The Awkward Silence

user15026

12:03 AM

@apaul I'm not sure what you're saying here, to be honest, and how it relates to what @Adamant said

Pheo

12:18 AM

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A: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool th...

I dare you to read the whole thing.

Pheo

12:31 AM

Anyone finished?

Catija

What does this have to do with IPS?

Pheo

Just the mental degrading that it must have been to write it. Poor guy.

sphennings

There's software that will do that automatically.

Pheo

@Raphiel zalgo hello

^^^^^ I know

Catija

Please don't fill this room with random stuff.

A J

4:54 AM

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Magisch

5:41 AM

@apaul The core issue here is that the regulars are supposed to be better. Are people crossing lines and is that regrettable? Yes. But we need to all work towards civility, that includes not being hostile ourselves, even if you think the other people deserve it. It's hard to show civility when being shown none in return, but being shown none in return isn't a license to sink to the same level. Let the moderation tools deal with line crossing and remain firmly on the acceptable side

A J

NAA definitely, but R/A?

Tinkeringbell

@AJ I don't think so... not even NAA. Bad answer maybe (no back up, not adding anything new... but not NAA or R/A IMO)

A J

On a second thought, it's neither.

@Zyerah o/

user61230

Hello!

Tinkeringbell

Pffttt... another mod? :P

As if this room hasn't enough of those already :P

Hello!

user61230

5:50 AM

Pfffffft I'm just here to pretend to read words, don't worry!

Tinkeringbell

@Zyerah Hahaha ;) I always tell people to only get worried when there's more than 10 mods in this room, at the same time..

I may have to adjust that number upwards sometime soon ;)

user61230

The real concern is when we all appear, suddenly, at the same time, for no obvious reason.

user61230

As we're wont to do.

Tinkeringbell

@Zyerah Exactly.. or when there's new faces, ones that you've never seen among the regulars before XD

user61230

Ah, that's the surprise. I'm here to suspend you. I'm so sorry.

Tinkeringbell

5:52 AM

Hahaha, I now imagine a group of about 20 moderators, just storming into random chatrooms in a coordinated way, just to scare people and laughing about it amongs themselves XD

user61230

This... happened, believe it or not

Tinkeringbell

@Zyerah Do whatever you have to do ;-) We're already trying to show people that there's no favoritism in this room XD

user61230

I think it was April 1st, 20..16? 15?

A J

@Tinkeringbell I know her from Puzzling actually. :P

Tinkeringbell

@Zyerah Sounds like a good April Fools thing :D

user61230

5:54 AM

It was a great idea, but I think we tried to prank RPG.SE chat or something, and all we got was warm welcomes and hellos. No one was particularly concerned. Reverse pranked.

Tinkeringbell

@Zyerah Sounds like you had someone leak your plan XD :P

But I think that's exactly what might happen here, because there's mods popping in pretty regularly ;)

user61230

honestly maybe BUT... rpg.se chat is such a friendly place that I honestly wouldn't be surprised

Tinkeringbell

Now I'm curious :P I'll go stalk a transcript sometime later today ;)

user61230

My memory is shaky, but I'll have to see if I can dig it up, too hahaha

A J

@Zyerah I haven't seen any room more frank and friendly than The Screening Room. :P 0:)

user61230