Ahem. I am vastly impressed by the civility of this stack. The tight moderation and the behaviors that emerge from it just make the entire experience pleasurable and a breath of maturity on the Internet. Thank you to the moderators and regular posters who work to keep it that way.
I'm doing something something I hope doesn't annoy: picking a half-dozen of my favorite quotes from the year-in-chat and re-linking them, hoping to stir up some year-end smiles =)
Psychologically there's a bump we pass over in learning about a thing, after which it's almost impossible to remember just what it was like to not be aware of the thing.
(but they're just a list of hyperlinks on a scratchpad right now, so I have no idea when you'll pop up!)
(P.S. I recommend against starring the re-links I posted, 'cause then they just show up in the star board as the URL. Instead, you can follow the link and star the original message if you feel so inclined.)
@trogdor I was lazy--just went through the messages I'd starred.
@Miniman Spacing 'em twelve hours (or so) seems like it'd give anyone who finds it annoying a bit of a break, and two "slots" per day over six days seems reasonable. And if lots of people want to participate, nothing saying it has to stop on 12/31--"the year that was" would make sense within the first days of January, too.
@nitsua60 -- at least you don't find out about the dragon attacking your farm by way of him running into the power lines feeding you and your neighbor :P
@nitsua60 :P I've actually wanted to make a poster out of a 3d rendering of a dragon having face-planted into somebody's yard after hitting a set of high-tension lines
(it'd be a safety poster for ag pilots and such who have to deal with that threat on a day-to-day basis)
When the Spanish first showed up on Guam and started taking the locals' stuff, the locals just rowed out to the ships and started taking stuff from the Spanish.
Looking through my starred messages, I found the star on BotchBlog. I hope that, now that I have people to play with once again, I won't have a lot of botches. But the chance is there!
Just like the "hot questions" on the Q&A sites, it's based on the Hacker News formula. Starred messages are sorted in descending order by
Stars
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(Age + 2)1.5
where Age is the message age in minutes. So there's indeed a time decay factor (e.g. a 20-minute old message with 5 stars ...
Just like the "hot questions" on the Q&A sites, it's based on the Hacker News formula. Starred messages are sorted in descending order by
Stars
-----------
(Age + 2)1.5
where Age is the message age in minutes. So there's indeed a time decay factor (e.g. a 20-minute old message with 5 stars ...
