The Awkward Silence

ElizB

00:43

I'm debating whether to nominate myself for the moderator election... it feels like I've done some but not enough to really consider myself worthy

Looking at the rep, action, meta activity, I feel like I haven't come close to either Rainbacon or Aelis or Avazula yet, but I guess I'll keep working on that :)

El'endia Starman

01:27

If nothing else, it'd be interesting to see how much support you have from the community.

For instance, I ran for mod on PPCG for funsies and still got 12 first-pick votes.

ElizB

huh, okay

Tinkeringbell

04:58

@ElizB You've done more recently than 1 of the other candidates, so... But I guess you'd have to hurry when you wake up ;)

Journeyman Geek

@ElizB go for it anyway. I lost 2 elections before I was made a pro-tem, then won SU, then well...

dhein

05:32

@Tinkeringbell Harsh words you had '^.^

GaMen everyone :)

Tinkeringbell

@dhein I don't like lies. Morning!

dhein

@Tinkeringbell Fair enough

Tinkeringbell

We have three other awesome candidates though, so here's fingers crossed ;)

dhein

Hehe :) Are you allowed to vote?^^

Tinkeringbell

Yes :)

dhein

05:40

@Tinkeringbell: I am a little confused by the questionnaire point 5, them saying they will partially reduce their activity and in other parts leaving their activity unchanged.

Tinkeringbell

@dhein There really can't be much less activity indeed, and unchanged is not a good sign either... But I'm not going to engage them further, as they already pulled out the victim card yesterday and when people do that there's no need talking to them further :)

dhein

@Tinkeringbell Yeah, just wanted to let you know that your claim just gets further supported rather than disputed, if you haven't checked the post already. I kinda find it sad, that they came back this way. I actually liked their participation before.

Tinkeringbell

06:00

Meh. I said all I had to say about that already in the comments there. I'll just keep my fingers crossed for rain, aelis, and Ava (and Eliz, if she decides to drop a very last minute nomination). But I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed things ;)

avazula

Morning everyone!

Tinkeringbell

Hey you!

How was your weekend?

dhein

@avazula Morn' :)

Extroverted Main Man

0

Q: How can I stop my niece with developmental disorder from sitting behind my juice bar?

I own a small juice bar, with two seats behind the counter for me and my employees, and a piddling number of seats for customers that are usually occupied. My brother has genetic disorders and his 18 y.o. daughter genetic and developmental disorders. Every week she comes to the juice bar to vis...

JAD

06:23

good morning

dhein

06:36

I jsut am wondering, if a troll posts good content, with being inline with our policys and it being helpful, how can this be by definition a troll? I am a bit confused about this, why everyone wants to take actions on that. And I wonder by what scale these suspicions would be measured. I mean that 8th Question sounds to me like "You see a high quality post but have for no reason the suspect it might be bad intended, what you do?" Am I misunderstanding that question?

Mithrandir

@ElizB Rep isn't all that important.

@dhein A troll would be someone who posts intentionally inflammatory content in an attempt to rifle up controversy and start arguments, while still technically keeping in line with the policies. Not explicitly breaking the rules, but - intentionally - wreaking havoc. Not every controversial or divisive post is a troll, of course, but sites like this one are especially attractive to people who'd be willing to do that for a laugh.

Ælis

@Tinkeringbell I hope @ava spend a nice weekend, mine was definitively good and not to tireing which was nice :)

Mithrandir

06:52

@ElizB I ran on Puzzling.SE with much less rep and posts than some of the other candidates, and I came in third - only 12 votes behind second. You never know what your chances are.

JAD

07:06

And what about all the people who won't be able to join the community because they're terrible at making helpful and constructive co-- ... oh.

Ælis

@ElizB I know some people doesn't lile me (according to the downvotes on my meta questionnary answer). I can definitively see you having more rep than me and finishing third :)

JAD

@Mithrandir ok, but there is a difference between "skirting the lines of what is acceptable", and " good content, with being inline with our policys and it being helpful,"

Mithrandir

@JAD Right. There's no mention of the posts being especially helpful in the questionnaire...

Extroverted Main Man

0

Q: How to act when you think your way is better and it is but the other person shouldn't be made to feel less?

Suppose you wanted to make a contribution to someone, in some form, and would like things to go your own way and things to be the way you imagine them, but someone else opposes themselves? Suppose your way is better, or you think it's better. How do you explain to the other person that your way ...

conversations relationships conflict-aversion conflicts children

JAD

@Mithrandir there was in @dhein's question

avazula

07:40

@Ælis I did :)

dhein

@JAD Thats pretty much what I had in mind

@Mithrandir Hmmm I was like we had some kind of policy that posts of our platform had to be helpful. Hence I felt that complient with policy was implying they are helpful

@Ælis I wouldn't actually take this about liking or not liking. I am one of the downvoters. That's not cause I don't like you, but cause I disagree with some of your moderating approaches. So totaly nothing personal. Actually as a person I DO like you :)

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ankiiiiiii

How'd I do? 😅.
Pretty serious discussion going on in the room. Sorry for the interruption.
@avazula I think OP is having conflicts regarding upbringing of their children with their spouse. So "hypothetical" slightly implies disregard for their condition. Isn't that so?

Ælis

@dhein Oh, that's nice to have this feedback! Feel free to also post it under my meta answer to the questionnaire

Also, @Magisch thanks for your kind comment :D

@ankiiiiiii For a user still (kind of) new here, you did very well :) For next time, for this kind of too broad question, I suggest you directly ask "Hey, do you have some examples you could add?" then explain why adding such an example is important (because it's too broad and unanswerable otherwise). Citing the policy is good but it's often hard to understand what concrete actions you need to take. So, that is why clearly stating "you need to add an example" is good

ankiiiiiii

08:05

@Ælis Oh okay.. In fact, there are several issues that 4 people have pointed out in the comments. I could accommodate only that much.

Ælis

@ankiiiiiii Don't worry, you did well :)

@dhein Also, I'm kind of interested to know what are the moderation approaches point that you disagree on with me? (that is, if you don't mind telling me)

avazula

@ankiiiiiii Hi there! As AElis pointed out, hypothetical is not meant in a negative way here, I just wanted to ask OP to provide details about the situation they're trying to achieve ("suppose that XYZ happens and ..." is not a great fit here). I hope my comment as a whole explained that point and if not, that it didn't come across as rude

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

08:34

@dhein Downvotes on the questionnaire annoy me though. All they do is make one or two candidates always appear on top of others.

Tinkeringbell

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Which to an extent, is good ;-)

dhein

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ yeah, I agree with you here. and with @Tinkeringbell too. I am not sure if this is actually a pro or cons. But since the option is there I make use of it as others do. ^^ But yeh, dunno about it. Might be kinda demotivating for some Nominees, despite its not necessarily really representative.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Tink IMHO that's not what the questionnaire is for. A real-life equivalent would be an economics prof. agreeing with whatever a presidential candidate says on screen, making them look good, and a comedian ridiculing everything the other candidate says. At the same time. It skews perception and makes an unbiased evaluation harder than it already is.

dhein

@Ælis I am willing to tell you. But a little disclaimer upfront: I am not willing to discuss it with you, as I made the experience in the past, the 2 of us discussing personal views has somewhat a risk get draining for me (and I suppose for you as well). And since I recently have quite some busy work days, I can't effort getting drained at work. (Otherwise I'd even be willing to discuss it with you if you wanted :P)

A J

yawns Afternoon!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

08:43

Afternoon Ajay

Hmm, now I should think of an Ajay from a Bollywood movie that doesn't subjectively suck.

And one whose surname is not Kumar. Ugh.

Ælis

@dhein That's fine with me :) May I still answer to explain my view or would you rather have me not do that?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

This is my view: I keep confusing Aelis and Eliz.

A J

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ There is an actor named Ajay Devgun.

dhein

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Yep. I totally agree with you. But still, I am not sure if that's neccessarily all bad.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@AJ Whoa, developer gun

dhein

08:45

@Ælis Feel free to do so. Just don't expect me to go get into that at that point :)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@dhein I guess it's not 'bad' if it's a candidate you like to win ;) It definitely is unjust, though.

Ælis

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ The names does look a bit similar indeed. Thankfully we have really distinct avatar

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Yeah which I can't see 99% of the time

Ælis

@dhein That's good with me (and it also allows me to have the last word :p )

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

And WTH, I can see avatars now.

I feel immortal

Ælis

08:47

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Arf, I see why you would have a hard time differenciate us :/ I do find it harder to follow a discussion when half of the avatars are not visible to me

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@AJ Googles Oh that guy. There was this movie where he was poor and his family was poor and everything around him was poor. He was basically emitting poor rays. He had an opportunity to gain some money with nepotism but he refused. Still, it was an okay movie, I guess.

@Ælis Rarely it happens that it sounds like the censorship servers take a break or the bots go offline or something and I can see avatars without a VPN

Tinkeringbell

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Ehhh... you're making this too complicated. The economics professor upvoting one questionnaire answer (agreeing with the presidential candidate) is the same economics professor ridiculing the other candidate most of the time.

A J

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ which movie you are talking about?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@AJ If I remembered the title I would have mentioned the title

@Tinkeringbell The only thing visible to people is the score, not who voted.

BBL lunch

The main argument in favor of it is why shouldn't people just be able to disagree with them just like any other meta post.

More on it later. Check out these kitten compilations.

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#22081 Mickey Perlstein (101 rep) | Q: How to act when you think your way is better and it is but the other person shouldn't be made to feel less? (score: 0) | posted 2 hours ago by Joselin Jocklingson (101 rep) | Toxicity 0.87147474 | High toxicity | tps/fps: 0/0

Matched regex(es) ["offensive"]

Ælis

09:02

@IPSCommentBot Not offensive but answer in comment

IPS Comment Bot

Invalid feedback type. Valid feedback types are tp, fp, rude, and wrongo

dhein

So yeah, the main problem I have with your approaches is that you are for my expectations way too trigger happy when it comes to deletions. I mean I trust you that you will step back a little given the mod's deletion powers. But when I came back to IPS like 9 months ago, your strictness about policy and the immediate actions being taken made me first feel offended a few times. Especially since my impression was so far, you have a hard time trying to take the itnends or motivations of others into account or getting into their points of view. While that's not necessary for making judgement ab…

A J

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ That I had already. :P

Ælis

@dhein I guess I see your point (even if I don't necessarily share it), thanks for letting me know :)

Ælis

09:32

comment-pls | need back up | interpersonal.stackexchange.com/a/22083/21067

(I already commented under their other answer, it didn't have the requiered effect, I'm hoping someone else could try to do better than me)

If anyone wants to step in: interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/22079/…

Ælis

09:49

Also, if someone could tell them that just posting a link without telling us what is said in those link is not enough, I would be greatful (I don't really appreciate when my remarks are called "unthought-out"...)

(Seems link Tink handled it, thanks :) )

dhein

@Ælis You are welcome :)

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis You're welcome. I also put the question on hold and tried to engage the poster to rephrase...

NVZ

@Tinkeringbell Hello. I'm sorry I may have upset you for something in the past. Frankly, I don't even know what it was. Was it that I called you my friend? It's normal in my culture to consider anyone you spend a lot of time with "a friend" even though they don't necessarily have to be close friends. An analogy perhaps might be some cultures adding "mate" or "pal" while talking to even random strangers.

IPS Comment Bot

Hi Mickey, there's already an other answer here with 75 with an approach that doesn't require OP to pretend to have a disorder in any way. What makes you think your answer is better? Since you didn't include any personal experience or links to other evidence that your approach would work your current answer isn't any better than a random "try this" which isn't a good answer on this site — Imus 1 min ago

#22083 Imus (3791 rep) | A: How to ask if I can mow my neighbor's lawn (score: -1) | posted 25 minutes ago by Mickey Perlstein (95 rep) | Toxicity 0.1776628 | tps/fps: 0/0

Matched regex(es) ["chatty"]

Imus

Was just gonne tell @Ælis I tried to comment on his new answer with a more direct wording. And this bot spoils my fun just because I started with "hi mickey"? (or some other regex match that I'm unaware of)

Ælis

09:54

@IPSCommentBot hum?

IPS Comment Bot

Invalid feedback type. Valid feedback types are tp, fp, rude, and wrongo

Ælis

@IPSCommentBot hum

IPS Comment Bot

Invalid feedback type. Valid feedback types are tp, fp, rude, and wrongo

NVZ

@Tinkeringbell Regarding my reduced visible presence on IPS - the past year has been very eventful, met my dream girl, job, had an amazing year offline - I chose to spend more time with friends and family outside the internet for a while. But that does not in any way "delete" any knowledge or experience I have on stack exchange.

@Tinkeringbell Regarding IPS policies - I have made sure to stay aware of the ongoing meta debates for a long time. I am up to date on the major subjects happening here - just did not engage in any conversations myself so as to avoid committing to respond to replies.

Ælis

@Imus The bot can tell you what regex catch the comment, but it seems like I'm unable to remember the commend >< Anyway, thanks for leaving a comment there :)

NVZ

09:57

@Tinkeringbell I do not know of any way to provide evidence of said keeping myself in the loop. I am aware that the only thing users can see of me is the posts and activities I have visibly made, not of those I have spent time reading without bothering to log in to the site.

Journeyman Geek

hmm. Don't y'all have an election chat?

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Ælis

Random image to lighter the chat mood:

NVZ

@Tinkeringbell I don't intend to disrupt anything on the community. If for some reason (currently unknown to me), all of the current mods do not want me in their team, I will step out. I only wish for the best for the site.

Journeyman Geek

@Ælis westie?

NVZ

@Ælis I prefer cats. ;)

Cat person, I am. Not a fan of dogs, lol

Ælis

10:10

@JourneymanGeek Don't ask me, I know nothing about dogs ^^ (but I thought that, maybe, you like dogs :p )

Journeyman Geek

@Ælis certainly a terrier. Kinda lacks the stripe on the muzzle though

Ælis

@NVZ I do prefer cat too, but this picture was a special @JourneymanGeek delivery :)

Journeyman Geek

@NVZ pfft. You do not have my vote then ;p

(actually, I have a reasonable idea who to vote for already, like or dislike of canids aside )

Ælis

@JourneymanGeek Oh no, I was hoping to buy your vote with some more dog pictures! :(

:p

Journeyman Geek

Ava's probably my first choice, mainly cause she's someone I interact with a lot, and it feels like she has the people skills.

Ælis

10:14

@JourneymanGeek I can't disagree with that :)

Journeyman Geek

@Ælis Probably helps that I see her around my chatroom periodically too

Ælis

@JourneymanGeek Well then, she is cheating :p

Journeyman Geek

@Ælis well yes and no

It depends on what you consider to be a good mod

And since chat's somewhat underloved, having folks familiar with other chatrooms helps keep the third place healthy

Ælis

@JourneymanGeek Well, I do believe that commenting activity is more important than chat activity. And both her and Rainbacon have a nice comment activity IMO (even if ava was a little less present this past month due to work issues that are now resolve)

Journeyman Geek

yup

Ælis

10:20

Okay, I should stop chatting and go back to work now ^^

Journeyman Geek

hah

dhein

@Ælis huh? it was, Wasnt it?^^

Ælis

@IPSCommentBot huh?

IPS Comment Bot

Ælis

@dhein Thanks dhein! (Those "huh" are not very intuitive for my French me ^^)

dhein

10:31

@Ælis Back to commenting you mean?^^

Ælis

@dhein No, the work that I'm actually paid for :p (which is, right now, very difficult to do since I don't have the right tools :/ )

Extroverted Main Man

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Q: Would it be strange to ask a guy out after we (drunkenly) cuddled for more than an hour last weekend?

He(20M) is a friend of a friend who I(22F) begin to get to know a bit better because we play DnD together. We were both at a party and somehow we ended up cuddling. I never really looked at him in that way, but I am happy to find out if there could be more between us. But I am just scared that th...

relationships friend-groups

dhein

@ExtrovertedMainMan VTC'ed as asking what to do. No time to comment on it right now, tho

Since I have to get back focusing on my paid job now too ^^

Imus

11:12

@IPSCommentBot So it was because I used "good answer" without "how to write". oddly specific regex :D

Extroverted Main Man

0

Q: My team has problems expressing when feling a problem in the team?

My team has problems expressing when feeling a problem in the team? They start doing noises!

work-environment coworkers

IPS Comment Bot

You need to get out of home. Now. Your development as a person is being stunted by overbearing parents. — M i ech 10 secs ago

Matched regex(es) ["possible-aic"]

Tinkeringbell

@IPSCommentBot tp

IPS Comment Bot

Marked this comment as caught correctly (tp). Currently marked 1tps/0fps. beep boop My human overlords won't let me flag that, so you'll have to do it yourself.

Imus

@dhein was just about to ask for country tag on that one :D you beat me to it

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

11:45

Oof, I missed some fun it seems

Typical me

@AJ No fair, you're an hour ahead.

@JourneymanGeek Wow, you're even more bureaucratic than me

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ no soup for you.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

in Language Overflow, Dec 4 '15 at 20:45, by StoneyB

Such bureaucratic efficiency!

I dunno why bureaucracy wouldn't be a compliment in the chaotic environment that is the internet. It's not like we work at the DMV or something

Journeyman Geek

You need to fill a form in triplicate to get a form to be filled in triplicate to obtain the form to get a complaint form

Which needs to be filled in triplicate, notarized and sanitized

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek There's a part from an Asterix comic that's exactly that :P

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell might be inspired by the cartoon version of that

bruglesco

11:59

Isn't that from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@JourneymanGeek I'll stamp you with a QC stamp (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

avazula

@bruglesco I love Adams

Magisch

@JourneymanGeek like when you need a second notary to notarize that your notary is authorized to notarize things?

dhein

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ The stalling effect of bureaucratic, comming with lazy people executing it gives it a bad tone I think. Bureaucratic as such is really a beauty from my view x)

Ælis

12:15

@Imus That's because linking of our faq about good answers would always been reported otherwise. That was some kind of a "workaround" to the problem

Imus

@Ælis That was obvious when I read the regex. Just funny how specific it is for that case

Ælis

^^

Journeyman Geek

@Magisch exactly. We are not barbarians

IPS Comment Bot

12:39

The dog makes it easy: if you farted, blame the dog. I you didn't fart, blame the dog. Easy as that... — Laurent S. 1 min ago

Ælis

@IPSCommentBot tp

IPS Comment Bot

Marked this comment as caught correctly (tp). Currently marked 1tps/0fps. beep boop My human overlords won't let me flag that, so you'll have to do it yourself.

ElizB

@Tinkeringbell alrighty I guess I'll give it a shot.

Ælis

@ElizB \o/

Rainbacon

Good morning everyone!

ElizB

12:43

@Ælis hehe thanks for the support

@Rainbacon Good morning!

Ælis

@Rainbacon Good morning/afternoon onlyone :p

Rainbacon

Wow, I think this was the busiest weekend on IPS in months and I was mostly unavailable due to moving

Ælis

@Rainbacon In the months? In the last ten months you mean! (before that, I don't know, I wasn't there :p)

Magisch

the mod election is a conundrum

sadly we can't go "there are more good candidates then positions so just make 3 positions then"

Rainbacon

@Ælis There is an implied "several" before months. It's a fairly common English idiom to say "in <insert unit of time>" to say that it has been a really long time. You use the unit of time to specify the scale of really long time

Ælis

12:47

@Rainbacon Oh, right. Somehow my brain managed to add "a" between "in" and "month(s)" ^^'

flag-pls | spam | interpersonal.stackexchange.com/a/22088/21067

dhein

@Ælis last 10 Months? So you joined IPS just like a month before I came back? You sure? :o

Tinkeringbell

@Magisch meta.stackexchange.com/q/329113/369802 < Apparently, happened once. That question links to it ;-)

But no, shouldn't be done :P

Ælis

@dhein You just have to check the age of my IPS account to check that (because, when I finally decided to create an IPS account, I immediately started to be very active)

dhein

Yeah but that would require me to make quite a few clicks :P

Nah Nah Nah, that can't be :D It was already saying 10 Months like 9 Months ago. That must be some kind of static image :P

Ælis

@dhein "Visited 301 days, 301 consecutive" -> I'm kind of impressed at myself here Oo Also, 301/3 = 10,03333. So yeah, I have been here for the last 10 months ^^

dhein

12:59

Ok, my honest respect to that one :o

I am leaving office now. have a nice day everyone :)

Ælis

@dhein Have a nice day to you too :)

Magisch

@Ælis so you are forking aelis :p

Tinkeringbell

@dhein I'm jealous! I'll still be spending another hour here. Have a nice day :)

Magisch

which raises a interesting question. If the original aelis recieves a diamond, will subsequent forks inherit the diamond?

Tinkeringbell

Forking diamonds is against the TOS, I think ;)

That's why a mod with socks only has a diamond on 1 sock ;)

Imus

13:05

Since one of the youtubers I'm sometimes watching reads F**k as fork to prevent demonitizing, this convo reads somewhat, euhm, let's say NSFW

A J

@Ælis Visited 720 days, 708 consecutive :P

Ælis

@Imus So, it seems that diamonds aren't an STD XD

Tinkeringbell

@AJ Visited 667 days, 78 consecutive

Ælis

@AJ Wow, that's definitively impressive too!

A J

in The Screening Room, Jun 13 at 1:46, by A J

Ælis

13:09

@Tinkeringbell If we were one day before, I would have been very scared of you :p

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis Yeah, I seem to have missed a great number... but 66778 isn't too bad either! :P

A J

How about that? ;)

Magisch

362 days, 1 consecutive here

Ælis

@AJ Pfff, stop showing off :p

A J

:P

Ælis

13:10

@Tinkeringbell True that!

A J

I missed only one day in the beginning of the site, else it would have been 721 (the site's age)

Magisch

I take days off from SE every now and then

Ælis

@AJ Yep, definitively impressive

Magisch

even online social interactivity is draining

A J

Ohh

I use SE, Instagram, Twitter and nothing else.

Ælis

13:13

@Magisch Yeah, I get that too. When I come back from work, it sometimes so hard to focus in order to interact online :/

A J

Looks like we're gonna get a new moderator on board on the second anniversary of IPS. :D

Imus

Imus: Visited 254 days, 1 consecutive

yup, sounds about right

Mithrandir

@Magisch I take 25 hours off every week. Certainly helps.

ElizB

well there we go. Answered the questions and posted my nomination. Let's see what happens 🤷‍♀️

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Magisch

@ElizB Now there are 4 people I can't decide between instead of 3

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ElizB

13:24

@Magisch heh

okay, gotta eat breakfast

I already feel accomplished lol first thing in the morning doing the nomination made me feel motivated

Rainbacon

Ooh, if 6 more people nominate in the next 7 hours we'll have to go to primary :p

ElizB

@Ælis you're so sweet thank you for your kind words... I feel like I don't deserve them

Ælis

@ElizB You are very kind yourself and I know you totally deserve these words :-*

ElizB

okee :)

Ælis

Also, you should probably edit a link to your profile and candidature post in your meta anwser

ElizB

13:34

@Ælis oh, right. thank you for reminding me :)

Ælis

You're welcome :)

A J

@ElizB well, good luck! :)

ElizB

@AJ Thanks :)

IPS Comment Bot

While I added my own answer, I want to say that I love this answer because it takes the "direct and honest" approach. — Jesse Steele 41 secs ago

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avazula

@IPSCommentBot tp

IPS Comment Bot

13:40

Marked this comment as caught correctly (tp). Currently marked 1tps/0fps. beep boop My human overlords won't let me flag that, so you'll have to do it yourself.

Imus

I kinda want to post a troll nomination

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Do it do it do it

Imus

:p

I kinda have to do actual work now and didn't wanne take my laptop home so can't really do it :(

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ElizB ✊

@Imus Excuses excuses

ElizB

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ 😊👍

Imus

13:46

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ perfectly valid ones, yes

Rainbacon

For anyone that's around and wants to do some flagging, the comments on this post can be cleaned up now that the relevant information has been edited into the post itself

ElizB

@Rainbacon Thanks for pointing that out :) puts away broom

ElizB

14:11

@Rainbacon I don't know if you saw but I answered your question you had for me in the questionnaire

Rainbacon

Oh, excellent! I'll take a look when I have a minute!

@ElizB That's a really good answer, actually, I don't think you could have answered it better. You just made it really hard for me to decide how to allocate my votes.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Rainbacon Pfft, no, it didn't make it harder for me

111 rep. I RULE YOU ALL

UNLIMITED POWER

El'endia Starman

14:26

What if someone has 1111 rep?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

4 sucks, everyone knows that.

Not bad Eeps. I give your election drama 7 out of 10.

Rainbacon

Yeah, figuring out which person to not vote for is hard

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Figuring out how to get to 150 without posting is harder

El'endia Starman

ElizB is certainly getting one of mine. (She knows where I sleep...)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@El'endiaStarman everyone knows it, Starman.

Emphasis on "star".

I'm thinking you put on boots with wings every morning and run around.

El'endia Starman

14:30

That's Hermes' job.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

It used to be a feshionable choice like, 2000 years ago.

Rainbacon

@El'endiaStarman I call nepotism!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@El'endiaStarman Whoa, so you're his boss?

El'endia Starman

uhhhhhh Yes! Yes of course I'm his boss. Why wouldn't I be?

ElizB

@Rainbacon lol okay sorry :)

Mithrandir

14:32

I'm El'endia's boss, though, so you can direct complaints to me and I'll foist them onto Nike.

El'endia Starman

(nice one :) )

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mithrandir Pfft yeah right

Rainbacon

14:46

@Mithrandir Pretty sure @ElizB is El'endia's boss

Mithrandir

...she's like the super-boss.

ElizB

@Rainbacon maybe :)

ElizB

15:17

why an awkward silence after that? :P

Rainbacon

Oh, sorry. I do have to put some amount of attention into my actual job :p

El'endia Starman

(same here)

ElizB

@Rainbacon yeah, I know... seems I'm the only one here that has mondays off hehe

Museum work is tuesday through friday

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

16:24

@Ælis @NVZ I don't think your comments are going to be visible during the election, not much point in adding stuff there so close to the end of nomination phase.

6 hours ago, by Journeyman Geek

hmm. Don't y'all have an election chat?

in Shadow's Den on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 9 secs ago, by FOX 9000

@Marshmallow (づ•ʖ')づ︵uɐɯʎǝuɹnoſ

ElizB

17:11

@Tinkeringbell answered your questions, I hope it makes sense. You asked a great question! Thanks for challenging me :)

Tinkeringbell

@ElizB You're welcome, and good luck with your run! I'm curious to see how it works out :)

Extroverted Main Man

0

Q: How to deal with negative background information while networking/ interviewing?

For me it's an interpersonal question, so please don't suggest moving it to the workplace. So here's the story: I got bullied by my boss in the new job. After several months I came to the conclusion it's not worth it and quit. I got a lot of objective evidence my performance was great during my...

relationships work-environment

ElizB

@Tinkeringbell Thanks. I was pleasantly surprised with some support when I thought about nominating myself. I'm curious to see how it works out too.

Rainbacon

I think your nomination is what makes the election very interesting. Before you nominated I was fairly confident that I knew exactly what the outcome would be. Now I'm quite uncertain

Mister Positive

17:39

@Tinkeringbell me too ;-)

ElizB

@Rainbacon oh, interesting :) we'll see how it turns out! :)

Tinkeringbell

18:11

@MisterPositive Voting phases should be shorter for pro tem elections. Just 48 hours or something :P

Then we'd know sooner ;)

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Rainbacon

@Tinkeringbell Ooh, fancy

Tinkeringbell

The bookmark is new... but it's too big! 46 cm from head to tailtip

It was supposed to be around 10cm shorter XD

Ælis

@Tinkeringbell Did you just kill a dragon? :o

ElizB

Oh! it's a parrot riding a dragon!

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis *tamed :P

@ElizB Spreading evil everywhere!

Ælis

18:24

@Tinkeringbell Well, your "tamed" dragon look suspiciously flat... :p

ElizB

@Tinkeringbell hehehe nah I was thinking of mushu from Mulan :)

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis That's because it's a bookmark dragon, very special species!

Very easy to store when you're not using it!

Ælis

XD

Tinkeringbell

@ElizB Well, I did think of that one while crocheting it too! So that's not too far off XD

The eyes are too goofy to look evil, I guess XD

ElizB

@Tinkeringbell ooh I honestly would love a bookmark dragon. people on the bus would ask me why there's a dragon sticking out of the book I'm reading haha

@Tinkeringbell yeah haha that's what got me

Mithrandir

18:31

An hour and a half left, if anyone's planning on any last-minute nominations.

El'endia Starman

Oh shoot, still need 40 more rep! (jk jk)

ElizB

hehe

Rainbacon

Quick, everyone go upvote @El'endiaStarman so that we can watch the spouse battle for the mod spot

ElizB

-_- haha

Tinkeringbell

Umbridge voice Hum Hum

El'endia Starman

18:52

LOL

Rainbacon

19:54

Well, I did one last update on my questionnaire answers before the start of the election. Good luck to all the other candidates!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Good luck everyone!

ElizB

good luck everyone :)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Especially the election candidates. But generally too.

Also in future endeavors. Not just winning the election.

Rainbacon

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Thanks! I think the thing I need the most luck in is getting my fiancee to relax. She's been crazy stressed with all of the moving stuff that's going on.

ElizB

@Rainbacon ah, I can understand that

Rainbacon

19:58

@ElizB Having things that are still packed is really stressful for her, so she'll be highstrung until we finish that.

ElizB

@Rainbacon I totally understand that lol I don't like not having things on hand when I want them

avazula

@Ælis I felt it coming last weekend remember... Well, my car is in trouble :/

Tinkeringbell

There, votes are cast :D

avazula

I didn't have the strength to unpack lol

@Rainbacon :( when I moved last February, I kept most of my things packed for ... About a month, I believe?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@avazula It's only when moving that I realize how much of the stuff I don't use frequently.

Rainbacon

20:05

Ok, my votes are in. Let's see if I leave them until the end or decide to go back and change them.

avazula

@Rainbacon me too

It's a tough one to say the least :p

But yay, we have our first elections!

@Tinkeringbell you have data about it as a mod or is it just your feeling from what's been said in chat? :p

Tinkeringbell

@avazula See the screenshot: I have the badge, no one else does ;)

El'endia Starman

(yet)

avazula

@Tinkeringbell I was too slow to comment :p

Yay, now I have it too!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Tinkeringbell

20:09

Turns out I was wrong XD

You have to actually click 'others with this badge' :P

And then the timestamps are all the same, so there's no saying who was first

avazula

Haha

El'endia Starman

Plus, badges are awarded in (basically) a cron job, so (I think that means) people who got a badge between checks will have the same time stamp.

Ælis

@avazula Arf, not cool :/

I hope it's not a too serious issue

IPS Comment Bot

Agree wholeheartedly. @Qyburn, despite what the movies say, "falling in love" isn't something that just happens or that you can't control. It is something that you choose when you find yourself infatuated with someone and then decide to spend more time with them. As a happily married father of 5, I (very rarely) run into a woman that I find I have a lot in common with and might grow to like. When that happens I consciously make the decision to keep my distance and keep things professional. Otherwise I would quickly find myself on a slippery slope, which is exactly where you are. — conman 1 min ago

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El'endia Starman

Alright, I've cast my votes. (And @ElizB, no asking me, my lips are sealed. :P)

Mithrandir

20:15

I voted for Cthulhu.

ElizB

@El'endiaStarman I won't ask, that wouldn't be fair.

El'endia Starman

I read a couple questionaire answers before voting though and I saw a couple mentions that mods "may" close questions unilaterally. The wording makes it ambiguous but the reality is that mods may choose whether to close a question, but if they close it, then it is unilateral.

People/mods have asked for the ability to cast non-binding votes but those requests were rejected.

IPS Comment Bot

Minor quibble: option #1 basically just defers the choice to the wife, who will eventually find out and then force you to choose between #2 and #3. My dad chose #1 until my mom found out and forced him to choose. He claimed #2 but secretly stuck with #1 even still, until he eventually chose #3. #1 is never a stopping point. It's just a pause to #2 or #3. — conman 2 mins ago

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@El'endiaStarman English modals. Almost as annoying as perfect.

Oh, now that sentence is ambiguous!

Rainbacon

Ooh, all of our candidate scores went up because we got the constituent badge :p

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

20:26

And the relative differences got even smaller

Rainbacon

21:08

Hey, @Ælis does anything seem fishy to you about the candidate questionnaire?

El'endia Starman

@Rainbacon I'm really not sure if this is a genuine question or the setup for a joke.

Rainbacon

@El'endiaStarman It's a genuine question

If you go check out the questionnaire you'll probably see what I'm referring to

El'endia Starman

Only thing that stands out is Johns-305 commenting on each answer.

ElizB

Oh, I see what you mean... like that question is a good one and I gave my answer. Now that I know Johns-305 commented the same on every answer that made me just look at it quizzically but nothing more than that really

Adamant

21:24

Hi. All the candidates look wonderful, but I was wondering why none of the users with the most reputation seem to have volunteered in the moderator election?

In most of the elections I've seen there are at least a few people with high reputation, since it's generally thought that that indicates they know a little about the site.

El'endia Starman

High rep != good mod.

It's a useful indicator, I'll give you that.

Adamant

@El'endiaStarman Of course!

El'endia Starman

Also, looking at the first page of users by all-time rep, three are mods, one was a mod, and three nominated themselves in this election.

Adamant

@El'endiaStarman Did those three not get past the primary?

El'endia Starman

There was no primary.

Adamant

21:29

I'm look at the page of nominations, and I don't see any of those users. Am I missing something?

El'endia Starman

NVZ, avazula, and Ælis are on the first page of users by rep and also in the election.

Adamant

Oh, first page. I misread your comment

Rainbacon

If any of you haven't flagged that post that smokey linked, please do so now

El'endia Starman

Yeah, definitely a bad 'un.

Rainbacon

21:44

@ElizB So, I think this is a good example of the situation described in question 8 of the questionnaire

ElizB

@Rainbacon oof, yeah

it's been deleted

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