@HDE226868 Last I checked, scheduled chaos was an oxymoron.

I mean, if you schedule something, it becomes fundamentally ordered, and thus cannot be chaos.

Grumble

Hey, guys, what do I do if I think someone is being really "oh it won't work" on every post and semi-rude, with the added suspicion that when I see a comment from him/her/them I see a new downvote on the tally? I don't want to jump to conclusions, but the comments aren't rude enough to flag but common enough to concern me.

Like

"Oh, it won't work unless __," which "is impossible/you said it won't work for you/blah blah blah" comments

I don't want to flag just yet: not especially rude/abusive . . . don't want to point fingers or name names . . . . and I don't want to jump to conclusions about anything, vote/comment stuff particularly. But

I want to try to know the protocol for that

or suspicions

@FreezePhoenix Wait, on which one?

@FoxElemental The cow one

I'm secretly thrilled about answering worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/116170/627. Stellar winds are what I'm studying this summer; I get to use the stuff I'm researching. I've been quietly waiting for a question about stellar winds for a couple months.

@HDE226868 congrats!

hey there @Gryphon @FreezePhoenix and @HDE226868

@Shalvenay hey. How are you doing?

fine here, as for you?

Pretty good. Back to programming some stuff.

@FreezePhoenix It's always fun to answer fun questions.

@FoxElemental I would suggest maybe flagging as No Longer Needed. Alternatively, use a custom mod flag to say that it's an answer in comments, or somesuch.

Can you give me an example?

@HDE226868 Huh. The two examples I was looking for seem to have vanished. Never mind

@FreezePhoenix Yes, all from either Secespitus or Raditz_35

Raditz has been really helpful, but I'd appreciate further feedback on restrictions/Markdown/etc. But that one's nearly ready

No one has commented on Metal Macaw 2: Just me.

Oh I didn't look at names. Sorry.

No prob

Just waiting

Secespitus usually does rounds; as do some other users. Someone's bound to leave a comment soon

Welll thats good.

Eventually

(Someday) :)

@FoxElemental Do you remember the questions? Mods can see the deleted comments; I can look through them. (I'm just asking out of curiosity.)

@HDE226868 No, sorry. I usually scroll through all of the posts on the mainpage 2 times per day, and always look at new user's posts (even if they aren't in the review queue). I have no idea as to which question it might have been

Also, @HDE226868, the owner ofthis rolled back your rollback

@FoxElemental Yeah, I saw.

Oh. So you've seen meta.stackexchange.com/questions/291153/… ?

Yes. I'm thinking about how to best handle it.

On the one hand, I could lock it to prevent further edit wars. On the other hand, one of the points of putting a question on hold is so that the author can improve it. Locking kinda prevents that.

I'm currently writing a comment to maybe nudge him in that direction and avoid the lock, and hopefully find a good resolution.

it's a reasonable question that simply needs to be edited to not be so broad/POB

I know. I'd rather he do that, rather than delete out of frustration.

Read the comments? I told him that delete voting/flagging was an option if he really felt that desperate. He apparently tried to delete, then found he couldn't because of Ash's answer

So then he tried in the comments below Ash's answer (it seemed to me) to ask him why he had posted the answer, then VTC'ed, and then said if he hadn't he could have deleted

I know.

I flagged one of those comments

Oh, I see you locked it

To be honest, the question needs some pretty drastic changes to become answerable.

But the meta link doesn't lead to more than meta, are you planning on changing that to a discussion link? Or just for a main reference?

@Gryphon You're right; it's not an easy fix. But I don't want to encourage people just deleting - or, rather requesting deletion - questions if version 1 isn't great. Especially after someone put in the effort to answer.

@HDE226868 I realize that, but it is going to need some large changes, and with how resistant to change the OP seems to be... I'm just saying I'm not too optimistic for an ending the OP will be happy about.

I know. You're likely right.

But if anything, it's better to have it around as an "example"of what is/isn't suited for WB

Also, regarding your comment: Me researching sperm whale migratory patterns happened on a bit of a boring day.

Wait, me?

I could probably have figured out that it was your answer even without the name at the bottom. The semi-excessive amount of research done is so typical of you.

@FoxElemental Ah, no, Gryphon.

oh

@Gryphon I'm flattered. :-)

Yes. Your math never ceases to astound me.

@HDE226868 It makes me kind of sad that answer only got a few upvotes.

@Gryphon It's impossible to do an excessive amount of research :P

You use MathJax symbols I've always wanted to use but never found a reason to

@Mithrandir24601 That's why there is a "semi-" in front of it. It is what excessive research would be, were such a thing to exist.

@Gryphon Ahhh, makes sense, fair. Do you have a link to the answer? I may as well read it

@Mithrandir24601 Give me a second. I just have to find it again.

@Mithrandir24601 Here you go.

@Gryphon Great! Thanks

@Gryphon Also, that's, like, not one of my more complex ones.

@HDE226868 I know, but you obviously put at least 10-15 minutes into it.

But isn't Newtons/m2 redundant? 1 Newton=1J/m2 . . .

Probably more, but that's my bare minimum estimate.

Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist.

@FoxElemental No, one Newton is one Joule/m, not per metre squared.

@Gryphon 25-30. I think.

Sorry

@FoxElemental Force per area is pressure, which is the important quantity here.

Oh, got it

To be completely accurate, one Newton is one kg*m/s^2.

UH OH

@HDE226868 He's rage-editing his questions

Thank you.

Of course

I believe the system should raise an automatic flag if a user does that sort of thing enough, but it might take a bit to be tripped.

That's only for self-delete votes, if I remembered correctly

Be back, yall!

@FoxElemental No, it's a thing for edits. Or was, at least - I've seen it before. I think.