The Base Camp

« first day (959 days earlier) ← previous day next day → last day (3813 days later) »

EverythingRightPlace

03:58

Is this OK? outdoors.stackexchange.com/a/6702/2653

It is an ad for sure but it's on topic. Maybe re-format it?

requiem

04:11

Hmm... there are a few similar products out there, and I think at least one answer to that question should mention them. The size of the image is a bit irksome.

3 hours later…

WedaPashi

06:52

@russellsteen: Thanks :-)

@nhinkle: Yeah, warm-up routines are too important when its a that big a trek

Morning All!

Rory Alsop

07:44

Morning @Weda and everyone

Liam

@EverythingRightPlace Something about this seems wrong. It is on topic though...

Rory Alsop

@Liam I think I'll add in a quick disclosure statement, just to make sure everyone knows they are affiliated it will be fine. It does look like a useful product for exactly this

Liam

08:04

Just doing a bit of checking on policy

Q: Is text in a gravatar frowned upon?

I've just updated my gravatar to reflect the logo for my new Stack Exchange site (the cache hasn't updated yet). I don't see anywhere that there are rules for what is allowed in the gravatar, but I don't want to put anyone's nose out of joint. It doesn't have anything too blatant in it, just the ...

More importantly

Q: Are advertisements allowed within avatars?

Possible Duplicate: Is text in a gravatar frowned upon? What is Stack Exchange's policy on avatars? My avatar on SE sites is automatically picked up from Gravatar. My gravatar was a picture containing my website's address Is this allowed? I'd be surprised if no one at Stack Exchange...

discussion etiquette policy

A: Is this user advertising his product acceptable?

While promoting your open source library on Stack Overflow is perfectly fine, I felt this user was a few steps over the self-promotion line. The vast majority of posts were linking to their own work. A lot of those posts contained little information other than the link. There was no disclosure ...

It's a fine line but providing it's relevant it should be ok. That's my reading of it anyway

Liam

08:17

Q: How do you locate the "North Star"?

What if it's night and you want to find north? How do you locate the North Star in the night sky?

survival navigation night northern-hemisphere

I tried this last night

worked like a charm

WedaPashi

08:45

@liam: What did ya try?

@Rory: Morning!

Liam

09:02

@WedaPashi Measured upwards from the big dipper. Checked it on a compass!

4 hours later…

WedaPashi

12:53

@liam: Great! Try the same with Cassiopeia :-) Its more prominent

@liam @ara @Rory @Russell: Flagged it. outdoors.stackexchange.com/a/6703/2303

Its rather a comment to @Rory 's answer

3 hours later…

Liam

15:32

quite in here without @Aravona!

nhinkle

16:14

@Liam outdoors.stackexchange.com/help/behavior

> The community tends to vote down overt self-promotion and flag it as spam. Post good, relevant answers, and if some (but not all) happen to be about your product or website, that’s okay. However, you must disclose your affiliation in your answers.
>
> If a large percentage of your posts include a mention of your product or website, you're probably here for the wrong reasons. Our advertising rates are quite reasonable; contact our ad sales team for details. We also offer free community promotion ads for open source projects and non-profit organizations.

Liam

@nhinkle hmmm

very good point

It's not so bad anymore, now the image has been removed

A: Any tips to reduce chance that I have to get up and pee in the night (not counting dehydration, of course)

Disclosure - I work for this company: GottaTinkle! Female Urination Device is a great alternative. Unlike funnels, GottaTinkle! does not come into contact with pee or the privates. Rather, it holds a small ziplock style baggie. Simply pee into the baggie and either pour-out right away, or zip ...

nhinkle

16:41

o_O

that picture makes it look like just a plastic bag... with some weird holder

No way am I watching that video at work though

On SU we get so much spam that the account would've been nuked, no questions asked. I guess we can afford to be a bit more lenient here.

EverythingRightPlace

Hi folks

I don't find much time these weeks to check TGO but it seems there are many new users and activity. That's great. Hopefully I have more time to surf when it's getting colder outdoors :)