The Assembly

gparyani

05:46

@Shog9 I just created my MSE account after having deleted it previously. I'm trying to login to chat.meta.stackexchange.com, but it just fails silently every time and I just remain logged out.

And now I get a server error when clicking on the above link

Journeyman Geek

Hi @Ano

gparyani

I'm called "Ano" actually

Journeyman Geek

blames autocucumber

gparyani

ha

Well, it's good to be back

@Undo How have things been in my (non-)absence?

@JourneymanGeek actually I meant you, I've just forgotten how to tell you two apart

Journeyman Geek

... that's specieist ;p

gparyani

05:52

No, I was recalling his 'Z' avatar, and thought it was yours

Journeyman Geek

Things move. Some thing don't ;p

naw

I'd almost always had the same dog as my ava. Just different photos of him ;p

gparyani

Perhaps deleting the old MSE chat profile will make it work @Shog9?

Journeyman Geek

... actually

I don't thing pinging shog would work here ;p

or undo

(almost tempted to suggst a main meta, or contact us support request here)

gparyani

I invited him.

Journeyman Geek

assuming he accepted. things have been busy at SE

and not quite in the best way too

gparyani

05:56

It worked 3 years ago...oh, well

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Q: Cannot login to chat.meta.stackexchange.com

I recently recreated my MSE account after having deleted it a few years ago. Now, I'm trying to log in to Meta Stack Exchange Chat, and whenever I try to do so, it just fails silently and I'm still logged out. Occasionally, in the same browser session that I'm supposedly logged out, I randomly g...

No more grace period within 5 minutes of making a post?

@JourneymanGeek Can you please review this edit in the meantime? meta.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/55308

Journeyman Geek

06:15

ahh

I don't really review that sort of thing ;p

gparyani

@JonEricson Can you please take a look at that bug?

@JourneymanGeek He showed up in the pingable list...

Well, it was used during my time, just see my old messages

Journeyman Geek

@gparyani things change a lot XD

gparyani

I would post on Tavern, but...

Another sign of my long delay:

14 mins ago, by gparyani

No more grace period within 5 minutes of making a post?

Catija

There's a grace period... but I commented, so it lapses.

If there are no comments, you get the full five minutes.

gparyani

It used to not lapse, when was this implemented?

@Catija That comment wasn't necessary, you could have just checked my user profile and hovered over "member since today"

Catija

06:25

55

A: Reset question grace period once an answer has been posted

Jarrod whipped this up this past week, and the behavior should now be live. Edits will be rolled into the previous revision if the previous revision was created by the same author and none of the following conditions are present: The previous revision was created 5 minutes or more in the past A...

gparyani

Ah, thanks.

Just a few months after I became inactive on the other SE sites

But that proves my point: that message is a sign of a long delay

By the way Shadow Wizard was very interested for a long time in knowing who the anonymous editor was; one of you should give him a ping

gparyani

06:45

@JourneymanGeek Deleted my comment.

I remember, there was a bug I tried to report where custom-flagging as "not an answer" would convert it into a normal not an answer flag, allowing someone to bypass the restriction against raising that flag more than once.

Has that been fixed?

Journeyman Geek

donno. Don't test it ;p

gparyani

Which is why I'm asking

gparyani

08:20

@Andrew T. I was hoping to answer questions directly in the Tavern, before making a post with frequently asked questions. I ran into the above snag though.

@Shadow Wizard:

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Q: Can I get a consensus on the version of Android required for the official mobile app?

In the official announcement of the Android app, it says Android 4.1 or higher is required. However, the Google Play Store page argues that 1.6 is the required Android version. Why do these two pages argue with each other, and which one is lying? Screen shot:

support android-app

Here's one place where we interacted

By the way, the name change to "damryfbfnetsi" didn't take place until I had already deleted my MSE account

I'm still working out what to do with later edits: keep editing anonymously, or edit under my account. I mostly edited CW FAQ posts, which I can directly edit using my account

I don't know, maybe I should keep editing anonymously? After all, I made some incorrect edits that were later rejected.

Andrew T.

08:38

Hi :)

gparyani

Hi 🙂

@AndrewT. Have any questions?

@ShadowWizard ?

Andrew T.

@gparyani actually, no... I lost my words currently :)

gparyani

After finding out who Ano is?

Andrew T.

yeah, kind of funny, surreal and exciting

gparyani

He did now

@JourneymanGeek Also I remember your time as a pro-tem SR moderator

Journeyman Geek

08:58

yup

Didn't stand for re-election

gparyani

I was SO first

@ShadowWizard This chat room, not that company!

Shadow Wizard

lol

@gparyani maybe change name to Ano? I would be thrilled! :P

But seriously, how you know SE so well??

gparyani

By recalling my prior experiences (I have a good memory) and carefully reading meta posts

In essence, I would take information posted around in many different places and form conclusions based on what I experienced in the past and what others have experienced, which I then edit into FAQ posts.

@Shadow the Hedgehog: Maybe you should change your username

Shadow Wizard

@gparyani hey I'm not aggressive!

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Q: Is my hedgehog too agressive?

I recently obtained a female albino hedgehog from her previous owners. They weren't that fond of the hedgehog and didn't socialize her well during the ~8 months they had her (they got her at ~1-2 months of age). They didn't take her out much, didn't play with her - basically, she stayed in the ca...

aggression socializing hedgehog

gparyani

I meant this:

Shadow Wizard

09:12

@gparyani I deny any association with him! :D

gparyani

Actually, that was just a funny test to see if the first part of the username still pings the user

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog (Japanese: ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ, Hepburn: Sonikku za Hejjihoggu) is a video game franchise created and produced by Sega. The franchise centers on a series of speed-based platform games. The protagonist of the series is an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog named Sonic, whose peaceful life is often interrupted by the series' main antagonist, Doctor Eggman. Typically, Sonic—usually along with some of his friends, such as Tails, Amy, and Knuckles—must stop Eggman and foil any plans of world domination. The first game in the series, released in 1991, was conceived by Sega's Sonic Team division...

Shadow Wizard

@gpa I'm disappointed, you should have known you can't ping me unless I am in the room, or was in the room in the last 7 days... 2 days if you want to use short version of the name. ;)

So @Sha @Shad @Shadow etc would work for 48 hours after I leave the room now.

gparyani

I did not intend to ping you. I just wanted to let you know of the relevant chat messages, so you didn't have to dig through after I invited you.

Shadow Wizard

Oh.... thanks!

gparyani

I'm aware of chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/pingable/2691

Shadow Wizard

09:15

It does highlight all of them.

@gparyani but this is relevant only for using full name, if you're using short name (@Shadow Wizard too, the space breaks the name) it's not true.

gparyani

You briefly renamed yourself @Sha Wiz Dow Ard, what happened to that? I remember you were named that back when I was around on MSE.

Shadow Wizard

@gparyani hehe, it was during Winter Bash, I was too lazy to rename back right away.

I had another session not long ago too, think it was @AndrewT. fault.

gparyani

It made that old comment conversation make sense again

Andrew T.

@ShadowWizard wut

Shadow Wizard

whoops.... sorry @Andrew it's not you. It's @M.A.R

in Shadow's Den on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, Aug 16 at 20:27, by Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@ProgramFOX not became, got back into being... blame @M.A.R.!

gparyani

09:28

@ShadowWizard You had the avatar "What's on your mind?"

Shadow Wizard

Really?? Man... you got perfect memory.... o_O

:D

Hmm.. So, Ano, what did I eat for breakfast at July 12, 2015?

;)

gparyani

I wasn't around on SE in 2015 very much. Remember, I deleted my MSE account in 2013, and went inactive on most sites in late 2014?

Shadow Wizard

I changed few avatars over the years, honestly don't remember all of the changes. :)

gparyani

But I made my first anonymous edit on MSE in 2014, a few months after I deleted my account. I think it was rejected.

Shadow Wizard

I do remember having avatar online contest once, letting people vote from my profile page.

Think blue wizard won, not sure.

@gparyani so you got back during 2016? Or 2017?

Andrew T.

09:31

2014... I think I first participated SE (SO, actually) at that time

gparyani

Also I found a bug: suggested edits from deleted accounts show up as having been suggested by anonymous users

Shadow Wizard

@gparyani well one learns from their mistakes...

@gparyani why bug? What you expect them to show as?

Andrew T.

soup & meatball

Shadow Wizard

yummy

gparyani

For edits reviewed before the account was deleted: the unlinked username as shown on posts. For pending edits, I think the behavior should be normal, and the edits should be reviewed and applied as if they were anonymous edits (the current behavior)

Shadow Wizard

09:34

hmm.... probably too minor.

gparyani

In queries people were doing on the Tavern to find anonymous edits, their queries were also picking up suggested edits from deleted users

Shadow Wizard

Too bad you can't report bug anonymously.

can't, I meant can't. :D

gparyani

An edit is enough

Shadow Wizard

Not for me... I must hide my shame.

gparyani

mustn't you mean?

Shadow Wizard

09:35

Not this time.

Shame should be well hidden. ;)

Journeyman Geek

lol

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Shadow Wizard

The blue has spoken! :D

Journeyman Geek

Who's blue?

Oh wait. I AM! >_>

gparyani

5 mins ago, by Shadow Wizard

Think blue wizard won, not sure.

Shadow Wizard

@gparyani rofl.... nah, totally different meaning. :D

Andrew T.

09:37

> The same rules of instant deletion (not posted or voted more than once) will still apply,

If understand "more than once" correctly, then you can post the bug report and nuke your account instantly

Or I need coffee to understand the meaning slowly

!!/coffee

...(´・ω・｀)

gparyani

This ain't the Tavern

I'll begin chatting there as soon as that bug is fixed

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. but that won't be accepted very well by many people... kind of abusing the system, if done many times.

Found the wizards!

Blue:

Green:

Red:

Can't find where I announced the contest, maybe it wasn't in the Tavern...

Andrew T.

Shadow:

Shadow Wizard

lol

heh, it still works.

gparyani

That comment was unnecessary. I'll go into further details in my upcoming post (which I'm a little too busy to work on right now).

@ShadowWizard that is

Shadow Wizard

09:51

hmm... what comment? ;)

gparyani

Ahh thanks

@ShadowWizard I used to read the Tavern all the time as Ano and I was laughing very hard at your suggestion that Norm is the anonymous editor

Shadow Wizard

@gparyani Well, Norm is known to know tons about SE, keeps posting relevant stuff, etc. So he was the perfect candidate... :)

gparyani

10:17

Anyway, it's not long until you get the gold tag badge for bug, at which point you'll gain global close-as-duplicate power on MSE

Was Normal Human known as Cupcake at some point?

Also @animuson this is a bit old, but why did you delete this question?

Shadow Wizard

13:02

@gparyani indeed! :)

@gparyani nah, I am pretty sure @Cupcake was totally another person who deleted their account 2-3 years ago. Chat profile on MSE still there, though empty: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/users/163250/cupcake?tab=general

@gparyani he's not pingable here.... and from own experience, he ignores chat invites.

Email is your best and fastest bet, will take 6-8 weeks but better than nothing, I guess.

Journeyman Geek

13:45

yup

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