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8:00 PM
YARRRRR me hearties! 'Tis eight bells of the last dog watch! Be ye a-mutinying and prepare to make the cap'n walk the plank!
 
NOW! ATTACK! PARROT, BY MY SIDE! OVERTHROW @MITH, THE DICTATOR!
 
*looks at crowd* Uh-oh.
 
fires
 
Happy Mutiny everyone!
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8:00 PM
@CaptainJackSparrow You have no chaaance! No chance at aaalll!!
 
yohoho everyone
 
thar'll be no hornswaggling here
 
Thar horn has been swaggled around the ship five times already!
 
vive L'Interpersonal Skills!
 
8:02 PM
I'll take yer duffle, insolent landlubber!
 
> down with Intrapersonal skills, long live Interpersonal skills
 
@Mithrandir24601 Skills! Skills!
 
@CaptainJackSparrow I challenge you to a duel!
 
@Mithrandir24601 Way to make me start my day in tears!
 
8:04 PM
@ArtOfCode Accepted, scallywag!
 
En garde!
 
@Jolenealaska :D There's lots more where that came from...
 
BLOW THE MAN DOWN
 
@CaptainJackSparrow DOWN! DOWN!
 
I say, good sirs, let's all share some music and movies!
 
8:05 PM
@TheTinyMan arr, git outta the way. Yer shark bait now
 
@Tinkeringbell Look down, Look down, upon your fellow man!
 
let's scuttle this palce
 
Wrong kind of pirate? D:
 
@Mithrandir24601 me too :) My faves are the flash mob I've shown you and the 1 man show. Have you seen that?
 
@Mithrandir24601 man! man!
 
8:06 PM
HEAVE HO
 
@TheTinyMan Wrong! Wrong!
 
@Jolenealaska Is that Nick Pitera?
 
WELL IT'S A MUTINY SO I DON'T CARE WHAT YE THINK
 
yeppers
 
THIS OLD SALT WON'T SETTLE TILL THIS GROUP HAS FED THE FISH
 
8:07 PM
@Jolenealaska Yeah, he's good :)
 
Release the Kraken!
 
(comes out of hiding, fires off a few rounds.)
 
@RichardU Ye'll sleep in Davy Jone's locker tonight, buccaneer
 
@RichardU ARR' YA SHOT ME! NOW YOU GO DOWN
 
8:08 PM
It just now dawned on me that @Tinkeringbell changed her picture to a parrot on the day of the mutiny...
Also, I could swear that parrot was facing the left earlier
 
BRING OUT THE MONKEY
 
@Rainbacon Parrot! Parrot!
@Rainbacon Right! Right!
 
Come out, @Mith! Tonight we fight!
 
One more:
 
Sid
8:10 PM
@CaptainJackSparrow Let's call a truce and live to die another day
 
@Sid cook yer cackle eggs somewhere else
 
 
Where's my powder monkey??
 
8:12 PM
@CaptainJackSparrow Gone! Gone!
 
Wow... Alfie is off on that one (in the beginning - he finds his voice)
 
at least this parrot is here
 
@CaptainJackSparrow Parrot! Parrot!
 
*grumble* these blasted moving images are interrupting my nice orderly mutiny
 
8:16 PM
 
Well, if we're all done mutinying... yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
 
cheers to that.
 
According to my watch we still have 12 minutes of mutiny left
 
so... where is the nearest Reef?
 
reloads
 
8:19 PM
@Mithrandir Also, aren't you too young to drink (or does the mutiny cover that)?
 
Sid
@Rainbacon Shhh. No one needs to know about that.
 
technicalities
 
So I can stop parrotting?
 
did I miss the mutiny?
 
And start drinking?
Awww.. come on! One more round for Em :D
 
8:22 PM
@EmC You've missed most of it, but there's 8 minutes left
 
Mutiny! Mutiny!
 
@Rainbacon woo! I mean... yarrr, mateys
 
@EmC ye landlubber, missing things, eh! Avast ye! You're shark bait now!
 
I was stuck in an airport security line :P another reason pirate ship is superior!
 
lol
I missed the entire thing!?!?!
 
8:25 PM
@CaptainJackSparrow did you bring the rum?
 
@Mithrandir24601 The 4 Valjeans Bring Him Home on that Royal Variety clip is worth a look. Maybe even better than the 25th.
 
@Jolenealaska It's literally just stopped playing on my laptop :P
 
@Jolenealaska i think your one man link was amazing
 
:D
 
@Cashbee Amazing it's a dude, huh? :D
 
@Jolenealaska yarr that scallywag can sing
 
Yes he can!
If you haven't seen it, get the 25th Anniversary Concert immediately
Do not pass Go
 
Stop the mutiny for the sake of the cat!
 
that's a deadly seacat
 
8:29 PM
And pay no attention to the pop star so outclassed on that stage.
 
The mutiny is now over. Thank you for your orderly participation in our regularly scheduled mutiny.
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@sphennings Ugh... you sound ... I don't even know the English word for it!
 
Until we mutiny again. *salutes*
 
Good mutiny everyone. See you in two weeks for the next one
 
8:31 PM
Now It's time for a Civil War!
 
@FreezePhoenix that seems like a bigger version of a mutiny
 
@FreezePhoenix first a putsch
 
@FreezePhoenix I think we're booked at the moment. Our schedule might open up in a couple of months.
@Tinkeringbell What's the non English word for it?
 
@Cashbee We already had that (I.E, mutiny)
@sphennings monotonus?
Darn it they broke that chat again. :(
 
@sphennings I guess I was looking for official :)
Like stadium speakers or cops, when you have to follow their instructions :P
 
8:35 PM
@Tinkeringbell Is English your second language or third?
 
20 bucks it's her -1'st language.
 
@Rainbacon Second. Third French and Fourth German :)
 
@Tinkeringbell Sehr gut!
 
Danke!
 
@Tinkeringbell Psh... Shows what you know about mutiny... mutiny intensifies
 
8:37 PM
@Tinkeringbell 0_0 Where's the spanish? Oh... well...
Bonjour!
 
@Tinkeringbell I'm a RO it's my job to make sure that we have a successful mutiny. :p
 
@sphennings That's controversial. If you did so, you'd lose your job.
 
@sphennings Don't forget to have fun once in a while :)
 
If there's interest we can have a mutiny planning committee for the next one.
 
8:39 PM
@sphennings If @Mithrandir would like the help, sure, why not?
 
i... kinda had no idea what this one was supposed to be, i created it on a whim and just ran with it
and sure
 
@sphennings You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means ;)
 
I have a non-relevant user question... what's your favorite color?
 
user15026
why is that a mod only question
 
user15026
and why is it relevant
 
8:41 PM
@apaul That's a misquote BTW
 
Oops wrong template.
 
@FreezePhoenix blue. no! green! AAAAaaaaaahhhh...
 
@Mithrandir is it?
 
This is the actual quote, copied from the book a couple hours earlier:
> "You keep using that word!" the Spaniard snapped. "I don't think it means what you think it does."
 
user15026
8:43 PM
@Mithrandir I suspect the movie uses it differently and that's where @apaul is coming from
 
^this
 
bleugh, movies
:P
 
@Mithrandir That's one is a classic. If you haven't seen it, you really should. You're in for a treat.
 
The Princess Bride
 
And yet the movie quote is used more often
 
8:46 PM
@sphennings I did, actually. I'm also in the middle in the middle of reading the original book ;)
 
Movie up, mister "I have awesome bookshelves"
 
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ i prefer for my screens to be doing productive stuff
 
@Mithrandir that's so meta-ly in the middle
 
(hides 1.6k Movies & TV account)
 
@Mithrandir that does it. YOU'RE GROUNDED
 
8:48 PM
@Mithrandir makes semantic argument about this particular film qualifying as productive
 
@Mithrandir that's not how it works
 
i'll go continue reading through hundreds of spam posts now
 
You should put it in brackets
Then it'd change into a hidden community
@Mithrandir that's much better than your books
21st century as opposed to book century
 
That's low.
 
Only if you have a book on "how to fight spam"
@Mithrandir are you opposing new ideas?
 
8:51 PM
No, I'm opposing the ridiculous notion that spam is better than books ;P
 
You can't eat books
 
Spam musubi is some of the most amazing hangover food ever.
 
Hey... no mudslinging people or concepts. I mean, don't call stuff spam unless it's spam.
 
And you can't prove that I didn't intentionally bring on a ridiculous idea
@FreezePhoenix The spam he's reading is pure
And heartfelt
Well, CPU-felt
 
Ahhh!!!! Run away!!!!
 
Gosh.
 
Medium asked me to send them a list, sooo
 
After reading that... Gosh++
 
@Mithrandir what conclusion do you draw from the last 782 blog posts?
 
Eeeeeek
HNQ
 
8:54 PM
@Mithrandir So much spam
 
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ that the pharma spammers are nuts and i'm even nuttier
 
Ready your teaspoons folks.
 
@Mithrandir that's so lame and obvious. What conclusion after reading them?
 
that my brain has been fried
 
@Mithrandir Why are you reading all those?
 
8:56 PM
I'm... not actually reading them, I'm just collecting links :P
in Charcoal HQ, 8 hours ago, by Mithrandir
2 hours ago, by Mithrandir
> Hi <redacted>,

Thanks for reaching out to us and for your help with flagging spammy content.

We're reviewing the reported posts, and we'll be working on suspending those accounts in accordance to our rules.

I'd be very interested in taking a look at your list - would you be able to send it to us so we could review it?

Thanks,
Jonas
Trust and Safety
I need to make the Medium support team faint
 
@apaul I'm not sure why you're shocked. That's the logical consequence for asking a question like that on IPS.
 
@Mithrandir are you just flagging everything that is not appropriate + some stuff?
 
@Mithrandir So you're taking links collected by the smoke detector and reporting the spamy ones to medium?
 
@FreezePhoenix I'm specifically looking for spam by the pharma spammers on Medium
 
@Mithrandir now I know your real name, Redacted!
 
8:59 PM
@sphennings No, I'm taking links from posts Smokey has detected, and using those links to find posts that contain those links. Other people are also working on getting those links taken down for spamming in the first place.
 
Is it a group effort by some people?
 
this Medium effort is pretty much entirely me working off Charcoal data
 
@sphennings Not shocked, just bracing for the coming crap storm.
 
Dang they are smart. Putting U+00AD in their post.
 
@Mithrandir So you're using the spammy links detected here to identify spammy posts on medium because they're linking to the same content. That's really cool.
 
9:04 PM
Thanks :)
 
Don't encourage him!
 
...but Google keeps rate-limiting me
 
Are you doing this manually or using a bot?
 
Manually. I'm a heathen, I know
 
@sphennings she reads them.
 
9:08 PM
@FreezePhoenix Gandalf is a he
That his avatar is a girl from some cartoon, well . . .
The weirdness is strong with this one
 
@Mithrandir There is so much automation potential for this.
 
There is, but that's gonna wait until after I give 'em their dump
 
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Hey, Isabella is cool! xD
 
then i'll raise the issue of automation with them
 
I keep looking for an excuse to go "Whaaatcha doooooin'?" to @Mithrandir
 
9:10 PM
which may need some improvement of their API on their side
 
Well, how many legit blog posts would be titled "click here Garnicia Cambodgia"
 
First i need to make them realize the extent of the extant posts
 
Now I wanna buy some Garnicia Cambodgia
Whatever it is
Face cream?
 
@Mithrandir If they use smoke detector data then it's trivial for medium to auto detect posts with those links. I was talking about writing a script to do the work of compiling a list of spammy medium posts, instead of doing it manually.
 
Probably, but i don't code, and I felt like it would be interesting to look at them :P
 
9:13 PM
@Mithrandir Do other sites use smoke detector data for spam detection?
 
nope
 
@sphennings nah
 
we're considering expanding to other sites, but first we need to talk to them.
 
They should though
 
like... Medium. when I send 'em this list i'll raise the discussion of automated detection
 
9:13 PM
@Mithrandir almost tempting.
 
@Mithrandir I just assumed that everyone on SE had at least a little programming experience. :p Is that something you're interested in learning?
 
Flags @Mith as spamming spam fighting
 
Possibly. I do run bots in the terminal occasionally... like this morning, when I spun up a backup instance of the IPS Comment Bot since the main instance died
but hey, i've amassed... 867 posts so far manually, so this works for now
 
Ghh...I just tried to find an image of Isabella with the caption "Whatcha doin'?" and...freaking rule 34...why!?
 
@Mithrandir You're far more patient than I am. If I do something for a third time I start thinking about how to automate it.
 
9:17 PM
ARGH kills Google Image Search with fire
 
@sphennings tell me about it. I've automated drinking water.
 
@TheTinyMan Never Google something and click "images". You will undoubtedly find something NSFW.
 
I always ask my little brother to bring me some water now
 
@Mithrandir I...I know, but...I.... I mean it wasn't technically NSFW, so not technically rule 34, but it was in an uncomfortable place. :-p
 
Little brothers are very helpful machines
 
9:18 PM
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I now get paid to automate things so my lazyness has served me well.
 
I bet @Mith is a little brother
 
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ is it even safe for you to drink water?
what with kidneys and all
 
@Mithrandir no, it will react violently and explode
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Q: Why don't we explode after drinking water?

Ram KeswaniIt is known that acid should be added to water and not the opposite because it results in an exothermic reaction. Our stomach contains HCl, so why don't we explode when we drink water?

@Mithrandir well, I shouldn't drink much so the so called UF thingy in dialysis doesn't go too high. This UF thingy makes body lose weight it should have by urinating
If it decreases a lot of weight, I'd feel dizzier
 
well. good luck finding a new kidney. i'm sure a spammer somewhere would be willing to offer you one ;)
 
@Mithrandir nah, they're protein guys
 
@apaul I always sneeze at stuff like that
Whoa, that's like 300 comments
 
9:47 PM
Well, this is awkward.
 
it's okay, we came prepared with the room title
 
Well, here's something to get things rolling again: interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2928/…
 
I've been busy reading the dumber, blockbustery parts of meta.IPS
And I gotta tell you, they don't disappoint
Wow. Wow! Really good stuff. And I'm telling you as an avid rant reader
 
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Q: Should these two specific questions be tagged [feminism]?

apaulHow can I use IPSkills on a conflict-avoidance strategy to memorably inform feminist group some arguments affect our community because misandristic? How to politely encourage my girlfriend to support the value of men when with friends who make misandristic comments? Both of these questions spec...

 
10:21 PM
@TheTinyMan I've seen them now. o/
 
2h Scheduled Mutiny STF
 
10:37 PM
Whilst you're here, please take a moment to fill out this quick survey.
How do you feel about this mutiny on a scale of 1-10?
Would you recommend this mutiny to your friends or family?
If you answered no, why not?
 
10, No, cus I said no.
 
Thank you, your opinion is valuable to us.
 
6. Yes. It had much more potential that wasn't realized fully.
 
user15026
@doppelgreener Wait, is 10 good or bad
 
@Ash Yes
 
user15026
10:44 PM
nods Alright.
 
user15026
6.48274 then
 
10:56 PM
@Ash ERROR: DATAFILE CORRUPTED. ERROR: INVALID INPUT. ERROR: CANNOT CONVERT DOUBLE TO INT8. EXIT 1
 
user15026
oh no did I break the mutiny
 
why would you use an 8-bit integer though
 

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