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12:03 AM
Happy New Years, Lifehacks!
 
Happy new year!
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3:01 PM
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Q: Metric or Imperial or both?

Angelo FuchsWhat kind of measurement to we want to have on the site? The most common ones are 1) the metric measurements (Liter, Meter, Celsius) that are commonly used in most of Europe. 2) the US-imperial measurements (Inch, Foot, Gallon, Fahrenheit) that are commonly used in the US (and some of them som...

 
3:15 PM
@J.Musser You passed me again :P
 
4:14 PM
eh?
More like, you had some votes removed. Odd. Someone switched their dv to an uv on mine
 
probably because you're not posting about the conventional solution issue on meta :P
 
:D
goes and makes himsef popular
Anyway, happy new year!
At least I'm happy
 
to you as well
it's annually weird to me, thinking we're in a different year
 
Not so weird here
 
 
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Q: Is this the right place to ask about clutter/home organizing?

Canadian Girl ScoutIt's a new year and I am about to start tackling removing old toys to make way for the new. I came to stack exchange looking for a site dedicated to home issues. The only sites I can think of that would tackle "clutter busting" is Lifehacks or Parenting. Am I on the right site? I've searched for ...

 
 
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7:37 PM
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Q: Is sex a taboo subject in Lifehacks?

vladizI have asked a question about a problem which is somehow sexually related and there was considerable downvoting of this question without comments explaining why this happens. The question itself is not sexually related, but the problem in it has sexual ration. At the beginning I was thinking it...

 
 
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9:07 PM
@Sterno You're right; I misspoke. Thanks for pointing it out to me; the answer has been fixed.
 
 
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10:12 PM
@J.Musser I don't tend to leave moderation comments, could have a lot to do with it... Also I don't think the view counter is terribly accurate, I've been surprised to see a few profiles linked in meta discussions on other sites with only one view counted. So, if I viewed it and the person linking to it viewed it, how could it have only one view?
 
10:34 PM
@apaul34208 Very possibly.
 
The number of views on a post only updates maybe a couple of times per hour. I guess the view counter on profiles updates less often.
 
11:10 PM
@ZachSaucier You around?
 
@Shokhet yes sir
 
@Gilles I was thinking that might be the case.
 
Dec 29 '14 at 4:46, by Shokhet
I'd love to talk about this, @Zach, but I don't have the time right now. Can I expect you to be in this room tomorrow?
.....I'm a little late, but now is a good time, I think.
you have time?
 
are you asking about how we're similar/dissimilar to skeptics or are you asking about an alternative to "what have you tried'?
 
an alternative to "what have you tried"
I think that listing at least one "conventional" solution might be a good replacement
 
11:15 PM
so what we've been in conflict over in meta for the past couple days in particular then
have you read up on the posts?
 
not really, no....i probably should, but haven't been able to keep up with the most recent edits
 
My view: the only I think can work right now meta.lifehacks.stackexchange.com/a/1328/78 and related answer meta.lifehacks.stackexchange.com/a/1316/78
The alternative is what Gilles suggests meta.lifehacks.stackexchange.com/a/1317/78 in which case Lifehacks becomes a catch all
or to make Lifehacks a challenge site in which case it because utterly useless for most questions (I abhor this solution)
 
I don't like the idea of a challenge site -- some people would have fun, sure, but the site wouldn't be so useful, IMO
/ reading
something that I agree with, even if I didn't before:
Don't get so hung up on closing, @Zach. The big problem with that question isn't that it was possibly off-topic, it's that the answerer didn't offer a hack. Closing didn't prevent that... although a suitably hacky answer might've prevented it from being closed. That tells me we're putting the cart before the horse here: folks don't even agree on what sorts of answers are appropriate, so figuring out question scope is all over the map. If we can agree on what a good "lifehacky" answer looks like, the rest will follow. — Shog9 ♦ yesterday
this makes sense
 
11:30 PM
hence why I tried to answer the "what makes a good answer" question :P
 
:)
/ still reading
I'll have to think about it, but I deleted my "good lifehacks answer" post, when I realized that it wasn't really answering the bigger question
....I still might write another
 
go for it
 
I don't think @Gilles is right, because then the site should be HOWTO.SE, rather than lifehacks.SE
 
the more constructive discussion we have the better
 
@ZachSaucier I agree
@ZachSaucier tbh, part of my confusion in reading up on recent Meta activity was the revisions to this answer -- IMO, you should have just posted a new answer first. What's done is done < shrug >
 
11:42 PM
agreed
 
Now I have to think about what a good "Lifehacks" answer should look like......
 
when someone pointed out that my first and second paragraph (after editing) were contradictory I just changed the first one which resulted in "no" turning into "yes"
 
I see
....maybe one final edit to that answer, to indicate that while that post hasn't changed, your personal position on the matter did change, so that no one will unknowingly accuse you of hypocrisy ;-)
and maybe a link to the new answer, as well
 
@Shokhet good idea
 
......I'm not sure what
means
Can you elaborate a little more on what that means?
 
11:46 PM
eating, I will after
 
all right :)
 
11:57 PM
@Shokhet that's a matter of filtering questions, not answers
@ZachSaucier No, it isn't a catch-all. Not every question is a lifehack question.
 
@Gilles I'm not sure if we're talking about the same Meta post. I was referring to this one that Zach linked to, earlier
in that answer, you mostly discuss answers, only getting to questions (seemingly as an afterthought) at the end
 

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