my first thought was "written test"

ああ、そうねえ

英語でwritten test なのを、日本語ではよく『ライティング･テスト』という・・・

分詞が・・・

なので、『記述あるの？』を『ライティングあるの？』とか言ったりする

@snailboat 試験料いくらくらい？TOEFLとかIELTSって、一回25,000円くらいするよ

まず「今日はどういう作業を（するんですか？）」「うわ、（作業をするのは）聞いてません（笑）」だと思ったけど、問題は「どういった」だ。

@DariusJahandarie どういう作業をするんですか、と、どういった作業をするんですか、は、おなじですね

あっ、本当ですか

「どういった」聞いたことない…

isn't the JLPT ~$60?

マークシートですか？

記述問題あるの？

but one of the problems with the JLPT is that it's only offered once per year in America and only in a few locations

so travel costs can be quite high for some people

Huh! And it's reasonably popular in BCCWJ. I wonder how I've never noticed this until now.

行かねば～

ノシ～～～

for some reason the phrase どういった状態 is popping up in my head

must be a sentence in anki

いのししー

バイバイ

When I see user @Choko I think of 猪口

now I do

that one confused me a lot

why so discouraged?

You should be allowed to designate a moderator pro tempore

it is sad. but at least it seems it's subsided

oh, there were even more?

Yeah, I just took a look at the recently deleted

Is that 4k rep+?

I believe so

the recently deleted?

I guess I should post an answer or something to get this last 30 rep lol

Review > Tools > Recent Occurrences

it shows recently deleted and undeleted

Oh, hah.

Man, some of the UI on SE is honestly awful...

Those are tabs?!

@snailboat yes

@DariusJahandarie yes

yes!

I haven't heard of that one!

Ohh, OK

I've never been into the visual novel genre

I do love me some Phoenix Wright, though

and Professor Layton

I just recently discovered there are Professor Layton novels in Japanese!

I think since you can lose they're not really visual novels but I don't really know

oh, that would be interesting!

I bet I could think of close to 26 common counters

But I'd be interested in that data

what is the book called?

I don't know if I've seen it used

@snailboat @snailboat If you need time, by all means take it. SE isn't a job, even for moderators. But please don't feel discouraged by trolls. I think you're doing a fine job and are a fair to all. Except for trolls, I'd imagine most of the regular users here feel about the same. So cheer up!

@snailboat the first time I saw "ヲ" in "Real life" was while watching "Baby Kangaroo's Birthday Surprise" last weekend. I recognised it easily enough, though.

@snailboat Pamela Downing?

It is pretty common to be recognisable I think.

in fact even ヱ and co. are common enough (although officially unused) to be learned

many years ago I used to learn using learn-japanese.info which did not change from that time and it was quite useful for a total beginner

k... I'm a bit confused... why is this answer flagged? japanese.stackexchange.com/a/18485/29

Yes, it was written by a troll, yes it has an essentially irrelevent comic included... but it also seems to answer the (very very basic) question fairly concisely.

Probably only because of the troll account

@snailboat What does that sentence mean?

@snailboat I saw 膳 used as a counter for 箸 once, in a tabloid article about China's poisonous splittable chopsticks

@jkerian It might have been me, if so, then yes because of the troll a/c. (Basic or not both the Q&A look bogus: It looks like is a fairly straight forward question combined with an unusual word to stimulate unnecessary activity or confusion among well intending users(?). I would have flagged it because looked like troll activity.)

Usually the unusual words had sexual connotations with the troll

I can't remember but I do recall forming that impression

@ssb You may understand it better than me. There was some of that but there also seemed to be just a lot noise being made to distract earnest users, with a lot of suspect/sub standard Q&A from brand new or relatively new members.

Yeah, if this is the troll then it certainly seems he's getting lazier

My own thought as a user was (and still is) to just ignore them, deny them the attention they seek and help the Mods deal with the issue.

Which means we probably should not discuss here. but BTW

@snailboat

I quite agree with @Dono's sentiments earlier.

@snailboat I don't know if the link works, but if it does, you can query the database like this: data.stackexchange.com/japanese/query/edit/221909

@Earthliŋ Wow, that's awesome.

Looks like both upvotes and downvotes have been increasing by quite a bit. data.stackexchange.com/japanese/query/edit/222184

Ayo @DariusJahandarie are you there?

Yup.

Could you tell me if you here the 花　in the 花町 here?

It's a fast song, but even slowed down I can't here it.

It's like 5 seconds after the time I linked it to you.

@:58 or so.

Sure, give me a moment to find some headphones.

Honestly that is entirely incomprehensible for me

It does indeed sound like there are only two mora before 人 to me though.

mora?

And yeah it's incomprehensible to me too, I was reading lyrics along with it and had it slowed to 50%. Hmph.

It sounds like マジ人 or something like that to me, not 花町人, but honestly, I'd ask a native speaker.

And the last line ended with an ん...

Haha.

I'll keep listening for the pickup.

I really just here …んまち… This is so infuriating.

Oh. Well I mean Up to that point I've been able to believe them, parsing it at .5 speed.

Yeah.

Assuming I didn't screw up anything, here's a graph of up/down votes over time: data.stackexchange.com/japanese/query/edit/222184#graph

Ah, it's not changing the URL

One moment

How about this link? data.stackexchange.com/japanese/revision/222222/291660/#graph

:P

I kind of wonder why they lock off those charts but then give everyone database access

Hmm, maybe I should plot # of answers in a month which have received at least one downvote

I guess I should normalize it by the number of total answers if I want to get an actual gauge on if negativity has increased

Too bad this doesn't just hook into ggplot

% of eventually downvoted questions and answers created per month

Again assuming that I didn't make any mistakes, it seems there as been a slight increase lately, but not by too much,

So either we are slightly more negative, or the questions and answers are getting slightly worse.

Oddly it has become considerably less variable lately.

Hmm, I guess I should be filtering out deleted questions/answers, since it probably doesn't do that.

Right you are.