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1:09 AM

@Davïd Thank you so much!

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9:01 AM

@Soldarnal @Dan @JackDouglas http://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/q/7940/2873
While I am Catholic I don’t read or hear the words “early Catholicism” very often, so I wondered what type of time frame I’d be learning about. Actually I think it depends on who’s defining it. One person might define early Catholicism as the Early Catholic Church, with the daily Mass and early development of parts of the New Testament. Another might define early Catholicism as a time frame for certain events, the two being quite a bit different.

9:20 AM

@Soldarnal @Dan @JackDouglas Instead of my writing "Mass and 'early' development of the New Testament", I should have written "continuous" development.

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12:02 PM

@fdb I'm trying to comprehend your answer. How much older than Shem are you saying Noah was? hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/a/8479/2873 Thanks.

1:02 PM

@fdb hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/a/8479/2873 I think we're agreeing to some extent. Are you saying that if Noah begat Shem on his 500th birthday, Noah was about 500 years, 9 months older than Shem? Thanks.

1:22 PM

@JohnMartin Hello John. If you flag only one person you will more likely get a response.

@Sarah Hi, Sarah. Sorry, but what are you saying?

@JohnMartin You pinged several people in you chat message. If you select one to ping you will more likely get a response. When you ping more than one, each may think the other will respond and that may cause a delayed response or no response at all.

@Sarah. All right. Thanks.

A: Allow flagging a comment after upvoting it

2:11 PM

@Sarah FYI:

Since one of the most common reasons a comment is removed is obsolescence, we should at least be able to flag comments as obsolete after having upvoted them. The workaround to this problem is to flag the question or answer itself, with a custom moderator attention flag, explaining the situation ...

@JohnMartin I'd go with the link in the question as the OP is confirmed that 's how he is using the term?

Soldarnal

3:07 PM

@JohnMartin The term I'm inquiring about is a technical term related to the interpretation of the NT, not one concerning per se the history of the Catholic Church.

@JohnMartin The general idea is that the theology and aim of the church within the NT shifts from one expecting an imminent parousia to one trying to come to terms with a delayed parousia. Most often it's a term connected with Acts and the Pastorals.

3:22 PM

@JackDouglas Glad to see I am not alone! So, can you explain to me how the check marked answer works?

Q: How does accepting an answer work?

@Sarah Of course! :)

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3:43 PM

3:59 PM

@JackDouglas Ah, sorry, I meant the check marked answer that tells how to the flagobsolete upvoted answers.

@Sarah oops, sorry

what browser are you using?

I just checked that code still works in Firefox with FireBug, I bet it works fine in Chrome too

(of course a custom flag is probably a bit easier :)

4:30 PM

@JackDouglas No problem. I am using Firefox

OK, if you install the firebug extension you can paste that code into the 'console'

@JackDouglas console?

@JackDouglas firebug extension?

@Sarah custom flag instead? ;)

How did you make that come up at the bottom of the screen?

by clicking on the 'firebug' icon at the top of the screen, which you only have if you have firebug installed via the 'add-ons'

4:35 PM

@JackDouglas how do I get to add-ons

never mind i found it

you'd have to paste that code into the console every time you want to flag an upvoted comment: it's not a permanent fix

@JackDouglas OK, I will try to figure all that out. But does it bother the mods to flag the question or answer instead?

Blog - Stack Exchange: A Theory of Moderation

no not for obsolete comments (that is a flag anyway), we like cleaning up obvious stuff

(we are janitors :)

Jeff Atwood on May 17, 2009

We believe deeply in community moderation. That’s why we appoint Pro Tempore Moderators and, ideally, democratically elected community moderators for every site in our network. But what do community moderators do? The short answer is, as little as possible!

From the very first version of Stack Overflow faq way back in mid-2008, our goal has always been to give power back to the community:

Stack Overflow is run by you! If you want to help us run Stack Overflow, you’ll need reputation first. Reputation is a (very) rough measurement of how much the Stack Overflow community trusts you. R …

@JackDouglas I wasn't sure if more bells and whistles go off for certain kinds of flags than for others!

good rule of thumb: if it is stuff that the community could/should do then try and encourage that instead of flagging. If it is something only a mod can do then flag away!

just voting to close (or re-open) for example encourages community involvement via the review queue

do you work through the review queues?

4:41 PM

@JackDouglas thanks, gotta go for now

5:13 PM

@JackDouglas, Thank you for your responses to my two flagged questions. I agree on both accounts.

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6:30 PM

@Sarah How'd you know it was me?

6:56 PM

@JackDouglas Oh! I must have just assumed it because you used one of them as an example in our conversation above.

@JackDouglas I case you were wondering, no, I am not a hacker disguised as a computer illiterate!

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