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Hello and Welcome to the Drones and Model Aircraft Stack Exchange website/chat room!

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Q: The Real Essential Questions of Every Beta

The blog post Seven Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta gets linked to prominently from every beta's meta. However, this blog post is somewhat inaccurate and misdirects new users. In almost every beta, the site design question, for example, gets asked and undergoes a fair bit of discussion eve...

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Congrats ifconfig Your proposal made it into private beta now let's see if it will get out! :)

user1271772

19:57

Hello everyone!

ifconfig

20:09

Really excited to see what we can to together here!

ifconfig

20:29

*do together, not to together. :)

Tinkeringbell

20:40

Hey all! I don't know much about Drones or Model Aircraft, but maybe I can help out with SE site mechanics and meta :) Looking forward to that, never been through a private beta before :)

wizzwizz4

Just a heads' up: I'm writing the obligatory "What should we name our chatroom?" question. If anybody has creative suggestions, now's the time to start thinking of them.

Tinkeringbell

If it doesn't include 'droning' I'm going to be disappointed ;)

But given my history of naming rooms... I don't have any other suggestions :P

wizzwizz4

(I know it's early; but Retrocomputing got theirs in day 2 and it worked out pretty well.)

@Tinkeringbell You have a history of naming rooms‽ I did not know this.

Tinkeringbell

@wizzwizz4 Just the moderator chat on MSE. Aptly called 'Mod Room'

‽ < Fancy. Where'd you get that?

wizzwizz4

@Tinkeringbell Debian's compose key. Shift + Alt Gr enables "compose mode" which lets you type all sorts of stuff.

ⓗⓔⓛⓛⓞ⑫

Tinkeringbell

20:46

Ah. I think use that for Æ, shift + alt gr + z on Windows...

But that's the only one I know so far ;)

wizzwizz4

They implemented that into Windows 10‽ Wow. Try :) and see if you get ☺.

Tinkeringbell

Nope... I get ° when I hit the :, then it just does nothing. So I don't think it's really compose mode, just shortcuts to special characters.

ifconfig

Well, I don't know about the compose key in Windows...

It does have Win+; which brings up an emoji search pane.

wizzwizz4

Ah well.´That's not the compose key; it's just a normal special characters mode. ☹

Tinkeringbell

Yeah, I just figured that out too :(

wizzwizz4

20:49

@ifconfig Back in my day we just had character map! :-p

ifconfig

lol yea

wizzwizz4

(I'd have typed the stuck out tounge emoji, but that's not in character map.)

tongue?

tounge is a cross between a tongue and a lounge.

ifconfig

Back to discussion of room names, I'm all for "droning on", much like @Tinkeringbell's idea. :)

😜

Tinkeringbell

Feel free to put that as an answer there then, I'm about to turn in for the night ;)

ifconfig

Ah, will do.

Tinkeringbell

20:50

Why do things on SE always coincide with bedtime?!

ifconfig

lol, IDK. Stuff happens on the american time zones, so if you don't live here....

:)

Tinkeringbell

Yeah, that's kinda obvious by now, isn't it? :P

wizzwizz4

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Q: What should we name our chatroom?

Our third place is currently just called Drones and Model Aircraft. It's descriptive, but a little dull. All1 the other sites have really cool names for their main chats; what should ours be? Upvote suggestions you like. The one with the most upvotes at {date}, but we can always decide to change...

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If you're quick, you can post it now.

Just finishing writing up the list of other cool names; I'm not sure which to plagiarise.

ifconfig

🤦‍♂️

I had posted my response on the other meta thread for this question.

lol

wizzwizz4

There are two…

Urgh.

@ifconfig ~~I'm deleting mine; could you delete the answer?~~ Never mind; it didn't have upvotes, so I could delete it anyway.

ifconfig

20:59

The gentleman's decision

wizzwizz4

How am I meant to make a mark in the site's history now? I'll have to make a meaningful contribution! :-/

Tinkeringbell

Well, if anyone wants to amass some helpful flags on their first day: From this comment on the 'extended discussion' seems to have sidetracked from question improvements to comment moderation. ;)

@wizzwizz4 Do you fly drones?

wizzwizz4

@Tinkeringbell Only rarely, and I can't think of any questions.

Hmm… If mine's broken enough, I suppose I could ask a repair question.

Nope. It still works.

ifconfig

@Tinker

*AAAAAH @Tinkeringbell what were you saying about that long comment thread?

Tinkeringbell

@ifconfig That if people wanted to flag some comments as no longer needed on their first day, flagging the ones that are discussing comment moderation instead of the question itself could be a good start ;)

To make that 'long thread' a little less long ;)

ifconfig

21:04

gotcha

ah

Tinkeringbell

ah

ah.... staying alive!!!!

wizzwizz4

Ooh: what should our comment culture be?

Tinkeringbell

Delete all the things! XD

Are you going to ask that now? Then I might come back after brushing my teeth to answer it :P

Do we want feeds in this room? I could set one up for questions on both main and meta :)

Wait, I'll put that on Meta :)

wizzwizz4

@Tinkeringbell Just asking it. I'll ping you when I do.

@Tinkeringbell Don't we have two set up by default?

No… huh.

ifconfig

My internet connection in the SF Bay area is highly volatile right now... Comcast sucks.

😦

user1271772

21:14

@Tinkeringbell I think feeds at this early stage would be a bit too much. Questions are being asked very very frequently, and having a big advert in the chat room for each question, would be a bit too much in my opinion!

ifconfig

@user1271772 agreed

Tinkeringbell

I posted anyways, as ticker feeds are also an option. I did add a link to a question saying they might be too noisy too, but feeds also carry some advantages.

Oneboxing e.g. would allow people to reply to them, and discuss small things that way in here informally before deciding whether it's big enough to go on meta.

wizzwizz4

We definitely want that at some point, if our chat room gets big enough.

gparyani

How about appointing room owners?

wizzwizz4

@gparyani We do need to do that, too.

gparyani

21:19

Room owners receive some moderation privileges over specific chat rooms

user1271772

@gparyani I think HWHH will do it when they feel they're ready.

wizzwizz4

It can probably wait until after we've got pro-temp mods; for now, network mods can probably deal with things. I want a second opinion from somebody who isn't a network mod, though. :-p

Tinkeringbell

I don't mind keeping an eye on this chat too, but I'm also a network mod. I'd wait a bit with room-owners too ;)

IIRC, feeds might appoint one automatically anyways, that's what happened to me.

gparyani

Does it auto-appoint if there are mods in the room?

Tinkeringbell

I think so? Catija and HDE were also chatting regularly when I got mine.

ifconfig

21:24

huh, interesting

user1271772

@Tinkeringbell when you got what?

Tinkeringbell

Room ownership

user1271772

@Tinkeringbell You're an owner of this room?

Tinkeringbell

No, that was back on IPS.

I woke up one day and was a room owner.

Oh, and for those people that mentioned feeds noise concerns: meta.stackexchange.com/a/170660/369802 ;)

wizzwizz4

Should I add a link to the naming thing in the description?

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Q: What should our comment culture be?

The Stack Exchange model treats comments (on main sites) as sticky notes, used for clarification and basic interaction with the post owner. On questions: Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid answering questions in comments. and answers: Use comments to...

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Tinkeringbell

21:28

naming thing?

wizzwizz4

@Tinkeringbell The chat room naming question.

Wait, never mind; that's what stars are for.

What should the name of our main chatroom be?

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Tinkeringbell

First star!

Oh. hope you didn't mind me doing that.

It's late, I'm forgetting manners.

wizzwizz4

Nah, it's fine.

Mod abuse between mods is AOK in my book. But maybe that's Wikipedia rubbing off on me.

Be Bold, that is. Not that I think their admins muck around with their superpowers.

Tinkeringbell

:D glad to hear :)

AEhere supports Monica

@ifconfig congrats, this did move forward in the end, thanks in no small part to your recruitment effort.

wizzwizz4

21:38

It's a little ironic we've got a question about drones when you can't go outside. How do you get the drones out of the residential area?

Hmm… Where can you fly a drone along the normal route that a car takes, at car height?

Tinkeringbell

21:53

@wizzwizz4 Few. Small novel written. ;)

ifconfig

@AEheresupportsMonica Thanks, man! I hope this becomes a thriving community. There's a lot of potential here.

wizzwizz4

@Tinkeringbell I posted a comment asking for a second volume.

Tinkeringbell

@wizzwizz4 I think I answered it already? :P

ifconfig

lol

wizzwizz4

Doesn't asynchronous communication give me the right not to check my inbox?

(I turned off the bleepy box that notifies me when I get a Stack Exchange notification, and have yet to adapt.)

Tinkeringbell

22:05

@wizzwizz4 It does. It also gives me the right to do things like this in that case though :P

wizzwizz4

That's excellent.

user435118

22:15

Hello all

user435118

I hope to contribute to the beta, not an expert but quite interested in drones :)

user435118

Nice to meet you all

wizzwizz4

o/

@DaniilManokhin This description fits me too. Welcome.

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