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Anonymous
00:31
We could start a project. If you'd like, you could post on meta about it.
Anonymous
For particularly good unanswered questions, we can try bounties.
Anonymous
If some of them are unanswerable, we can either improve them to the point where they can be answered, or we can close them.
Hey I am back.
Well, I think maybe many of these 3000 already have an answer.
It's just that maybe there are some good answers which have no upvotes!
So if we just cast one vote on a decent answer, I think the number may go down quite fast...
I have been thinking of a nice question to ask on ELL main, but I haven't yet, lol.
Anonymous
Oh, that's true. Make sure the answer really is good before upvoting, though.
Yes, and if it's from snailplane, it must be good, lol.
 
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09:59
@Jasper I'd wager that half of the answers have been provided as comments.
You can sift through them with the tool on data.SE.
10:44
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Q: Moderator review for First Posts

Varun KNThere have been many posts on ELL, especially by 'first-time' users, asking questions without carrying out even the basic research about the same, with available resources like the dictionary and Google. Although we have the options to vote those questions to be closed, the number of such posts...

10:56
@userr2684291 You just need to click on questions and then click on unanswered on the main site, no need to waste time on data SE.
11:26
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Q: Let's bring down the number of unanswered questions

JasperThere are currently almost three thousand unanswered questions (questions with no upvoted or accepted answers) on this site. If I recall correctly, some sites actively try to bring this number down to zero. All we need to do is upvote good answers to these questions, convert comments on these que...

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Q: Let's bring down the number of unanswered questions

JasperThere are currently almost three thousand unanswered questions (questions with no upvoted or accepted answers) on this site. If I recall correctly, some sites actively try to bring this number down to zero. All we need to do is upvote good answers to these questions, convert comments on these que...

What I just saw in chat I will now describe.
Anonymous
Thanks for posting that :-)
I saw a snail dropping down from the list of users to the bottom of the window. Then I saw another snail dropping down from the top of the window to the list. LOL.
11:55
@Jasper I wouldn't've mentioned that if I hadn't meant what I said. You can't as easily fish for questions which fulfill certain criteria.
12:09
Also, I think Colleen had a similar proposal maybe a month ago. Not sure how that went.
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Q: Found a question that needs a better answer? Why not offer a bounty?

ColleenVSo we currently only have one featured question, but we have more than a thousand positively scored questions with one or zero answers. If you have earned enough reputation to access all the privileges you're interested in, why not look for a question that you think could use more detailed answer...

12:34
I have 1000 points now, so I can see the number of upvotes and downvotes, yay!
Hi all!
Hi, lol.
Did you sleep well?
It was alright last night.
Fine.
12:48
There're about 80 questions with no comments or answers, according to the database SEDE has access to.
Questions with one comment and no official answers: ell.stackexchange.com/questions/133935, ell.stackexchange.com/questions/122534, ell.stackexchange.com/questions/133823, for example. How do you answer yes/no questions, anyway?
@userr2684291 Anyway, the thing is that we don't know whether these comments are actually answers or not, and we have to look through all the unanswered questions anyway.
@Jasper Why?
@userr2684291 Why what?
@Jasper Why do you want to bring the number of Unanswered Questions to zero?
13:03
@userr2684291 It's just something good for the site, I think. At least we have some kind of closure, or conclusion, or whatever you call it, you know. There isn't any why beyond that.
I see.
Well, I don't really work for this site so I'll pass, lol.
Phew! I thought you were interrogating me or something, lol.
Sometimes people ask me why, I don't really have a very detailed explanation of why I said something, lol.
Yeah, it just looks like a meaningless task, satisfying some arbitrary criteria.
Not really that meaningless to me. About as meaningful as having the site in the first place.
13:46
@Jasper You're conflating the site's purpose with the means through which their owners are pursuant to achieving it.
The list is supposed to help you find questions that satisfy certain criteria (its creators decided to call it "Unanswered [Questions]" for some reason), but most of the questions there have received answers in one form or another.
I am thinking if I want to add Russian to the list of languages I want to learn...
@Jasper Why're you making a list of languages you intend to learn?
@userr2684291 Oh I just think of weird things all the time. =D
@Jasper What degree of proficiency do you intend to reach in all these languages?
@userr2684291 Maybe a B2, which is what you can achieve with an Assimil course. =D
14:00
Hm...
14:11
Joke of the Day: A Roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers, and says: "five beers, please".
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14:24
@Jasper I'm at around B2/C1 in English.
@userr2684291 I think your English is C2. =D
14:46
Thanks, but I tried taking a test like the CAE one and I didn't fare that well.
@userr2684291 Does that test tell you what level you are at?
I can't remember now, but I know it's not C2.
I see. OK, C1 for you then. =D
Oh, I meant CPE, not CAE. I think I saw CAE written somewhere so I picked it up.
There are several such tests and I don't know their names, lol.
14:57
CAE can't assess past the C1 level, whereas CPE can.
The last English exam I took was the Cambridge O Level exam in English, where I got grade A1.
I'm not sure what that translates into.
If I apply to grad school in the US in future, they might require me to take the TOEFL for whatever weird reasons, but that shouldn't be a problem at all.
@Jasper Yeah, imagine failing that as a native speaker.
 
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16:44
> • L-fucose: 11.46 to 13.01 %;
It is okay to omit the percentage sign after the first figure?
Or should it be
> • L-fucose: 11.46 % to 13.01 %;
I always forget what the rule is in English
More a question of style in this case than grammar itself. I don't know the rules for this, and different style guides may have different rules too.
17:27
US distributed solar prices fell 10 to 20 percent in 2014,@CowperKettle
I'd write it as 11.46–13.01%. I wouldn't put a space before the percent sign, but maybe your style guide prescribes otherwise.
@userr2684291 I like that too.
@Jasper Don't forget to smash that like button! Comment, rate, tweet, poke, fiddle, pickle, and SUBSCRIBE!
@userr2684291 I had a few youtube channels, but nobody ever subscribed, so I deleted them after a while, just like my SE accounts, lol.
@V.V. Spasibo!
17:45
@CowperKettle That sounds like placebo.
@Jasper Haha.
@userr2684291 I will show you my singing when I start a new channel, since you have not heard it before. =D
@Jasper Okey-dokey.
Word of the day: bushed
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18:07
Maybe I should start posting things of the day too, lol.
You can post some Antarctic jokes of the day
When I make my youtube videos again, I will post them as video of the day to promote my own channel, LOL.
18:25
I'm too bashful and bushed to make any YouTube videos
I'm dubya bushed
I'm totally bushed is how I heard it, if you're interested. LDOCE says it's not used before a noun.
18:43
@userr2684291 It is an interesting word because it has three quite different meanings listed there.
 
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22:06
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Q: How to use "Having to + VERB"

yubrajI know "have to" expresses 'obligations to do something' and I know how to use it in the sentences. For example: People have to leave their rural areas. But I have seen ‘having to’ being used as gerunds and in the present continuous tense. For example: People are having to leave thei...


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