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Ben

23:04

@BESW So what about now? :P

@V2Blast How's your period of this current earth-rotation going?

BESW

V2Blast

@Ben rotatingly

Ben

@BESW And the illusion shall be forevermore shattered.

@V2Blast Excellent. Good to hear

BESW

For people who have 10k+ rep on Science Fiction & Fantasy, the deleted "thank you" answers on this question are an excellent demonstration of how even the most seemingly obscure, niche, narrow question can turn out to be a resource for many people. (And as a fellow sf.se 10kpluser, you have my deep sympathies.)

For those lucky enough to not be able to see them, there are three deleted "I googled looking for this obscure 1981 TV movie and found this answer, thank you" responses, from 2014, 2017, and five hours ago.

V2Blast

I'll probably never have 10k on scifi.SE because their comment policies (or lack thereof) bother me so I solve the problem by avoiding looking at it most of the time :P

Ben

23:15

@BESW are they "let me google that for you" answers, or the OP coming back and answering their own questions?

I only have 10k on rpg and Arqade

BESW

Yeah, I tried for a while, gave up about three years ago. Still get rep from a handful of answers like that one, when somebody else modifies the question or gives a new answer.

@Ben It's people who went Googling for a question, and found that it had already been answered (by me) on the Stack.

Ben

Ohhhh right. Like "My google searches directed me here, ty for your efforts" answers

BESW

Right.

Which function is the primary goal of the Stack.

Ben

I have a few posts, not with those "ty" answers, but that incredibly high views.

rpg.stackexchange.com/users/12193/…

gaming.stackexchange.com/users/73976/…

not especially popular or upvoted, but still visited fairly often.

It's good to know that the effort you make helps a lot of people :)

BESW

aye.

trogdor

23:28

@BESW there's the suspect, take him away boys

Ben

can I blame it on @doppelgreener

BESW

@Ben My most viewed question on rpg.se is... closed as a game-recommendation question.

Ben

"Free" "Basic" "D&D 5e"

maybe also "adventure" and "showcase". Very google haha

BESW

Contains four deleted answers, include "here is a thing that is not free," "here is some speculation about how it might be made available later" (self-deleted once it became clear that Wizards' promises were blowing down the backroads headin’ south), and "here is an adventure I know nothing about."

Gosh I wonder why that topic became more trouble than it was worth.

trogdor

Lol

BESW

23:41

[clicks trepidatiously]

Ben

Speaking of more trouble than it's worth, I have an answer on this question over on Arqade. The other answer has one line that really frustrates me: "Packet loss usually affects connection speeds"

trogdor

Like affecting an accent?