Maid Café (メイド喫茶)

Logan M

12:10 AM

I have the strangest song stuck in my head right now:

►

Eric

@LoganM I'm so afraid to click that.

Logan M

@Eric You should be afraid for your life.

Eric

I also see "One Direction". Now I'm more scared.

Logan M

The full title is: "Infinite Stratos vs. PSY vs. Quad City DJs vs. Sonic vs. Maroon 5 vs. Nicki Minaj vs. Ke$ha vs. O..."

The description is also great:

> Peace ushered throughout Japan for many years after the Infinite Stratos was created. However, that all changed when Sonic, a 21-year-old hedgehog, finds out that he can pilot an IS. Seeing unlimited potential, the government drafts him into the Infinite Stratos Academy, where he is surrounded by musicians from all over the world who can pilot IS.

Eric

@LoganM This reminds me of The Ultimate Showdown.

(Which is still awesome, btw.)

Logan M

12:17 AM

@Eric You mean that really old video from the early days of flash?

Eric

@LoganM I totally mean that really old video from the early days of Flash. :D

The one that made Chuck Norris bigger than the internet.

Logan M

@Eric I don't think that one had IS. Or really any anime.

Eric

@LoganM Nah, not even close. But I just meant the "A vs B vs C vs D vs ..." setup.

Logan M

@Eric Ah, the vs. is used in mashups for some reason.

Eric

I wonder if that's at all related to the "Epic Rap Battles of History" series.

Logan M

12:21 AM

Here's another example:

►

iDOLM@STER vs. Bubba Sparxxx vs. Snoop Dogg vs. Dr. Dre vs. Jay-Z vs. DMX vs. Will Smith

Logan M

12:35 AM

The stats for today show the highest traffic on Area51 since I've started collecting stats (402 V/D).

Eric

12:51 AM

@LoganM Awesome. That's good. If we can break 500 I feel like we'll start getting steadier content levels, too.

Krazer

1:20 AM

@Eric we broke it yesterday :)

Eric

@Krazer :D

Next goal: 1000!

Krazer

@Eric we passed that on 2/13

reddit happened

Eric

@Krazer lol, Guess we should aim for 10k then.

Krazer

we don't have anything help vampires want

Eric

Yeah. I don't know if that's good or bad.

Logan M

1:25 AM

@Krazer We should expand our scope to Anime, Manga, and anything help vampires want.

Eric

We should just expand our scope to include everything, and see if the SE mods notice.

Logan M

@Eric Robert still reviews a ton of stuff here, so I suspect he'd notice eventually unless we managed to inform all of our users without making it obvious to anyone else.

Actually, he only reviews suggested edits, so nevermind. I think we could get away with it.

Eric

@LoganM Shog might pay us a visit. He's a sitewide mod, right?

Krazer

Unless I accidentally... let it slip >:D

@Eric He's a busy man

Eric

@Krazer That's true.

It would be funny to start asking questions about Marvel and such.

Krazer

1:35 AM

All the supermods hare having a meeting in NY office so they are gonna be sparce

Logan M

@Eric I see Shog in chat here occasionally, but I don't think I've seen him on the main site. Although his profile does indicate that he's upvoted 1 question and downvoted 1. He also has some meta activity.

Eric

Muahahahahahah~

Logan M

(́◉◞౪◟◉)

Eric

1:55 AM

@LoganM So, Poyo's not fat. They just explicitly said so in episode 43. :|

Logan M

@Eric What did they say?

Eric

Hide: "Fat cats seem popular lately"
Moe: "That's because everyone desires the healing and warmth of soft, round objects"
Hide: "If that's the case, Poyo doesn't fit that fetish. He's packed with muscle" (and pulls at his skin to prove it)

Logan M

@Eric That's in like chapter 2 or 3 of the manga

Eric

Odd. Well, regardless, it's not that, then.

Krazer

2:14 AM

ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

Eric

@Krazer omg, That looks just like Poyo. xD

Eric

2:29 AM

Yikes, no questions in the last 24 hours. I think I need to ask something.

Logan M

@Eric Ask why no one is asking anything

Eric

Totally should.

"Why aren't there enough questions about anime and manga?"

I could revive my trap one, but that doesn't even count as a new question unless I post it anew.

Logan M

Or you could ask about that "lolicons are diseased" thing that I posted a while back and you said you would ask about on loli day but didn't.

Eric

Hmm.. I don't remember that. I'll look for it.

Logan M

@Eric I think it should for the purpose of stats, but only for 2 weeks from the date it was first posted.

Eric

2:32 AM

@LoganM Yeah, exactly.

@LoganM I can't find it. Do you remember any keyword from the conversation? loli, diseased, and ask are getting me nothing.

Logan M

in Social Page Content Discussion, Apr 22 at 16:00, by Logan M

Eric

Ohhhhh, you found it! Now I just need a question... hmm... :D

Logan M

You could ask what it's from. I'll tell you right away.

Eric

Sure. We could use an answered question. :D

Krazer

2:48 AM

Eric

@Krazer Uh oh, will you beat Logan to answer? xD

Krazer

@Eric no wai

Logan M

@Krazer With how spotty my internet connection is right now, you might be able to.

or not

Eric

Nope, Logan won.

You answered it in 58 seconds. Well done.

Krazer

no one can out gun @LoganM when it comes to VN

Logan M

2:53 AM

@Eric I answered it within 5 seconds of finding the question. The main issue was the lag in actually finding it.

Eric

@LoganM I didn't know if you were actively looking or waiting for Sakamoto.

I wonder if Sakamoto will show it properly if I accept an answer before he comes.

Logan M

BTW I had that answer written from when I first posted the image on April 22 just in case.

Eric

... nfw

Are you serious?

Logan, you are never allowed to leave this site. Ever.

Logan M

@Eric This one is easy enough that if I know it's coming it would be irresponsible to not be looking for it. Cross Channel has recognizable uniforms and it's rather famous due to the spinoff flash game Nanaca Crash.

@Eric I thought there was a small chance someone would ask when I first posted the image, so I precomposed that answer before posting it. No one did, but I figured that I could get someone to do so eventually anyway.

Eric

@LoganM Victory is yours, then. :P

Krazer

2:58 AM

@Eric how one-sided

Eric

lol

:)

Logan M

The serial voting script just subtracted 30 rep, but I got 40 rep worth of upvotes in 1 minute. That's a bit silly. It seems like it should cancel all of them.

Eric

One might've been someone else.

It'd be an odd coincidence, but possible.

Logan M

@Eric Would have to have been 2, since they were all question votes. And it would be really odd, since the votes came consistently in 3 second intervals.

Eric

Krazer lost rep due to serial upvoting as well. What the hell?

Do we have some serial upvoting troll?

Logan M

3:06 AM

@Eric Look at his upvotes 1:43-1:49. That's 40 rep of upvotes, of which 35 was cancelled.

Eric

@LoganM That must be a bug, then.

lol, this person serial upvoted me too, but mine didn't get reversed.

Even though they voted for me 5 times. They were just more spread out.

Logan M

Anyway mods should be able to tell who the serial voter is and can deal with it appropriately. I happen to know also because I've been keeping track of stats, but I won't post it here.

Eric

I don't feel right keeping this rep. Any suggestions on other people's questions I can bounty?

Krazer

@Eric anything by that LoganM guy

Eric

@LoganM Does the Tonnura question have an answer? I'd rather bounty something that will actually get one or more answers.

Logan M

3:12 AM

@Eric I'd just keep it for now. There are bountiable questions, but many of the questions probably aren't answerable easily, if at all.

Eric

Darn. D:

Logan M

@Eric Yes, but it's rather easy actually. You could get it in an hour or two if you wanted to.

Eric

I also know the Kud Wafter question has a solution, but I'm halfway finished an answer to that one so it doesn't feel right, lol.

Logan M

In fact I could tell you exactly where the answer is for the Tonnura one, but the point of asking the question is that it forces someone to read a nontrivial amount of this great manga fairly carefully to find the answer.

Eric

I'd rather read the manga, tbh.

It looks fun.

Logan M

3:16 AM

I can guarantee that you will find at least a partial answer if you just read up to date what's translated in English. The full answer might not yet be revealed, but you should at least be able to tell how many siblings Tonnura has.

Eric

I might be able to suffer through the raws for what isn't in English to find something like that, too.

Logan M

Anyway I don't think you should worry so much about rep from serial upvoting. It's just like all other rep: it doesn't really mean anything. Lots of other users probably got some too from the same person, and I suspect most of them didn't even notice it.

Sakamoto

2

Q: From what series is this odd lolicon poster?

I recently saw this image of an approximately high-school-aged boy with a young girl under his arm, pointing up at the stars with the text "lolicons are diseased!" (Note: No offense intended from the image.) Are the characters found in this image from an actual anime or manga, or are they just...

identification-request

Eric

Probably so. I don't like the idea of feeling like I'm too far ahead, though. Regardless, I'm past the last milestone (unless we suddenly graduate), so I'm not worried about bountying.

Yay, Sakamoto displayed it correctly!

Logan M

@Sakamoto Yeah I already answered that one.

It does seem like the number is sort of greener than usual, so I think he's able to pick up on whether it has an accepted answer or not.

Eric

3:25 AM

Yeah. I know standard copy-and-paste of questions does that also, I just didn't know if Sakamoto's feed would let him.

Logan M

BTW Cross Channel is a pretty good eroge IMO. The translation isn't so great (it's hard to translate because the protagonist's internal dialogues are very strange) but it's still very enjoyable even in English. Plus it's literally never been adapted to any other medium apart from console (AFAIK). However, you have to go in prepared to hate the protagonist, because he's not really a good guy.

Eric

@LoganM Not good how?

Logan M

@Eric It's hard to explain fully without any spoilers. For one thing, he sexually harasses pretty much every female character in the series. He's also really annoying at times, and lies, cheats, cuts classes, etc.

Eric

@LoganM That's an interesting protagonist, all right

Logan M

@Eric He's very interesting, but not very likable. If you want someone like Okabe from S;G he's going to disappoint you more often than not.

Eric

3:37 AM

@LoganM Okabe is awesome. I don't know, Okabe isn't my typical preferred protagonist. But as long as there's a good, common secondary character, I can manage a terrible protagonist.

Logan M

@Eric It's a really strange game overall, and I wouldn't characterize many of the characters as likable. There are a couple who I liked, but most of them are sort of difficult to deal with. Anyway you might enjoy it, or you might hate it.

Also, just FYI, it's not supposed to entirely make sense what's going on the first time you go through the loop. It gradually starts to make more sense, and by the halfway point you should mostly get the gist of what's going on.

Eric

It likes to leave its viewer behind? :P

Logan M

@Eric No. It just doesn't reveal too much at the beginning. You can perfectly follow the individual scenes it shows you, but how they fit into a broader story is not obvious until you get through at least a couple of routes.

Eric

@LoganM That's okay, I guess. It is nice to be able to put things together earlier on though.

Logan M

@Eric In this case it would be boring if they told you everything right away, since you have to play through more-or-less the same story several times. But each time it reveals more info, so it doesn't really get old.

Eric

3:53 AM

@LoganM That is my least favorite part of VNs, though. Redoing parts of the story.

Logan M

@Eric You're supposed to autoskip the text you've already read.

Eric

@LoganM Autoskip is so slow! >_<

Logan M

@Eric Not really. It skips through like an hour of dialogue in a minute or so.

Also, at least in my experience, you rarely need to use it very much. Sure, if you have a late-branching plot with lots of choices it can get annoying, but most VNs worth reading have early branchpoints (or don't branch at all). Cross Channel is a bit unique in that regard since it's not even correct to say that it has branchpoints. In one playthrough you complete every route.

Eric

So you don't have to redo the common route each time?

Logan M

@Eric Depends. Most of the time you can just set autoskip on and only watch the scenes you haven't seen before. In some cases though the common route itself has early branch points (like Clannad, for example). But in general you don't need to reread anything you've already read.

The only game that actually annoyed me with the amount of autoskip required was Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo. That's because there's really only one storyline, and the individual character routes are just a few scenes tacked on for that particular character. Since I wanted all the CG I had to do all of them, so I autoskipped through the game about 5 times, which took a bit of time. But for most games it's fast enough that you don't need to worry about it.

Even that one took less than an hour, so I shouldn't really be complaining about it.

Eric

4:11 AM

Less than an hour? Did you rush it?

Logan M

@Eric Less than an hour total autoskip time. The gameplay time is probably around 30 hours.

Eric

Oh, lol. Yeah, that's better.

Do you ever play any with RPG components in them?

Logan M

@Eric Yeah, occasionally

Eric

@LoganM Heard of Battle Moon Wars?

Logan M

@Eric Yeah, but I haven't played it.

Krazer

4:17 AM

What about Ib? :D :D :D

Eric

@LoganM There's apparently fan translations, but I haven't played it either.

Ib?

Krazer

vgperson.com/games/ib.htm

Logan M

The only ones I usually play are the ones with a big VN component to them, like Kamidori, Rance, Baldr, etc. I did manage to make it through Melty Blood, but I had my friend do most of the fights.

Eric

@Krazer Looks interesting, at the very least. I'll check it out more tomorrow :D

@LoganM Aww, not doing the fun part? T_T

Krazer

the necoarc parts are the best!

Eric

4:23 AM

I'm going to bed~ good night, guys!

Logan M

@Eric I tend to use anime, VNs, etc as a way to relax. If there's any significant difficulty associated to them then they aren't very good for that.

@Eric night

Eric

@LoganM I shall rebut tomorrow. Unless it's too much work.

Also, I leave you with this, enjoy:

1

Sims

Proposed Q&A site for those that have questions about the games Sims, Sims 2, and Sims 3 (all including expansion packs)

Closed before being launched.

Naresh

5:45 AM

Anyone here?

Mysticial

yeah

Krazer

7:11 AM

Anyone wanna chat?

Sakamoto

9:36 AM

0

Q: Why does Ruriko get angry when she's called as "Rurippe?"

Why does Ruriko get angry whenever Shun calls her as "Rurippe" when according to this, 'Rurippe' holds no real meaning except that Shun relates it to her childhood appearance as a sniveler (or one who always has a runny nose). How does Shun relates this nickname to Ruriko as a sniveler...

japanese-language gate-keepers

Logan M

10:26 AM

Freelancing reached 100% commitment. As always, I'll be spying on that beta when it starts, though for the moment I'm still waiting for Open Data to begin.

Logan M

11:13 AM

This is somewhat relevant:

1

Q: How should I distinguish between SciFi.SE and Anime.SE?

I'm asking this, because I thought of a question, but I'm afraid to ask because I"m not sure if it's the right fit. I was planning to ask a question about Devil May Cry, which is not only a video game, but used to be a manga as well, but was related to something specific to the characters within...

discussion

Danalog

4:07 PM

I'm waiting for Beer to get 100% commitment!

I'm skeptical that it'll fly though

Come on, Sakamoto, help me out here.

Logan M

4:28 PM

Sometimes Sakamoto takes a little while. I don't know why. He's still better than most of the other bots though.

Sakamoto

1

Q: How real were the dreams in Paprika?

I really loved Paprika, but I ended up sort of confused by it. During the course of the film, My question is, was it just a mass hallucination, or was it actually truly real?

paprika

Danalog

Thanks, Sakamoto!

Hopefully I picked the right amount of stuff to put in spoiler tags

Logan M

@Danalog I don't know if spoiler tags are necessary here, since it's a movie. Anyone clicking on the question without seeing the movie should know that there might be spoilers, and anyone who has seen the movie doesn't need any spoiler tags. But the amount you've put in the tags is minimal, so it's probably okay.

Danalog

4:45 PM

Oh, that's a really good point.

For movies, you've seen it or you haven't, but for series you can be partway through. I guess my main thing was I didn't want a movie spoiler in the short description on the question list page.

Danalog

5:06 PM

Huh, a favorite on that one already. That's only my fourth favorite.

er, fifth

Logan M

@Mysticial Have you been following the drama that's going on on MSE?

Anyway, if you haven't, it's pretty crazy right now.

There was a proposal to ban all verbatim copied questions which generated a ridiculous number of answers and comments:

47

Q: Proposal: ban verbatim homework questions which have no accompanying text

Edit: Clarification: I think we should start closing questions which are obviously copied verbatim from a homework assignment and which consist of no other text. Questions about homework with other text, e.g. "I tried X and it doesn't seem to work," are fine. Many people are asking 1. how we sh...

discussion homework

The followup post trying to actually implement the policy doesn't have as much activity, but it still has nearly 100 comments total between the post and answers:

48

Q: Proposal: Discourage questions that are nothing besides a problem statement

This is a very clear followup to Qiaochu's question: Proposal: ban verbatim homework questions The reason that I create a new post is because I want to remove the issue from a homework-related issue to a minimum-quality-standard issue. The current necessary minimum standard for a question on MSE...

discussion

There have also been 3 moderator resignations in the past 24 hours:

74

Q: I am resigning as moderator

I don't want to give a big speech about this. In short, moderating is draining my emotional energy and I'm much less convinced of its value than I used to be. Edit: Thanks for the warm comments! Just to confirm, I will remain as an ordinary user. Also, the diamond will disappear around Friday, ...

discussion moderators

54

Q: I am also resigning as a moderator

An election is a big process for the community (and for SE team to set up), and now that Qiaochu's resignation will set one in motion, I am going to take the opportunity to resign as well. To be clear: I don't have any specific complaint, I'm not making a principled stand for or against somethin...

discussion moderators

16

Q: Change of moderators - I resign as well

As mentioned in Zev's post, an election will be coming up for Math Stack Exchange, so I will take the opportunity to resign as well. I no longer feel comfortable recommending Math Stack Exchange to friends, colleagues or professors. As a moderator, dealing with the meta site is emotionally drai...

discussion moderators

Danalog

5:21 PM

" I no longer feel comfortable recommending Math Stack Exchange to friends, " -- harsh

Krazer

@LoganM There won't be any mods left at the election if they continue to resign at this rate

Logan M

@Krazer 3 out of 7 is pretty bad. They are already planning a new mod election (7 mods really wasn't enough anyway with how many questions MSE was getting anyway). I think there was some other drama also where another user's mod powers were removed by SE in the past day or so, but I can't find any documentation supporting that.

Krazer

I heard Qiaochu lost it temporarily but another mod lost it permanently

Logan M

@Krazer Yeah that's what I heard too.

Krazer

apparently Bil Dubuque made a stink about it and loss it permanently

number of moderators vs. time for math.SE

Logan M

5:30 PM

@Krazer Bill hasn't been a mod for a while. Partly because he didn't believe in moderating.

However, he did delete his account over this affair. Previously he just had his username listed as "Gone" and was in a long suspension, but starting today his profile page is deleted.

Danalog

Who knew that math was so drama filled?

Krazer

@Danalog I found the behavior to be expected... Both math and physics rely on confrontation to work... but unfortunately many ppl don't get the diff between constructive crit and personal attacks D:

Danalog

Ah, yeah. Same thing in software development, telling somebody that their code is terrible and they get all offended.

I didn't say you were terrible, just your software!

Eric

lol

Only one person has Fanatic on meta. And it's someone with 103 rep.

Danalog

I almost had fanatic but then I went on a business trip and forgot to check in one day =(

Eric

5:40 PM

lol, That happened to my friend on SO.

He got to 97, then missed a day.

Danalog

Over halfway there again!

Mysticial

@LoganM holy shit

I gotta read this

Krazer

Mystical loves a good dorama

Eric

@Krazer But Dorami doesn't like cockroaches.

Krazer

@Eric and we don't know why!!!

Eric

5:45 PM

@Krazer Nope! D: It appears irrational. But I haz no citationz.

Krazer

@Eric I have to read though all 50+ volumes of doraemon now!

Eric

@Krazer :)

Have fun!

Krazer

@Eric you too:

colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/181944/june-07-2006/…

Mysticial

IOW, Math.SE has grown large enough to have the same problems as SO.

Krazer

It looks like the last time Skeet was under the rep cap was in June 2010

Eric

5:48 PM

@Krazer Can't. I'm in Canada.

Krazer

D:

@Eric imgur.com/a/qleFG?gallery

Eric

@Krazer LOL xD

Mysticial

6:04 PM

damn... Math.SE has had quite a bit of moderator problems...

Danalog

Somebody divided by zero....

All the moderators went under!

Mysticial

Woah... one of the math.SE mods was removed...

That can't be good...

Eric

@Mysticial He may have requested it.

Mysticial

@Eric That would be a resignation.

Eric

@Mysticial It wasn't one of the ones that resigned?

Mysticial

6:08 PM

"Removed" implies, the moderator was kicked out against his/her will.

Sakamoto

6:21 PM

0

Q: When/Why did Nagi move out of her mansion and into the apartments?

In the first episode of the 4th season (Hayate no Gotoku! Cuties), Nagi is shown living in the apartment building with all of her friends. (You can't really tell this is the apartments from the screenshot, but note the rather plain looking Japanese-style room compared to her Western-style room ...

hayate-no-gotoku

Mysticial

Wow... the Math.SE community really hates Jeff...

Eric

@Mysticial ?

Mysticial

I'm reading all the moderator resignation statements...

and holy shit...

Krazer

Danalog

Hates Jeff?

Mysticial

6:25 PM

Jeff Atwood: co-founder of StackExchange

Krazer

Like a Good Scotch, Developers Get Better With Age

> To determine whether programmers get better or worse with age, the researchers looked at the top ranked programmers on StackOverflow, a site where coders can ask and answer questions about programming. Users rate answers from fellow developers, and then the site uses those rating to generate a reputation score for each developer. Comparing these reputation scores to the age of each developer, the researchers found that these ratings tended to increase as developers moved into their 50s.

Danalog

Ahhh

Some developers get better with age. Some don't.

Eric

@Krazer Awesome. AWESOME.

Mysticial

I think I found the moderator who was removed from Math.SE.

At least a name, not a profile.

JNat

@Krazer awesome

Krazer

6:36 PM

@JNat você é ótimo!

JNat

@Krazer why thank you. But anyway, ótimo is Brazilian Portuguese. Here it is óptimo

well, I (and most Portuguese people) still write like that, but there's this new thing that is supposed to be in use that makes your spelling correct

Krazer

@JNat TIL I've been using the wrong Portugese O_O

Logan M

6:57 PM

@Mysticial That's old stuff. Math.SE doesn't really care about Jeff anymore. They only really disliked him about 2 years ago.

@Mysticial Bill was removed a while ago as a mod. He remained a user until some time today, but he had a long suspension and he changed his username to "Gone" and his profile had something about protesting injustice.

Mysticial

So it was Bill. I guess right.

Logan M

I think another mod dispute is what caused the drama this time. Since Bill hasn't been a mod for a while, he wasn't a part of this one AFAICT.

Mysticial

10

A: Why is 97832123 suspended?

The text of the email that I would have sent, minus his real name: (name)/97832123, Because of your post here, combined with your history and past warnings, your accounts on both meta.math.stackexchange.com and math.stackexchange.com are suspended for 5 days. During this time, your acc...

^^ Was that guy ever a mod?

Krazer

@Mysticial no

Mysticial

He talks as if he was a mod at the time.

Krazer

7:02 PM

he works at Epic, ppl that I've met and have stayed there for long tend to have inflated egos.

Mysticial

But...

I mean like...

You kinda have to be a moderator to start off the answer like that.

9 more votes till my pi answer hits 1k...

ugh...

That was one of you wasn't it. :)

Krazer

rep conspiracy rangers! to the upboats!

@Mysticial how so?

Mysticial

@Krazer It was clearly a suspension notification email. Only moderators can send those.

Unless it's some normal guy just making it up.

I guess that's the case here.

Krazer

@Mysticial I agree

JNat

@Krazer lol, furthermore, you'll probably be interested in knowing that the way you wrote that is the way a Brazilian would write. In Portugal we'd say: informally "tu és óptimo" and formally something like "o senhor/a senhora é óptimo/a" or something like "o/a [name] é óptimo/a"

Eric

7:16 PM

I also don't know why I have 108 rep on Math.SE. I've never asked nor answered a question there.

Mysticial

edits?

wait, that won't get you to an even number

Krazer

@Eric ORLY?

1

Q: Modular Arithmetic order of operations

In an assignment, I am given $E_K(M) = M + K \pmod {26}$. This formula is to be applied twice in a formal proof, so that we have $E_a(E_b(M)) =\ ...$. What I'm wondering is; is the original given formula equal to $(M + K)\pmod{26}$, or $M + (K \mod{26})$? This will obviously make a big difference...

modular-arithmetic

Mysticial

parity check fail

Eric

Oh, see, I thought I might have. But then why is it not in my profile...

0 Answers votesactivitynewest
You have not answered any questions
0 Questions votesactivitynewest
You have not asked any questions

Though, how I have 108 is still mysterious. Even if it's a +2/-1 on that question, that should be 109.

Oh, duh, the +2 for accept.

Krazer

@Eric 5+2 + 101 = 108

Eric

7:19 PM

Yeah, I forgot about accept.

Why is it not showing up in my profile, though!? ><

Oh well. I'm just going to pretend it never happened. Ehehehehehe...

@Eric ufufufu

@Krazer キュキュキュキュキュ～

@Eric キュン!キュン!

Oh boy,another chat flag from gaming...

Eric

@Mysticial The Bridge again? I missed it.

Mysticial

7:26 PM

in The Bridge, 5 hours ago, by kalina

To my knowledge the only thing George Bush accomplished was a weak imitation of Hitler on a different continent, utilising carpet bombing instead of gas chambers

Eric

...

Krazer

@Mysticial kalina (formerly "pixel") is notorious for things like that

JNat

@LoganM woohoo, my answer to that got accepted

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A: How should I distinguish between SciFi.SE and Anime.SE?

First of all, you should read the FAQ for the three sites (Anime, SF&F and Arqade). After having done so, you may come to the conclusion that the question would only be welcome in one of them, in which case you have your answer. However, you can come to the conclusion that it would be welcome in ...

Krazer

@JNat best answer

JNat

@Krazer lol

the other ones are weak, yes

Mysticial

7:31 PM

@JNat Definitely the best answer on that question.

Eric

@Mysticial It's also the longest and the shortest.

It also has the most votes, and the least votes, of all the answers.

JNat

@Eric my answer has it all

Mysticial

It's also the only one that's accepted.

Eric

Oddly, though...

Every answer in that thread is accepted.

Isn't that weird?

Mysticial

Yeah... didn't even notice that.

Krazer

7:32 PM

@Eric clearly the first one was the best one

Eric

@Krazer Really? I think the most recent one is the best one.

Mysticial

No, the last one is the best.

Krazer

@Mysticial don't you mean the latest one?

Mysticial

@Krazer No, I mean the ~~fastest~~ slowest one.

Eric

The roundest one.

The bluest one.

One answer, two answer, red answer, blue answer.

Mysticial

7:35 PM

The rudest one.

Eric

Poyopoyo, hya~

Krazer

@Eric the JNat-est one!

JNat

all of those are mine

I win

Eric

@JNat Except the ones that aren't.

JNat

@Eric there aren't any of those

the only one that is not mine is the nonexistent one

Eric

7:38 PM

@JNat Except for the ones that are.

Mysticial

It's also the only answer that mentions Anime.SE.

Eric

Argh, reading handwritten kana is the most painful thing ever. Except perhaps handwritten kanji.

JNat

@Eric need help?

Eric

@JNat Nah, I think I got it... for now. ^^'

Eric

7:53 PM

Yay, one sentence done! lol

Halp? xD

ぴと? I'm not sure.

JNat

@Eric I think so

Eric

Does that mean anything?

JNat

@Eric I don't know :P

Eric

Google Translate just translates at as "Pito". <<'

@Krazer, do you know?

Krazer

@Eric can I get the context?

as is it sounds like a name

Eric

8:11 PM

@Krazer A couple of shota playing "doctor". Neither is named "Pito", nor is that part of their names. I thought it might be a sound effect but that'd probably be katakana, wouldn't it?

Krazer

@Eric sound effects can be both

ぴ is generally a touch sound effect

Eric

And と?

Krazer

using katakana give it more emphasis

like boom vs bang

Eric

と is hiragana, though...

Krazer

@Eric probably hitting something

or contact with something (physically)

so it can probably be inferred as tap or light tough if it were a sound effect

Eric

8:17 PM

That makes sense, then.

Krazer

google can't do onomatopoeia at all

Eric

Nor can romajidesu... :(

Krazer

@Eric why are these shota playing "doctor?"

Eric

@Krazer Who knows? It's just fan art, lol

Krazer

lol

Logan M

8:22 PM

@Mysticial That was during beta. It doesn't seem like he was a pro temp mod, but he had a lot of meta activity during beta (far more than his main site activity). It's hard for me to tell if he had any sort of official role, but at the very least I don't understand what it is he's posting.

@Eric That Cross Channel ID request might get to +10.

Eric

@LoganM I know, I can't believe it.

Logan M

@Eric Yeah, ID requests are an easy way to get lots of rep. Anyone can verify that they are correct, they're interesting to people who haven't heard of the series, and they tend to be easy to answer.

If we start getting too many of them it might have problematic effects.

Overall I think rep inflation on this site is pretty bad for easy questions, but it's especially so for ID questions.

Eric

I tend to be upvote-happy. I do it largely because it's in beta, and encouraging users is helpful. I don't expect everyone to do it, nor should they, but it's really a good way to get users to post more stuff. Once we grad there's less of a possibility I'll do it so much.

Logan M

I know that I vote too much. I've upvoted questions that could be answered by a simple Google search for the title.

Danalog

8:43 PM

I'm upvote-happy thanks to it being in beta. I try not to do identify questions though, unless it's something that's really bugging me and I failed to figure it out.

Eric

@LoganM Really? I try not to upvote those.

Krazer

we have a serial upboater on the loose. they are believed to be fast and extremely click-happy

Logan M

@Eric The trouble is that in some cases, those questions are actually good for bringing in search traffic. Also, most of our answerable questions (certainly more than half) are of that type that can be searched for relatively easily IMO.

Eric

@LoganM Voting it up won't necessarily bring in more traffic to it, though. So I don't worry much on that.

Mysticial

@Krazer Can't you see who it is from the mod-tools? Don't tell us of course. But you could notify the user (via private chat), that serial upvoting doesn't work.

The aggregate voting data should probably show if someone is voting heavily for one user. Unless of course the user is doing it to everybody equally.

Danalog

8:54 PM

Serial upvoting doesn't work in what way?

Eric

@Danalog The site's scripts reverse it.

Danalog

Maybe serial upvoting means something more specific than I thought. Do you mean spam upvoting that gets you banned?

Eric

Any idea? I thought it was おぃしやごん but that doesn't make any sense.

Mysticial

@Danalog No, it's when a disproportionally large portion of your votes are for one person. And/or they are done in quick successions (as if you were running down the user's profile and up/downvoting everything.)

Danalog

Ahh

yeah, that's no good =P

Mysticial

8:58 PM

AFAIK, mods can look up a user and see who has voted on the user the most times. As well as who the user has voted on the most.

They can't see specific data, but they see aggregates. Enough to bust up voting-rings.

For instance: If a mod sees that 90% of my upvotes are for Logan, then I might be a sockpuppet.

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