Droning On

Your Room Owner privileges can only be removed by a moderator (and perhaps by yourself/another Room Owner?). There is no script that will remove them if you don't post messages, or if you don't enter the room.

But if you stop entering the room for more than 30 days, the script that appointed you will pick another, second, room owner from the people that are active at that time :)

user435118

3:21 PM

Ok, thanks for the info. I thought that my RO was temporary and if someone posted more than me they would replace me :)

CaldeiraG

congrats on that RO :P

everything set for the nomination? (if you're applying?)

Tinkeringbell

3:37 PM

@Daniil Heh, that'd be weird + cause a lot of random posting if people started to dislike you ;)

user435118

@CaldeiraG Thanks :)

user435118

@CaldeiraG Yeah (I always find something to tweak though), so probably just some minor changes. The nomination is largely copied from my nomination here: ell.stackexchange.com/election/4 just adapted with some more figures (e.g. helpful flags) and made it site specific. Haven’t started on the questionnaire yet though

user435118

@Tinkeringbell The battle of the room owner :D If I feel my room ownership is under threat, I’ll kick them :)

user435118

Only 65 eligible voters as of yet

user435118

So only expecting ~40 votes for all candidates combined

user435118

3:50 PM

There might not even be an election if there aren’t 4 candidates, interesting...

user435118

@Tinkeringbell Why can’t I kick you from the room, I can kick other people...

user435118

Is it because you are a mod?

user435118

4:07 PM

If anyone has photos for a photo competition (1 photo per person per month and the photo must be taken with your drone), please confirm and reply to this message

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Catija

4:32 PM

@NikeDattani Looks like it's good?

Nike Dattani

5:02 PM

@Catija Yes, it took a while for Drones to show up on SEDE, but Glorfindel told me the other day in the Tavern on Meta, that the Drones data came up recently.

Tinkeringbell

@Daniil Yes. You can't kick moderators ;)

It's to avoid mutinies. :)

@Daniil What you can do though, is pin messages like that one, so they'll show up at the top of the sidebar and stick there for a while. Might be useful, especially once the room attracts more traffic and such messages move out of sight quickly.

Catija

@NikeDattani The issue with it got fixed on Sunday. :)

Jacob B

5:41 PM

@Daniil I have some photos I can submit.

user435118

@Tinkeringbell Thanks for the suggestion, I pinned it

user435118

@JacobB Good to hear, around how many in total?

Jacob B

@Daniil I have several landscape photos (probably like 20 good ones) taken with a Mavic but not many other types of photos.

user435118

@JacobB Ok, thanks for that. We will need at least 3+ other users to run the competition

Jacob B

5:56 PM

@Daniil Hopefully some more people will visit this chat room and see your earlier message

ifconfig

10:58 PM

@JacobB I wouldn't count on that... :(

AFAIK, most SE users haven't heard of the chat feature of SE sites.

user435118

@ifconfig Have you got some drone pics?

ifconfig

Sadly no... I haven't flown in over a year, actually..... COVID19 and high school got me buzzzzzzzy

:( :( :(

user435118

:(

user435118

@ifconfig What are you studying?

ifconfig

Well, after my senior year of HS comes to a close I'm majoring in Computer Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara.

I like both computer programming and electrical engineering, so the major is a win-win

Jacob B

11:18 PM

@ifconfig :(

ifconfig

Yea, I'll be the first to admit it's a sad state.

But at least I haven't forgotten how it all works!

Jacob B

I also haven't been flying for a while, but I probably have enough room where I live to fly. But there are a lot of trees.

And trees like to eat my RC stuff.

ifconfig

Ha!

Jacob B

I've lost a few planes to the trees.

ifconfig

I live in an area of the SF Bay Area which has 3 airports in relatively close proximity, 4 if you count a smaller regional airport... it's hard to find open spaces which are sparsely populated enough to fly.

Jacob B

11:23 PM

That's unfortunate. Lots of taken airspace :(

ifconfig

KSFO, KSJC, KPAO, and KNUK

Yea.

Jacob B

I live in a Rural-ish area in VA

with trees everywhere

ifconfig

Hrm. I love it here in silicon valley, but I can definitely see the draw for the RC hobby to live in a semi-rural area.

I can't ever seem to spell the word definitely correctly the first time....

Jacob B

lol

ifconfig

de-finite-ly... I have to think about it that way

Jacob B

11:29 PM

Yeah, I tend to misspell certain words

ifconfig

I think this is probably my most often misspelled word. It's even worse though because I usually can't fix it without resorting to the google dictionary.

Jacob B

I often have to really think about words with ei or ie because I am learning german and the german words use ei/ie differently.

ifconfig

Oh yeah, that part of spelling too for me.

Jacob B

English is weird. :)

ifconfig

I'm learning/decently proficient in written Spanish, so a bit different. :)

Yes, it is.

Jacob B

11:33 PM

That's cool. I know a few people learning spanish but I never was as interested by it.