User talk:LArron

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ħuman 03:30, 23 August 2008 (EDT)

Ignore that soulless automaton welcome above, LArron. I welcome you with a warm heart and wide open arms. Welcome to the furnace, LArron! Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 05:49, 29 August 2008 (EDT)

Userpage

Your userpage (as it is right now) is quite impressive. You should turn it into an essay—it is certainly worthy of one. Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 00:53, 31 August 2008 (EDT)

Yes, I agree. Moar!!! One minor quibble - jpg is a poor way to store images like those, gif is better. Smaller, loads faster, no weird artifacts at sharp edges. Keep on keeping on! ħuman 01:10, 31 August 2008 (EDT)

Good tip, poor habit to create jpgs - the new pics will be pngs (yes, there will be moar!!) --LArron 03:26, 31 August 2008 (EDT)

Excellent, thanks, I did my time being schooled over image formats back during web 1.0... and believe me, I got schooled! ħuman 03:38, 31 August 2008 (EDT)

"CP started with a peak, but lots lost interest shortly after"

Wasn't that the Great Purge of unwanted editors?

And why do I have fewer edits than TK? It's just not on... Totnesmartin 15:24, 31 August 2008 (EDT)

I don't know much about the history of CP, my experiences with it are now ca. three weeks old.

When I took the data, I got 1237 comments for TK - only 1210 for you. I hope that at least the order of magnitude for these numbers is correct --LArron 15:47, 31 August 2008 (EDT)

One issue is that the database is irrevocably "corrupted". If a page is deleted, so is the history of anyone's edits to it, to the best of my knowledge. So, say Aschlafly whitewashes his user talk page (deletes, then recreates copying in most of what was there), all those edits vanish. I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure, that my edit count there is far lower than it used to be (I thought I was pushing 3k or so by the time of the purge, I'm around 1200 now) - simply the act of deleting my user & talk pages, which was done, would have vaped probably hundreds of my edits. ħuman 16:00, 31 August 2008 (EDT)

I don't know the wiki-software well, but I think that on the Special:Statistic page all edits ever made are counted (~480,000 at CP). As I can only find ~408,000 edits made by registered users (and all users over there have to register, haven't they), it seems to be a save bet that the missing 72,000 edits are mainly purged ones. --LArron 16:10, 31 August 2008 (EDT)

Oh, also, when they upgraded the MW software earlier this year, it "reset" the stats from the raw data. So deleted edits from before then are truly "lost" in every way. ħuman 16:24, 31 August 2008 (EDT)

Did anyone take a screenshot before it happened? Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 01:44, 1 September 2008 (EDT)

No one thought to, and it would have had to have been a data dump. CP was screwed up for weeks, hard to load, impossible to edit. ħuman 02:10, 1 September 2008 (EDT)

I ♥ data

We love pie charts. Sterile^snore! 16:47, 3 September 2008 (EDT)

My sincerest apologies

My condolences, you poor soul, but it seems I have made you a sysop. Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 04:14, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

You'll need some special equipment. Let's see what we got here for you... yes: here's your rag, spray cleaner, and the key to the dustbin. Enjoy! Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 04:14, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

Oh, and before I forget, here's the manual. Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 04:14, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

Perfect: I just saw Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog --LArron 06:29, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

Sorry

I already did that. Plus, my version has chronology :P Pink_{(Astronomy Domine)} 14:02, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

Great! Where can I find your superior version? --LArron 14:08, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

I have it as a word document at the moment. Creating it drained me of all my lifeforce, so I'm intending to send it to my commissioner and let him sort out the wikiformatting stuff.

Did you see Raul's hidden comment? Beautiful, wasn't it? ^_^ Pink_{(Astronomy Domine)} 14:15, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

Wow, you did it by hand? Impressive! I followed the discussion via the diffs, so I laughed when I read Raul's sycophantic displayed comment (and the more honest feeling in it)... --LArron 14:22, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

Er... Yes, I suppose my method was quite... painstaking. But I can't see how else I might have done it. What did you do? Pink_{(Astronomy Domine)} 14:32, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

Um, what are you guys talking about? Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 14:36, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

Dear RA, about this - and more amusingly, about this --LArron 14:51, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

It wasn't as simple as I had thought at first: I wrote a perl-program, which expanded into something quite ugly... It wasn't absolutely trivial to decode the logical/chronological dependencies of the different diffs, but at least my understanding of wikis improved ;-) --LArron 14:51, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

Ooh, nice. Good work, LArron! Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 15:02, 25 September 2008 (EDT)