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7:55 AM

@SQB @Gallifreyan Smokey detects lots of false positives. But there are only like 20 false positive posts flagged out of over 20k flags cast.

Wait, why don't we already have a meta feed in here?

SQB

We decided we didn't need a meta feed here.

Gallifreyan

8:13 AM

NAA: scifi.stackexchange.com/a/163330/70236

Mithrandir

@SQB hmm. Don't remember that.

@Gallifreyan bleh, I flagged and then realized that I could have reviewed it. Now I can't.

SQB

Oh, by the way @Mithrandir, I clarified my position on what I said yesterday, in a room you're not in, so I'll repeat it here.

Clarification on what I said in The Restaurant: while an off-site mod is within their rights to make the adminstrative change they did, I'd appreciated the following:
"Hey people, is there a reason [link to post] hasn't been implemented?" @ping @ping @ping
"Ehr, no, we're just sad to see her go, we haven't got round to it."
"Mind if I do it?"
"No, go ahead."

Mithrandir

OK, I understand that. But I don't see why you reacted like that. You know that SFF chat has gotten a lot of attention from mods across the network recently.

Gallifreyan

NAA: scifi.stackexchange.com/a/163337/70236

SQB

8:29 AM

@Mithrandir I know. But this was completely non-urgent as well. Had actual moderation been needed, I wouldn't have had any problem with that — I would've thanked them for stepping in.

@Gallifreyan flagged.

Is there a way to get notified on votes on meta?

Mithrandir

Possibly a userscript

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SQB

1:52 PM

Hmm... I'll look into that.

SQB

2:08 PM

Q: Logic behind the Prometheus and Alien : Covenant Movies

I'm just watched the Alien: Covenant. I've watched the Prometheus Quite long back just not fully recover the story.So i couldn't exactly relate the 2 movies. But somewhat i can tell the alien covenant is just a continuation of Prometheus. Could someone please explain the story in detail. Spe...

Non-native speaker; needs some work.

On mobile; not doing it myself (sorry).

1 hour later…

Gallifreyan

3:38 PM

Does this really answer the question? scifi.stackexchange.com/a/72034/70236

1 hour later…

SQB

4:41 PM

@Gallifreyan wait, that has been accepted?

Gallifreyan

4:55 PM

shrug whatever makes people happy. Personally, I flagged as NAA because it doesn't say who supported Umbridge, and neither does it claim that no one supported her. It just rants about a lot of people being against her.

Rand al'Thor

5:20 PM

And I deleted it, despite its acceptance.

Gallifreyan

6:16 PM

@Randal'Thor my-hero

Gallifreyan

7:07 PM

NAA: scifi.stackexchange.com/a/163376/70236

Now asked as a question, but the answer still needs deletion.

Mithrandir

Owner deleted it.

Gallifreyan

Ah. Well, at least they've got their answer.

Gallifreyan

8:03 PM

scifi.stackexchange.com/a/163342/70236 - need to keep an eye on.

Gallifreyan

8:52 PM

Ah, it's been moved to chat: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/61892

Rand al'Thor

9:10 PM

@Gallifreyan What the heck.

Gallifreyan

@Randal'Thor It's ok, no harm done, just a misguided attempt to preserve published content.

Rand al'Thor

@Gallifreyan Yeah, I'm just surprised that someone could be so misguided.

SQB

@Randal'Thor my thoughts exactly. Including the heck.

Gallifreyan

@Randal'Thor Do you mind adding the film night as an event?

Oh crap, I should've added it in chat

Rand al'Thor

@Gallifreyan Oh, has it finally actually got a fixed date?

SQB

9:15 PM

(Removed)? I call fowl!

Rand al'Thor

@Gallifreyan Hold on. If I add it as a chat event, it'll also show on the main site.

Thus halving the amount of work needed ;-)

Ah, too late.

Gallifreyan

Really? That's cool.

Q: July Film Night: The Iron Giant, featuring Vin Diesel, on Saturday 15th July at 6pm UTC+0 (now with Sunday screening!)

The theme of July's movie night will be: Robots! 🤖 Your film should significantly involve, or be about, robots. At least one of them. Possibly, but not necessarily, giant robots. Mechas are counted. Cyborgs & organic robots will be counted, since there's fuzzy grey area I'd rather us be able to...

discussion movie-night

SQB

9:27 PM

:38673029 to be honest, using Watch2Gether or anything other than "bring your own copy" doesn't feel quite right to me. Are we in the clear with that? We wouldn't want to cause SE to be sued for "enabling piracy".

TIL: cross-room replying doesn't work.

Gallifreyan

Yep.

Rand al'Thor

Who's to say it's piracy? Gallifreyan said it's available for streaming on Netflix and Amazon.

SQB

Yeah, so I'm not sure. How does Watch2Gether work? Does it just sync streams, or does it make a stream available to people who wouldn't have had one otherwise?

Don't get me wrong. Even though I haven't been able to find the time to participate, I think it's a great way to build community.

But at the same time, I don't want to bring trouble to SE.

Rand al'Thor

@SQB I believe it just syncs streams. So people other than the host get a 'stream' they wouldn't have had otherwise, but only as a one-off thing - just as if they were coming round to watch it on the host's TV.

Right, @Gallifreyan?

Gallifreyan

To be completely honest, I don't know. I know it doesn't host the videos, and we don't download them. It just plays the video from YouTube or DailyMotion, so it's up to those hosts to deal with piracy and stuff.

I'll try to rent it on Netflix or Amazon, but I'm not sure it's available in this country. Might need some VPN work.

Gallifreyan

10:24 PM

Is this an answer? scifi.stackexchange.com/a/163384/70236

Rand al'Thor

@Gallifreyan I think it's an answer, just an unsourced one?

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