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    You say Slate was a founding member and moderator of puzzling, but their account on puzzling has 1 rep. What’s going on here?
    – Ekadh Singh - Reinstate Monica
    Commented Jul 28, 2021 at 19:46
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    @EkadhSingh Seems reasonable that some employees may want to start with a new account as staff. I don't see it as all that mysterious...
    – Bryan Krause
    Commented Jul 28, 2021 at 19:53
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    @EkadhSingh Clearly it's a puzzle for you to solve. I would expect nothing less from a longtime member
    – Machavity
    Commented Jul 28, 2021 at 19:55
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    @EkadhSingh The old account has been deleted. It used to be account number 20.
    – Vogel612's Shadow
    Commented Jul 28, 2021 at 19:57
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    @EkadhSingh: Somebody wanted to be a clean Slate …
    – Wrzlprmft
    Commented Jul 28, 2021 at 20:01
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    @Wrzlprmft Believe it or not, this was an accident. I originally went for a different rock-related username, but it just so happened to sound particularly foul in another language... So I went with the next closest sounding thing, and that was "Slate."
    – Slate StaffMod
    Commented Jul 28, 2021 at 20:32
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    While I welcome 945 and 948, please also say hello to 946 and 947 from me. They also deserve a great, welcomimg start of their career at SE.
    – rene
    Commented Jul 28, 2021 at 20:47
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    I thought the "Staff" card was going to stay on the profile page. Discreet it isn't.
    – This_is_NOT_a_forum
    Commented Jul 28, 2021 at 22:39
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    @Slate I hope that doesn't mean you expected a rocky start to the new job.
    – Rand al'Thor
    Commented Jul 28, 2021 at 22:43
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    @Randal'Thor I fully expect it to be a metamorphic time.
    – Slate StaffMod
    Commented Jul 29, 2021 at 1:35
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    What do the 945 and 948 refer to?
    – Steve Bennett
    Commented Jul 29, 2021 at 4:31
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    @SteveBennett I guess it is the inmate ID number ;) .... more seriously, it is the sequence number of staff hired at SE. Has been a tradition since number 1: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/127098/…
    – rene
    Commented Jul 29, 2021 at 5:54
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    @Sandun that's how all timestamps show up. They show relative time (e.g., "5 hours ago", "yesterday", "2 days ago") for about a week. Then they revert to a date and time.
    – VLAZ
    Commented Jul 30, 2021 at 13:24
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    Congrats to the new community members, and I must say, that is a solid name choice.
    – Slate
    Commented Aug 4, 2021 at 15:21
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    @JosephDoggie community managers are all paid positions. :)
    – Catija
    Commented Aug 5, 2021 at 13:03