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@Idon'tknowwhoIam. I'm not sure if that ping would work since the user would have to recently have been active in the chat. You'll probably have more luck in the other room: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/95

It sounds fine to me, and it's describing something going from good to bad. It seems like most of the answers are saying that that's not okay—"worsen" should only describe things going from bad to worse.

@everyone. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening to everybody, my dear friends. I am not harmful. I promise I'll try to respect all rules (and think before creating a question etc.). The last time I was here was about ten years ago; I decided to return. I'd like just to discuss some rules of our beautiful site: what is good and what is bad, what are the basic rules of good questions. I'll respect everyone's opinion and I won't slander.

@MartinSleziak I guess everyone likes questions about jokes. People like to read the joke, explain the joke, and understand the joke. It's a win-win-win.

Users with most Great/Good/Nice Answer badges: main, meta.

Users with most Great/Good/Nice Question badges: main, meta.

@user1271772 In fact, I have been suspended two or three times on Meta (I've lost count because I don't care). My concern is that a CM or moderator might ban me across the network for a year. Seeing what happened to Cellio, Shog9, Cartaino and this year to Eddie Kale–some users have suggested their moderator status was stripped– anything is possible. In brief, I believe the days of halcyon are truly long over.

@Stephen one would hope the situation would be clarified on the site's meta page. One would also hope that one of the three remaining moderators on ELL would make some sort of statement today if SE staff continue to delay their response. At the very least saying "when" a statement is due. The sad truth is that not enough users feel invested in the site and who runs it. If there had been a significant brouhaha we would have heard something by now.

@Mari-LouA exactly. Staff is looking into this, they may need some more time to make a decision or (equally important) figure out the right way to communicate this to everybody involved. I don't envy their position right now ...

Agreed. (I may flaunt my ability to edit 7 minute old chat messages in this server, but I'm just a regular user making stupid typos in SO chat for example.) Though the one thing that can be said is that if they don't touch chat, it can't really get worse than it is

@DialFrost My attempt at humour

@snailplane snailllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll helllloooooooo

how have you been?

long timeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's, I mean. - Mark Twain

The electrician's favorite philosopher is Voltaire

ELL 2020 Moderator Election!

Welcome back @snailplane

Hi, Snails! I hope you are fine.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad ip for hostname in body, blacklisted website in body (197): my love wunderkiddy‭ by Ильясик Мустафин‭ on ell.SE

Congratulations to our new mods, Snailplane and ColleenV!

:) Well, my advice is warrantied for life. If it is unsatisfactory, you get a full refund

Chrome just crashed. Had to bring back 1856 tabs

For those that are having trouble reading the image - "i before e. Except when your foreign neighbor Keith received eight counterfeit beige sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters. Weird." English is hard even for native speakers :)

Oh the room is so silent. Where did all the old people go?

After reading the question, I realized how much I have learned over the past four years.

So I think it's time I posted this reminder for some users here: Keep in mind that bigotry is not allowed and obscenity and insults will not be tolerated. Period.

Word of the day: testilying

word of the day: precariously

If ELL was to be claimed as a single person's work, J.R. would have the biggest share in that.

But there's your bitter truth: There's lots of rep gain in answering easy questions (and definitely easier than those) and none in closing them.

Eid Mubarak!!