The Bridge

12:00 AM

Please help support my proposal

Thanks!

Safe to say, this event has thoroughly disabused me of the notion that the SE network is a magical place of rainbows and unicorns where most everyone is nice and being a jerk is discouraged.

Rapitor

I honestly don't think SE will make any changes to the game

@Yuuki ... it's on the internet.

StrixVaria

So many restart votes :|

People are the worst.

Hosch250

Come help PPCG fight the trolls!

After all, we are ahead still.

Rapitor

@Hosch250 busy with our own

Yuuki

12:01 AM

@Rapitor Well, I'm sorry that I stay mostly on the Bridge, where people tend to be not-jerks.

Hosch250

Then, you can say you helped too.

murgatroid99

@Hosch250 It's hard to have sympathy for the people who started it

Hosch250

Yeah, I think they've repented.

Most of them aren't on anymore, either.

murgatroid99

@Hosch250 the point is that I have no interest in helping the people who gained the lead by through underhanded tactics maintain that lead

Yuuki

Also, once bitten twice shy.

Hosch250

12:05 AM

OK.

I'd help you (CR is doing terrible), but I don't have an account.

Brant

These restart bots are annoying

Hosch250

I quit, nothing like letting trolls continue restarting it.

Some of them aren't bots.

murgatroid99

ugh, we're getting 6 restart votes per turn now

Rapitor

wellp. we aren't getting anywhere

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oi

StrixVaria

12:06 AM

This is like when people come skew the election results but worse.

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my last minute continue vote

saved the day

Runer112

it's all fun and games when it happens to PPCG

Hosch250

We need to hunt them down and flag them.

0-frame links

@StrixVaria This is basically Election Job, Day 2, Loud, Payday 2

Yuuki

@Runer112 It's all fun and games when PPCG does it...

Runer112

12:07 AM

we haven't done it since we were told to stop

like 10-ish hours ago

Matt Giltaji

fffffffffff did we just get reset?

Rapitor

and restarted..

MBraedley

Well shit.

murgatroid99

@Runer112 well, somebody just sabotaged us

Rapitor

is it anime?

Runer112

12:07 AM

I saw

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I just confirmed

someone on anime.SE is behind this

Rapitor

they are the only other ones "competitive" in this.

Runer112

anime does have some degree of bots

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apparently he/she? has gotten 3 alts to handle it

Runer112

as does meta

Rapitor

12:08 AM

fantastic.

Yuuki

@Runer112 Eh, i know most of the active people there and I don't think they're malicious.

MBraedley

If we ignore them, maybe they'll go away?

Rapitor

this is precisely why we can't have nice things.

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@MBraedley Or you can take revenge

Runer112

there was literally a restart script that was dropped in meta chat

0-frame links

12:08 AM

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

RedRiderX

@0-framelinks Boo

murgatroid99

56 mins ago, by murgatroid99

@NathanMerrill we are not raiding. Period

Hosch250

Anime is watching us.

Runer112

and only removed after I saw it like half an hour later ans was presumably the first one to flag it

user15026

@0-framelinks Don't do that.

Hosch250

12:09 AM

They are afraid our troll will visit them.

0-frame links

@AshleyNunn Well, I have undisputable proof anime.SE is behind this

Hosch250

@0-framelinks Really?

Yuuki

Well, this event has definitely fostered inter-site communication.

Though not all of it good.

Or even most of it good.

murgatroid99

@Yuuki for some definition of "communication"

Schism

@0-framelinks true or not, that doesn't justify bringing them down

user15026

12:10 AM

@0-framelinks Yes, but let's not be terrible people, hmmm?

Yuuki

@murgatroid99 I see a lot more non-regulars in this room for one.

Hosch250

Me included...

murgatroid99

we may not be winning this April Fools competition, but at least we can maintain the moral high ground

12

@Yuuki that's true

It's just hilarious that some people actually care more about this competition than the fact that they're making themselves look like jerks

Yuuki

@murgatroid99 We're shooting for the "wasn't a jerk at all during this thing" badge.

Matt Giltaji

anime has basically admitted they are botting, but not mentioned griefing anyone

in Maid Café (メイド喫茶), 22 mins ago, by Logan M

Give @Eric an email to send it to. We aren't posting the url here because other sites could use it.

RedRiderX

12:11 AM

@murgatroid99 I guess this really is All Fool's Day

thinly veiled question mark

Turning us against ourselves

in Maid Café (メイド喫茶), 3 mins ago, by Hosch250

They are busy restarting it over and over by themselves.

I really wonder who's behind this

murgatroid99

@thinlyveiledquestionmark oh hey, you changed your associated site

thinly veiled question mark

what

RedRiderX

Anywho the new Humble Bundle seems pretty cool

Rapitor

we only have one restart botter now, can continue

murgatroid99

12:15 AM

0-frame links, omega

17.7k 47 145 264

Yuuki

@Rapitor I tried voting. The second one seems to kick in whenever it detects a tie.

murgatroid99

This user is associated with the one your chat account is connected to

Yuuki

Or at least a not-restart vote.

GiantCowFilms

Test

Schism

by the way, I tested it and alternating is strictly better than bringing questions up in private beta

GiantCowFilms

12:16 AM

oh now it works

If we could just get our hands on it we could fix this

murgatroid99

@Schism good to know

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

1

uʍop ǝpᴉsd∩

Proposed Q&A site for sǝƃɐssǝɯ uʍop ǝpᴉsdn ǝdʎʇ oʇ ǝʞᴉl oɥʍ ǝldoǝd

Closed before being launched.

4

1

Scouting and Guiding

Proposed Q&A site for leaders, parents and older youth involved in the international Baden-Powell scouting and guiding movements.

Currently in definition.

1

Music Scheduling

Proposed Q&A site for radio and TV professionals, music directors, program directors and content managers responsible for scheduling music, non-music, syndicated programming, videos, etc. with music scheduling software like MusicMaster, Selector, Powegold, etc.

Currently in definition.

5

The Theatre

Proposed Q&A site for theatre goers and professionals

Currently in definition.

2

System Architecture

Proposed Q&A site for all computer engineers or developers who are creating a system and are facing problems about how to design it, where to start and how to architect a specific need/aspect of the system.

Currently in definition.

1

Games

Proposed Q&A site for games, New and upcoming games, All games latest trailers and youtube videos, lots of fun, all gaming.

Closed before being launched.

1

StackOverflow (Hindi)

Proposed Q&A site for south east asian people especially indian

Currently in definition.

1

Design Prototyping

Proposed Q&A site for designers seeking information about prototyping methods, animation techniques, best practices and troubleshooting in the context of specific design prototyping tools.

Currently in definition.

GiantCowFilms

since it could be pretty quickly modified to vote for the most popular option that ins't restart

murgatroid99

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment this would be the best site

Ktash

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment HAhaha

Yuuki

12:18 AM

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment Closed as duplicate of Movies & TV.

Rusemaster

in Maid Café (メイド喫茶), 6 mins ago, by Hosch250

They are busy restarting it over and over by themselves.

murgatroid99

@Rusemaster would you please stop that? It's distracting

Ktash

Batman Arkham Knight PS4 Bundle announced

For others who might be interested

Schism

progress (at least in private beta since I didn't have the patience to test stuff past that :P) is based on sum of hearts, and a heart drops if you neglect it two turns in a row

murgatroid99

We're back up to 4 restart bots

StrixVaria

12:19 AM

What is CM? Content manager? — kenorb yesterday

Hey it's that guy.

Matt Giltaji

shit, misclicked on restart confirmation, i apologize

murgatroid99

@StrixVaria wait, did he propose that site too?

StrixVaria

@murgatroid99 No, thankfully.

Matt Giltaji

@murgatroid99 nope, there was evidence for it

Schism

noo, we just lost a day of progress :(

Hosch250

12:21 AM

LOL.

Come watch the PPCG trolls reset it over and over and over.

I'm not sure if anyone is even playing it.

It looks like one person is.

These people would be better off working on their own egg.

Rapitor

guh.

Yuuki

Back to homework, I'm wasting too much time with this.

Rapitor

@Hosch250 it's not them anymore. it's anime

Chippies

@murgatroid99 are we competing at who can be the biggest fool in april? Because I don't mind losing that title.

user15026

@Yuuki No Harvest Moon? Or is that post-homework?

murgatroid99

12:23 AM

@Chippies seems like it

Hosch250

@Rapitor I mean, I'm watching the trolls killing PPCG.

Yuuki

@AshleyNunn Post-homework. Wal-Mart didn't have it in stock, so I just went home. Gonna go out and get it either before 9-ish or after homework, whichever comes first.

user15026

@Yuuki Cool beans :) Let me know how it is when you play it :)

Yuuki

@Rapitor seems to be playing it right now, you can ask him.

Rapitor

@AshleyNunn i'm still doing the freaking tutorial. 1 hour later. coming from monster hunter (no hand holding) this is very unsettling

Matt Giltaji

12:25 AM

@AshleyNunn oh, thanks for escalating the swag thing a while back, i got a response from se now

(i don't remember if i thanked you already or not)

user15026

@MattGiltaji Oh, yay! I am glad you heard back :)

Rapitor

Star Wars Battlefront gameplay reveal on April 17th

murgatroid99

I just noticed: kenorb didn't propose the upside-down questions proposal, but he did ask all of the example questions

And the guy who did propose it also proposed some other fantastic looking sites, including Handicapped Lifehacks, Trolling, and Living in Canada.

Matt Giltaji

@murgatroid99 living in canada?

what kind of scope is that

RedRiderX

12:40 AM

I have a good feeling about this game

murgatroid99

@MattGiltaji geographical

Matt Giltaji

@murgatroid99 so asking about warm weather is off topic?

Schism

@RedRiderX sorry to disappoint you, but it's really rough around the edges.

RedRiderX

@Schism Oh that much is quite obvious

Schism

be careful not to move around much unless everything's settled down, lest you get stuck in an infinite death loop like me :(

RedRiderX

12:43 AM

Oh my

murgatroid99

@Schism that sounds like something from an anime

"Infinite Death Loop"

Schism

@murgatroid99 I could definitely see it as the name of a *jutsu lol

murgatroid99

@Schism That was my thought as well, since I've watched about 150 episodes of Naruto in the last few weeks

Hosch250

Any luck booting the trolls?

Rapitor

wellp. our egg is fuct

PPCG's egg is also fuct last i heard

Trent Hawkins

12:47 AM

There's one bot auto-restarting, three more pile on if anything else is voted on.

Matt Giltaji

@TrentHawkins clever girl

@Rapitor i dunno what anime's egg looks like, anyone have an account there?

murgatroid99

@MattGiltaji I can check

user15026

Some group called Associations Now is doing some thing on twitter and they chose #assnchat for their hashtag....

Hosch250

Come join me.

Rapitor

@MattGiltaji i do, their egg is doing fine it seems

Matt Giltaji

12:49 AM

@AshleyNunn ouch

Hosch250

Guess what!

Apparently someone wrote a script to stop the badduns.

Matt Giltaji

to be clear, i am not advocating disrupting their egg or raiding in any way, i was just wondering if they have reset loops going on

user15026

@MattGiltaji It's almost as bad as Google Domains suggesting that if I can't get abortretryflail.com, I should get abortionretryclub.com.....

murgatroid99

@MattGiltaji they don't seem to be getting any reset votes

Matt Giltaji

@AshleyNunn we made a username for a business analyst test account. due to char length restrictions it came out "test-busanal"

GiantCowFilms

12:51 AM

This should help:

gist.github.com/GiantCowFilms/836d4cb31de8ae87ab7f

Matt Giltaji

so that was changed to banalyst

user15026

@MattGiltaji Yikes.

user15026

@MattGiltaji that's not a lot better :P

Rapitor

@GiantCowFilms and this does?

GiantCowFilms

It votes for the most popular not restart option

I'll give it docs in a moment

Hosch250

12:52 AM

It will help the Nothing troll.

GiantCowFilms

Not by default, anyone could have written it.....

it defults to ask

it only does it once

does what once?

wait, nvm

@Rapitor or if time is about to run out

Hosch250

12:53 AM

Link to main site please?

Rapitor

it votes restart when its on the restart vote

GiantCowFilms

@Hosch250 ?

@Rapitor does?

shouldn't

Rapitor

does

Hosch250

Link to Arqade main site, please?

Matt Giltaji

Hosch250

12:54 AM

I'll create an account and we can overwhelm the trolls by sheer numbers.

murgatroid99

@Hosch250 there's a link in the bottom right corner of this chat

With that symbol

Matt Giltaji

@murgatroid99 til

Hosch250

Oh, didn't know.

murgatroid99

@MattGiltaji I actually learned about it because people were talking about how it's almost impossible for the default dark blue on transparent logo

when a site doesn't have a custom logo

TheBestOne

Are you guys getting trolled too?

murgatroid99

12:56 AM

@TheBestOne yes

Rapitor

regardless. we have at least 4 restart bots to deal with

Matt Giltaji

@TheBestOne our egg is in a restart loop, yeah

Hosch250

We need to use the PPCG strategy.

Matt Giltaji

for the past few hours

Hosch250

Combine our votes on one post.

For now, just alternate Q/A.

A next time.

Runer112

12:57 AM

I'm double fisting it

Matt Giltaji

wat

Hosch250

@Rainbolt Please come tell us the strategy.

Rapitor

@Runer112 phrasing.

Rainbolt

What strategy?

user15026

sigh

Runer112

12:57 AM

pretty desperate, so I'm using two accounts now

Rainbolt

You mean to hit 235?

Runer112

hopefully two of me can cancel out two bots

Rapitor

@Runer112 unfortunately they will just add more bots

Runer112

if I can find a way to arrange my windows properly, I can try to help you guys too

Matt Giltaji

@Runer112 are you admitting to socking right next to a mod?

user15026

12:58 AM

@Runer112 smiles and waves

Rainbolt

Socking is not against the rules. Even some mods have a sock actually.

GiantCowFilms

Whys it do that

Rapitor

they want to win the scummy way, fine. As @murgatroid99 said in the starlist, we will win with moral high ground.

Hosch250

@Rainbolt From PPCG.

Runer112

if I'm told to stop, I'll stop

user15026

12:58 AM

@Rainbolt True, but we do keep eyes on these things.

Hosch250

We need to combine our votes and out-vote them.

Runer112

but this seems less unfair to me than botting

murgatroid99

@Rainbolt Socking is not itself against the rules. But it is against the rules to use sockpuppets for vote fraud

Schism

@Hosch250 would you like some fries with that salt?

user15026

@Runer112 It's still against the rules, as this gets close to vote fraud, as pointed out in that lovely meta post.

Hosch250

12:59 AM

@Schism Sure.

Runer112

is botting votes not fraud?

Rainbolt

@Hosch250 I am confused as to what you want. Are you asking me for help coordinating people or do you want the actual strategy we used to hit 235?

Hosch250

Both.

I don't know the strategy, I would just vote for the top one.

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