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Pops
Feb 14, 2018 22:09
Thanks! Y'all are awesome (well, I haven't been keeping up the past couple months, but I assume it's safe to extrapolate based on past results). If there's nothing else, I'm going to re-retire this account.
Pops
Feb 14, 2018 22:05
I think you're giving me too much credit, and not taking enough for yourselves. I really don't need any more stuff right now, though. I was thinking down the road I might try to somehow contribute to the project, but I've got a little too much on the plate at the moment (I know, I've said that before).
Pops
Feb 14, 2018 22:00
Very kind of you, but I have all the stickers I need. I'm sure you can find someone more deserving to give them to.
Pops
Feb 14, 2018 21:56
Hey, someone back-channel poked me the other day, so I figured I'd drop in to see what was up.
Pops
Jul 11, 2017 19:47
@ArtOfCode Not sure how much of a special "in" you really need for Channels, at least as of now. Go ahead and sign up as an org if you haven't already. Can't hurt at any rate.
 

 Topic challenge #i

Work on topic challenges
Pops
Sep 1, 2017 21:08
@BenI. But... but... Stack Exchange.
Pops
Sep 1, 2017 21:07
Yup!
Pops
Sep 1, 2017 21:06
No, send it back to team@stackexchange. And also to me if you want.
Pops
Sep 1, 2017 21:04
...unless you were, like, right about to be asleep.
Pops
Sep 1, 2017 21:03
Your boss just called, he needs you to come in for an extra shift all weekend long.
Pops
Sep 1, 2017 21:00
@ItamarG3 I e-mailed you a fraction of a second before you sent that message.
Pops
Sep 1, 2017 20:58
@BenI. You could do worse. Sometimes I C minor jokes that really fall flat.
Pops
Sep 1, 2017 20:45
Ugh, between time zones, people on leave and it being Friday afternoon, it's hard to get answers right now. I'll just do it (or at least kick things off) myself. We've been trying to have a little more process, like real grown-ups, to get things more organized, but sometimes it makes simple things take longer than they should.
Pops
Sep 1, 2017 20:40
Hallo!
Pops
Sep 1, 2017 20:36
You haven't gotten the shipment yet or nobody has asked you for your info yet?
Pops
Sep 1, 2017 20:33
SHALL RECEIVE THE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS THREE ONE (budget cutbacks)
Pops
Sep 1, 2017 20:33
@BenI. WHOSOEVER DARES TO SUMMON ME
 

 The Classroom

General discussion for cseducators.stackexchange.com.
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Pops
Jun 29, 2017 22:40
Well if you were there for 39 straight days you must have been enthusiastically discussing a lot of new sites... right?
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 22:30
Congrats. That's a lot of new-site-discussing.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 22:22
@HenryWHHackv2.0 You found a bug (actually a config file that didn't get updated properly somewhere along the line). Being fixed now, you should get the badge soonish.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 22:09
@BenI. I knew I shoulda chosen a different username.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 22:08
It's not so much that I've "adopted" you as the other people on the team have noticed that I'm spending a bunch of time here and they're probably just assuming that everything is good and they can spend their time on their own stuff unless I tell them I need help. You can always reach out to any CM about any site.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 22:06
That's not unusual. His job involves getting sites from "idea" through Area 51. Private beta is kind of a handoff between him and the rest of the team.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 22:04
Some really interesting posts here.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 22:04
No such thing. I've just taken an interest in the site.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 21:57
It's just a little JS pop-up, so it doesn't scroll. I tried. Looking you up another way was easier than playing with the console.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 21:56
I guess my window isn't that big, but still.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 21:55
I tried clicking on your icon in chat and the list of rooms you're in overflowed the screen.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 21:55
@HenryWHHackv2.0 It's not a problem, it just made it take longer than usual to find your profile.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 21:51
You... are in a lot of chatrooms.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 21:48
Besides that, I don't think the system task that checks for new Enthusiasts runs very frequently.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 21:47
Hm. My gut reaction is "everything about A51 is broken."
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 21:42
Joking because you said nevermind after I preemptively blamed Shog.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 21:41
Oh, another Shog fan. I see how it is.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 21:39
It's Shog's fault!
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 21:39
G'day.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 21:37
@GypsySpellweaver (Not ignoring you, just... don't really have anything to add.)
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 20:46
When it comes to "there's an elitist cabal that makes all the decisions on that site," perception can be as damaging (by, among other things, driving away new members) as truth. I'm not saying you're at a point where you need to worry about that right now, but it is something to keep in mind in the future.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 20:40
@BenI. Hey! I admit I'm boring, but snoring I cannot tolerate. Where'd I put that banhammer....
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 20:32
...did I bore everyone away?
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 20:28
It's about judiciousness, like with so many things. An analogy from elsewhere in SE is that link-only answers may technically be correct, but it's much better to provide the relevant information in the body of the answer.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 20:26
There's nothing inherently wrong with trying to collect info and use off-site resources to your advantage, as long as there's no expectation that everyone knows about it or participates in it, just how you wouldn't expect people to use chat or how users who don't visit meta aren't somehow second-class citizens.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 20:24
Do Trilogy Sites Need a “Third Place”?
Jeff Atwood on April 29, 2010

When people ask me what mistakes we made in building Stack Overflow, near the top of the list is not acknowledging the need for a meta-discussion site earlier. That is, a place for people to discuss Stack Overflow itself.

I resisted this for the longest time, relegating meta topics to UserVoice, because I didn’t see much value in meta-discussion. But then I finally bowed to community pressure and created meta.stackoverflow.com a little less than a year ago.

Owning our own meta, rather than outsourcing it, has been hugely productive in evolving the engine and the trilogy sites forward. The community was right, and I was so very, very wrong. …

Pops
Jun 29, 2017 20:24
Ideally, you should be able to use the site by just coming to the site. Turned out it was cleaner to separate governance into its own space, so we made a separate meta site. And some really excited people wanted to form more of a community with a "third place," so we have the chat that we're all sitting in right now.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 20:19
@GypsySpellweaver Sorry, I don't know what that's referring to?
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 17:05
They'd be Stack-Exchange-branded, not CS-Educators-SE-branded.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 17:02
Sorry to disappoint, but hats are a mod-only special item. Stickers are on the table though. Maybe pens or markers or shirts as well.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 15:54
The thinking is "fix all the mistakes, not just one thing"; in the rare case where the post is absolutely perfect other than that one thing, then it's possibly not worth fixing or you can make a change somewhere that isn't better or worse, just different.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 15:52
I'm pretty sure we can't, and the limit is six characters.
Pops
Jun 29, 2017 15:15
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Q: Why did the CHAOS programme stop?

DanBealeBack in September 2011, SE hired people as part of a CHAOS programme. This team was used to promote SE and help smaller SE sites develop and grow and leave beta. For example, they could edit titles and posts; they would provide well researched answers to questions; they'd help run competitions t...

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