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user30

21:00

I should really stop pubstomping and play some lobby, considering we got rolled in the Highlander challenge last week

alexanderpas

:9843 steamcommunity.com/id/alexanderpas

user30

@alexanderpas 1 minute, my MBP doesn't run tf2 so well

user30

oh shit, computer appears to have some issues

user30

Nevermind, seems to have sorted itself now

alexanderpas

you got the earbuds?

badp

21:03

:9839 the problem there was linking to it during the definition phase...

user30

Nah, got the mac after the promotion finished

user30

Surprisingly it runs L4D2 pretty well

alexanderpas

too bad.

user30

@badp Yeah, it's also all that's been said on the topic. I think we'd have no issues with the site as a whole if WP.org was to adopt the approach Canonical took with AskUbuntu

alexanderpas

Canonial is just epic. (50% linux = ubuntu variant)

badp

21:07

@ThomasMcDonald tried then to have a second discussion about it at the Tavern then?

user30

@alexanderpas Just added you to Steam

alexanderpas

you little lamb ;)

user30

@badp Admittedly not

user30

@alexanderpas Pssht, that was something my mates did about a year ago and it's kinda stuck

user30

Also, I love my SO tshirt.

badp

21:11

(Otto made it abundantly clear he's not appreciating further discussion on the hackers mailing list so...)

alexanderpas

@ThomasMcDonald server full...

user30

@alexanderpas Hmm, I'll go check my other stakeouts

user30

@alexanderpas Server is still full?

alexanderpas

yup

hmm.. or not...

user30

not a big fan of thundermountain

Josh

21:21

Man I forgot how active this chat is, lol

Josh

I stepped away for a few hours and there were like 5000 new messages while I was gone :-)

user30

I much prefer upward out of the engie update maps, hightower turned into a turtlefest

user30

but then I think that's only because it closely matches the format of badwater

user30

@alexanderpas Score of 2?

badp

21:50

:9872 dl.dropbox.com/u/1164414/SO/Gaming%20rulez1111one.png

back when it was all MSO chat

nite

Oak

Oh man I see the tzenes-arda argument got more heated when I was away

Oak

... and I still don't quite understand what it was about.

Arda Xi

Guilty as charged

alexanderpas

as always :D

a scuicidal pyro is dangerous.

Oak

Maybe we need to appoint mods for chat, too

alexanderpas

22:08

very nice, my tf2 drops were purchasable items... sigh...

Josh

:9876 HAHA, yeah :-)

Josh

@badp now that you're all gone rchern is #3 and I'm #4, LOL

Grace Note

So all, what have I missed?

alexanderpas

:9891 @ArdaXi vs. @tzenes

Grace Note

:9892 ...what is it about this time?

Arda Xi

22:22

our favourite pet peeve

(game-rec)

alexanderpas

:9893 ROFLMAO

Grace Note

Any specific element, @Arda, or in general?

Arda Xi

Hrm, I'm not sure anymore... I think it was about whether votes reflected popularity

Grace Note

Well, votes do reflect some measure of popularity. The heart though, is whether that vote actually was cast out of popularity.

I find our current top-rated question to be exemplary of this: the corpse question.

It would be naive to think that it didn't accrue some measure of voting due to its title. But it actually is a good question, something which is reflected in the large number of votes to its answer; good questions attract good answers and there's nothing gimmicky about my answer there.

When it comes to answers, it is also reasonable to expect that votes will come due to popularity. But a good answer that attracts real votes is one that actually gets votes for reasons outside of popularity.

alexanderpas

"the corpse question" and everyone who has seen it, instantly knows which question it is about. lol

Grace Note

22:30

Can we definitively measure the ratio of votes-for-popularity to votes-for-good-content? No. But it is a reasonable assumption that in the existence of good content to vote for, the ratio favours good content. Jokes that ultimately do not solve the question tend to have a much higher downvote count.

alexanderpas

:9904 I wuv that answur

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