The Factory Floor

12:06 AM

Ooh! Just found this meta thread so true.

I just bookmarked it

8:41 AM

@Shalvenay If there is a method of disabling it they'll make people use that. If not they'll simply make courtrooms big enough that the judge, defendant, prosecution, jury and public gallery are all out of breath weapon range of each other.

FoxElemental

1:33 PM

I just saw my first vote tallies! And winced. My antimatter question? +10 -9. My original 27 suns question? +15 -12.

On another note

I have a question: what's the policy on edits you are unsure about?

Secespitus

@FoxElemental What kinds of edits? Making edits that invalidate answers? Don't do that. Make a new question instead. Someone edited your post too much? Roll back or edit further. Not sure whether to use American or British spelling? Leave it up to the OP.

FoxElemental

2:17 PM

@Secespitus I mean edits that don't change the meaning. More regular edits: like grammar/regular spelling/punctuation etc., with Markdown editing. But something either trivial or superficial enough you're not sure

Secespitus

3:04 PM

There is a minimum of 6 characters for users with less than 2k rep. That should give you a rough estimate already. Other than that it depends on the edit and the reviewer. As long as there is at least a little bit of improvement I would accept an edit for example. What I would not accept would be for example changing American to British English or fixing a dot and then adding superficial words to get past the six character limit. Or unnecessary MathJax.
Fixing typos and grammar are one of the main reasons you are allowed to propose edits to other peoples posts. Edits shouldn't change the me…

AndyD273

I'm pretty excited. My 3D printer is out for delivery!

Aify

3:19 PM

@James @HDE226868 He's back with ANOTHER acccount (worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/52270/menlo)! So now I count DT Cooper, Mindx, Jasper R, Keith Henry, and Menlo.

HDE 226868

@Aify We're aware.

Hosch250

@Aify Who's "he"?

FoxElemental

@Aify Jeez that's a lot.

@Secespitus Thanks for the advice

Secespitus

@AndyD273 Cool, what are you going to print?

HDE 226868

@AndyD273 Awesome!

Hosch250

3:26 PM

@Ash Please dump them on my table :)

I'll eat a couple a week :)

AndyD273

@Secespitus Not sure yet. I'll have to come up with some ideas.

FoxElemental

Ooh! A little model world!

Secespitus

Taking worldbuilding to a whole new level

Hosch250

@AndyD273 What materials can you print with? Just plastics?

FoxElemental

yep

AndyD273

3:28 PM

It might be a fun reason to get into 3D modeling...

@Hosch250 Yeah. It's not a fancy metal printer or anything. I don't have that kind of money :)

FoxElemental

Or WorldDestruction. You Weapon-mass-destruction would in theory be a hammer

Hosch250

@AndyD273 Still fun. Depending on how complicated your designs get, you could mill some metal materials separately too.

Then assemble it all together.

Hmm. Why don't you 3D print 3D printers and steal the market?

AndyD273

@Hosch250 Heh. I know there are plans for them out there... but that seems like a lot of logistical work

Hosch250

@FoxElemental I just read the sandbox, and you have some hilarious ones in there.

FoxElemental

Thank you! Um . . . which ones?

Hosch250

3:40 PM

All of them :)

FoxElemental

Thank you

Hosch250

As for the acid-producing cow, could just just line the udder and teats with mucus, much like our stomach?

FoxElemental

I must bow to James Beins, Steward of WB, Crusher of Dreams, Snorter of Beverages, First of His Name, for the poison-jade-elephant idea

Hosch250

LOL. That one was hilarious.

Something like the poison dart frog, only very large?

FoxElemental

@Hosch250 Sadly I don't think that would work with the acids I'm using. Flouroantimonic acid is about 10 to the 16th times more powerful than pure sulfuric acid (10 quadrillion times)

Hosch250

3:43 PM

OK.

FoxElemental

Teflon is supposed to work, though

It does everything!

Hosch250

How much teflon? It will (likely) eventually degrade.

So you'll need to have some form of regeneration of the liner.

FoxElemental

No idea. That's what I'm asking about (part 2)

Hosch250

Oh, OK.

AndyD273

@FoxElemental Some kind of biologically produced teflon, so that it continually replenishes itself?

FoxElemental

3:45 PM

Maybe

The acid is equal parts perchloric acid, aqua regia, and flouroantimonic acid.

Look them up and wince.

Volatile, explosive, and corrosive like heck

Hosch250

Not at work :)

Maybe this weekend.

I'll let you know if I find anything.

FoxElemental

Teflon is slightly more valuable in the world because banks buy it.

Hosch250

@FoxElemental What for?

FoxElemental

And rich people. The acid dairy industry sells to criminals

@Hosch250 Just answer the question if I've posted it already!

Hosch250

@FoxElemental Will do.

FoxElemental

3:47 PM

Thanks.

Hosch250

So, I know teflon tape works well to seal pipe connections.

FoxElemental

My one question: Should it be reality-check or science-based?

Hosch250

But that's a thin about of teflon. There's a good chance you'll need to have an inch or more with those acids, I'm betting.

No idea. Both?

AndyD273

Reality check can/should be used with other tags

FoxElemental

@Secespitus You're the tag expert. Can reality-check go with a science-based or hard-science tag?

AndyD273

3:49 PM

Just so people know what kind of reality you are checking.

FoxElemental

I know science-based and hard-science can't go together

AndyD273

I wouldn't use hard science for an acid cow...

FoxElemental

Oh, I wasn't planning on it

But I know that HS and SB are mutually exclusive so I was wondering about R-Check and SB

AndyD273

personally anyway. Science based and reality check would go well together though

Secespitus

@FoxElemental reality-check just means that you have a concept in a given world, realistic or magical, and want answers that say "Yes, that will work because <reasons>" or "No, that will not work because <reasons>". Science-based means based on real world science without any magical. hard-science means you need citations.

And you know what I think about your usage of hard-science...

FoxElemental

3:51 PM

@Secespitus but are Realitycheck and science-based blendable?

@Secespitus Yes, I do:) I wasn't planning on it for this.

Secespitus

@FoxElemental Yes, because that means you have a concept you want checked that is based completely in real world science.

FoxElemental

Got it, thanks

Secespitus

Though obviously the question is the important part that states what you want.

Tags are just categories, not magical additions that change questions and answers... just that hard-science requires answers to cite stuff and have equations and so forth...

Though I still think we should burninate reality-check and science-based

FoxElemental

Will read later

AndyD273

@Secespitus Why!? Seems like those are the two least controversial tags.

I skimmed the link, but I don't agree with your usage (at first glance)

FoxElemental

3:56 PM

When I go through the Sandbox, deleted posts included, I see . . I think 23 times my icon. I really do use it a lot

Secespitus

@AndyD273 No, there is lots of confusion about whether there is a continuum of magic -> reality-check -> science-based -> hard-science or whether reality-check is out of this and used for different things. And science-based is the default and used basically everywhere where magic is not in play, so both are not useful.

Hard-science is a massive problem, but that's a can of worm I wouldn't want to open in addition to the other stuff.

AndyD273

But reality-check isn't in that "continuum". You can reality-check magic.

FoxElemental

@Secespitus I forgot where it was, but I saw HDE complaining about how the poor Science-based tag is being misused/mistreated and how he's glad hard-science hasn't gotten that much misuse

Secespitus

@AndyD273 That's how I use it - that's not how others use it.

AndyD273

Reality-check means "does my idea make sense, am I missing anything?"

Then they are using it wrong, and should have the tag edited out

And there really is a lot of grey area between magic and science. Like a whole Star Wars shaped universe for instance.

FoxElemental

4:01 PM

Does anyone know how to use markdown to format images smaller?

Secespitus

@FoxElemental I think you can add an "m" somewhere in the imgur link and make it smaller or something like that

I don't really use images. They are rarely useful.

AndyD273

I think the fictional continuum goes Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Expanse.

FoxElemental

@Secespitus Thank you. Oh btw I got the rep back and a notice saying "serial downvoting corrected" so I assume the system picked it up last night

Secespitus

154

Q: Resizing an image in a post?

Is it possible to resize an image in an answer? For example, How important is PhD research topic to getting a job? has an answer that should have the image in the answer, but it's too big. Is there a way to handle resizing?

FoxElemental

It. . . just became tiny

Secespitus

4:03 PM

There are multiple options. Try all of them and see what works.

FoxElemental

oh but "l" is nice

Hmm I resized one

The other one won't resize, but that's OK because the text on it is already tiny

Secespitus

@FoxElemental Is it on imgur?

FoxElemental

the first one

the second is "pinimig"

Secespitus

The resizing only works with the standard for StackExchange.

FoxElemental

okay

Well, I think they're both doable

Edits saved

Be back in 10 or 20

HDE 226868

4:08 PM

@FoxElemental My views have evolved over time. One measure I've been considering over time has been question templates or some similar aid that would help askers add in all the necessary information to their question and anticipating some common clarification requests (e.g. "How massive is your planet?", "Is your species humanoid?", "What are the limitations of this magic?", etc.).

worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3624/627 is great, but the one issue is that's not visible. First-time askers aren't really going to see it unless it's pointed out to them. Same goes for the Sandbox. But they only find that information after they ask their first question(s), normally. Something I'd like to see is a variant of the SO question wizard.

It would be modified, though, so the greyed-out prompts it gives would instead be something like
- State your question or worldbuilding problem.
- Summarize the world or universe
- Specify the level of technology
- Give some biological information about your species
- Describe the level of scientific rigor you're looking for in answers

FoxElemental

4:23 PM

I'm back.

@HDE226868 That would be a really great guideline, even for experienced users, just a a saftey checklist

I favorited it

@Secespitus the tag wiki needs to be properly read: "Questions with this tag should be answered, as far as possible, based on known scientific facts . . .. [h]owever, the use of this tag indicates that the asker wants specifically science based answers; answers based on magic or pseudo-science on this question are not valid answers and may be deleted."

So theoritical science is kind of on the border between an incorrect fit and a correct one with the tag

Secespitus

4:38 PM

I have no idea what you are referring to

FoxElemental

@Secespitus An alternate solution to that

Secespitus

@FoxElemental I still have no idea what you are talking about. An alternate solution to burninating one tag is reading a different one properly?

Just use whatever tag you feel is right...

FoxElemental

I mean that, although there's a problem with the science-based/reality check tags, it might be helped if people read the wikis on the tags more closely

Hosch250

@FoxElemental Who reads tag wikis?

FoxElemental

Me?!

Secespitus

4:43 PM

@FoxElemental In that case you don't need me to help you with the tags on your questions, right? And there is no need to have discussions like the linked one, right? And it's still not useful to refer to the science-based tag when the discussion is about reality-check.

FoxElemental

No, not saying that. But after reading the wiki I better understand the discussions linked and the one we're having

Secespitus

But whatever, I have stated my opinion in that answer. And others have stated theirs. And again everything stayed the same once the question got into the Hot Meta Questions category

Aify

@Hosch250 "He" is some guy avoiding a question ban via creating new accounts

FoxElemental

5 so far. The mods know

Hosch250

OK. So, he's flooding the site with crap?

FoxElemental

4:47 PM

Kind of?

Aify

From my perspective, yes.

FoxElemental

Certainly lower-quality questions in large amounts

Bellerophon

@Hosch250 No. They're posting a few lowish quality questions.

Hosch250

@Bellerophon That is mutually exclusive with Fox's previous comment.

Large amounts, or a few?

FoxElemental

Certainly quickly

fewish

Although I may be confused between 3 different new users.

He's DT Cooper, Mindx, Jasper R, Keith Henry, and Menlo, correct?

FoxElemental

5:03 PM

@Secespitus oopsy. I forgot to add the slash before the $

Secespitus

@FoxElemental It didn't change anything in this case, but better safe than sorry. There recently was someone with a problem when writing about amounts of money, so I thought I'd add that.

AndyD273

@Secespitus Where science-based is useful is some of the borderline questions, like acid cows. Something like that is implausible, and seems like it would be found in a magic/fantasy setting. So a tag explicitly saying "No, I really don't want magic solutions" sets the tone of the question before users even click on the link.

Secespitus

@AndyD273 The question should say "No, I really don't want magic solutions".

AndyD273

That's what I just said.

And you do it by using the science based tag

Secespitus

Tags are not magical rule changer. You can't have a question and change the kinds of answers by applying different tags (except for hard-science, which is a problem with the tag).

Hosch250

5:08 PM

IMO, tags are only for search optimization.

Whether by engines or users.

AndyD273

Maybe some people use tags differently? Personally, I'll read the title, then the tag, and see if it's something that sounds like I want to answer before even reading the question. 9 times out of 10 it works.

Hosch250

I'm mainly active (well, not much anymore) on programming sites, and there, I'll filter by language tag, then read titles, then read the question.

AndyD273

It works pretty well that way here too... especially if you like answering a certain type of question more than others. Say you don't want those pesky magic questions getting in the way, just search for science-based or hard-science. Piece of cake.

Secespitus

@FoxElemental Your keyboard is weird... I just need to press uppercase and "^" to get "°".

AndyD273

I guess in a perfect world no tags would really be needed, because the important information would be in the first paragraph and everyone would only ask really good questions. As is I find them useful.

Aify

5:32 PM

@Hosch250 The majority of the questions from the original user account are low quality. After receiving what I presume is a question ban, for some reason, the user has elected to "avoid" the question ban(s) by creating new accounts. The questions are currently split between multiple accounts, due to the accounts continually getting question banned (because of low quality). Since new users have question limit rates, he is currently time-limited in terms of asking questions (eg: he has to wait

between questions)

It's possible that using a certain view point, they're posting "few" questions (essentially because of time limits and constraints)

Overall though, I strongly believe all those accounts belong to the same person. Thus, leading me to the conclusion that the person is indeed, "flooding the site with crap".

Hosch250

Makes sense.

Aify

Of course, there's also a difference in opinion between whether or not his questions are crap in the first place

But we'll leave that to the voting system.

Last I checked, over 2/3rds of the questions from that user are bad questions (eg: closed and/or lower than 5 upvotes)

AndyD273

5:49 PM

Lower than 5 upvotes is considered a bad question?

FoxElemental

6:23 PM

@Secespitus I'm using a standard Dell laptop. Nothing weird about the keyboard. But shift+^ creates an exponent for me, not a ° symbol. That I use ALT+0+1+7+6, holding the ALT until the end

@AndyD273 I think @Aify perhaps means the positive vote tally, not the totaled number of upvotes+downvotes.

Wait

Do out-site links work here? Testing: Stack Overflow

yep

Magic ones

AndyD273

@FoxElemental My point is that why should votes matter to a questions quality? I've seen Aify VTC tons of questions with 20+ votes. A question with only two votes doesn't make it a bad question, just not one that got a lot of attention. And having a lot of votes doesn't mean a question is good, it just means it was popular.

A question with a lot of downvotes could be bad, or it could be controversial. A question written in 1850 about what makes it morally right to enslave humans might get a lot of downvotes, but it doesn't make it bad.

I mean, Aify has a question with only 2 votes. Should they delete it as a bad question? No, that's silly.

FoxElemental

Agreed. Though perhaps something with 3 or more close votes or flags and a score of 0 or <0 should be considered "bad"

AndyD273

@FoxElemental Those are all symptoms of a bad question. Yes.

FoxElemental

Or an especially controversial one

AndyD273

Could be that too

Aify

6:50 PM

@FoxElemental I was referring to the totaled upvotes + downvotes on a question

FoxElemental

Got it

Aify

@AndyD273 Honestly I've considered deleting my low upvote questions

In a community such as ours (which is super upvote trigger happy), having less than 5 upvotes to a question tells us a lot about whether or not the question was at least decently written/researched

And for the record, I do think my low-upvote question was a stupid question

FoxElemental

I feel the ridiculous urge to post another question soon. It's like an itch. I have 5 drafts that just need a little more work . . .

Aify

Actually now that I think about it

All 3 questions below-10 vote questions I've asked are really stupid and bad questions.

I guess my point is that while the vote count doesn't directly correlate to the quality of the question (due to influence of popularity and drive-by upvotes), the lack of them shows that even though we typically have a ton of drive-by upvoters, even THOSE users didn't vote up on the questions.

And the point you made about lots of downvotes being bad OR controversial is totally true, and makes a lot of sense, until you actually look at the topic of the question; if the topic is obviously controversial, then yea, the downvotes are probably due to that

AndyD273

It's nice to know that you aren't just unreasonably hard on others.

Aify

7:00 PM

But if the question isn't controversial, and it ends up having a negative vote count? That's a bad question.

Why would I be any harder on other people than I would be on myself?

That's totally illogical

AndyD273

Some people are. It's the whole "remove the beam from your own eye before trying to remove the mote from your brothers eye" thing. Some people are just blind to their own shortcomings.

Aify

Also, I just went and did the math, but only 23 out of 51 of the questions on the user's main account have 1 or more upvotes

Meaning the rest of the questions are all 0 or negative

55% of his questions are <= 0

Unless 55% of his questions are controversial

AndyD273

I do think it's a fine reality-check question though, and as such the answers are useful.

Aify

I think we can draw a pretty good correlation between vote count and "good/bad"

Eer,

which question are you referring to

AndyD273

Yours, not the multi user guy

I haven't reviewed all their questions. Don't care that much

Aify

7:03 PM

Yea, but which one

There are 3 bad ones

On my profile lol

AndyD273

The one that the answer should have be "a flail" except for the rigid requirement.

Aify

lol

Honestly, if I saw myself posting that question with the knowledge I have today

I would VTC it immediately

The only reason I asked that 3 years ago was because i didn't understand physics properly.

HDE 226868

@Aify I did VTC one of my questions something like two years later. I sympathize.

Aify

You can VTC your own questions?

Hang on, i've gotta go fix my profile now...

2

AndyD273

As is, with the ridged requirement, perhaps something like a Shaolin Spade with an extra heavy head.

Mithrandir24601

7:09 PM

Did someone mention the word 'Shaolin'?

Aify

I take that back. I can't find the "trivial" close reason in the help box so I can't VTC my 2 vote question :(

AndyD273

being really long would make it relatively hard to get moving, and stopping it (without smacking it into something) would take some muscle, but once it was in motion it could be whipped around about as easily as a staff weapon.

Aify

That's also true of other long staffed weapons like pikes and guan-dao

Mithrandir24601

@AndyD273 What question are you referring to?

AndyD273

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Q: A weapon of maximum fluidity

This answer got me thinking about the concept of a weapon that was hard to start moving, hard to stop moving, but stayed fluid whilst moving. I can't seem to find any lightweight melee weapons that behave as described, and after reading the comments and doing some research, the gyroscopic effect...

reality-check technology weapons

@Aify's shame (apparently)

Mithrandir24601

7:11 PM

chain whip?

@AndyD273 Thanks

AndyD273

@Mithrandir24601 Has to be rigid

Aify

I think i'm just gonna VTD it

Mithrandir24601

It's tempting to upvote it just 'cause :P

AndyD273

@Aify Hold on, we might be on to something

Mithrandir24601

@AndyD273 Ah, OK

Aify

7:11 PM

O.o

I just realized I dont have to Vote to delete since they're my questions =D

AndyD273

lol

Aify

I CAN PURGE MY ACCOUNT OF BAD QUESTIONS!

Mithrandir24601

What do you mean by rigid? A chain whip is rigid by one definition

AndyD273

Shaolin Monk's Spade by Master Wang Bingwen

►

@Mithrandir24601 Which definition is that? I think a rigid chain is called a bar.

Mithrandir24601

@AndyD273 It's not fluid - it doesn't just bend throughout the entire length but only bends at predefined points

Aify

7:16 PM

The thing is

and I see this with your conversation now

The point of the question and the word "fluid" was to describe the movement of the weapon

not the movement of the parts of the weapon

The question is super unclear and is unsalvageable

Er, well, I dont think I'd bother salvaging it anyways

Now that I have the proper close reason I can close it

Mithrandir24601

@AndyD273 Would you call a three-section-staff rigid?

AndyD273

@Aify I don't think it's unclear. That's the meaning I got out of it

Aify

Mith obviously didn't

I just threw my own closevote onto it lol

@Mithrandir24601 I would not call a 3 section staff rigid

AndyD273

@Aify I don't know if @Mithrandir24601 fully read the question either...

Or the other answers

Aify

A fluid weapon consisting of 3 rigid parts is how I'd describe it

Mithrandir24601

7:18 PM

@Aify Interesting. I would but that's certainly not a universal thing

Aify

That's true

AndyD273

and the comments around those answers

Mithrandir24601

@AndyD273 I have read the question but not the answers (don't want to bias myself, do I? :P )

Aify

It's too late now, i've initiated the process! Let the community decide if it's clear or not lol

This question of mine (worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/21840/… ) is stupid too

AndyD273

Fluid movement means that it needs to be long, and hard to start or stop means unbalanced in parts. "Light" is of course relative.

Aify

7:21 PM

Ugh now that i'm looking at it

So many of my questions FEEL off topic

but I can't pin down the proper reason to VTC them

Hosch250

Not sure about VTC, but too many VTD in a short time span might result in a Q ban on you too.

Aify

I can't VTD my own questions

If i hit "delete" @Hosch250 I get "insta delete"

Hosch250

That's what I meant.

Aify

I've decided it'd be unfair to the users who offered answers to my question

even if it was a shitty question

AndyD273

You may have a medical condition. Not as bad as Apotemnophilia‌, but similar.

Aify

7:26 PM

if I just up and deleted the question

Hosch250

It still slaps a ban onyou.

Mithrandir24601

@Aify I'm not sure if you can delete your own question once it's been answered and has upvotes etc.

Aify

@AndyD273 who, me?

@Mithrandir24601 You can. It gave me the option to.

@Hosch250 what slaps a ban on me?

You mean if I delete the question?

Hosch250

Yep.

Aify

Then yea if i delete too many too close together, i'll geta QBan

AndyD273

7:27 PM

@Aify It's not just robbing them of their time that they gave to answer you, but also robbing future viewers that might get value out of the question/answer, even if you don't see that value yourself.

@Aify yeah

Aify

@AndyD273 I suppose. Hence going for the VTC route :)

Hosch250

@Mithrandir24601 I think the answer needs to be upvoted too?

Mithrandir24601

"You can't delete your own question when it:

has an answer with upvotes (even if it has a net negative score)
has an accepted answer
has multiple answers (even if there are no upvotes)
has an answer with an awarded bounty"

283

A: How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?

How can a post be deleted? By a user: The author can typically delete their own posts at will; for exceptions, see When can't I delete my own post? below. To delete a post, just use the delete link below it. Moderators can delete any post instantly. Users with reputation ≥ 2k (more precisely, ...

Hosch250

Yep.

Aify

Huh.

Well Shit.

@AndyD273 maybe i have MIID

(Mind Integrity Identity Disorder)

AndyD273

7:35 PM

QIID

Aify

A new condition where I have to correct everything that is wrong about myself

QIID

Question IID?

AndyD273

yeah

Aify

That's good.

AndyD273

Question dysmorphic disorder? Perfectly good questions look wrong and off topic to you?

FoxElemental

Then should you think twice about your VTC's?

Aify

7:38 PM

Woah there

I'm pretty sure "perfectly good questions" don't look wrong or off topic to me

AndyD273

"Why am I so fat??" says the anorexic at their reflection...

Hosch250

@AndyD273 A new proverb!

Aify

Oh no....

If I had QDD though, I'd be VTCing every question on the site

Which I don't/haven't done, therefore, I cannot have QDD

phew logic saves the day again

AndyD273

@Aify 3/4ths isn't enough to qualify?

Aify

That's a made up number!

That can't be right

AndyD273

7:43 PM

I know we've actually done the math once...

Aify

I've only cast 2,626 close votes

FoxElemental

OMG

Aify

We ahve way more qustions than that on the site

FoxElemental

whoa

I mean. . . . yeah, right, I knew that

Aify

The latest question is #116025

2626/116025 = 0.022

FoxElemental

7:44 PM

*weak voice* that's still a lot

Aify

So i've cast CV's on approximately 2% of the site's questions?

Mithrandir24601

@Aify That number isn't right - it skips quite a lot for some reason

Aify

lol

What do u mean by skips quite a lot?

Oh.

Mithrandir24601

We currently have 16 881 (open?) questions

Aify

That can't be right

So few!

Hm.. maybe it is 16,882

Mithrandir24601

7:45 PM

I think the one you gave is a post number, for one (it's been a while since I last had this discussion, so I could be wrong)

Aify

YYea

Lets use 16882 - 2626/16882 is ~.15

15% is a far cry from the 75% you just called me out on @AndyD273

Mithrandir24601

@Aify Same order of magnitude :P

Aify

facedesk

AndyD273

I'm trying to find the stat things that someone did a while ago

FoxElemental

Thinking about simply creating a new chat room where I link to the current 3 Sandbox drafts I'm working on and then bug everyone to help me. It would certainly reduce the clutter in here from me asking "Oh, @ soandso, could you help me with [this current sandbox draft](link to said draft)?"

Aify

7:47 PM

I think that might've been downvotes @AndyD273, not close votes

@FoxElemental Please don't bug me to help on sandbox drafts

I'm not into that kinda thing.

Mithrandir24601

@Aify So what, you've downvoted 75% of the questions on this site? :P

Aify

@AndyD273 if it was downvotes, i'm at 4,492 right now

So only 26%

Mithrandir24601

@Aify I haven't even read that many questions :/

FoxElemental

@Aify I know. I wasn't planning on doing it with you

Hosch250

@Aify You don't downvote answers?

Aify

7:48 PM

@Hosch250 I do, but I don't think there's a way to differentiate between downvoted answers and downvoted questions from my profile

Hosch250

I don't think so either.

Aify

Since I DV questions significantly more than I do answers (typically I don't go back to the questions to check for answers anyways) I'm making an assumption that they're all question dv's

FoxElemental

But you should go back, because if they've been fixed you can retract your -1.

Aify

"typically I don't go back to the questions to check for answers"

FoxElemental

oh sorry

misread

Aify

7:51 PM

Note that I specifically stated answers - because I do go back to the questions I dv/cv several times before leaving it alone permanently

AndyD273

Could have been downvotes. It's been a while.

Aify

More often than not, the question is not fixed or edited to be better

AndyD273

@James Who was doing the question statistics project a while back? I'm trying to find it, but apparently not well.

Aify

@AndyD273 I thought it was king

AndyD273

@Aify Actually, could "hard to start and stop" also imply "dangerous to start and stop"? As in, "stopping it isn't hard... keeping all your bits attached when you do is the real trick."

Aify

7:59 PM

@AndyD273 It's questions like that one that make me question the clarity of my own question

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