Questions tagged [chat]
For questions about using the Stack-exchange chat system
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What should we call Off-Topic TNB?
Voting has closed. The Sand Trap is the winner!
Since we've decided to officially recognize TNB's off-topic room Off-Topic TNB, it might be a good time to give it its own name.
We'll do this the same ...
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Should we officially recognize Off-Topic TNB?
Recently, TNB conducted an experiment in which we created a new room specifically for off-topic discussion, which resulted in a marked decrease in the amount of off-topic content in TNB. This room has ...
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Fix the dead LYAL
Like last time, LYAL is dead. Source. As documented here, there were no LYALs for 6 weeks. I agree with what caird says:
If people aren't engaging with an event anymore, the proper thing to do is let ...
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Chat Event Announcment: Language Development Workshop
BMG has died. Nearly immediately I proposed the event that henceforth became known as MYAL. After a short discussion to flesh out the details, and the chat event Language Development Workshop was born....
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Chat Event Refinement: Make You a Lang for Great Good
We have decided to make a chat event based on language creation. In this post, we will discuss how we should do it.
The event would just be a time dedicated to showing off WIP languages, get feedback ...
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Chat Event Proposal: Make You a Lang for Great Good
With the demise of BMG, I had an idea for a new chat event. For now, I'm calling it "Make You a Lang for Great Good", but that is beside the point. This event would focus on one of the ...
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Biweekly Mini Golf is Half Dead
... what should we do?
As we can see from this excerpt, BMG is slowly dying. People don't seem interested enough to even start it and the 21st BMG has little participants.
(even though it hasn't ...
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Congratulations to the new TNB Room Owners!
Voting has closed, and, with the votes being a dead tie, all three candidates have been elected as room owners for CGCC's main chat room, The Nineteenth Byte:
They have been appointed, effective ...
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Vote for the new TNB Room Owners!
The Nineteenth Byte is getting new room owners. You've had a week (and a couple of hours) for nominations, and now it's time to vote. In alphabetical order, here are the nominees:
emanresu A
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Nominations for new TNB Room Owners
In response to the increase in off-topic discussion in TNB, we've decided to appoint more ROs. Here's how we'll be deciding the new room owners:
For one week (until 14:00UTC, on the 15th of May 2022),...
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Should we make a room for TNB's off-topic discussions?
The Nineteenth Byte, CGCC's main chat room, is no stranger to silliness. However, especially recently, I've felt there's been a much larger volume of off-topic conversations. In order to prevent ...
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What to do when something offensive in chat is edited into something not offensive before it is seen
I went into a chat room, and someone said something offensive to me. So I flagged it as offensive. Almost immediately, the chat message was edited into something nicer. When the 10k-ers came into the ...
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Should we let Vyxal Bot into TNB when Vyxal is the LYAL
Context: Given that Vyxal is roughly under a month away from being selected for LYAL (at the time of posting, my calculations place it as being 1-2 LYALs away), I figured I'd write this so it can ...
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Language nominations for the "Learn You a Lang for Great Good" chat event
We've decided we'd like to give the "Learn You a Lang for Great Good" chat event \${}^*\$ a go. As a brief overview:
Every second Wednesday, discussion in The Nineteenth Byte is primarily ...
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BMG is slowly dying
Let me put it simply: BMG, which was a good idea at first, is dying, to the point that we're not scheduling new ones, we're not hearing about it, we forgot that there was meant to be one on Tuesday, ...
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Chat Event: Learn-a-lang
Advertisement
Been pushing off learning that one lang for too long? Maybe it doesn't qualify for LotM status? Then [name pending] is for you!
This is perfect for languages which are too popular for ...
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Should new challenges on Codidact be posted into The Nineteenth Byte?
Codidact is a related network of sites to Stack Exchange, created in the aftermath of behaviour by Stack Exchange in late 2019, in an effort to create a better Q&A network. One of the sites in ...
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Conclusive opinion on having a Hello, World! feed
This question asks about the possibility of adding a feed to The Nineteenth Byte that posts new answers to the Hello, World! thread - a typical place for people to first introduce their new ...
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Should we replace The Nineteenth Byte's feeds?
The Nineteenth Byte, our main chat room, has some feeds. These post new challenges, meta questions, sandboxes posts, and some other assorted things. Unfortunately, they're kinda slow. New Main Posts ...
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Introducing Biweekly Mini Golf!
In order to grow our community and its chat room, The Nineteenth Byte, we decided here to start a new monthly biweekly chat event: Biweekly Mini Golf!
During this event, a number of previously drafted ...
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Welcome The Nineteenth Byte's newest room owners!
The votes are in, and the following four members of our community have been elected as room owners of CGCC's main chat room, The Nineteenth Byte.
They have been instated effective immediately. ...
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Should we have chat events, and if so, how should we do them?
Chat events recently came up in chat. If we are to have events, it would be a good idea to plan out the following things first:
What the events will be about
How often they'll be
Whether we'll hold ...
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Vote for your new TNB Room Owners!
The Nineteenth Byte is getting four new room owners. You've had a week for nominations, and now it's time to vote. In alphabetical order, here are the nominees:
Adám
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New Room Owners for TNB - Nominations Phase
Nomination phase is over. You can vote here until UTC midnight on Tuesday, April 20th
By community consensus, we will be having more room owners for The Nineteenth Byte. We will be selecting new room ...
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Introducing OldSandboxPosts
My name is OldSandboxPosts and I am a chatbot written by caird coinheringaahing and hosted by Redwolf Programs. My source code can be found here. Every day, at 1:00am UTC time, I log onto Stack ...
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Should we have even even more room owners for The Nineteenth Byte?
4 years ago, we voted on and appointed additional room owners for The Nineteenth Byte. That was the most recent time TNB has had new room owners. Currently, only 2 of the room owners are able to be ...
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Feed Filter: A TNB Userscript
Inspired by a conversation about annoying quirks with the chat feeds (such as New Main Posts), Feed Filter is a simple userscript I made to introduce a few features/fixes to the feeds in The ...
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Chat Suspensions for Swearing
I just got 2 back-to-back 30-minute suspensions for "inappropriate content" for using the F-word. I usually don't use that word that often but for whatever reason people felt the need to bad me for it....
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What happened to my chat room?
Some time ago, I created a chatroom for the Reflections language. Now, I can't find it, and if I click the link on the Reflections page, it's not found. Has it been deleted? Why?
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Are bots allowed in The Nineteenth Byte?
People seem to know that active chat bots are prohibited in TNB, but I don't see that written anywhere. Is this indeed so?
And if so, are pure listening bots that never speak also prohibited? These ...
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Can we have a Hello, World! feed? [duplicate]
Recently I suggested having a feed in The Nineteenth Byte for new answers to the Hello, World! challenge. It received some support (as you can tell from the stars), but it was suggested that it be ...
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Why is chat called "The Nineteenth Byte"? [duplicate]
Why is the main chatroom for Programming Puzzles & Code Golf called "The Nineteenth Byte"?
Where did the name come from? Is it a reference to something?
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Very long chat suspension for harmless joke [duplicate]
As usual, I was going about my day, occasionally stopping by SE chat. I replied to this message by @cairdcoinheringaahing ("I really need to stop clicking on every link that is posted") with this ...
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Would a golfing tips chat room be a good idea?
Lately I've been trying to get into Haskell golfing. And its been great fun. However I have found myself asking a lot of questions into The Nineteenth Byte (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). I've also seen people ...
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Lower the rep required to chat
I suggest we lower the rep required to chat to 1.
This way we can help new users understand the site instead of having them "crash and burn" on main with a invalid or non-golfed submission or an ...
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The SE chat feed bot seems to be unwell
The SE Chat Bot seems to be unwell. This includes Sandbox Feeds and Meta Feeds.
Neither of these posts were deleted at the time of posting. Does anyone know what's causing this behaviour?
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What are our specific abbreviations and terms?
Newcomers to codegolf.SE are often compelled to ask what many of our abbreviations and terms mean. Let us list them here so this information always will be easily available.
Return to FAQ index
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We've written a new Chatiquette, and we want your feedback!
Update: the new Chatiquette has been instated. We are still interested in hearing feedback, so feel free to continue to give feedback here.
As previously noted, the current Chatiquette for The ...
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Chat account suspended?
My chat account has just been suspended for 30 days.
I have not had any lasting suspensions over 30 minutes in the past month.
There was completely no warning about it.
I do not think I posted ...
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Question about mod action taken
Message that got me suspended... If you watch the video it is a clean funny video by Studio C and Studio C's goal is "to produce clean, family-oriented comedy for a national audience". I do not ...
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Kicked from TNB (by a bot) for "inappropriate content" and have some questions about it
I posted an image in the main chat, The Nineteenth Byte.
A few minutes later I get kicked from TNB with a 30 minute ban, and apparently the Community bot did it. How did a bot judge that one picture ...
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Please welcome The Nineteenth Byte's newest room owners!
You've cast your votes and elected the following three members of our community as room owners of our primary chat room, The Nineteenth Byte.
They have been appointed, effective immediately. Please ...
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The Nineteenth Byte is getting more room owners. Cast your votes!
The Nineteenth Byte is getting three additional room owners.
You've had one week to nominate others or yourself, and now it's time for the actual election.
These are the nominees, in alphabetical ...
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New TNB Room Owners: Nominations Phase
It was decided by community consensus that we need more room owners for The Nineteenth Byte. The process for choosing the new room owners will be as follows:
For one week (lasting until UTC midnight ...
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Why can't I chat, even though having 20 reputations?
I already have 20 reputations (which is the points to get chat) but I can't still chat. Why can't I?
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7 day chat suspension
Why have I received a 7 day chat suspension? I do not recall doing anything harmful or bad for the chatroom, except maybe posting faces, but I don't see how that warrants a 7 day ban.
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I don't ...
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Let's talk about chat again
Around March of last year, chat users started becoming really annoyed by the level of noise in chat and became motivated enough to speak out about it, which lead to The state of chat being posted. ...
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Should we have even more room owners for The Nineteenth Byte?
A few months back, we had a discussion about adding more room owners to The Nineteenth Byte. As a result, five users were added as room owners, and the problems we were facing lessened. However, we're ...
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chat suspension? [closed]
I could not figure out how to change my keyboard layout from Workman (which I have been trying to learning) back to QWERTY. Google found no results for my query (it usually automatically corrects ...
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Is it OK to promote my own posts in chat?
Occasionally I see other users posting links to their own answers or challenges in The Nineteenth Byte. Is this OK? Can I promote my own posts as well?
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