whatever, quid

Lol. Teachers.

@Knight No. It used to be standard to congratulate people when they reach 100k or so, and I just didn't like the whole idea to begin with.

Wishing you the best for the election @XanderHenderson !!

@user21820 this can't beat the look of stars on a clear night!

I have some anonymous accounts, but I think using my name makes me more accountable for my answers and general behavior (that was the thought, anyway). And people are usually 'professional' on SE

If you know javascript, and have used browser tools (console and inspector) before, it shouldn't be hard.

@amWhy Good thing, then. Cigars are gross. :P

@Fury Arjun is suspended and now Arjun is whining here. Isn’t this a circumventing?

@sai-kartik , i saw this coming ;)

It was just for fun, but I actually went to check that the website does not exist, just in case it went to some bad website!

@Brahadeesh There are chat trolls.

And let this be clearly said, @amWhy and @quid, you two are among the best people on MSE, while I was away it all made sense ;-)

@quid WITH (as in "Ey, youse guys! You gonna go to da bar wid me?")

@Arjun you cannot ping user that never were here

Finally a new chess tournament is coming up on the 21st. "Legends of Chess" with some older masters this time. (Not really old, but 40+)

@sai-kartik For more Pickles Tickles visit gocomics.com. =)

@sai-kartik It was really time to eat. That's why I disappeared for quite a while.

Time to eat.

Actually ACHE does count; it sounds exactly the same!

The SNAKE left a WAKE in the LAKE.

BLACKMAIL when one seeks to extort money from a person in exchange for not revealing something incriminating

BLACKMAIL a letter sent on black stationary

@amWhy That one is covered by WAIL.

@user21820 As is whining on meta (Couldn't resist!)

DETAIL (good for asking a question on Math.se)

@OmarS Wut errer due you see? ;-)

But it never hurts, @user21820, to remind us that "rhymes with* is a reflexive (symmetric, and transitive) relation. This will help many students in the future, who peruse this chat's transcript! =)

(okay... pronouncing "crazy" as "kway-zee", then spelling it as "quazy" might be a bit of a stretch, but I'm going to stand by it...)

The problem is that I can't be sitting around checking for that condition.

But I wonder whether other users who didn't even see the original criticism will care.

I think real criticism should be allowed of such not-honest postings on Meta. As long as it is within a reasonable standard of discourse.

Oh that. Well... I think both of you got frustrated at each other earlier than that. Why don't I summarize what I think you're both getting at first? I think amWhy is saying that comments with real criticism should not be removed, since others cannot see deleted comments and may wrongly believe that there is less criticism than there actually was. You are saying you don't care because the question in that post won't get selected in the end.

The post is at -5. No one cares.

@quid Hmm well since the 1-rep comment from that user is gone, I suppose there's no need for my response at the moment. I responded because other readers would be misled by the implicit argument that all 1-rep users are victims of closure/deletion.

@quid That's vacuously true!

@quid Of course. Because no encyclopedia has ever had an error. :P

@XanderHenderson as a moderator you could edit and delete them.

@quid That's a little naive. And not true. You've suspended me for "just talking"... I don't quite get why you are protecting them, despite their frequent rudeness, insults, etc.

@TheoreticalEconomist Sorry, I've been busy and in and out. No, I do not have any plans to run for a moderator position at this time. Thanks for asking about it.

I think that it is transparently obvious that the person who posted that question disagrees, but that account has (as far as I am concerned) no credibility (as they have not performed a single action on the site which can be criticized via the reputation system).

@amWhy It is only offensive if a potential moderator answers with a "yes". Personally, I think that it is pretty easy to swat this question down:

> No, there are no shills. Shills are paid to promulgate a point of view, and I see no evidence that this is going on at Math SE. No, there are no cabals. Cabals are secretive organizations which seek to control things from behind the scenes. CURED is often accused of being a secretive cabal, but the goal is to be transparent. Gentle follows the same model, with apparently opposite goals.

"Has or does Maths.SE suffer from shills or cabals of special interest groups looking to peddle influence or control narrative?" That is offensive.

Seems pretty irrelevant to our site.

It is also not quite clear if the user that posted it realizes this.

If you are at all familiar with the science fiction community, this is kind of a "sad puppies" kind of thing.