The Bridge

OrigamiRobot

7:00 PM

Also, @GraceNote is more square

kalina

that's not very nice

Grace Note

I did pick the one with the window, yeah, so it is in fact a large box. That said, the other option was a larger headshot so there would've been more yellow in that choice.

badp

REQUEST TO MOD ABUSE KALINA'S AVATAR INTO ONE OF THE MANY PICTURES OF SPIDERS BEING POSTED ON CHAT

fbueckert

@kalina Overruled.

kalina

oh god not spiders

badp

7:02 PM

this should fix most issues with the avatars

kalina

anything but spiders

Ben Brocka

everything spiders

Yuki

@kalina everything butt spiders

OrigamiRobot

Now I know what to write my fanfic about: @kalina/spiders

SaintWacko

@BenBrocka Make a script for @kalina that does a google image search for spiders and replaces every picture on her screen with a random result from it

fbueckert

7:03 PM

As for our untagged questions, we don't really have a good, general use tag for such broad questions. That might be telling in whether or not it continues to belong here.

Grace Note

@kalina You don't like spiders?

badp

kalina

@GraceNote seriously?

fuck spiders, spiders get attacked by aerosol cans with lighters

portable flamethrower

Grace Note

That's not very nice at all.

kalina

neither is them invading my home

Yuki

7:04 PM

One of my favorite Pokemon is a spider.

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Stop reading my fanfic!

Yuki

Just thought you guys ought to know.

ToxicFrog

Hey, spiders are awesome

Grace Note

Hey @Yuki

kalina

@fbueckert I expect the vast majority of the untagged stuff to get nuked and deleted

Yuki

7:05 PM

@GraceNote Hello!

Unionhawk

@GraceNote To be fair, she attacks many thing in the same manner.

kalina

there won't be many on topic questions get retagged as that I assure you

Grace Note

I've been dying to ask for a while now... how did you figure a contrary upside down evil psychic squid to be the best choice for me?

@Unionhawk Yeah, but other things usually deserve it.

Ben Brocka

Fun fact; that weird tickling sensation you sometimes feel on your skin is actually spiders

fbueckert

I've been thinking of where they could fit into our current tagging scheme, and I'm coming up blank.

We don't do general cases very well.

Yuki

7:05 PM

@GraceNote I honestly have no clue. I renamed it to SaintWacko and now you are an adorable slime dragon.

Grace Note

@Yuki Ohboy I'm a Goomy.

Which version are you in, anyway?

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote sounds about right

Yuki

@GraceNote X.

Grace Note

@Yuki Ah, so you do have pistol shrimp.

kalina

@BenBrocka you have just caused me nightmares for the rest of my life

3ventic

7:06 PM

I don't think I'll see this very often:

Yuki

@GraceNote Pistol shrimp is best shrimp. I named him GnomeSlice on account of the claw three times bigger than his body.

Grace Note

@Yuki I see, I see.

And yes, it is indeed best shrimp!

There's actually yet to be a crustacean in Pokemon that I do not like.

SaintWacko

@Yuki Haha

SevenSidedDie

Eugh, what to do with this question? It's got [multiplayer] and a genre tag (neither keepable), and no associated game to retag it with:

4

Q: How can I become a better strategy (RTS) player?

My housemate and I have been playing a lot of strategy games recently (e.g. Company of Heroes, Empire Earth, TA, Homeworld). I'd like to consider myself to be an okay-bordering-on-good RTS player in that I manage to "not suck" at most of those (at one point I was even ranked reasonably high onli...

Yuki

@SevenSidedDie That feels really, really broad...

kalina

7:09 PM

@SevenSidedDie primarily opinion based

just like we did with the "how do I become leet fps playar!!1?one" questions

also

Ben Brocka

@Yuki goodra would be adorable if it didn't drip GREEN slime. It's not even green. Why does it even ew what

kalina

why do we have a xbox-controller and controller

can we get them merged?

Yuki

@kalina Because some controllers aren't xbox controllers?

Grace Note

@BenBrocka "Not even green" sounds like all the reason it should be me.

Yuki

I proposed that before and that's what I got shot down with.

SevenSidedDie

7:10 PM

@kalina Have we killed those? There have been a bunch of "how do I get pro" questions, and I've always seen them get a pass.

kalina

@Yuki I don't see a ps-controller logitech-controller steam-controller face-controller kinect-controller

Grace Note

@Yuki This is where I would say "That a logical category can exist doesn't mean we need a tag for that."

Ben Brocka

@kalina is obviously one of the spider pokemon

Yuki

@SevenSidedDie Because e'erybody wants to be proz.

Unionhawk

@Yuki ~~Well, not all controllers are~~ What @kalina said.

Ben Brocka

7:11 PM

@GraceNote do you drip green slime? Don't answer that

ToxicFrog

@kalina xbox-controller related questions tend to come up a lot related to using them with PC games, since some games support them, some don't, some claim to but don't actually or only support certain models, etc

SevenSidedDie

So I guess the solution is close and delete. Or put [untagged] on it if it's not delete-worthy yet?

Grace Note

@BenBrocka Mucus is a kind of slime, so I guess I could say "Depends on the amount of afflictions and/or the season of the year" if I wasn't intending to say "It's not green."

fbueckert

@SevenSidedDie Burn and murder.

ToxicFrog

So it doesn't surprise me that [controller] and [xbox-controller] both exist but not other controller-related tags.

fbueckert

7:12 PM

Also, don't see you here often, @SSD. How goes?

kalina

@SevenSidedDie untagged is a temporary solution, chances are its going to get deleted

Grace Note

@ToxicFrog I still wouldn't separate them.

SevenSidedDie

@fbueckert You don't even need to say so for me to know your vote. ;)

kalina

also, use untagged so you can finish the action you're working on right now

SevenSidedDie

@kalina Chances are, yeah. I do like to watch process unfold on its own though.

Grace Note

7:13 PM

Oh, @3ventic hit the FPS learning question I was looking for, fancy that.

fbueckert

@SevenSidedDie Surprisingly, I'm not always about closing anything and everything. That one, though, is definitely too generic to be useful.

kalina

@SevenSidedDie by tagging it untagged you're basically saying "you've got 24 hours to find a suitable tag for this question before an army of close votes rain down hell upon thee"

SevenSidedDie

@fbueckert Going well. Just completed a big fall cleaning. Got rid of a bunch of disused furniture, old electronics (we have an awesome donation place) and rediscovered half the livingroom carpet.

fbueckert

@SevenSidedDie Never a bad thing. The joys of owning a house; you find you have ALL this extra space that you must fill.

SevenSidedDie

@kalina Giving it 24 hours seems enough to me! Done.

Grace Note

7:14 PM

@SevenSidedDie What a coinkidinkey parallel you got there.

kalina

0

A: Cleanup 2013: It's time for burnination!

xbox-controller looks like it should be burned and replaced with controllers in all instances

votes please

SevenSidedDie

@GraceNote Did not even think of that. ^^

OrigamiRobot

@kalina SYnonymize

Yuki

1

Q: Differences between Controllers and Peripherals?

There are these two tags on our site, controllers and peripherals. Both are in need of tag wikis. I don't think we have a site policy on how the tags should be used, and I'm noticing some questions tagged as peripherals while questions with similar topics are tagged as controllers. For example, ...

discussion tags

Possibly related.

kalina

@OrigamiRobot well, if it gets enough votes, it can be yeah

@Yuki not quite

also, peripherals is so dead already

Arperum

7:18 PM

6

Q: Is it possible to play Halo 1 over System Link/LAN between an Xbox and an Xbox 360?

Is it possible to play Halo: Combat Evolved with System Link/LAN between an Xbox and an Xbox 360?

xbox-360 xbox lan halo-combat-evolved xbox-system-link

too many tags.

kalina

@BenBrocka the speed the front page is rolling at the moment, a handful of additional edits won't even get noticed

Grace Note

@Yuki ..."YAGNI"?

Arperum

7

Q: Technical guide for setting up a LAN party?

Are there any good how-to or technical guides for setting up a LAN and/or any other sundry issues surrounding putting together a LAN party? The greener the intended audience the better. (I am fairly competent around hardware, but my LAN parties have been plagued with all kinds of network errors...

pc lan

kalina

@Arperum -lan, pc is ok

could even add networking

Yuki

@GraceNote I have no clue what that means.

OrigamiRobot

7:19 PM

@Arperum -pc -lan +networking

kalina

@OrigamiRobot this

3ventic

Someone called this: gaming.stackexchange.com/review/close/54364

kalina

OBEY THE ROBOT

2

FEichinger

Home. Finally.

Arperum

@kalina OBEYED THE ROBOT

kalina

7:20 PM

@3ventic interesting

@3ventic retag it as untagged, let the close votes roll in

fbueckert

@3ventic I think it might be, but I haven't cast a vote as of yet.

OrigamiRobot

22 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot

I am VTCing this because it's too broad and 1k views in 2 years is obviously not helpful.

21 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot

And because we are in the process of closing the two questions it has as an asnwer.

3ventic

@kalina I already skipped it, I'm going to bed

kalina

@3ventic fine nn!

3ventic

One more thing though

kalina

7:22 PM

we're going to need some votes on the community consensus meta post soon, it's turning into a 20+ answer question with no votes against any of the suggestions

3ventic

I like how the community bulletin is all about cleanup

@kalina One answer is downvoted!

kalina

@3ventic you thought it was only a coincidence that there were four spaces and I asked four questions?

3ventic

@kalina One of them is about burning the usb tag, not cleanup 2013

Cleaning up anyway

kalina

give it time

3ventic

bah

I'll see in the morning

gn

kalina

7:23 PM

o/

Grace Note

@Yuki Find someone who does!

OrigamiRobot

We're getting close to only ME3 being left with multiplayer

Yuki

@GraceNote codinghorror.com/blog/2004/10/kiss-and-yagni.html

Apparently, YAGNI stands for Y ou A ren't G oing To N eed I t.

Grace Note

@Yuki Funny how that took us in a full circle.

Yuki

I want bolding letters within a word now.

FEichinger

7:25 PM

@GraceNote Was about to say ... That's rather curious.

@Yuki It's been hashed out on MSO a couple of times, the answer remains no.

Yuki

@FEichinger All righty then.

kalina

ok can a mod merge xbox-controller into controllers as per meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/a/7865/52800 ?

Lazers

0

Q: How do you challenge the 5th gym leader again?

How do you challenge the 5th gym leader again? He's not there, so I can't do so.

pokemon-xy

fbueckert

Things I just learned: Report Builder doesn't like a dataset being filtered by itself.

kalina

You've reached the maximum of 22 Deletion votes per day; come back in 4 hours

FOILED

SevenSidedDie

7:27 PM

Someone with knowledge of the game want to go through ac-revelations?

FEichinger

@kalina Your community consensus meta has lots and lots of downvotes on answers now, I hope you're happy!

SevenSidedDie

@Yuki It's a limitation of the original Markdown format spec, and reworking that would break other things I believe.

kalina

@FEichinger did you just downvote everything?

Yuki

@SevenSidedDie Yeah, that makes sense.

Arperum

lan is no more.

kalina

7:29 PM

because that would be quite counter productive

OrigamiRobot

@SevenSidedDie There were only 8 questions. I just deleted multiplayer.

FEichinger

@kalina Nah, I'm downvoting what I find too minor or duplicate of "better" questions. Which is to say a lot of them.

But certainly not all.

fredley

I want to try this stuff now

►

OrigamiRobot

The only reason me3 has a -multiplayer tag is because of the quantity of questions regarding multiplayer only.

FEichinger

And with that said, I'm actually out of meta votes.

kalina

7:30 PM

@FEichinger Did you suggest the better questions as an answer/comment on the alternative?

FEichinger

@kalina I didn't even get to the bottom of the list yet!

kalina

@FEichinger kk

FEichinger

I'm going to continue with that in a couple of hours when I have meta votes again.

You sucked all the meta votes out of me, @kalina! You are an evil person!

kalina

@FEichinger ALL of them?

that is quite impressive

tbh, I'm nearly out of close votes, I'm out of delete votes

FEichinger

@kalina I'm pretty sure I have only voted on the questions you started today.

kalina

7:32 PM

I'm going to have to start flagging stuff for mod attention if I carry on tonight

SevenSidedDie

@OrigamiRobot I'm wondering if it deserves an ac-revelations-multiplayer (too long?) tag. Is the multiplayer mode very different? Is that even a thing we care about? If it is, is it different enough? Anyway, someone else should be looking at that tag.

I'm a strange non-multiplayer gaming hermit.

@FEichinger There's a badge for that.

kalina

and I don't think the mods would appreciate 100 flags to action

FEichinger

@SevenSidedDie I don't caaaare. It's meta, what would I need meta badges for?

Grace Note

@SevenSidedDie I'd say "Hi Five" but as a fellow non-multiplayer hermit I feel that high fives is not something we do much.

OrigamiRobot

@SevenSidedDie It is too long. It probably is different enough, but with so few questions, I don't think people are going to care. If someone wants to come up with a better tag, go for it, but in the interest of burning multiplayer, this should be fine for now.

SevenSidedDie

7:33 PM

@FEichinger Displays of leetness.

OrigamiRobot

So many commas,

kalina

list of answers on meta is definitely the way Stack Exchange was designed to work

SevenSidedDie

@OrigamiRobot 'Kay. That was my suspicion, but I lack the experience with the game.

kalina

the voting system works so well when it has things to sort

OrigamiRobot

@SevenSidedDie There's just different items and strategies. Nothing that steps on the toes of single player, which is the important thing IMO.

FEichinger

7:35 PM

@kalina To be fair, the system also works for pretty much every tech question because there's usually multiple solutions ... Not so much with Arqade where everything is basically forced to have one and only one definitive answer.

I mean, most of Arqade's site policy is purely focused on getting that one and only one answer.

Grace Note

@FEichinger I kinda want to strangle that sentence.

FEichinger

@GraceNote Why? :P

Grace Note

@FEichinger Because I'm not sure how we reached the point of your following statement, given what the very nature of gaming is.

Jason Berkan

@FEichinger ಠ_ಠ

Grace Note

It's like, every month while I was a pro-tem and an actual mod, I was stressing on Meta that "Single definitive answer" is dumb and antithetical to both how the site should work and how the site actually works.

FEichinger

7:37 PM

@GraceNote Well, it's one of those things that always irked me with the intense moderation on Arqade. It very much looks like we have indeed reached that point.

kalina

@GraceNote I hate this too, I'd much rather everything have ~5 answers on it

it work well with "tactics for bosses" questions

because everybody has their own way of doing it

FEichinger

Site policy for Arqade consists essentially of "Bomb everything that will not get an answer within X days." and "Bomb everything that could get too many answers in Y days."

Which is stupid.

Grace Note

@kalina To point, the number of boss questions I actually see are... very few in number.

kalina

@GraceNote thats why I posted all the payday 2 guides, I was hoping that more than just me would post on them and we'd get a couple of different methods of doing things

the diablo 3 questions had a lot of answers per question though

Grace Note

@FEichinger I do say that in seeing some of the questions that got closed from this recent tag purge we have folks going through, I'm not entirely sure I agree that they should have been closed.

kalina

7:40 PM

the process should fix anything legitimate that got closed

FEichinger

@GraceNote I haven't actually watched what is going on with the cleanup, but to be quite frank I do not think Arqade really needs a cleanup. The site is an ridiculously good state (as for answer rate and the like at any rate ....)

kalina

in that people should vote to reopen them

@FEichinger we have tags left over from the last cleanup

it is a very clean site in comparison to pretty much every other SE though

FEichinger

@kalina A cleanup is good for sites like AU that are just messy, but Arqade is ridiculously tidy. So much, in fact, that we're having the above conversation: It's too tidy in some respects.

kalina

we do still have a lot of old questions that are "officially" off topic though, and those get used by newcomers as justification for why their question is on topic

a lot of those are being uncovered by bumping loads of questions

FEichinger

@kalina So what? We have the historical lock for a reason, as much as people seem to loathe it.

fbueckert

7:42 PM

@FEichinger Bleh. Crappy close reason.

kalina

@FEichinger that would be alright if it got used

Ben Brocka

kalina

also yes, AU could use a cleanup

but AU doesn't have me

2

so AU doesn't get cleaned up

SevenSidedDie

(What's AU?)

FEichinger

@SevenSidedDie Ask Ubuntu

kalina

7:43 PM

ask ubuntu

Jason Berkan

Gold

Grace Note

Ask Ubuntu, our nemesis.

FEichinger

@kalina We're trying ... every now and then ... But usually we end up with low activity, so nothing happens.

@GraceNote sadface

SevenSidedDie

@FEichinger Oh god, I can only imagine.

kalina

If somebody bumped me up to 20k rep so I had delete votes, I'd happily instigate a major cleanup of AU and then leave again

Grace Note

7:43 PM

@FEichinger Hey, rivalries are made to allow for both sides to get better. It's only in the spirit of how much we are superior that the underdog ever can climb and hope to succeed.

kalina

I joined in superuser's last cleanup and did it using flags and pissed off their mods

fbueckert

@GraceNote I would think our nemesis would be SciFi, not AU.

kalina

I'm not doing that again

FEichinger

@GraceNote That would be fine, if I hadn't more or less given up on AU myself.

kalina

doing a cleanup 5 questions at a time as to "not destroy the front page" is stupid as well

Anna Lear

7:44 PM

holy crap, @OrigamiRobot. you might want to slow down with those edits. you ARE the front page right now. :)

SevenSidedDie

@fbueckert I think SciFi is RPG.SE's nemesis, but it may be an apathetic nemesis-ing.

Grace Note

@fbueckert SciFi is what y'all enjoy raggin' on and came long after us, riding on our coattails like a lost child.

kalina

it's better to decimate the front page so it's a smoking crater once than do it every day

@AnnaLear you! no! SCHTOP!

decimation once > flooding the front page daily

OrigamiRobot

I am become GSE

Anna Lear

editor, wat r u doing. editor, stahp.

Grace Note

7:45 PM

AU came with us out the door and we've basically been fighting each other here and there. Or maybe it might just be between Marco and I.

fbueckert

@GraceNote Probably just you and Marco.

FEichinger

@GraceNote That sounds more likely.

SevenSidedDie

@AnnaLear This is happening:

4

Q: Cleanup 2013: It's time for consensus on... the multiplayer tag

The multiplayer tag is not a good tag. Here are some previous resources for some "light" reading before we get started: Player Two Press Burninate? Should we keep the [Multiplayer] tag? The Great Arqade Clean-Up of 2012 Should we add more specific tags for ME3 questions? I'd rather this be di...

discussion tags

fbueckert

I think most of us are basically apathetic towards AU.

Grace Note

Y'all are a coddled generation.

kalina

7:46 PM

@AnnaLear we're rapidly approaching the end of decimation, the front page will reset in 3 hours during daylight hours

FEichinger

AU has few voters, therefore few high-rep users (and few active users), therefore a really low participation in site moderation, therefore holy shit is that a mess.

SevenSidedDie

@kalina Bah, non-PST people. ;)

Anna Lear

that's cool. love seeing an organized maintenance effort. :) just don't forget that new questions getting answers > tag clean up.

fbueckert

@GraceNote Point of fact, I'm probably quite close to you in age, if not older, I suspect.

kalina

@AnnaLear new questions appear on /questions and will not be ignored because we have a feed into chat

Grace Note

7:47 PM

Man, I had a whole thing to say about "General strategy may be non-specific to a game but we may still have advice to offer" but I lost it in the distraction of Marco.

MARCO!

kalina

@SevenSidedDie hey with our larger american userbase it's likely that it will reset overnight in 3 hours as well

I did all of my checking during daytime my time though, so I know it will reset in 3 hours during GMT daytime

OrigamiRobot

OK, there are 3 non-me3 questions tagged multiplayer

Grace Note

@fbueckert Depending on who you ask, I'm an ageless witch. So depending on your interpretation, I'm either eternally younger than y'all or eternally older than y'all.

4

Anna Lear

@kalina most of your users aren't going to /questions or visiting chat

Mad Scientist

Arqade has a very unusual questions to high-rep users ratio. We get very few questions for a site of this size (traffic), and we have lots of actively moderating users.

OrigamiRobot

7:48 PM

Delete or retag them if you can find them

Anna Lear

@GraceNote Schroedinger's Grace Note.

kalina

@AnnaLear we obeyed the "don't destroy the front page" ruling last year and it resulted in the tag cleanup getting abandoned

badp

@GraceNote Ageless witches can still be 19.

Powerlord

puts @GraceNote in a box

Anna Lear

@kalina I don't think the fault there is with the "don't destroy the front page" guideline. ;)

kalina

7:49 PM

@badp can you do this for us please meta.gaming.stackexchange.com/a/7865/52800

badp

runs

Yuki

kalina

@AnnaLear sure it is, I would have never stopped my editing last year if I hadn't been complained at by EVERYBODY and their cat.

Grace Note

@badp It's just a merge of xbox-controllers into controllers

Mad Scientist

I'd still prefer if SE implemented any of the ideas that would avoid the whole frontpage destruction for mass retags, but if the volume is high enough I can see how ruining the frontpage for a short while might be the lesser evil

Grace Note

7:49 PM

@Yuki That sounds about right.

FEichinger

@kalina ... I'm desperately looking for an @AnnaLear / cat joke in there, but I can't find it.

Grace Note

@MadScientist It has still been tossed here and there.

Yuki

Side note: As much as I love the new Fairy-type, the Fairy-type trainers freak me the f--k out.

badp

@GraceNote "just"?

Anna Lear

@kalina No. Let me be clear. The best practice is to avoid destroying the front page. Yes, it can be annoying. Yes, it makes large-scale clean-ups harder. (I still have flashbacks to retagging 1000 [career] questions on ProgSE a handful at a time.) But, you choosing to stop editing because folks ask you to stop flooding the front page is a separate issue.

Grace Note

7:50 PM

@badp Yes. That's all they're trying to grab you aside for right now. Best you do that and sate them lest you find a bigger leash.

Lazers

0

Q: Do your pokemon stay fuller longer after feeding them a certain amount?

At first, when you feed your pokemon in Pokemon-Amie, they become hungry again very quickly. I was wondering if, after feeding your pokemon a few puffs do they lose hunger more slowly? Almost like they had a different meter, and their hunger drained into it until it was full, and then would only ...

pokemon-xy

kalina

@badp it's only a handful of questions, we can do it by hand if you don't want too

badp

today we're mering xbox-controller with controller

tomorrow we're merging controller with input

Arperum

@MadScientist There are hunderds of retags that have happened until now.

badp

then input with io

Anna Lear

7:51 PM

I'm not even here to yell at anybody. Just dropped into give a friendly reminder to keep an eye on the front page as y'all edit.

Powerlord

@Yuki Must... avoid... obvious joke...

badp

then io with human

kalina

@AnnaLear I'm not trying to argue!

Jason Berkan

@badp tomorrow we're merging every tag into video-game!

badp

then human with non-game-related

Yuki

7:51 PM

@badp And then the world!

kalina

@badp humans are off topic on arqade

badp

then non-game-related to ""

I CANNOT ALLOW THIS SLIPPERY SLOPE TO HAPPEN

Anna Lear

@kalina Then we're on the same page. Ish. Enough, anyway. :)

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan Good idea!

Grace Note

Note that by "tossed here and there" I mean "Bounced ideas betwixt each other" and not "Thrown into garbage pails that are then hurled into garbage bins that are then flung into garbage barrels that are then hurtled into garbage compactors that are then catapulted into garbage incinerators". The latter is most definitely not happening.

kalina

7:52 PM

at least we're not burning the technical-issues tag

OrigamiRobot

8

Q: Defending when playing as a sniper!

When we are playing with a sniper, the only other gun which we have to defend myself is the sidearm/pistol. But the sidearm is too weak and inaccurate. If I have an enemy close to me who has a rifle/sub-machine gun and try to flank me, the sidearm doesn't help me much. Is there a better defense s...

untagged

Powerlord

Just to confuse me, my time reporting code for this project was swapped from 6580 to 6508

FEichinger

@badp Or you could've just done it instead of arguing here. Would have been quicker. :P

OrigamiRobot

Don't know what game this is or even if it is about a specific game.

kalina

@OrigamiRobot check history

Yuki

7:53 PM

@OrigamiRobot "Don't get shot" is always great advice in these situations.

Anna Lear

Err, @OrigamiRobot, how did you add [untagged] to this question? That shouldn't be possible. o.O

haxxxxx

Jason Berkan

@OrigamiRobot video-game!

kalina

@OrigamiRobot cod-united-offensive

Mad Scientist

@AnnaLear I see this as a real issue, on a slower site it is impossible to do larger retags without destroying the frontpage. I've given up mostly on larger retags myself because I was just too annoyed and frustrated about the limitations I encountered every time. It is far easier to do a lot of retags in a short time than to regularly do 5 of them every day for weeks

FEichinger

@GraceNote So ... the garbage disposal at SE is an endless chain of increasingly destructive containers for the garbage?

MBraedley

7:53 PM

@OrigamiRobot Fixed

OrigamiRobot

multiplayer can now be renamed to mass-effect-3-multiplayer

Grace Note

@FEichinger Only for ideas.

Anna Lear

@MadScientist I agree.

FEichinger

@AnnaLear Hah! I was right, then! Thank you.

kalina

@MadScientist this was the point I was trying to make

badp

7:54 PM

@FEichinger Let's put it differently. I don't personally care for this trend towards losing what little meta-data we have about questions and xbox-controller looks like a fine tag to me. There's five moderators; surely you can find somebody else who feels differently about this

kalina

@OrigamiRobot cough @badp can you rename... hide

FEichinger

@badp Now, see, this is a better position to take.

And one I fully understand.

badp

@FEichinger It's precisely the same position I took five minutes ago, just in a different form

SevenSidedDie

@kalina If only... There's nothing wrong with the tag, but the questions it gets are sometimes hopelessly bad.

Anna Lear

I recreated the [untagged] blacklist. That should be applied to every site in the network, but apparently it wasn't.

Mad Scientist

7:55 PM

I've at least two feature requests on MSO that deal with making mass retags possible without disrupting the frontpage, so I'll be a bit unfair and just put the responsibility on SE to do something about the whole issue ;-)

Wipqozn

wait, that's it? No huge fight? You guys are just going to agree to respect each others opinion and move on?

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FEichinger

I don't really have an opinion on the details of the cleanup (for me, the Arqade tagging system is bollocks all around, but that's a different story).

ToxicFrog

I wish people would stop using windows for software development and then asking questions about it on SO.

Wipqozn

This is ridiculous. I demand internet bloodshed.

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Grace Note

@MadScientist Like I said, tossing. Just, not the garbage kind.

FEichinger

7:56 PM

@Wipqozn DENIED

Yuki

@ToxicFrog Huh?

Grace Note

...drat, drat, and double drat.

FEichinger

@GraceNote That was a quadruple drat.

Powerlord

@Wipqozn throws pie @Wipqozn

SevenSidedDie

@FEichinger It is the traditional format of a quad-drat.

ToxicFrog

7:57 PM

@Yuki so, the windows command line sucks, the terminal emulator sucks, etc etc

FEichinger

@SevenSidedDie Ouch ...

That one was ... just ... no.

ToxicFrog

And people keep trying to started with python/lua/C/whatever, so they write a tiny little command line program, maybe a hello world

And then they double click on it and a black window flashes up for one frame and then vanishes.

Ben Brocka

reddit.com/r/wooperswitharms

SevenSidedDie

@FEichinger You see? The alternative just doesn't have the same je ne sais quoi.

ToxicFrog

And then they post, on IRC or SO, asking what happened.

Arperum

7:58 PM

@ToxicFrog That is not windows fault, that is PEBKAC

MBraedley

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Q: How do I repair a scratched game disc?

I have kids, which means I have scratched game discs that my systems can't read. Several months ago, I watched a video demonstrating how to repair scratched game discs using car polish. I tried that, and it didn't work. After a little more research, I found and purchased this plastic polishi...

untagged

hardware possibly?

SevenSidedDie

@MBraedley Hardware, yeah.

OrigamiRobot

I'm fine with that.

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