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10:17 PM
I'm here...
I was still looking for the button to invite you!
:D
How do I do that?
Anyway...
Title to the message:
 
me, too. Do you want to email the proposed question? I assume it is for Meta
 
StackExchange.com Meta...
 
I can make my observations and email it back
 
rather chat if you don't mind because every word is going to be important?
OK...
 
OK
 
10:19 PM
What? E-mail or here? :/
Which do you prefer???
I'm in need of you, so you can decide!
:)
Your prerogative...
 
whatever you prefer. I will be demanded at supper in about an hour but otherwise available.
 
sorry: "which?" Email or here???
Cool!
OK, so here goes:
Title:
Please, what does it take for the StackExchange network to become a bit more polite? (Pretty please???)
then:
 
I like it so far!
 
The **how** is clear: extend the "Off-Topic Close Reason" by 112 characters.
The **what** is clear: To allow the entire StackExchange network to be just a little bit more polite while remaining helpful.

**The simple question is:** What does it take to make this happen?
So far so good? :/
 
Yessir or madam!
 
10:24 PM
Sir...
(Last time I looked, at least!)
ok then:
*The long question:* Currently the standard close reasons for the beginning user look more like:
<H2>No service for you!</H2>
then the more polite and helpful:
<H2>Here you are:</h2>

E.G.:
(and that's all I have so far)
so basically, the question tile should reflect the message (Isn't it too long?) and pique interest.
the short version above should be 100% clear and to the point and pique interest for the long version which I'm still working on.
So now:
Demolish it, please!
 
I assume your objective is to make the site a bit more friendly and helpful instead of the typical, cliche'd Linux site that demeans and demoralizes the poor stupid newbies, is that it?
 
indeed!
top-to-bottom. change ATTITUDE...
Have a few more people like you and a bit less ...
"childish" is not the word...
immature, condescending...
(something like that)
 
I think I would explain just that and lead then into the 400 character limitation being entirely valid when originally set, but no longer is friendly and welcoming
 
Good one!
Written down already! :)
I need to wash my hands or talk to a man about his horse (I always forget which is British and which is American)
 
Slightly off topic: when I started in Linux 115 years ago, all I ever read on forums was like "you stoopid noobie!" I vowed that if I ever knew anything and ever answered a single post, I'd be the exact opposite.
USA=horse
Of course, if you have an administrative assistant, "I'm very sorry, Mr. Fabby has stepped away."
 
10:34 PM
:D
Back already...
Yup... Because neither of us are trained as Computer Scientists...
I'm a chemist...
 
I actually have gotten people kicked off at ubuntuforums.org foor being rude, ugly a*holes.
 
Trained to do team work in a lab environment...
I like AskUbuntu better then UbuntuForums...
Too much ...
nagging?
 
so no cute female answering the phone, bringing coffee, etc.
 
:) Nope...
Currently unemployed but Xmas holidays here are over
 
Each have their own vibe and it's often hard for me to switch gears
 
10:36 PM
so from tomorrow: 1/2 day
Job hunting!
and the other 1/2 of the day: studying!
 
In Siberia?
 
and the evening: AskUbuntu!
Back in Moscow now...
Not easy for a foreigner to find a job here.
Currently I'm a teacher of FR+EN, but it's a meagre salary.
 
So it's like 2:27 AM? or so?
 
01:38am
What time in South Carolina?
 
Wow! At my age, 11:00 PM gets here and I get snoring!
539PM
 
10:39 PM
21 more minutes till supper...
do you cook too?
 
I have an old-fashioned wife that believes it is part of her wifely duty to cook at least supper
 
>:) So you're allowed to cook dinner on the W.E...
If you want recipes...
 
I am allowed to show my Visa card to the restaurant on the week-end!
 
I can get you: French, Belgian, Dutch, Indian, Russian, Hungarian,
:D :D :D :D
Italian!
(gosh, dad would be mad: he's Italian...)
cuisine recipes...
(just a few American...)
2 actually
 
Love Italian; although Italian in the USA is americanized and hardly Italian any longer
 
10:42 PM
Chili con carne Tex-Mex
And "grits"
which is minced meat cooked in cream with ...
 
Love tex-mex and we travel to the west to get the real goods!
 
Yeah! You do!
I have to make my own! ;-)
 
cream? shudder
 
what do you call "Pâte feilleté"
It's a recipe from oregon.
actually, in stead of butter
 
10:44 PM
you use a little bit of cream
(less fat and well: creamier)
 
puff pastry!
yummy
 
Yes!
 
apple turnover, fro example
 
(it takes me a while to open any new web site as my FireFox is really naided down in security
 
*for
 
10:46 PM
:) I want to know what that is
apple turnover???
apple pie and then baked in a pan?
 
In baking, a puff pastry, also referred to as "pâte feuilletée," is a light, flaky, mechanically leavened pastry containing several layers of fat which is in solid state at 20 °C (68 °F). In raw form, puff pastry is a laminated dough composed of two elements: a "dough packet", the détrempe and a "butter packet" or other solid fat, the beurrage. In classic puff pastry, an envelope is formed by placing the beurrage inside the détrempe. In "inverse puff" pastry, an envelope is formed by placing the détrempe inside the beurrage. The resulting paton is repeatedly folded and rolled out. The gaps that...
 
:D so funny to read all these French terms...
 
the pastry is folded over apple filling. very much like apple pie filling
 
like cooked apples?
 
exactly
 
10:48 PM
with chunks???
 
yep
 
That's exactly like Flemish "Appelflappen"
 
gooey
yummy
fattening
 
(lit. Apple Flaps)
yup!
107 Kg (235 pounds?)
for 1m81
(6feet or so)
yup I like the food!
Apple turnover. At the other side of the world, Flemish Appelflappen! :D
 
i am 6 ft or so and 181 lbs. I struggle every day to keep from adding anothe pound and to lose 1 or 2 more.
 
10:51 PM
Is that Carolinian cuisine?
(or whatever Carolina adjective is)
:/
 
Not really Carolina. It's popular everywhere
 
OK...
Even in Flanders (where my mum is from)
Anyway, thanks again!
 
Carolina would be pulled pork abrbeque
Barbeque
 
I'll let you go have
 
shrimp and grits
 
10:52 PM
Next time I want that recipe also!
you have grits too?
 
OK, if you want to email your proposal: wrweston@ubuntu.com
indeed, grits
 
Thaks! I'll send you what I currrently have immediately
 
awesome. later, my friend!
 
not the minced meat in cream though?
;)
 
ouch! No cream
bye!
 

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