@James Rereading some of my earliest answers, I must be an extremely charming person. :P

@HDE226868 Hello!

Does anyone know if there's a way to get statistics for the review queues for the last day, week, month, quarter, etc., the same way we can get statistics for rep, edits, etc. for those periods?

@FreezePhoenix Hey there!

I hope you'll pardon my absence; I had to deal with dinner and a number of other things.

Time for sleep now, too. :P

@Gryphon I am not sure what you mean, but you can look at your profile under "all actions" > "reviews" to get basically the same overview you can get over your "revisions" (edits).

@Secespitus Bad luck in the election. Congrats to @L.Dutch and @MontyWild!

@Snow Thanks! Nice to see you here again, it's been some time since I've last seen you visit the Factory Floor.

Thanks. Yeah, I've not been around here for a while, that's true. I used to enjoy my time here.

@Secespitus Not quite what I'd meant. I had been thinking of something like the User Reputation Leagues, where you could measure your relative progress over various timescales against that of other users.

@Gryphon But that's only rep, not edits as far as I know. And I don't think you will find anything like that for reviews. At least not easily accessible.

Helllo folks

@Secespitus I definitely recall seeing something similar for edits, recently, and I had thought you'd directed me to it, but I can't seem to find it now.

Hi @Freeze

Hi, @FreezePhoenix.

> Atmospheric mixing on walnut earth

Now I'm wondering about the weather effects on an earth that is literally a full-scale version of a walnut, covered by massive mountain ranges and a deep dip.

Not necessarily around the equator, though. It would be more interesting if it was angled.

Make it warped also

Angled compared to the spin, that is.

@FreezePhoenix Walnuts aren't very warped. At least not around here.

How do define a warped walnut?

Unless you assume a spherical cow walnut as a baseline

@JourneymanGeek function warp(walnut) { return walnut }

@FreezePhoenix I designate this a useful function.

function FactoryFactory ( constructor ) {
  return function(...args) {
    return constructor(...args);
  }
}

It's a factory that makes factories that make objects :P :P

@Gryphon A leaderboard for edits would be new to me.

@Secespitus Maybe it wasn't you, then. Unless someone slipped me a hallucinogen when I wasn't looking, it definitely exists, though.

@Secespitus My company can help with that.

LOL

We are an incentives company (that is, we do incentives for other companies), and ranked leaderboards is one of our big features.

LOL

@Gryphon Maybe it was just a blissful dream. Or you are referring to this overview which is kind of like a leaderboard, just without the "dropped 3 places" style of that other leaderboard.

The closest thing for reviews is the normal review stats overview, which gives you daily competition and all-time.

@Secespitus That is, indeed, what I was talking about.

@Secespitus I am aware of that leaderboard, but I was kind of hoping for a day/week/month/quarter/year style thing somewhere.

@Secespitus Ours supports the "dropped N places" too.

@Hosch250 SE should hire you.

They should.

Can you give them my business card?

Maybe they can cancel the design changes, and do that instead.

hm

@JourneymanGeek yes?

lol

PRetty sure the leaderboard was Jeff getting bored, and getting a cuppa coffee and going "this would be neat"

Doesn't that pretty much explain half of the awesome things on SE in general?

@JourneymanGeek Mod-ping him and ask

@Hosch250 naw

Jeff's gone man, Jeff's gone.

also

@JourneymanGeek Doesn't he have an account still, though?

this smells like a markov bot

Also, yeah, SE would be a better place if he was still here.

@Hosch250 I rarely superping XD

@Hosch250 eh, yes and no

@JourneymanGeek Eh, it makes sense to me.

He's just rambling on about how does your organism remain itself when it could just change itself into something else.

Kind of like the Ship of Theseus question.

Yay posted

been a while

@Fox not a bad Q

@Gryphon Tell @Secespitus @Dubukay @a4android and @Mołot. Or just tell the Sandbox in general :)

thx though

May I ask what the evolutionary advantage in having holes in your wings, that make noise and attract predators, is supposed to be?

There isn't any

Duh, it attracts mates.

@FoxElemental Then how the heck did this thing evolve?

Besides, if it's hawk-sized and can fly, it won't have that many predators.

Most other flying things will be prey, and ground-based predators it can fly to get away from.

@Gry well, because it didn't. I made it :)

@FoxElemental Yes, but how did it fictionally evolve?

Through evolution

I'm being difficult

@Hosch fair points, but one could probably find a better way to make noise/attract mates than punching holes in the things that let you get away from predators.

@Fox yes, you are.

(Being extremely difficult) Pretend it had no predators, if it helps you justify its existence.

@Fox I guess if the dodo evolved, this could too? I mean, anything that's stupid enough to let you walk up to it and wring its neck when you just did that to its entire family in front of you...

Or some all-powerful entity (read: the author (read:me)) created it out of nothing.

OK, fine. But when I make something, I like to create a full explanation for its existence.

@Gryphon me too. That's why I try to ignore it. Because I still don't know if the thing can fly.

@FoxElemental If it can't fly, I'd just say give up. Unless it's on a tiny island with no predators. In which case, you've got the dodo, round 2.

@Gryphon that's fine. Then I'll know it's not viable

@Gryphon Something that preys on the predators. Like the angler fish with it's little worm lure... Bring in the predators, and then turn the tables

@Gryphon Oh hey you're on Conlang. Help me w/2 things?

@FoxElemental What things? Let me warn you, I'm not a great conlanger. I just have a crapload of unfinished projects.

1. This is definitely off topic, but from a new user, so I don't want it to be closed. I flagged for mod attention to migrate to Italian LanguageSE. Could you do the same?

If its from a new user, it should still be closed ;p

maybe with a nice comment?

@JourneymanGeek Or migrated to where it should go?

Migration is closure ._.

and you'd need a flag to do it

yah, unless you mod flag

They can instant migrate

No, migration is migration. The question moves from here to there. Closure means that they'd have to ask it as a new question on the other site.

@Fox OK, flagged. It definitely doesn't belong on conlangs, and it seems to belong on ItalianLangauges.

You said two things?

2. Pop into Conlang Chat and then respond to this comment by telling me what to do to make it less broad/POB. I feel like it won't work for some reason, even if CuriousDannii thinks so. I'd just like to have some idea of how to phrase it, since the extent of the question was that comment

@Gry thanks by the way

Hmm, I think that would be a bit POB.

I mean, different languages use them differently, so I don't think there's one "right" way to do it. Making the question POB :(

Yes

And I honestly can't think of a way to fix it. I'll let you know if I come up with something.

thank you

Hey @Fox, have you put any fiction on the blog? I saw your worldbuilding checklist, but I'd love to see some of you're writing.

@Gryphon No, but I'm writing a couple of pieces/first drafts, and one story based on the worldbuilding behind one of those drafts. Wanna see them?

I'd appreciate any advice on how to make them better

Draft 1, Teyset (it's horrible.) And Golden Alliance 1, Draft 1 Slightly less horrible.

The worldbuilding for GoldenAlliance is too info-dump/I have no idea what you're talking about. So I'm starting a new draft containing the worldbuilding about that as a precursor.

I just wrote my 500th answer on Worldbuilding, not counting deleted ones. . . I think I'm pretty proud of it. Hopefully it's right. :P

@HDE Congrats!

@HDE226868 Hmm, I'm really close to 500...

@AndyD273 21 answers to go isn't bad. I'll bet you get it by mid-September.

@FoxElemental Thanks.

and I'm almost at the daily cap... so close

@HDE226868 \o/

@FreezePhoenix praise the sun?

Wat?

500 answers is a lot.

knowyourmeme.com/memes/solaire-of-astora

@Hosch250 Are you the marketing guy perchance? :D

No, I'm a dev.

I just looked, I've written 623 answers :D Even more scary is that I've not written many at all for the last few years. That was all while I was helping bootstrap the site. :)

@Gryphon You could probably look it up using the Stack Exchange Data Explorer

Jeez I only have 229 answers.

"only"

lol

@James Slacker. :P

@Secespitus You're not that far behind considering I joined the site when it was on Area 51.

Lunch time. back later. Probably.

hmm, those "successful works" questions are tricky...because I've had stuff published and it's used stuff learned from worldbuilding....but there is no specific question they relate to

@TimB You had a whole lot of good answers right at the beginning. . . (Not that your answers now aren't!) I think you had the highest rep on the site for quite some time.

@HDE226868 Yeah, I had the highest rep by a substantial margin, I think after I stepped back from answering it was getting on for a year before anyone overtook me. I might be miss-remembering though.

Seems about right.

@James I have close to 50% of your answers in close to 50% of the time (though I don't know how Area 51 counts into that membership stat on the site). Still, I wouldn't say that you have "only" over 200 answers

200+ answers probably puts someone in the top 1-2% of site users, honestly.

data.stackexchange.com/worldbuilding/query/edit/876655

data.stackexchange.com/worldbuilding/revision/876660/1084270

Better version ^

Here is an overview with the percentage

@HDE226868 67 in 2%.

136 in 1%

What a nice hyperbolic graph: data.stackexchange.com/worldbuilding/query/edit/876679#graph

Wow. I have over a hundred answers on meta

Its kind of entertaining to read some of the meta posts from when the site first went up.

@James When nobody had any idea what the future held in store?

TFW the Brits send someone to jail because they accidentally misspelled "goal".

On a side note, is that a joke about spelling jail as gaol, or is there an actual story there?

Yes, just a joke.

Because I'm working on our promotion system with goals, and I accidentally spelled it gaol.

Of course, if I was a wheat farmer, I would say I mis-spelt something :P

Even in the UK no one spells jail gaol anymore.

Awww.

One less language difference to joke about.

@HDE226868 Exactly.

It's always weird when a questions that has been out of the light for a while suddenly starts generating rep again.

@James tut tut. I have users with something like 50 posts, about 3-4 months into the QC site :P

@Gryphon So, any advice? Opinions?

@FoxElemental The formatting for the Golden Alliance draft is kind of hard for me to read, but that's a style thing, and I'm sure others would like it. I quite enjoyed the Teyset draft, although more details would be wonderful. A set of stories similar to my Quenaunor ones would be a great way to explore that world (wink wink, nudge nudge).