The Base Camp

So 40 days is the max.

I keep being surprised which one of my questions become very popular and which ones do not... just got my 4th “famous question” badge on TGO.

Changing the photo or deleting the post and posting a new one feels, to me, like 'I do not get enough votes, lets try an other one.'

So I'll be married in 7 days... :)

I suppose that's why we have 44 questions tagged bears and SO has 20,144 tagged SSL (which is what https is about). There just aren't 20,144 questions to ask about bears.

She smiles when she sleeps

Yay, I just reached 10k on TGO, the 3rd site where I reach this milestone.

Just hit 15k rep and 200k people reached.

@Sue we love spiders here. They eat all the bugs that are less welcome :-)

@WedaPashi शुभ-संध्या ! :-)

@Aravona Congratulations! For me, the reason is simply that I'm quite busy ;)

@CharlieBrumbaugh I enjoy it the way it is and think I might not participate as regularly if they are more often because it takes me significant time to find and select the photos, but this is only my opinion and not necessarily a reason not to do it. Also most people will likely try to submit as early as possible to get more votes, so naturally there might be less participation later on.

Just hit 10k rep, 100k people reached and got the first Marshall Badge, this was a good day.

Lost patience @RoryAlsop?

“The mountains will always be there, the trick is to make sure you are too.” Hervey Voge.

@ab2 sorry. It was flagged and I definitely agree with the flag. I can't see how it is even vaguely on topic here.

I do have to admit, I would be interested in listening to what you guys talk about

@Ricketyship Hi! You're right, I got silly about a starring problem I was having a few weeks ago, and now we have a lot of fun stars of starred comments!

I just noticed the starred discussion about starred comments in the starred comment sidebar. o.O

@Aravona Sorry! Had to star your comment on how you like most of the starred comments relating to the starred comments! :P

also I like how most of the current starred comments are relating to comments about starred comments

@Aravona, I just stumbled across the Coral Triangle, worldwildlife.org/places/coral-triangle. How cool is that!!!!! I imagine you know of it in your world.

I starred your nice message about people not going looking for starred messages!

I figured out how to move messages to the garbage if needed!

I felt a star would highlight that point

But don't worry - we don't have a huge population active in chat, and starred messages move down as new stars come in

@Ricketyship I agree, I spout some absolute c**p at times, and well some of you crazy lot have starred that too

Good Bye @RussellSteen. Its sad to see you go.

@WedaPashi hey dude - good to see you back

@Sue yes - one of the reasons we then have to say "any more comments will be deleted" - there is a feature request to try and sort it...but I understand it is low low priority

Sure, but he was not the only one. And some of them really did need to be closed

(I don't know) I hope @Ricketyship is back from his trek, there is a storm in the region he has visited. Hope you are safe mate!

Just went over 40k rep

I figured it out :)

@Sue We have to agree to disagree. I'm not horrified by slightly altering the focus of a off-topic Q if it makes it a Q that can be answered responsibly. I am much less impressed by the "rules" than some people. I don't regard Jeff as Moses or the Founding Fathers. The US Constitutions has been amended 29 times. If we, the users, cannot help our site evolve, I am not interested in it. In the med Q, I advised him to go to a doc sooner than ASAP.

For example, I took offense at Olin's comment that "What belay device is the best?" should be closed. In general "what X is the best?" is not always opinionated, as there can be situations where there is a best X. And even if it is in that case, he even admitted that a tweak of the question could make it a good question... so why not just do it!?!? If you admit that it just doesn't meet the wording you'd like to see to consider it good for SE, then just help people instead of hurt them!

@Liam Ray mears is ok if you get the right show - otherwise he's just a chubby man eating ants with some aboriginals talking in a monotone :P

@OddDeer Not all humans are bad. Just the bad ones are really shit.

We are nearing 3k users!

@Liam yup, it didn't have a lid on and wasn't in the correct part of the door, 8 pint bottle, so it just fell out and went everywhere. I'm pretty sure it was out to get me.

@RussellSteen Totally agree on that - but SE (at least TGO, I don't know the rest well) has a very good culture compared to the usual online forum. It is very factual and one does actually speak with each other not only at each other. That's one thing I really like about it.

@OddDeer Like seriously, that's it, that's the issue, tick the bloody tick box like the documents say!

@RoryAlsop That's not a tent, thats a lightweight mobile house xD

I'm going to ask steph to marry me!

Best gig rider ever last night - free steaks and burgers, and as much soft drink as we wanted

@Willeke @Aravona haha true true. I like these conversations anyway. Since we all in some ways associate with outdoors, these chats are fun :)

@Ricketyship Everyone uses the chat differently - for ages it was just @RoryAlsop, @Liam, myself and a few others talking anything because it was barely used.