The Greenhouse

Riker

00:05

mod emails have been sent out :D

cc @Zanna

Zanna

04:57

Too early in the am to read my email but that smile looks like I should be saying congratulations

Zanna

05:11

No email here, back to sleep :)

Niitaku

08:03

Hello! o/

Zanna

hi, how are you doing today?

Niitaku

Fine, and you ? :)

Zanna

I'm OK, but need more sleep :S

maybe tonight I will sleep well

stupid insomnia

time for a shower :)

Niitaku

Aww :/
Enjoy! :P

Zanna

I will!

David S

09:16

@nloewen Well, I'm not a pet person but it sounds like a good use to me for pets who would struggle to thrive on a vegan diet (cat food perhaps). I don't think lab grown meat has any place in a veg*n diet, but then I also don't think fish has a place (plaice!) in a vegetarian diet so I know my definition is more strict than other people I know. :)

Zanna

09:46

fish is just not vegetarian full stop ;)

David S

Well, to us perhaps not.

It's common sense to me, but you often find Chinese restaurants put fish dishes in the vegetarian section

Good morning by the way :)

Zanna

morning :)

(yeah hence the wink)

Niitaku

Morning!

David S

@Niitaku o/

Stack Exchange

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A: Accepting Nominations — Who should moderate this site?

Notes Hi there , I am Sagar V. I were not a member in this community for long time because I didn't knew about it. The main reason I support vegetarianism is that I care for animals. I don't like that animals getting killed by people not only for food but also for other things. Vegetari...

David S

09:58

How do people get nominated, can people nominate themselves?

Zanna

yes!

Niitaku

Yes, they can. As Robert said, it is encouraged since this is a volunteer activity

Zanna

If you read the question you will see all the details

Niitaku

> A self-nomination is simply a way to say, "I am very much interested in this, so let my record speak for itself."

Quote from Robert

David S

@Zanna So I see, apologies didn't realise it was formatted in Q&A style..

Probably should have been obvious

No, I did know that because I've upvoted on there previously. Darnit, I must be a bit dense today.

More coffee.

Zanna

10:09

I need more sleep...

David S

Yeah, woke up feeling pretty poor this morning, seems like no matter what quantity, if none of them are before midnight I just feel rubbish the next day.

Still, better than not sleeping at all, which is your problem is it not

Zanna

oh no, I slept some :)

David S

some?

Zanna

I would be completely useless otherwise

David S

30, 40 minutes at least!

Zanna

10:11

hmm about 4 and a half hours, can't complain

David S

Is it in the contract?

Zanna

haha shuffles through piles of paper on desk

David S

What's going on today?

Zanna

zumba class... trying to do cleanup on AU... work in the afternoon, Linux meetup in the evening

David S

Neat. More than my day, linuxing til five then maybe do some cleaning this evening..

And a few exercises, I guess, want to go back to archery but it's been that long that I can't draw the bow more than a dozen times.

Zanna

10:29

that's a lot of Linuxing ^_^

wow archery, that's really cool!

Niitaku

I was about to say it :)

Zanna

sorry I just went to get some milky fake coffee

fake milky fake coffee we could even say

David S

I'm making myself wait until 11 for fake milky coffee

(can't be fake coffee, the coffee is real!)

I'm gonna try and get them to do a large flat white if they will. I don't like the foam but I want a lot of beverage

For some reason there's no large on the menu

Zanna

I'm sensitive to caffeine, I only drink coffee with my mum because she likes having someone drink it with her, and then I just have a tiny bit with a huge amount of mylk. Right now I'm drinking some "healthy" substitute made from chicory or something

David S

@Zanna It was cool but I have this problem when I stop doing something, I get this sort of fear of going back and starting from scratch again, like, as if it matters what people think... but still..

Oh, yeah I 've seen that chicory thing, isn't carob a coffee alternative too?

(Are they any good?)

I do find that I get a bit ADHD after a few coffees, feels like my scalp is trying to crawl away or something ... hehe

Zanna

10:38

carob is an alternative to cacao/chocolate

I love carob

David S

I haven't tried it (I'm not too fussed about chocolate)

Zanna

I think it's got a lovely flavour, and its flour has a beautiful sweetness

David S

I've had some cacao in the cupboard for er ... its probably expired

Zanna

haha I love chocolate :)

but I haven't eaten any for a couple of weeks... I was eating everything in sight after coming back from holiday, kind of out of sadness I think, so eventually I got hold of myself haha. I haven't expressly banned myself from eating chocolate but just haven't bothered with it... I'm going to make some chocolate beetroot cupcakes tomorrow though I think

David S

They sound interesting.

You're a bit of a baker aren't you

Hah that sounds like some sort of veiled insult

Zanna

10:50

hmm since I got addicted to SE I have barely cooked at all

Until this last 2 weeks when I decided to stop eating junk from packets all day long

BTW, if you were thinking of nominating yourself to be a mod, I think you may have missed the boat, because according to what Riker said earlier, the appointees-to-be have already been notified...

Mithrandir

(don't mind me, just checking in)

Zanna

Hi there!

I saw you suggested an edit

You are from Literature I believe

Mithrandir

Yes, I do that on most sites on the network.

@Zanna Yep, a mod there.

Zanna

Yes I saw that

congratulations

Mithrandir

Thanks!

Zanna

10:54

:)

Mithrandir

@Zanna I have 166 accounts on the network. 79 don't have any rep. Almost every single other account has edited somewhere. I'm a bit of an edit freak :P

Zanna

I find it strange that I don't seem to have anything to contribute there

David S

@Zanna Me? No danger of that.

Mithrandir

@Zanna yes, he pinged me asking about it :P

But honestly, 'The Greenhouse' sounds like a chatroom for Gardening & Landscaping.

Zanna

haha not my choice

it was meta

David S

10:59

It's okay though.

Not sure there were any clearly outstanding suggestions last time I looked.

Mithrandir

I'm surprised it took ~10 minutes for that to get answered...

Zanna

the bot hasn't posted it yet, that's why

thanks for answering

status-bydesign

Mithrandir

Mhm. I randomly visit metas and post answers as well as editing :P

David S

Coffee time

Zanna

enjoy!

David S

11:16

There is no flat white on the menu at all, I must have been confused.

Zanna

lack of coffee...

David S

No, I just stuck with the usual latte

Zanna

I mean, you were confused by lack of coffee

David S

Yes.

:)

And the woman gave me three stamps.

I have a hard time calling anyone younger than me a woman because I don't feel like an adult.

Zanna

hahaha I know how you feel

that was nice of her :D

David S

11:25

Only because I didn't even know there were stamps to be had and I've had a fair few coffees since I joined.

David S

11:49

ha, colleague: "GIFs were acceptable in the 90s or now if they're animated"

It's true, you never see a static GIF any more.

David S

12:33

Luncheon time.

Stack Exchange

14:00

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Q: Why bounties are not yet allowed

Like many other SE sites, why Bounty are not allowed in this site yet? Is there any criteria for a SE site to start the feature Bounty?

support

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Q: Answered question under Unanswered tab

Check the below image, The tab which is active is Unanswered but questions with answer is also listed. Probably a bug

bug

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Q: HTTPS Issue in Meta

I would like to mention this link here Accepting Nominations — Who should moderate this site? While checking that, you can only see flair form main site. Meta flair is not loading. So I had a look at this https://meta.vegetarianism.stackexchange.com/users/378 which said that Your connection is...

bug

David S

I think it's unlikely that SE is so buggy and no-one noticed. It's more likely to be a training issue? :)

Zanna

yeah

David S

ah crap, I hate that, I was saving a space bar and then forgot about it, it expired 1st Feb. Would you still eat it?

It is use by not best before.

I'm leaning towards yes.

Zanna

totally would eat it

David S

That's good enough for me.

Zanna

14:10

:D

David S

Oh, the HTTPS thing seems sort of valid actually.

The wildcard certificate doesn't cover meta.thing.stackexchange.com only thing.meta...

I would have asked him why he's trying to use https since it doesn't appear to be necessary but if you can't post http only links (I've not checked) then it might be a problem I suppose

Zanna

it's because they just made this https decision rollout

David S

Ah. Implementation failure.

Zanna

no... everything has to be fixed by us

but I don't really understand exactly what happened

Riker

o/

yeah, HTTPS is borked

David S

14:25

Ah so they've actually changed the cert first before the sites have been changed.

@Zanna Us?

Riker

@DavidS sorta yeah

everything is on fire now

because it's in the middle of the swap

Zanna

@DavidS yeah by the community

Riker

community will mass-edit all the http://stack.imgur links to https://stack.imgur so we're fine there

but going forwards, we need to use stack.imgur whenever possible (not just normal imgur)

David S

@Zanna I see the DNS records have been updated too so it's just the link, I see what you mean now...

I was thinking, the community aren't gonna change the A records ...

Riker

@Zanna everything server-side is getting moved to https. so all the external links (mostly images in posts) need to be moved to https also. It's honestly not that big a deal, especially for thsi site

we're newer, dont have that much to clean up

David S

14:31

I don't think she thought it was a big deal, she was just setting me straight on the situation :)

Riker

the only other big change is the URLs for meta sites, it's becoming 'vegetarianism.meta.stackexchange' instead of 'meta.vegetarian.stackexchange' (i'ts like that for everybody)

jokerdino

Hey @Riker, grats on mod I guess?

Riker

not yet

but thanks :)

jokerdino

When are they putting the post up?

Riker

I dunno

Zanna

14:37

@Riker yeah i know, I've been spending most of my day so far cleaning up on AU - we've got thousands

Riker

ah

asked mithrandir, he got his modship on literature a couple hours after he responded, and he was the last to respond

I assume it will go up when they get the 3 people's acceptances, possibly after they pick a new one if somebody declines

jokerdino

Interesting.

Riker

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

David S

14:52

puts his spacebar out on the desk to remind him to eat it

<not_a_euphemism>

Riker

O_o why

David S

spacebar is a snack. one I've let expire so I need to eat it today

Riker

ok?

David S

I certainly hope so.

nloewen

Seems as though all the action here happens while I'm sleeping. That's unfortunate.

David S

15:01

Not all of it, but I did answer your question :)

nloewen

Ooh, how far back do I need to go for that?

David S

um hopefully it's in your inbox notifications but try about 9am this morning :)

Riker

lol

store.veganessentials.com/…

@DavidS this thing?

David S

@Riker That's the one

Riker

coool

nloewen

15:04

Ah, found it. cool

David S

It's the red hot chilli one

nloewen

@DavidS That looks good.

OOH they sell in CAD!

David S

@nloewen Are you Canadian?

nloewen

Yes

David S

Where abouts are you?

I've been to Canada a couple of times but only west..

nloewen

15:07

Right in the middle.

In Manitoba

David S

Ah, I went as far as Edmonton but that was it, I was mostly in BC

(around Prince George)

I love Canada, that you can just drive in a straight line for hours and never see traffic lights... not like the UK at all

Mithrandir

15:34

@DavidS the dropdown menu thing uses https

David S

@Mithrandir Which dropdown menu thing? To add an image?

Mithrandir

At least, that's what it does for me on Lit.

David S

Ah, okay, thanks.

Stack Exchange

17:35

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Q: Announcing Moderators Pro Tempore!

Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community to act as temporary, provisional Moderators. You can read about the program here: Moderators Pro...

discussion featured moderation

Riker

woot

I am a mod now

I do'nt know how to feel

I think it's cool though

congrats @Niitaku and @Erica on your modships!

jokerdino

hmm, congrats all three of you.

Riker

thanks

Alexander Rossa

17:52

Congratulations to new Mods :)

Erica

@Riker Feel upbeat, with a bit of trepidation. Works for me ;)

jokerdino

Well, I will just be sad and quiet I guess.

Riker

@Erica yep!

@jokerdino :( don't be sad

@AlexanderRossa thanks :)

woot, all flags have been handled

btw, regarding that retinoid answer: I purged comments, will lock if it's rolled back again (but it won't I'm fairly certain)

Mithrandir

18:33

Congratulations to the new moderators pro tempore, @Riker, @Erica, and @Niitaku!

Riker

thanks :D

Mithrandir

(Also, I still think that The Greenhouse sounds like a chat for Gardening & Landscaping...)

Riker

so do I but it's a nice name so deal with it :P

Erica

18:48

@Mithrandir Thank you :)

Mithrandir

So now you new blues can stick [status-bydesign] on this... :P

And [status-completed] on this...

Riker

that's for the heads up :P edited

Riker

19:02

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Q: Define on-topic and off-topic reasons in the help center

One of the reasons on which many users are confused is on-topic and off-topic. If you once look at our meta home page, you will see that many questions are like Are questions about X on-topic here? Are essential oil topic questions on-topic here? Are recipes related questions on topic or ...

discussion feature-request scope

@Erica @Niitaku we should get on this soon

Erica

yes -- I'm at work right now though :D

Riker

:D have fun!

Erica

ALWAYS...

Riker

lol

Erica

right now I'm testing three python scripts that are very long-running, which means I'm triply productive but apparently unbusy :P

(until they all crash at once)

Riker

20:54

I don't think we need rheumatoid-arthritis :P

nloewen

Yeah, that seems too specific

Riker

21:18

3 meta questions incoming

> incoming

where are you meta bot >_>

Niitaku

21:36

Oh my god, I don't know what to say! :o
Thank you all! :)

Congratulations to @Riker and @Erica too :)

Riker

21:57

@Niitaku thanks! congrats to ya as well

Niitaku

@Riker Thx :)

Riker

:)

ok wtf meta bot

Feeds

Riker has removed the moderator nominations feed from being posted into this room

Erica

lol

bots can be a pain, and that's about the extent of my valuable contribution :D

Riker

lol

Niitaku

22:08

^^

Riker

our first legit pin:

Vote on the raw and rawfood tag synonym now.

2

Zanna

23:29

@Riker not enough points :/

congratulations @Erica @Niitaku @Riker :D

Erica

thank you :)

Zanna

I'm not meant to be in here at all, accidentally clicked on firefox when trying to do something else entirely

Stack Exchange

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Q: Is there a guideline or a set of expectations for how well-sourced Answers should be?

I'm a very new user. Is there a guideline or a general set of expectations somewhere for how well-sourced Answers should be? As a new user, the expectations weren't clear that this site is meant for specifically scientific or academic discussion (or, rather, Q&A), if it is that. And if it ...

discussion

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Q: Let's clean up our tags

We have 67 tags that are on only one question. That's a lot. Let's try to clean those up, eh? Here's a list of all these tags. (I would make a SEDE query, but apparently we're not on there yet) Some of these can easily go (for example, we had 68 until I removed rheumatoid-arthritis), but other...

discussion tags

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Q: Is it time for a new questions feed into chat?

We have a meta feedbot now (have had it for a good bit now) which feeds into here. Should we have a main posts feed? This would post every new question on the site into chat. The arguments against it at the beginning were because it would post so many messages it would clog the chat, but now th...

discussion chat

Erica

@Zanna that's everyone's excuse ;)

Zanna

yeah it's the equivalent of "I just went out to buy a loaf of bread"

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