Hobgoblins of a little mind

April 4, 2012 1:16 AM

April staff tags are not showing up in Recent Activity.

That is all.

posted by flabdablet to Bugs at 1:16 AM (27 comments total)

If I'm remembering correctly, I think there was some bug associated with that (it was causing a problematic behavior somehow), but I can't see an email about it, so maybe I'm thinking of something else. But pb will let us know when the happy sun kisses his eyelids and he awakes joyfully to the new day.
posted by taz (staff) at 1:27 AM on April 4, 2012 [2 favorites]

It's worse than I thought... not even staff staff tags show up in Recent Activity!

This must not stand.
posted by flabdablet at 1:30 AM on April 4, 2012

They never did so far as I recall. They like to keep things incognito if you're only looking in passing, these cunning mods.
posted by Abiezer at 2:03 AM on April 4, 2012

The staff tags only appear in MetaTalk, and the same is true for jokey staff tags. Our reasoning is that once you're using RA regularly for MetaTalk threads you probably either already know who works here or can find out easily. And we don't need to change that behavior for a one-day joke.
posted by pb (staff) at 3:37 AM on April 4, 2012 [3 favorites]

Jesus pb, get a room.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 3:39 AM on April 4, 2012

RA is a big server-suck query-wise so we figured this sort of thing wasn't necessary there. It hasn't been there the wholetime, likewise other staff tags. Find ways to make peace with this.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:36 AM on April 4, 2012

Jesus pb, get a room.

Actually I was thinking that anyone who uses RA for MetaTalk needs to get a room.
posted by Melismata at 7:34 AM on April 4, 2012 [1 favorite]

GET A CONDOMINIUM COMPLEX
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:59 AM on April 4, 2012

this leds to stucco vortex diaflamnasin.
posted by clavdivs at 8:04 AM on April 4, 2012 [1 favorite]

anyone who uses RA for MetaTalk needs to get a room.

RA is basically for anything you've commented in. So a lot more people are using RA for MetaTalk lately.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:10 AM on April 4, 2012

A one-day joke? A joke?

Are you telling me I'm not really [stalin]?!
posted by shakespeherian at 8:16 AM on April 4, 2012

Actually I was thinking that anyone who uses RA for MetaTalk needs to get a room.

I don't understand this comment.
posted by grouse at 9:06 AM on April 4, 2012

(Not RA-ist)
posted by Melismata at 10:26 AM on April 4, 2012

grouse: "I don't understand this comment."

RA is short for Residential Advisor. Typically the person who helps you with trivial problems in your college dormitory freshman year.

I hope that helps.
posted by Plutor at 10:47 AM on April 4, 2012 [1 favorite]

Or they call campus cops on you so you need to eat your stash and then lie through green teeth/tongue.
posted by SpiffyRob at 11:10 AM on April 4, 2012

Are you telling me I'm not really [stalin]?!

Well, the way you hesitate, go back and forth, and seem to make up reasons not to proceed, like you want to keep everyone from going anywhere, delaying, etc, I think you're definitely stalin.
posted by Atreides at 11:31 AM on April 4, 2012

Melismata: "Actually I was thinking that anyone who uses RA for MetaTalk needs to get a room."

You mean it can be used for other things?
posted by dg at 7:39 PM on April 4, 2012

Well, the way you hesitate, go back and forth, and seem to make up reasons not to proceed, like you want to keep everyone from going anywhere, delaying, etc, I think you're definitely stalin.
Stalin Wasn't Stallin'.
posted by Abiezer at 9:06 PM on April 4, 2012

Well, the way you hesitate, go back and forth, and seem to make up reasons not to proceed, like you want to keep everyone from going anywhere, delaying, etc, I think you're definitely stalin.

Well I'm not russian, if that's what you mean.
posted by shakespeherian at 7:34 AM on April 5, 2012

My band mixes genres in inventive ways, we just ooze Beck-y sounds.
posted by shakespeherian at 8:44 AM on April 5, 2012

Well guys, it's been oblast, but I think you should stop now.
posted by Abiezer at 8:46 AM on April 5, 2012

I like it when you go slovenly.
posted by shakespeherian at 8:48 AM on April 5, 2012

This is something you've mulled over?
posted by Abiezer at 8:56 AM on April 5, 2012

I have here a map of Kazakhstan.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:09 AM on April 5, 2012

I have here a map of Kazakhstan.

Wait I don't get this one.
posted by shakespeherian at 9:57 AM on April 5, 2012

I am not seeing that on this end. It looks at a glance like the issue is a very long line forcing the browser to scale down there; page down and see if you can find a comment with that going on, flowing to the right side of the screen. If so I can probably fix it; it's likely but not a sure thing that the thread with that comment in it would display similarly badly.
posted by cortex (staff) at 3:18 PM on April 7, 2012

I think it's this comment. I'll edit it.
posted by pb (staff) at 2:06 PM on April 8, 2012