Just to clear the air: Daniil and I have mutually apologized. He apologized for his words to me yesterday. I apologized that my actions, or inaction, made him feel I was ghosting him. We've agreed to move on.
Just wanna point out that in my short time participating in this chatroom, I've noticed that like... everyone here is awesome. So, y'all, thank you for being awesome. :D
@Spevacus BTW: we normally watch blockspot domains without the TLD, because Blogspot has a domain named "blogspot.*" in almost every TLD, which can be used to get to the user's subdomain. So, this would normally be: !!/watch- drabu7demonspells\.blogspot. It's not a big deal. It's just something to keep in mind. It took a few reminders for me to start remembering to do it. :)
@Mast you need an MS account and privileges in the relevant room. I used to reply to SD messages when I had feedback privs but not room privs, and it never left a comment, even when I could leave comments on MS.
@Catija I'm sure we're happy to use whatever terminology you want for profiles/accounts, but if you want people in general to use that terminology, then I'd suggest that the dialogs/UI SE shows be changed to consistently use that terminology, as users in general don't really have another place to get the terminology from.
Currently, the dialog for creating a profile on a new site says we're creating an "account" on the new site. In fact, it says it's a new "account" at least 5 times, and that creating the profile/account "will automatically link this account with your accounts on other Stack Exchange sites."
I know there are a variety of other places SE uses "account" in reference to the profile on each site (e.g. the "accounts" tab in the user's main SE account pages). Ironically, the place where I've seen the SE UI use the term "profile" is for the user's "Network profile" link in their site profile/account pages. It's going to be a significant uphill battle to get people to use "profile", unless SE changes to using that terminology in all, or at least most, UI elements.
Basically, it'd be nice to use "profile", but getting people to use it consistently is going to be ... difficult.
Y'all are... more knowledgeable about the site and the network than the average person. My intention in mentioning it is to share that knowledge. For most users on the site, they may only have one profile, so they are, essentially the same thing. To use the term "profile" can needlessly confuse people who really just don't need to understand the difference.
Y'all don't have to change how you speak about it... that wasn't my intention... I screw it up regularly myself, but I try to use the correct term.
@Mast, Catija is trying to be helpful with explaining this terminology. It is helpful to know it. This is just a spot where the site makes it difficult to adopt the terminology in all things. Continuing to point out that it's difficult, or that other usage might be better, just rubs her nose in the fact that it's hard.
FWIW @Catija I appreciated the clarification and found it quite useful. I'd always found the terminology that the site uses confusing, in that it does call them "accounts," which struck me as confusing because it wasn't clear what was linked to what in what way, and your explanation made it a lot clearer how it's represented internally.
Which is to say: thanks, and also +1 to Makyen's note about the site's terminology
@Mast I would have been surprised if you did. I assume you were just on a roll. It's easy to do. Unfortunately, it's also easy to go a bit too far, particularly when you can't see the non-verbal reactions of the other person/people.
@Mast We were asked to add fascism as a offensive word in order to more easily identify posts by at least one troll. Given the posts that are reported, it's seemed that there's at least one ongoing troll.
I'm thinking of adding the text "(meaning that we'll still be alerted to them, but those alerts will not trigger autoflagging, and messages will not be posted in most rooms unless something else in the post triggers another alert)" after "it will be demoted to the watch list" in github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/wiki/…. What do others think?
