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Grace Note

16:00

@RavenDreamer That it did

Brant

Now Grace is trying to infiltrate the Mechanics community.

Grace Note

Last cap was... huh, it was apparently in June, thanks to this answer. Not what I would've expected.

@Brant Or I just wanted an excuse to use Yu-ri, and what better a site to associate a piece of self-propelled artillery?

fredley

I've capped 5 times I think

mostly due to silly answers with a lot of upvotes :)

John

What can I do about a wrong and potentially dangerous answer besides downvoting and commenting?

Grace Note

@John Post it in chat so we can downvote and comment on it, I guess.

Raven Dreamer

16:03

@John flag it.

John

@RavenDreamer Flag it? I didn't know we were supposed to do that for wrong answers.

Grace Note

Only flag it if it's something that a moderator actually had to do something about.

If it's just a wrong answer, don't flag it.

John

Anyway, the top answer here:

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Q: How do I fix a corrupted Minecraft world?

If I haven't got any backups, is there any way of recovering, or partially recovering the world from a corrupted save file?

minecraft

Is dead wrong

It's saying to replace the corrupted world's level.dat file with one generated randomly from a new world.

Ronan Forman

Flag it because it's dangerous/illegal/hurtful. Not if it's wrong

John

That just taking wrong data, and changing it to other wrong data.

Wipqozn

16:05

@ArdaXi hey look, another reason to dislike that question.

Grace Note

Sounds like a job for downvoting and commenting.

I see you've done the latter.

Lazers

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Q: Moderator Candidates you have voted up for have a minimum of "1" instead of 0

I think I have found a small error in the vote display code for the electorship, most likely due to the same mechanics that prevent the showing of negative votes (which has already been established to be status-by-design) Anyway, pictures are worth a thousand words, right? One would expect ...

bug election

Grace Note

@Lazers Revision'd!

fredley

@John ...now the bottom answer

John

@fredley :) I love how efficient this room can be.

Brant

16:08

Whoa, that tanked pretty quick.

Oak

@RavenDreamer nice, you're close, impressive

Brant

Since we're on a voting spree, everyone should upvote this question and answer so it gets into the hot questions list!

Oak

The epic and legendary badges are the most impressive, in my eyes

John

@Brant I already have.

Wipqozn

@John and I

Raven Dreamer

16:09

@Oak I'm just bummed @Fabian has more gold "10,000 view question" badges than I do. :(

Oak

@RavenDreamer I have none :(

Also, edited your question >:-)

Raven Dreamer

@Oak not even Fanatic?

Arda Xi

I only have one gold badge. :(

Raven Dreamer

@GraceNote already beat you to that, @Oak.

Oak

@RavenDreamer no, I meant I want a 10k view question badges

Brant

16:10

Famous Questions

Raven Dreamer

I meant, "Grace already edited my meta question".

Oak

@RavenDreamer oh right I missed that

wait it doesn't matter

I think my edit is still valid

points out a strange thing very similar to what you are saying

Raven Dreamer

It's very clearly related to the code that prevents folks from seeing high magnitude negative numbers by their name. It's only a question of whether it's intended or not.

@Oak by the by, how do you like my gravatar? I made my default gravatar awesomer by adding sharks!

Brant

I thought it looked a little...nonstandard

bwarner

So apparently nobody informed me that this is like the US Presidential primaries where you are supposed to drop out early if you are not winning.

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Raven Dreamer

16:16

I hope Fallen Angel Eyes wins.

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Brant

In addition to you, you mean?

Raven Dreamer

@Brant no, I mean I hope she wins. Period.

Also, folks -- do you think Minecraft needs a minecart tag?

Wipqozn

@bwarner I lol'd

fredley

@RavenDreamer I don't think it does

Raven Dreamer

Maybe move minecart to vehicles?

fredley

16:19

I doubt there are any minecart experts out there who only follow the minecart tag

@RavenDreamer That feels...wrong

Raven Dreamer

@fredley it says there is 1 follower.

fredley

@RavenDreamer Haha, maybe I'm wrong then

bwarner

I mean, it is pretty clear I'm not going to win, and that doesn't bother me at all, but am I supposed to be dropping out now as a result?

Raven Dreamer

@bwarner nope. Presidential candidates drop out because they'll just waste money and time if they continue to campaign.

Oak

@RavenDreamer anything is better than the default avatar. And the sharks are nice

Raven Dreamer

16:21

Given that you're not campaigning or spending money, I don't think you have a pressing need to drop out.

Oak

@bwarner I don't see any special reason for you to drop out

bwarner

Just didn't want people to think I was being disrespectful or something by leaving my name out there.

Arda Xi

> Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags

Oak

Just carry on

what's the harm? Only ridicule

Arda Xi

Is this about the site's top 40 tags or yours?

Oak

16:22

We can do that already :)

fredley

Why do I get two lots of +2 rep for each tag-wiki edit? It's screwing up with rounding off my score (OCD?).

Grace Note

@ArdaXi Site's top 40

Arda Xi

@fredley So downvote a bit.

Raven Dreamer

@fredley because they're approved edits.

fredley

@ArdaXi Any requests?

Grace Note

16:22

However, before anyone can get that badge, there must be at least 200 instances of aforementioned 40 tags.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Then I don't get this.

fredley

@RavenDreamer So +2 for edit, +2 for approval?

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Err, why?

Raven Dreamer

@fredley Um. Not to my knowledge.

Grace Note

@ArdaXi Same reason we require at least 100 questions for any tag to qualify for the Specialist badges.

Oak

16:23

@fredley one for the excerpt, one for the body

each worth 2 points

Raven Dreamer

we only have 13 tags with 200+ instances, atm.

fredley

@Oak Oh. How strange.

Grace Note

Yeah. It takes quite some time before Generalist is activated on a site, as a consequence. I'll pull up the blog article.

Arda Xi

I should start working towards it.

Grace Note

> One thing the badge doesn’t say, is that there must be at least 200 questions in all 40 of the top tags before this badge is awarded to anyone. That’s why you won’t see it on meta for a bit longer, or any new sites for about a year. I don’t feel you can accurately measure a generalist until the top tag list settles down.

Arda Xi

16:26

Let's see, multiplayer and minecraft should be easy, only two upvotes.

Wipqozn

oh notch, how you're awesome

Hey, Bethesda! Let’s settle this!

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FallenAngelEyes

arrrrrgh, NCSoft's schedule has changed because they didn't have the event listings for WildStar the other day because they hadn't announced it yet headdesk

Wipqozn

@FallenAngelEyes that sucks :/

Raven Dreamer

Hi, @FallenAngelEyes!

Grace Note

Haha, ooh, convention plan scheduling...

fredley

16:26

@Wipqozn This is amazing, I really hope it happens

FallenAngelEyes

What I'm doing right now is going through and making a Google Calendar for stuff I potentially find interesting to cover, cuz then we sync that with my b/f's phone and I can use it from the floor.

bwarner

So @Grace, or you on a weekly gravatar rotation now or what?

FallenAngelEyes

...this is tedious as hell

Oak

Wow, it's been months since my last rep-cap. I must be slowing down :(

Arda Xi

How'd I get 11 upvotes in SC2?

Grace Note

16:27

@bwarner Summat like that.

FallenAngelEyes

@RavenDreamer Hi @Raven!

Grace Note

I'll probably go back to Linda soon, but until then I'm going to have fun every now and then.

fredley

@Oak Is there anyway to see how many times you've capped?

Arda Xi

Oh, one answer..

Grace Note

@fredley /reputation

Raven Dreamer

16:28

@fredley go to gaming.stackexchange.com/reputation and scroll down to the very bottom.

Oak

@fredley gaming.stackexchange.com/reputation

fredley

Don't all shout at once...

Oak

Your obvious newbie-ish-ness demands it :)

Ooo my last one was a 260-rep-day

Man, was I productive in my younger days

John

I've only ever capped once. It was on MSO.

fredley

How can this make sense:

`rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes *only* on 7 days,
earned at least 200 reputation on 6 days`

Raven Dreamer

16:30

Oh, wow. Blizzard is finally allowing folks to wear cosmetic aromr (I.e., armor worn for looks, rather than stats).

Wipqozn

@Oak you old timer

John

@fredley I'm not sure...

Oak

@Wipqozn actually, don't tell anyone... but I could never remember the difference between the two lines fredley mentioned

I guess I'm a bit of a noob as well.

I think the first is what counts

Because rep-cap only applies to upvotes

But I never saw the first line have a greater number than the second one, I thought that can't happen

fredley

But the description for `Epic` is:

Earned 200 daily reputation 50 times

John

I always thought that the second line included stuff like bounties and accepts and the top line didn't. But then, the numbers of days in the bottom line should always be larger then the top, but it isn't.

Oak

16:32

Hmm

FallenAngelEyes

Ok I need to stop filling in this stupid calendar and go walk around for a while, later all! I'll be back later tonight and I'll share the calendar then for you guys to check out

Oak

@fredley well according to that description it should be the 2nd number

Wipqozn

@FallenAngelEyes have fun

fredley

@John Exactly. I'm confused

FallenAngelEyes

poof /o/

Oak

16:32

@FallenAngelEyes upload some cool pictures

and have fun!

John

@FallenAngelEyes Calendar?

Oh yeah, that thing. Have fun!

Lazers

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Q: Looking for an old space trading web game

I am looking for an old space trading web game (I hope it still exists) General description: You had a space ship and went system to system to trade goods. You could also make starbases too. There was different kinds of galaxies and wormholes. It took some kind of fuel to move around and you got...

identify-this-game space mmo trading

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Q: Please help me like Eve-Online

I was a paying member for Eve-online for a year about 2 years ago. Had my own corp with 2-3 members, built up a few 100 mil ISK speculating and trading. Then I had to stop playing for a while. Now, whenever I pick up a freebie 5 day pass and check it out I can't believe how boring it is and I ne...

eve-online

bwarner

@Lazers Yikes, anybody want to try to salvage that second question?

fredley

@bwarner It looks like it's beyond that

Oak

4 close votes in less than 2 minutes...

fredley

16:37

@Oak Lazer power

bwarner

I guess the Feeds are useful sometimes

Wipqozn

@fredley I think it has potential.

I'm going to edit it to make it work. Watch me be handsome.

Brant

It's a good question that I've had myself at times.

I think it totally belongs on the site with some edits.

John

@Wipqozn So you're going to go invalidate my flag... wonderful.

Wipqozn

@John I'm a terrible person, what can I say.

John

16:47

@Wipqozn Well if you don't hurry up and edit it I'm going to do my @Mana imitation and post a comment saying it doesn't fit here.

Arda Xi

To be honest, I really wanted to see an answer to that question.

But... huh?

Wipqozn

> I was a paying member for Eve-online for a year about 2 years ago. Had my own corp with 2-3 members, built up a few 100 mil ISK speculating and trading. Then I had to stop playing for a while. Since then I've tried getting back into it a few times, but I never play it for more then a few days.

The world is phenomenal and the devs are awesome, but I can never find anything to do. Every time I try to get back into the game I wind up doing the same things again and again, such as shooting red rats or getting ganked.

Brant

ERROR: USER IS TOO AWESOME.

John

@ArdaXi Anti-revenge I guess.

Arda Xi

What's that limit?

@Wipqozn Big, big, big list of X.

Seeing as he means "not PvP" rather than PvE.

fredley

16:49

Woot, capped and a silver badge with the same upvote!

Wipqozn

@ArdaXi Yeah, I'm not sure how to rephrase the core question.

as in my final line

Mana ಠдಠ

@Wipqozn Don't try. His core question isn't the sort of thing that'll work out on this site.

John

Should I bother with a comment or are you going to C&P some boilerplate, @Mana?

Mana ಠдಠ

I think it's a better idea to close this one and leave a helpful comment or he'll be more inclined to ask stuff like it again in the future.

@John heh, actually I don't have any boilerplate

Wipqozn

Yeah, I see your point.

John

16:52

@Mana You type that in every time? Maaan, you need some boilerplate.

When you become a mod, I think you're going to need it.

bwarner

So based on the Town Hall Chat, I'm guessing that we're going to have some action around identify-this-game shortly after the election. What do people think of the process I proposed in my response? Basically a "Nominate ideas" phase, a "moderators select viable ideas" phase, and then a "vote on viable ideas" phase.

Think of it as game-rec++

Wipqozn

Never mind then.

Oak

@Wipqozn primary votes do not always entirely correlate with the final votes

John

@Wipqozn You mean "Mana's awesome." :P

bwarner

@Wipqozn Primary votes can be decieving, because there is no order to them. Real votes have a strict ordering that can make a big difference

John

16:55

@Wipqozn Much better.

Mana ಠдಠ

@bwarner I'm hesitant about that suggestion because the last time we tried to do a poll for game-rec it was a total nightmare, and it was agreed that in the future it would be better for the mods to just reach a consensus and act on it.

@Wipqozn Nothing's fairly obvious on primaries other than the fact that I haven't offended a lot of people. :)

Ronan Forman

I think it's his amazing ability to be super imposed on pictures.

Oak

@bwarner it sounds decent to me...

bwarner

@Mana Was the poll really a nightmare? Or was it just because of the fact that ideas were getting added during the poll, including ones that ended up not being viable?

Arda Xi

@Manaಠдಠ Does that mean I've offended 8 people?

John

16:57

@ArdaXi Yes.

Arda Xi

Awesome.

Now to find out who.

Ronan Forman

@Manaಠдಠ You seem to have less upvotes than some people, but also less downvotes

Mana ಠдಠ

@bwarner It was because the highest voted answer wouldn't work at all.

bwarner

@ArdaXi No, just 8 voters.

Mana ಠдಠ

So it had to be removed from the poll. Obviously this didn't go well.

Arda Xi

16:58

@bwarner Voters aren't people. Gotcha.

bwarner

@Manaಠдಠ But that is my point, an answer that wouldn't work at all wouldn't make it to the poll phase at all.

Wipqozn

pffft, voters aren't people

@ArdaXi ah dang, beat me to it. Damn you.

Mana ಠдಠ

@bwarner hmmm.

John

@GnomeSlice

Brant

The most popular solution was decided to be unviable halfway through the voting process.

If the option wasn't there to begin with, it wouldn't have happened.

bwarner

16:59

Yah, that is what I feel like we need to prevent.

Ronan Forman

@Wipqozn Your icon always looks like a beetle, am I the only one seeing this?

John

@RonanForman No you're not.

Brant

The biggest problem was that it took so long for everyone to come to the "let's put it to a vote" phase.

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Wipqozn

@RonanForman Raven thinks it's a walrus.

CruelCow

@ArdaXi and then this?

Ronan Forman

16:59

@John Phew!

@Wipqozn I don't see that

Mana ಠдಠ

Well, fair enough.

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