The Pantheon

10:20 AM

For RPG.SE. Thoughts?

excellent idea, not sure if the image is an obvious enough reference to the labyrinth story rather than the mythical creature that's in it

this one makes the "dungeon crawling" part a bit more obvious

Yannis

@Ixrec That's a good idea, the labyrinth should be a bit more obvious.

Ixrec

I think something like fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2009/354/5/a/… would be perfect if it wasn't a modern deviantart post

this one has the maze and the fight but it looks a bit silly tbh

Yannis

This one is has too much details, I don't think it will look good in 220x250

On the plus side, it's closer to RPG.SE's colors.

Yannis

1:47 PM

Myth.SE data are now available on SE Data Explorer. Have fun querying!

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The gods discuss...

1:59 PM

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Q: Is the current number of questions per day sufficient?

This is the first Stack Exchange offering I've committed to since its start and I've noticed it had a large amount of content initially, counting over 27 questions per day, but by taking a look in the respective Area 51 Page, we (as of now) have 6 questions per day. Is this a drawback or is it ty...

The gods discuss...

3:51 PM

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Q: How can I subscribe to the weekly newsletter?

On Meta Stack Exchange, it is suggested that I can subscribe to a site's weekly newsletter from the User Edit Page. However, I couldn't find such an option on the new profile page that was rolled out recently. Furthermore, Mythology is missing from the newsletters page on stackexchange.com. How...

support newsletter

Ero Sɘnnin

4:21 PM

Thought I'll try this for Arqade.SE community promo ad

Ixrec

gonna be very hard to beat that picture =)

Ero Sɘnnin

left to right, Hades, Zeus, Poseidon from the GoW series

@Ixrec :D Still haven't come up with a caption though. Any ideas?

Ixrec

nope, I suck at marketing

Ero Sɘnnin

me too :P

I guess we'll have to wait for the bright and catchy captions :)

meanwhile, I'll try making up some other ads for other Stacks

Ixrec

gonna be tricky to find good "targets" outside of the pop culture-y ones

Ero Sɘnnin

4:26 PM

hmm .. yeah

Ixrec

actually, do we have one for History.SE?

Ero Sɘnnin

Umm ... I'm not sure

Ixrec

oh right, beta, nvm

the one time beta status actually means something

Ero Sɘnnin

Well, Chemistry graduated recently

Hmm, so many graduated sites. Community promo ads will be challenging to make for each Stack

Ixrec

we could try to make a "generic" one that doesn't depend on the target site in any way

but I get the impression that normally relies on a site's logo, which we obviously don't have yet

Ero Sɘnnin

4:34 PM

Like the Area51-ish one?

Ixrec

maybe

Ero Sɘnnin

Sounds easy. But it'll give off a casual vibe.

@femtoRgon chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/21684721#21684721

Yannis

5:38 PM

@EroSɘnnin We won't be doing one for each graduate sites, only for the ones with topics somehow related to mythology. If we post one on Chemistry, for example, I'm pretty sure it will be removed by their mods or SE staff.

Here's a recent(ish) example of an ad removed from ProgSE's community ads thread: i.stack.imgur.com/RCpGj.png (even though it could be argued that programmers are machines that turn coffee to code)

Ero Sɘnnin

@Yannis Yeah I'm aware of that. But the concept of linking our SE to another through promo ads is a challenge :P

@Yannis Lol. What was the reason for that delete?

Yannis

@fredley The community-driven advertisements/bulletins have to be at least roughly aligned with the topic of the community. This advertisement is not appropriate for Programmers SE. — Robert Cartaino ♦ Feb 17 at 14:57

Ero Sɘnnin

ahan

point noted

Yannis

They do have a more programming oriented ad, but their crowd didn't seem to like it much: meta.coffee.stackexchange.com/a/1114

Yannis

Another day, another interesting question from @HDE226868...

HDE 226868

5:51 PM

@Yannis Sarcasm? Though I do hope this one's easier.

Yannis

@HDE226868 Did that come out as sarcasm? It wasn't, I do enjoy your questions a lot.

Ero Sɘnnin

I do too ^_^

HDE 226868

@Yannis Sorry, that's me. I was feeling a bit irked after getting blocked from arXiv earlier while trying to get to a pre-print I really, really, really needed to see.

Apparently, their system thinks I'm a robot. :-(

Ero Sɘnnin

:o

HDE 226868

Solution = access fewer pdfs over a given period of time, but still. . .

Ixrec

5:56 PM

if it helps, the new SE captcha always thinks I'm a robot and makes me do the image test in addition to the checkmark

Ero Sɘnnin

I hate the captcha test

HDE 226868

@Ixrec Really? Both?

Ero Sɘnnin

I always either refresh the page

or use another browser

Ixrec

yep, somehow I almost always fail the checkmark

on the plus side, the images they're using seem much less ambiguous than the recaptchas I'm used to, so I still find it easier to get through these consistently than the old ones

HDE 226868

7:02 PM

@El'endiaStarman I didn't want to put this in the comments, but you're right. I was on the fence about the frost bird question because we took the OP at his word that he had done research, which was why I felt this a similar case. But neither should be acceptable., so vote to close and downvote for the demon one.

El'endia Starman

@HDE226868 Yeah, by my logic, the frost bird should probably be closed...

But it got an answer! Well, two answers.

I'm a little conflicted about that one. In the future (near or far), I'd probably put a historical lock on it.

naltipar

I was the second one to vote to close this question, for various reasons:

1. What does it mean to `consume` a life?
2. What type of demon?
3. What type of curse?
4. Are they looking for a specific demon? Or do they just want an example?

Ixrec

just to be thorough, that question was also a cross-post: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/90030/… (and is on hold over there too)

I remember seeing it on SciFi and immediately thinking "I hope they don't migrate that here..."

El'endia Starman

@Ixrec Darn you SciFi! You brought this upon us!

HDE 226868

I added a note on both sites about the cross-posting. Thanks, @Ixrec. Nice noticing.

Ixrec

7:10 PM

I just saw, and upvoted your comment on scifi

it does look like they made the classic mistake of commenting "actually there's this other site..." before pointing out the broadness problem that'd get it closed on any SE

El'endia Starman

I love this riposte:

In that case we're all cursed aren't we? — Robert Longson 3 mins ago

Ixrec

speaking of bad questions, PSE just got "Do i need to learn this to be good programmer?"

brb

HDE 226868

I'll be watching Worldbuilding to see what happens. I'm not sure what the reaction will be. David's right on one bit, certainly - a lot more will be needed for it to be okay there.

Ack! He used two separate accounts!

El'endia Starman

@Ixrec Wow, that one was deleted fast. Within 2 minutes.

Ixrec

"voluntarily removed by its author" phew, it's always nice when they do that for us

naltipar

7:13 PM

:P

El'endia Starman

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Q: Demon who can consume your life through a curse

Is there a demon in whatever culture/epoch/myth who can consume your life in some time through a curse? With "consume your life" I intentionally leave it unclear, because it is not really important. You get the curse... some time... you die. No matter how.

culture mythic-creatures

Drat! Just 24 more rep and I could downvote it!

Ixrec

I love how he clarified the one part that needed the least clarification

HDE 226868

@El'endiaStarman Saw it. I'm going to drop a few comments, and vtc.

naltipar

this is a funny case, where will he go next?

El'endia Starman

What amuses me the most is that it's Mythology people that are chasing this guy. :P

Ixrec

7:15 PM

the scifi comments recommended both us and WB, so unless people leave more ill-advised comments he should stop with this one

though getting closed on three separate sites because of a misguided comment on SciFi is kind of a dick move so we might want to invite him to chat to clean up the question or something

oh cool I have 10k network rep now

HDE 226868

@El'endiaStarman Downvoted and voted to close on Worldbuilding.

People on other sites are notoriously unreliable guides to whether something is on topic somewhere else. — Robert Longson 1 min ago

Ixrec

also HDE is a WB guy too (I think)

HDE 226868

@Ixrec Yep. For about 7 months, and doing well.

Ixrec

7:30 PM

after a stupid amount of meta searching I think it's impossible for me to get this guy into a chat even if I convince him to register an account

so I guess there's nothing left to do

El'endia Starman

@Ixrec Mods can stick him into chat.

Ixrec

yeah, so it comes down to whether a mod thinks it's worth his time to help the guy clean up that mess and write a better question, still nothing I can do

El'endia Starman

Yeah. I personally don't really think he can be helped all that much. He copy-pasted his question to different sites without doing ANY investigation into the site itself.

naltipar

While many users commented that he should be more specific.

with a response "I intentionally leave it unclear"