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14:32
I will be about half an hour late to chat. start with out me!
we need to discuss new topics for articles
 
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17:15
brb cooking noodles
back!
So someone suggested we write a blog post explaining to new users what they should do if their question is closed as GR.
They won't read it
I agree, but we can point them to it
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 would you like to do that?
I still need to make that contributors wanted ad
I am not currently volunteering for that blog post, no.
ATM I'm a bit busy with some other things
If I have time I'll work on it in my spare time and let you know, but I won't be mad if someone else gets there before me.
17:29
right you are
@KitFox are you still happy with how your post is?
@cornbreadninja how's your next post coming along?
18:03
Hi.
@MattЭллен Yes.
It is due?
And we should do a batch of articles on how to use EL&U.
So we can point people in that direction. Very good idea.
It's going up after Luke's
so in a fortnight monday
Then I've got a post on chat
then dead air
which isn't ideal
can you give me you honest opinion on the picture I've done for chat, @Kit?
hi @Cameron, great post!
hi @MattЭллен, thanks for letting me write it!
no worries!
18:11
Yes, I really liked it too. And so did @Reg, which makes it extra impressive.
@MattЭллен Is this what you mean? This picture?
@KitFox wow, thanks! I had no idea people were even reading it
it first in a 3 parter, but I'd rather not post shite
18:12
Well, first of all, it's much too small for me to give you a proper opinion.
oh balls!
I hav the full size one somewhere
Also. Is that a nose or a fist?
a nose
I've been thinking of swapping billy out for my orc head and my face
or completely re-doing it with a different plan
I like the concept.
The execution is a bit dicey.
what would you change?
18:16
In the top two panels, I can't read the comments. I think it would be conceptually easier to show Billy in front of his computer monitor, with the comments on it, then in the second frame, same thing but with the message blocking out the comments.
Also, in the fourth frame, I would drop the "It doesn't matter" part and just skip to the "How many reps do you have?"
@MattЭллен you once had a talking pineapple... maybe he can make a return?
And drop the "Now" from the fifth frame and add an emphasis to "chat."
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 maybe! that's not a bad call
And I think I might connect the first "chat" in the last frame to the callout sequence.
And you might show him "entering" EL&U chat so users know what the chat room looks like.
The return of pineapple could be funny.
Is that helpful?
I like that you use cartoons. I think it makes it easier to swallow.
Yes, thanks. I've been following along, imagining the changes as I go
18:21
Hey! I heard that in your native dialect. Excellent.
initially I thought I'd put the comments on a computer screen and have billy in a chair, but that seemed beyond my artistic ability
Just show the back of his head.
And a double frame box around the comments.
Voila.
If you can make an orc head, I think you can draw the back of someone's head. Maybe not. I can't do either one.
the orc head took me several months. I've not so much time :D
Yay! I think you may be entrenched as a British dialect finally!
18:32
I'm going to the park. Bye!
18:46
@MattЭллен what were you thinking for the community ad for getting more contributors? Something like a catchphrase?
@Cameron yeah, something like StoneyB said. I've just not takent he time to put onetogether.
Oct 4 at 14:52, by StoneyB
Hmm ... there's a lotta folks around who write pretty well. Why would they want to post on the blog instead of in the Q&A? he said rhetorically. Obviously, because they're not limited by an inferior question, or by such constraints as get a question closed. So perhaps something building on freedom of expression or get it off your chest or don't wait to be asked . . .
I've got a little free time if you want me to try to mock up one of these
I don't know if you had ideas for color schemes/fonts/whatever
@Cameron not so far. That would be great if you could!
 
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20:33
@MattЭллен Hi, Matt. Sorry I missed the party ... I was on a shoot all day.
@StoneyB no probs :)
If you're still looking for somebody for What to Do When Your Question's closed, I'd be willing to pick that up.
That would be great!
thanks a lot.
Gimme a deadline and parameters (sorry to treat you like a client, but you are!)
We should have a post on closing as Gen Ref. What does it mean, why do we have it, how can you fix the question (explaining research and what you don't understand, etc.) The deadline is 6 weeks.
20:41
Not a problem, except maybe too much time to procrastinate. Lots of material in Meta. (There's a catchphrase there somewhere)
Very sorry to have missed KitFox. She had many intriguing thoughts last night in the ELL post-Apocalyptic chat, and I just missed her there, too.
have you heard that ELL is on the cards again?
No! ... there were some hints in what I was able to read last night, but I took it for wishful thinking...? Tell me more!
Robert has reopened the proposal. I think we need to define it better, but otherwise he's happy to see if it'll make it through commitment
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Q: Reinstating the English Learners' Proposal

Robert CartainoProposal: English Language Learners Following the conclusion of the Definition phase, this proposal was recently closed in support of our English SE site. After a lot of discussion here and internally, we decided to re-open this proposal. There were a lot of intriguing arguments throughout. I ...

That's terrific. I hope it moves ELL off the scheid it seemed to be stuck on. As Dr. Johnson said, "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a
fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
20:55
I'm going to go rushing about to read what else has been written on this. It's a chargeup fersher.

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