands?

WendiKidd

@badp yep, exactly

Aarthi

Yay. Goodnight everyone! <3 See you around, probably on Twitter/G+ !!!

hugs all /waves

ManishEarth

@Kas Cya! :D

/waves

"A conversation can only have up to 400 messages; you have selected 979."

I give up, someone else bookmark it

casperOne

Laters all.

Hiroto

00:41

I only have one question/answer on anime.SE. I have 236 rep :p

ManishEarth

@Hiroto I had like 300 rep on SU from one answer. Then I answered some more

Kas

Video Link: youtu.be/rrkKpd8PXhQ

could someone edit that back into the bookmark? Ty~

ManishEarth

@Kas sure

Also, there is no bookmark :P

There are 900 messages, and SE only lets me bookmark 400 at a time, even if I use jQuery

I'll get to it later

random

Alright. Let's start this... oh

ManishEarth

01:17

room topic changed to The Assembly: Open room for discussion amongst and with moderators for SE wide issues. Sensitive details should remain inside TL. On rare days, you may find a wild @Aarthi here. [aarthijack] [moderation] [moderator] [moderator-]*

user11126

01:46

hi everyon!

random

This is the room for spiders yes?

Two hours? Thought these Hangouts stopped at one hour by Google limits

user11126

02:25

TWO HOURS?

user11126

what did ya'll talk about?

user11126

or what did aarthi talk about for two hours?

random

The time code on the archived hangout says 2:18:06 and so far the sounds from your vacuumming is showing in the first 20 minutes at least. Don't say you weren't a part of this

user11126

vacuuming?

user11126

i was vacuuming?

user11126

02:32

oh there i am

user11126

vacuuming? hmmm

user11126

wow, what the hell am i doing?

user11126

this is funny to watch, aarthi is talking and you just get random insertions of mods' faces

user11126

@Kas i didn't pass out... i went to the bathroom

random

Hangouts must put forth faces of those it thinks are about to talk or want to jump in

And those with loud keyboards

user11126

02:41

i must've been in the bathroom for a long time.... what happened to me...?

random

Whatever it was you have nice headphones

user11126

eh, they're okay

random

Forget quality, they look nice and bulky

user11126

oh my gosh, it keeps putting me on screen

random

03:24

Nice. Got namechecked at minute 56

user11126

03:41

@ThomasOwens looks so scared.

user11126

random

1 hour, 14 minutes before Thomas is heard

1 hr, 16 min before the truth is given

user11126

no spoilers! i'm not there yet

random

No spoilers, just timestamped teasers

user11126

@ThomasOwens makes the same face between 1:05:13 and 1:05:14

user11126

03:54

@random Waht? no, he talks earlier than that

random

Around 1:23:30 in video lines up to about here in the transcript

user11126

"Hang on.. math..."

random

Should be paying more attention

user11126

1:11:12 Thomas Owens again and the face

user11126

Social interaction is hard, let's do math.

Tweeted by maradydd on June 12, 2013 at 1:18 PM

user11126

03:59

oooh, aarthi swore...!

random

Time to get on and auto-tune the Aarthi cuss

user11126

04:32

Hey she name-dropped me at 1:41 something

random

That was quick. Are you replaying on double speed?

user11126

no

user11126

Thomas Owens is all giggly?

user11126

during the whole chat?

random

Seemed like we had about 40 minutes between our playbacks

user11126

04:37

user11126

04:47

user11126

@ThomasOwens has some funny expressions on his face.

Madara Uchiha

08:48

Wow it ended up lasting over 2 hours

Very nice

ManishEarth

08:59

@MattChan We need to caption that

ManishEarth

09:34

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That's what it looked like to me :P

Seth

18:33

Well I missed most of the party :(

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