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Tsundoku

02:41

Do we have only two questions about the metaphysical poets? That is simply not Donne.

9 hours later…

Bookworm

11:13

Q: Details of the gunpowder creation?

I have asked this in chemistry stackexchange but got no real answer. I am puzzled by the final step in which the Judge asks his comrades to urinate on the mixture. It may have some literary significance but I am wondering if anyone can explain if there was any good reason for doing it. Here's wha...

blood-meridian

verbose

11:41

Is there any specific reason this question is not tagged rabindranath-tagore?

I'm sad @Tsundoku modhammer-deleted this answer. I'd've upvoted, but alas, I can't even vote to undelete!

Tsundoku

12:30

@verbose My reasoning was probably that it doesn't try to identify a story by Tagore.

@verbose Since I'm a mod, every deletion I do is a mod-deletion. There is no way to temporarily take off my moderator hat.

8 hours later…

Rand al'Thor

20:11

Congrats @bobble on the memetic "over 9000" reputation!

verbose

@Tsundoku no sock puppets?

@Randal'Thor 🎉

verbose

20:31

@Tsundoku but it's about a story Tagore references, in a letter by him, in a collection of his work .... no?

Tsundoku

@verbose The answer received five downvotes, as a consequence of what looked liked targeted / concerted downvoting. I have no other explanation for those downvotes.

verbose

@Tsundoku ¡pobrecito! I'd've upvoted, if that makes you feel any better.

Tsundoku

I'm not in a hurry to undelete it. Those five downvotes won't go away.

verbose

😢

Tsundoku

Looks like we have enough potential candidates to hold a graduation election.

Tsundoku

20:59

Did He Even Know He Was Shakespeare? What the history of the First Folio tells us about our greatest playwright by David Scott Kastan.

Shakespeare in American Sign Language: should have seen this when we had the sign language challenge.

verbose

@Tsundoku How many mods have we had over our existence? The three current ones, plus Gallifreyan, Hamlet ... I think I'm missing at least one other person.

Tsundoku

@verbose Aza.

Rand al'Thor

21:16

(who went through several usernames, so Aza may not be the one you remember)

verbose

wow. That's an incredibly well-written resignation letter. I missed that entire episode. Sounds very harrowing; I hope she's doing well now.

@Randal'Thor you are correct, I cannot connect her with anyone I remember, but it doesn't matter. Asking for her deadname would simply replicate the very reasons she left.

Henry WH Hack v3.0b

Wasn't there a mod called Zyerah?

Rand al'Thor

2017: Mith, Hamlet, and Aza appointed.
2017: Hamlet steps down.
2018: Gallifreyan appointed.
2019: Aza and Mith step down.
2020: Rand and Tsundoku elected.
2021: Mith returns.
2022: Gallifreyan steps down.
2023: ???

@verbose She's a CM now :-)

@HenryWHHackv3.0b Yep, same person.

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@Randal'Thor oh nice!

Her username shows as user80, so presumably she created a new account and is CM with that one.

Tsundoku

And Mith was still known as Mithrandir at the time.

Rand al'Thor

21:21

@verbose Yep.

(Slate.)

verbose

oh ah

Well, good for her and for SE for making her feel like she could be comfortable returning.

Tsundoku

Jul 28, 2021 at 20:38, by Rand al'Thor

Q: Join me in Welcoming Valued Associates: #945 - Slate - and #948 - Vanny

I’m excited to introduce you to the two newest members of the Community team. Slate and Vanny have joined us as Associate Community Managers. They are joining JNat and Catija on Community Ops and will report to me. Slate and Vanny will eventually oversee tickets that come through the contact us f...

discussion featured announcements community-managers

Jul 28, 2021 at 20:39, by Rand al'Thor

^ spot a familiar face in a new guise

verbose

How does this election work? Do @Randal'Thor and @Mithical have to run again, so it's four candidates for three slots? Or is it a two-way contest between @bobble and @MattThrower for one slot?

Rand al'Thor

4+ candidates for 3 slots is the expectation, I think.

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Rand al'Thor

21:30

It's technically a "graduation election", so pro-tem mods need to run in order to keep their diamonds.

Mith was actually never elected by the community, although I was. (Between 2017 and 2020, SE changed from appointing pro-tem mods to allowing pro-tem elections.)

Henry WH Hack v3.0b

Before during the beta phase CMs used a meta post discussion to make a call for moderators.

Q: Accepting nominations — Who should moderate this site?

Ideally Moderators are elected by the community, but until the community is large enough to hold a proper election, we will be appointing three provisional Moderators to fill those roles. We need your help. Please nominate folks you would like to see become provisional moderators for this site. ...

discussion status-completed moderation

Loong

I think on my first site, I was just appointed without such meta post.

Ah yes, I still have the email Pops sent me.

Henry WH Hack v3.0b

I have seen sites that have moderators and I have no clue how it happened. I can find no meta posts or elections.

Loong

21:57

@Randal'Thor Considering the nickname Limey, citrus fruits must have been widespread in England at least in the 19th century.

Spagirl

22:37

@Loong wasn’t limey applied to britishers overseas? Lime juice was included as an admixture to sailors run ration to stave off scurvy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limey

Obviously ships on the high seas would have access to exotic fruits not common in Blighty.

b_jonas

22:58

oh nice! you convinced Bobble!

so we'll be electing three mods out of Mithical, Rand, Matt Thrower, Bobble, and anyone else who steps up. great

that means we'll have an election with an actual choice where I'll have to think about my preference

Bookworm

23:56

Q: Primers in Blood Meridian -- an unmentioned/overlooked detail?

This somewhat recapitulates my question about making gunpowder which was so brilliantly answered yesterday. Basically, my question is, given that the gang certainly had primers, which I understand to be small metallic containers which are full of, importantly, a high explosive -- probably mercury...

blood-meridian

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