The Factory Floor

By the time the superiors can react, you have grown too powerful for them

You can't control an area of several million lightyears across if you could only ever travel a few lightyears (or even thousands of lightyears) in your entire life

But this is exactly why commanders at greater distance NEED to be of a larger scale

if a large enough area defects then they would be able to hold out against the areas around them

and a new faction would form

C# is microsoft's cheap knock-off of Java

@overactor You may also be pleased to learn that typing [chat] in a mainsite comment creates a hotlink to the list of active site rooms for whichever site you're leaving a comment in.

That assumes I was up :-)

if a question is trivial then it shouldn't be on here

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Eh its chat. We can ramble.

Just dropping in for a second to say that the What topics can I ask about here? is now live.

The two moons question, I think, is fine......you have A (science as we know it), you have X (two moons instead of one), and you're asking for B

@Fulli Overactor has the first 2 gold badges - he has 2 questions with over 10k views now

I pushed my Deadpool comment off the favorite list :-(

I'm going to write it in MathJax :-)

I think for questions on the second form, we'll need something more like "I have this starting point (however loosely defined) and I want this outcome, how do I get there?". Because otherwise it becomes "propose any X where f(X) = 1 for your proposed f()".

If we can find some sort of consensus that idea generating questions are off topic, we can certainly add a site-specific close reason covering that. It would help make the site's scope more clear.

Even if I really think more than 0.4% of people viewing should have upvoted! :p

@overactor That, however, is perfectly normal.

@Liath So far you take the cake, I'm curious to see what others will write up

If a question is closed and then reopened (or even approaching reopening) without significant changes, that's usually a sign that it needs to be brought up on Meta for further discussion.

That said, Afrofuturism does sound like a wonderful Cards Against Humanity card.

@Mourdos AS YOU WISH, SO IT IS DONE.

@Liath I left them as separate comments so they can be upticked independently if people feel differently about each.

Putting it out there to see how the community feels and what the reasoning goes like.

We're working through accumulated flags, by the way. It'll take a few days more, I expect. But just wanted to let y'all know that those are moving now.

Almost certainly. I've had a diamond for almost a year on Amateur Radio and I don't think that's something you ever "fully learn". Every situation is slightly different.

Now that your a mod, can you get the community ad featured? :-)

@overactor Indeed. Community moderation is supposed to be what drives the majority of moderation; moderators (elected or appointed as pro tems) should be pretty much the last line of defense. On a healthy site, very few things should require diamond-level access.

Thanks :)

@TimB Truth. The Rule of Cool is paramount

Oh. Found this today. Really cool blackhole physics

I'm going to leave the bounty open for a bit - I want to give it the chance to rise to the top but so far you're the highest contender

if someone is hitting you and you can't even find them to hit back that's so frustrating to deal with

worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/2906/… Have them rebuild themselves :-)

Hi. The "what is your process for creating a city" question feels a little like an opinion poll to me; it's asking 'what do you do" more than focusing on the problem to be solved. I proposed an edit that I think fixes it without damaging anything else; I'd appreciate it if people who can review edits would take a look: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/1882

I think it can be made on topic

ignito canonballum!

You'll get no argument, price hikes, "I'm just not interested right now" from your average cannon

I'll ask again. One problem is that we don't know who specifically is the liaison for our site, so I can either ask the room in general (what I've done so far) or start calling out individual CMs who might or might not be the right ones. I guess it's time to try the latter.

@TimB I've asked in the SE-wide mod room a few times and so far gotten crickets. Most recent was Wednesday afternoon, when I dropped a link to the human-sacrifice question (when it was still pretty young) and said I could imagine stuff happening there that would get flagged -- so could somebody mind the flags? I don't know if flags happened and, if so, if they were handled.