@MarkMayo you nominated me?!?

to be honest, I don't know if I'm Consistently patient and fair when dealing with other users

and what about my avatar?

mwahaha

ah but you could be :)

you don't have to accept it, of course :)

Woo, first to the convention badge :)

no, you're second

Q: How do I move here?

hmm, it only showed me meh

@Gagravarr I had to reject your changes to the tags to make philippines into ph - although you linked the meta, I don't believe that was what was agreed upon in the meta? I thought the overwhelming consensus was ccs bad, words good?

@MarkMayo I think you have seen this link expatriates.stackexchange.com/help/badges/68/…

if i'm a south ossetian citizen immigrating from tibet to palestine, what country code tags should i use?

hippie

d-:

so show me one single question here that isn't just really about travel

my latest one

ok i'm totally convinced (-:

@Dirty-flow that link still shows just me

ah, if I remove the userid and do expatriates.stackexchange.com/help/badges/68/convention then it shows Tim as well

but he doesn't count, he's staff ;)

(sorry @TimPost) ;)

let see who will earn the first gold badge

oh it's on! ;)

I have 2 profile views on the main site and 7 on meta :D

Where are we on country names in tags?

There is a question on meta but I am not sure what to make of that

I saw already two edits in each direction (to or from full name or country code) for the Philippines…

I am cowardly “skipping” instead of accepting or rejecting but we need to decide at some point!

@Gagravarr I ate caldo verde (a Portuguese soup with kale or collard greens) in Macau, so it's possible to get some in the tropical parts of Asia ;-)

I think that on travel.se we use the full name, and there are 2 exceptions - usa & uk, but they are abbreviations

the problem is that country codes are not always clear

I also saw "nl" here on expatriates but this one makes sense, it's not so much a country code as a common short form

Dutch people use it all the time

IMO it's bad for a tag name

expatriates.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nl-citizen

Also we have “citizen” and “citizens”

I like citizens more

nl-citizen : For questions pertaining to citizens of the Netherlands.

another point to discuss: tag-wikis for countries

we have "For questions about migrating to or from the United Kingdom" and also "Living, working, studying and moving to France"

Yes me too, “citizens” somehow sounds better

But then English is not my mother tongue…

And I prefer the second description, tags are for questions, we don't need to repeat that every time

I don't know, another option would be "X is country in East Europe, member of the EU"

@MarkMayo can you edit your (my) nomination, it's linking to my meta profile but it should link to my main profile

I did it myself after the post was turned into CW

ah sorry, just saw your flag

well tag

well...notification

anyway, you've done it :)

@GaëlLaurans the common move is to use plurals

in the tags

any singular ones should be converted into plurals

@hippietrail will insist on this when he gets around to messing with the tags, I'll bet ;)

One more question: Should we use adjectives or not?

Netherlands-citizens or Dutch-citizens?

And how can I get a formatted link to a tag like @dirty-flow above?

@GaëlLaurans IIRC it's [ tag : tag name ] (without the spaces)

Test: dutch-citizens

OK, it works! Thanks

Is this one useful? regulations

It sounds very broad

there's already a nl-citizens :/

curse these two-letter country codes!

I think I retagged everything

Did I forget something? Should the old tag be somehow deleted as well?

@GaëlLaurans it will be autodeleted

if there are no questions with this tag

@Dirty-flow And if there's no tag wiki associated with the tag (no-use tags with tag wikis aren't automatically culled)

thanks for the clarification :)

the community strikes back - @MarkMayo you've been nominated too!

fancy that... ;-)

As a site about traveling or living abroad continues, the probability of Mark Mayo being nominated to moderate said site approaches one.

I wonder how non-habitual users of travel.SE will feel of travel.SE takeover of expats.SE. :)

anyone know how are those from Travel.SE who were against Expats are currently feeling now it is going ahead despite their objections?

The most vocal opponent is currently suspended for a year.

For unrelated offenses :)

It's going better than I thought it would, but the real test is how well it does in the long run

But with most of the top contributors, almost everybody on the chat and soon the moderators coming from travel.SE was it really necessary?

luck :D

and quality

IMO we need quality questions and answers, and we should upvote good posts

we should be patiant with new users and show them what are they doing wrong

@Dirty-flow Are you campaigning? ;-)

probably :)

however I joined travel.se 1 year after the beta start so other users would know better what's necessary

Beta went public while I wasn't looking...

that was early, wasn't it?

Don't think so.

I think it's been a week.

6 days to be exact.

so, maybe a day early then

I'm not seeing any questions is all

so, maybe a day early then

different question - is the meta site working for you?

Yep

ah, it's back

looked really odd just now, all the page furniture, but no content!

It happens on occasion

looks like everyone just got their first silver badge :) beta

I think that's only assigned to those who get 200+ rep

no, I have earned the beta badge on Soft recommendation and I got only 111 rep

there are other criteria

I guess so.

@TimPost Now that the site is in public beta, can we start flagging Travel.SE questions that were closed as "off topic - expat" that look good to be migrated over?

@Gagravarr I think I can nominate you for moderator and close the nominate-circle :D

and that wouldn't in any way look like a stitch-up, now would it? ;-)