@NathanTuggy Thanks for the comment!

Now it would've readily been converted into a comment if we had an ELL mod in chat.

Heh.

No use crying over spilt milk, as it were.

@snailboat We would've easily understood why that isn't the case. A chat mod present is awesome. A chat mod of the parent site present in chat is awesome times awesome.

@snailboat Site analytics.

It's really awesome.

And I don't have it yet. :\

@snailboat I think your effort to push to 20k was very wise.

Oh, 25000.

sigh

Lemme check the new requirements.

Dear chatters, a title clean-up event will be coming in 3 days. Please see the title cleanup chatroom if you have any questions about it.

@snailboat It still says 27 on Area 51.

@snailboat Yep.

Ahh

Interesting!

Oh shoot. When should the event be?

(UTC)

@Dam @Snail when should the event be?

For how long?

Any time you feel comfortable with.

@snailboat All-day.

@DamkerngT. I wanna see when you guys are comfy.

(I'm still looking for the new privilege table.)

I'm guessing 19:00 UTC?

I won't even be able to protect questions.

Anymore.

@DamkerngT. I know, it sucks.

(At first, then you'll get used to it)

I'd be ~1k rep away from close voting! :'O

At this rate, if I want to reach 25k, I think I'll have to write 2000 more answers.

@DamkerngT. Which'll take like, 2000 years. :P

I guess!

So 19:00 UTC it is?

@Dam @Snail ^ ?

(Still trying to convert that to my local time...)

@DamkerngT. 23:00, prolly.

Hmm... 02:00 am.

:O

I may or may not be available.

Then that's a no.

@Snail will you be comfy with 15:00 UTC?

15:00 UTC is fine with me, but I don't know about others.

(It'd be like 11 a.m. there)

What time is 15:00 UTC in the US?

@Snail what time will 15:00 UTC be where you live?

8 a.m. is reasonable.

What does "Expanded editing, deletion and undeletion privileges" exactly mean?

Delete is familiar.

@DamkerngT. Trusted user?

Why is that when I wish that users would reveal their national origin in their profile or username, they don’t, and when I wish they wouldn’t, they do?

@DamkerngT. It doesn't tell you. I will.

1. You can edit tag wikis without being subject to review.

It means you can delete answers; edit tag wikis without approval etc.

2. If you create a brand new tag wiki, you become its owner and have a binding vote on others’ edit suggestions to it.

3. You can vote to delete anything closed whose score is –3 or below without waiting a few days.

So, how long should the event last?

Yeah, I meant that.

4. You can vote to delete answers that are scored 0 or below in the LQRQ or –1 from the regular place.

5. You may vote to undelete answers that were deleted by a non-moderator.

@tchrist I never knew that.

@NathanTuggy I have many secrets. :)

Not as many now, oops!

@tchrist Thank you very much for the details!

@NathanTuggy I can always delete it. :)

I figured ELL's Cabin could also host the event.

My recent answers got only about half a vote per question. It's already tough just trying to reach 15k.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M +1

I guess careful answers are not favored by SE.

Talking about tags...

@TCh tomorrow I'll post meta inviting people to participate in the event.

Careful answers usually need more time to write, so they're unlikely to become HNQs, IMHO.

Another way to look at it is my answers are not good.

I still think we graduated too soon.

Don't know when the privilege bar will be raised.

@DamkerngT. Once we get our design, as far as I know.

@NathanTuggy That's pretty soon, I think!

Code Review specifically declined the rest of graduation because they wanted the privileges changed without worrying about design.

@snailboat Yep.

@snailboat As far as I know.

I think our new design is basically the current design with the word Beta removed?

That's an intermediate step.

Not the same thing.

"New design" for this purpose means "an actual customized design".

Ahh

Everything else in graduation is notionally scheduled for "without delay".

... which apparently means six to eight days?

They were saying "we don't have many designers. It doesn't make sense to postpone graduations just because design isn't ready."

@NathanTuggy Weeks.

Let's see... how many of us is over 25k...

On a related note, anyone aware of users that are somewhat sloppily using privileges that they only have because it's a beta? (I.e., the other side of threshold raising, and the thing CR most cares about.)

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25k doesn't matter all that much, though; it's mostly the (6?) 20kers.

6 then, I think.

Bad titles flooding . . .

Take a look at the newest questions. Facepalm

Somehow the JavaScript of the main ELL page never kicks in on my browser.

Ouch. Yeah . . . @Nathan sorry I totally forgot faq-proposed.

It didn't exist yet, so it's not really your fault. (Someone should copy wiki from M.SE?)

@NathanTuggy It shouldn't exist. Mod should remove it or FAQ the question up.

Wow.

@snailboat I still can remember the time when I had only about 1k rep. It was nice and fun to learn and to contribute back.

Hehe!

Me too. I said ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

I'm still silly and ignorant.

But I will try to speak for learners as much as possible when I'm around.

Wow for the title.

@snailboat This is already less. (sad) -- Just kidding. I know you have things to take care of.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M applauds

@snailboat I wish I could join you soon!

Right now I still have to wait for the confirmation of my CGEL order.

@snailboat Ah, I know that feeling!

Reminds me of myself in badminton.

I know what I should do, but I also know that I can't physically do that, so I have to compromise.

@Nathan (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

Hehe!

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I guess?

;)

So I guess we really don't have much general desire to crank the privs up.

I just got another Revival badge! Yay!

Oh! StoneyB has 12 Revival badges! I salute him for that!

One is good!

Looks like our site footer link will have to wait a while longer, per Ana's latest edit.

@Stoney's not much away from 100k.

He promised us a dinner.

Yeah, that really could use some rework.

Well, I dunno about you guyses, but I'm gonna start linking to my FAQ.

(There's a subtle scheme of pleasure in saying my faq)

It is indeed yours.

And it is now ours. So it's yours and ours at the same time. :D

ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

@snailboat That's not a nice graph to see. :\

38% complete. That's still a long way to go.

But the tangent is never the same.

I wanted to make sure he gets a ping.

@StoneyB I don't think it could be characterised as a critique of test-writing in general. It's very specifically levelled at SAT - no other exam. And more importantly, it seems to me, language learners here could mistake it for a language learning exam. It's actually aimed at native-speakers ...

@StoneyB ... There is no testing of whether you have a native-speaker ability here. It's about convention and style. And people doing it do need to understand what it's about. Half of the rules are shibboleths. Split infinitives, other such ridiculosities. Not good, imo. But that's the education system there is in this part of the world so, ....

@StoneyB Will try to tomorrow! Am beat for today!