The Factory Floor

1:57 AM

@HDE226868 found where I read it... But you've already seen it too, so it may be less useful to you. astronomy.stackexchange.com/a/6566

ArtOfCode

10:02 AM

→ 85 messages moved to Chatbot Dev

Those went to Chatbot Dev, for anyone interested in developing the twitter bot.

Tim B

11:42 AM

Our 7 day rolling average is really close to 20 questions

if we get 20 today we should hit it

Worldbuilding Meta

12:56 PM

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Q: For how long are moderators elected?

I just had a look at the election page, and noticed that multiple candidates that were nominating themselves for moderation already are mods. They stated, [they]'d like to continue as a moderator [...] This made me wonder. I also visited and voted on the 2016 elections over at StackOverflo...

Tim B

1:14 PM

@James Yeah, I remember that. At the time you had really limited experience over the whole network. That's clearly no longer the case. You've got reputation, you've been active in reviews and flagging etc, basically you now have the experience you lacked then :). I encourage you to go for it...although given we have a really strong field already you're up against tough competition :)

Serban Tanasa

4:13 PM

Dunno if it's been posted already, but here are some data query stats on the current candidates: [data.stackexchange link](goo.gl/sWo5iO)

Find your potential candidate score here: goo.gl/sWo5iO

DaaaahWhoosh

Candidate score really doesn't mean much, does it?

Serban Tanasa

Nope. I for one am SURE Monica will win, despite not topping out on rep like some of the other candidates.

DaaaahWhoosh

I have a higher score than a lot of the people I'd rather have as a moderator

oh yeah, I guess rep really does factor in more than it should

Serban Tanasa

4:29 PM

@Aify, wow, that's a lot of downvotes. I feel I've been remiss

Tim B

4:42 PM

nearly equal up and downvotes, yeah that's unusual

my stats on that are pretty ridiculous

5,269 up. 31 down

lol

generally I close things rather than downvoting them I guess

AndyD273

5:50 PM

So my Balloon-Whales question hasn't flopped, so that's pretty cool :)

Actually, it's my best performing question so far... which isn't saying all that much

bowlturner

@AndyD273 well my bigfoot question flopped. I need to think through this better, I'm planning on another mythical beast question during this session

Hohmannfan

Just what is this?:

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Q: Would the use of the X-shaped item used as described be legitimate?

Suppose we lived in a world where humans did not eat certain things for religious, ethical, precautious, health, solidarietive activism, focus on zero-distance production, and on minimized or absent machine use for food preparation so as to save energy and other reasons. Suppose such humans were ...

life death tools

DaaaahWhoosh

@Hohmannfan AAAAAAhhhh it looks like a big block of text

Hohmannfan

Is that dis-encouraged?

DaaaahWhoosh

well, it certainly doesn't help for readability

it's also Turing-test-dropout-level gibberish

I wish the best of luck to anyone who can figure out what the question is

Aify

6:03 PM

@SerbanTanasa yea, I don't hold back when I think a question is bad - and I don't hold back either if I think it's good.

AndyD273

6:18 PM

@bowlturner I dunno. I had a few thoughts for your question, but couldn't answer because on hold... This is something like what I would have answered:

So could it hide undiscovered? Actually it might be able to. You will hear of new species being discovered, or old species being rediscovered that everyone thought was dead, so it's not unheard of for species to hide out in a secluded area for a long period of time.

So say a very remote valley high in the most remote and secluded areas of the tagia, far enough away from anything to make mineral exploration impractical.

This species is also very territorial, so any creatures that are vaiguly ape shaped, like humans, would be seen as interlopers and attacked.
Meaning anyone that does happen to get to close to the valley just disappears in the wilderness, never to be heard from again. Between, winter, wolves, bear, moose, and accidents there are enough dangers that a small number of trappers/explorers could go missing from bigfoot attack without anyone noticing.

Tim B

6:42 PM

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Q: Creating a Siren song

Many myths have creatures like sirens who can use their voices to lure men to their deaths. But is there any way a creature could exist in the real world that had that power? I don't just mean fooling animals by using scent or color to lure them in, I mean actually causing humans to approach wit...

science-based mythical-creatures

science based mythical creatures. Rah :)

I'm pretty sure our 7 day question average will be over 20 by end of today. Be impressive if the 2 week one hits that :)

Bah, I just noticed that the "beta users" rep froze when the site graduated. I should have written some more answers and bagged that top spot :p

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Aify

7:23 PM

Btw, i've been meaning to ask, but what do you higher repped people think about the two questions I've posted on creature design that included pictures of a model of the creature? I intend to ask more question with different creature models in the future, and any feedback would be appreciated

AndyD273

7:59 PM

@Aify I'm not super high repped, but it does kind of help the reader to visualize what you mean. Trying to describe the creature with the mouth away from it's head would be a lot harder using just words. Just my 0.02

Aify

@AndyD273 So that's a good thing then, I presume? (Also you have double my rep; eg: high rep user)

AndyD273

Personally, I don't think that the pictures take anything away from the question, and it does save some potential confusion when trying to get the real question across. Also, the questions seem to be well received, which is more valuable than my opinion

DaaaahWhoosh

8:24 PM

@Aify I'd say that any information is good information, so long as it doesn't distract people from your actual question.

people tend to get distracted easily

Serban Tanasa

10:13 PM

ouch, my uploaded mother in law question has been getting a fair bit of flak

oh well, at least it's on the HNQ list

bowlturner

yes, I saw that

congrates

Serban Tanasa

not it it only gets downvotes

i guess people are sensitive about their in-laws

bowlturner

really?

haha

wow, you had 3 downvotes, surprising.

I think they must be mother-in-laws... ;)

bilbo_pingouin

Wow. I just got a Mortarboard badge... on meta! oO

Serban Tanasa

i think it was the passed away stuff

fixed

bilbo_pingouin

10:18 PM

I didn't know you could get those

bowlturner

@bilbo_pingouin wow, neat

@SerbanTanasa maybe. Some people are 'sensitive'

bilbo_pingouin

@bowlturner I wouldn't have been against getting that rep for real... on the other hand, I don't have to worry about the fact that the next two hours I would be missing on rep ;)

Serban Tanasa

@bilbo_pingouin, mortarboard on meta is excellent

bowlturner

@bilbo_pingouin It's just a cool thing. I don't think I've gotten 20 upvotes on meta in a week.

bilbo_pingouin

Well I got it for the election's question I guess...

one of my suggestion gathered some 10+ votes, that is already a virtual 100 rep

bowlturner

10:23 PM

I've barely scrapped that by today on the main site.

bilbo_pingouin

me neither, not a single rep point on main for me today....

but I'm full of virtual ones ;)

Serban Tanasa

meh, got a nice round 49

Serban Tanasa

10:42 PM

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Q: Is there a quick way to see which WB questions are on the HNQ roster?

These are the Hot Network Questions (HNQ) that gets displayed across the entire set of Stacks: A different group of questions seem to get placed on it on refresh. While clearly these are the ones with lots of traffic and votes, and there's a formula for it somewhere, I have no way of knowing w...

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bowlturner

Night all, going home

Worldbuilding Meta

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Q: Is there a quick way to see which WB questions are on the HNQ roster?

These are the Hot Network Questions (HNQ) that gets displayed across the entire set of Stacks: A different group of questions seem to get placed on it on refresh. While clearly these are the ones with lots of traffic and votes, and there's a formula for it somewhere, I have no way of knowing w...

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bilbo_pingouin

Night

@SerbanTanasa I see 5 WB questions on HNQ now

Serban Tanasa

yeah, we're taking over their roster, muhahaha

bilbo_pingouin

there's not history of hotness, but 5 isn't unheard of, even if not so common....

we often are on the HQN...

HDE 226868

11:05 PM

We have six now, five on the first page alone.

And the sixth only just got on.

Worldbuilding Meta

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Q: Where Can I Go To Make My Worldbuilding Easy?

Is there any website where I just type the scenario and it automatically does that? Like, for example, I physically eliminate a country or alter the height or path of a mountain range or even an ocean's depth? Like, for another example, the cause being a southwardly advancing ice and the effect...

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