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My last post was simply asking about the meaning of migration, which some were not able to answer properly. Then the downvotes and close votes led to the nightmare
This is not right.
unjust.
unfair
elitism
oligarchy
authoritarian
I can't think of a proper word to describe this horrible thing
One undervalued post, dubious downvotes and close votes, nightmare
@Tim I think that's the core issue here. You asked a question which was very broad and so not a fit for the Q & A site. People here offered some discussion you found insightful in chat.
I don't think people were belittling you, Tim. Can't actually speak for others of course, just my impression based on how much I've got to know this crowd during my participation in this chat.
You were told several times that your question was very broad, eventually people started playing with the idea of its being broad, having fun with it too, yes, but not making fun of you personally
- migration of a database (the data) to a different installation, but same DBMS - migration of a database (the data) to a different installation, same DBMS but different version - migration of a database (the data) to a different installation in a different DBMS, often involves schema changes - update of the database installation to a different version - schema changes of a database
Your very broad question was summarized in a few sentences at the beginning of the exchange
People aren’t obligated to engage with you, especially if you’re antagonistic to them
It might be because I had a similar exchange with a junior dev this week
He didn’t understand a design choice I made and went too far in challenging it. It got to the point where I agreed to change it just so we could move on. At which point he got pissed at me for compromising the quality of the design
Antagonism doesn’t require malice, if you’re damaging to the discourse even in your earnest overeagerness, you still need to be put in timeout for a bit
@AndriyM and just so we’re on the same page, I’m pretty sure the reason he got angry is because he got hit with a timeout on main based on automated rules. He saw that and assumed it was people in chat “coming after him”
Unrelated topic change, but @PaulWhite9 I recently deleted an answer of mine on a closed downvoted question partly so that it’d be eligible for auto-deletion. Can you just confirm for me that I’m remembering the mechanics of that correctly?
@PeterVandivier That's one of the criteria for one or more of the routes to system deletion. The full set of rules is at meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/…
@PeterVandivier The applicable rule in your case is:
> The system will automatically delete closed, unlocked questions with zero or negative score having no positively scored or accepted answers or pending reopen votes, that were closed for any reason other than duplicate nine or more days ago and haven't been edited in the past nine days. (RemoveAbandonedClosed)
@PeterVandivier I think I understand what you mean. The antagonism was in his pressing for more details, thereby apparently refusing to accept that his question was too broad.
@Tim we understand your frustration for your answer being closed. But the chat room was not responsible for that.
Also I can add here your comments that seemed condescending in you want. True, some of "our" posts (in this chat room I mean) may have sounded condescending, too.
You should also consider that some of us have grown apart from the site. While we had been answering (and asking) questions for years, events in the last years have made some of us to decide not participate in the site. So, many of the people in this chat room are not even voting on the site.
But we still visit the room and occasionally try to help people who come here and want to discuss stuff in a more relaxed manner than the main site.
As for the question, yes, it was too broad. You may disagree but all others in the room who made a comment had the same opinion.
And I don't much care if it is reopened ot stays closed. I have stopped voting.
On other matters, @TomV-trytopanswers.xyz Picard episode 4 was not bad. At last, space travel. And a dog (spaceship) fight. And an unexpected arrival. Or a fraction of it ;)
@Tim the intention of the room has never been to make you feel bad. It’s just honest reaction. Maybe just take a step back and reflect on how you presented yourself and why we might have responded to that in the way we did
I’ve put myself in timeout here before. It’s not the end of the world
@McNets Sometimes people just forget. Other times they learn they earn 2 rep for accepting an answer and go back through their questions for that purpose.
On Postgres you can use age function
+----------------+----------+------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+------------------------+
| age(timestamp) | interval | Subtract from current_date (at midnight) | age(timestamp '1957-06-13') | 43 years 8 mons 3 days |
+--...
@ypercubeᵀᴹ my mother in law was in town for a few weeks so i haven't seen the last few episodes. i'm super looking forward to getting caught up tomorrow
Does she also dislike techno-anarchism? xkcd.com/488
Tbh though we’ve actually been cutting down on streaming services
Had a few too many for a minute there
Amazon makes the cut though, it might not have if it was just the shows, but I also watch quite a bit of twitch and the insta-delivery of stuff is a hell of a drug
@Tim personally, as a user with 60,000+ rep, I can't tell who upvotes or downvotes my posts, so if you can tell me how you "know", I'd be much obliged. As for you saying we were being condescending I'd suggest you realize that we're interacting with you out of pure kindness - none of us get paid to answer questions here, and especially not ones that are ill-defined, wide-ranging, and difficult to succinctly answer in a chat room.
I suggest you go to your local database-related usergroup and see if anyone there will entertain you.