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6:11 AM

@Fx: Posted bug report

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/126094/cannot-reply-users-with-an-apostrophe-in-their-username

Manishearth

6:36 AM

Wait, did you mean that the system fails to @notify you bacause of the apostrophe, or do you just dislike unlinked chat messages?

Stack Exchange

6:50 AM

Q: What should one do when the community is undecided on a question?

Mainly in reference to Direction of rotation of proton in magnetic field--opposite to a dipole I recently asked a paradox question, and I got multiple answers that conflicted each other. The issue is that each one has good arguments that make sense, and the community seems undecided. (barr...

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F'x

7:33 AM

@Manishearth it's a system bug

@Manishearth and the plural of paradox is definitely paradoxes

Shadow Wizard

8:33 AM

@Fx hmm and do you get notification now?

Manishearth

@ShadowWizard try replying to his chat message using the message reply button to get his attention

Shadow Wizard

That's what I just did, the system automatically convert this to @Fx

Manishearth

(I can't, since I'm not on a desktop)

Aah

Shadow Wizard

@Manishearth Well, smells and looks like a bug - guess we'll wait for official response in your Meta bug report.

Manishearth

@Fx: do you get the notification in:
- comments on a post(not yours) you commented on
- chat with @Fx instead of @F'x
??

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F'x

9:43 AM

@ShadowWizard yes, I get notified when you reply to an older message of mine

@Manishearth don't bother too much, I investigated a year ago when I was a heavy user on English.SE and its chat

I only get notifications that are replies or superping (moderator ability, pinging by ID instead of name)

whichever way you write my name, I won't get the notification

Manishearth

@7433

@91: does this work? Is it even supposed to work?

@Fx (hope you see this, can't message reply from a mobile device) serverfault.com/users/16732/tom-oconnor . I'd say that there are enough such people with ' in their usernames for this to be bothered about.

Shadow Wizard

10:13 AM

@Fx so you think it's got anything to do with the single quote in your name at all?

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F'x

11:18 AM

@Manishearth I think it's only if the apostrophe is in the first three letters of the username

@Manishearth nope, not supposed to work

@manishearth

Superping has syntax "@@userid@physics.stackexchange.com"

Manishearth

11:42 AM

Yep, I know the superping syntax.. I just was wondering if @userid pings (unlike superpings, these should work only for users who have been in the room recently). After all, usernames are not unique, so it makes sense to have an @userid in conjucntion with @username. I think I saw a meta discussion on this somewhere.

Too bad SE doesn't have a free, downloadable copy of their engine. I do lots of programming on Wikipedia (not directly on their engine but related stuff), and it helps to have a few copies of MediaWiki on your compiter to blow up at whim. You can also give yourself cool userrights and try them out :D

Anyways, without such a copy, testing this becomes harder as I would have to change my username a billion times and/or create socks. I think the latter is forbidden anyways. If SE was downloadable, I'd have had tons of fun testing it :)

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Manishearth

1:51 PM

@ShadowWizard well, you know the old saying: "If it looks like a bug and smells like a bug, it's probably a feature" :p The existence of status-bydesign supports this!

Shadow Wizard

2:29 PM

@Manishearth sorry to hear that.. but at least it's not a nuclear duck! :D

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pcr

4:12 PM

@Manishearth You can play around with SE/SO clones ;) meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-clones (I found this when I was looking for the "answer" to physics.stackexchange.com/questions/7809/…). I have tried shapado and it's nice. And for wiki I recommend github.com/github/gollum

Manishearth

5:06 PM

@pcr unfortunately, clones are no good for bugfixing(i have an inexplicable urge to fix bugs in all code) or developing. But I think the clones would be worth a look, I might find some use for them.

As for the wiki thing, I already have five or so copies of MediaWiki (which, unlike SE, is free/open source) running, so no need to check out clones :)

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Stack Exchange

11:59 PM

Q: Physics logo sending confusing signals?

Am I the only one who thinks the physics logo says "sombrero" louder than it says "physics"?