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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
04:41
Evolution works its fastests in plumbers, because the first phrase every plumber says upon inspecting your sink is "What an idiot was fixing it this way?"
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
05:09
@ColleenV We had a door lined with a layer of thick woolen cloth, and the cat liked it very much, because it permitted climbing and getting down easily. The whole front surface of the door was covered with this cloth, about 5 mm thick
Probably not woolen, I recall it was closer to a layer of felt, similar to the material used for making valenki
AIQ
AIQ
05:52
So I am thinking, why would a user accept an answer, and not upvote it? It does not make sense because "accepting" an answer means that answer helped OP, but not upvoting it means it was not useful. I am confused.
 
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userr2684291
userr2684291
10:52
I see those as "Thanks, you served your purpose." gestures.
On a serious note, perhaps there's a reputation threshold they've yet to cross that'd enable them to cast votes.
 
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ColleenV
ColleenV
14:02
@CowperKettle we have a pole with carpet around it that Loki likes to climb - I bet he would love a whole door. Maybe we should put a kitty climbing wall in our basement...
Did they have 15 reputation? https://ell.stackexchange.com/help/privileges
The other possibility is that they did upvote it, but someone else downvoted it.
Loki is getting frustrated because I’m not eating my breakfast fast enough. He wants the spoonful of leftover milk from my cereal.
And he wants it right now! Or he’s going to starve to death. He’s giving me the poor hungry kitten sounds...
Michael Rybkin
Michael Rybkin
Could you please help me with these audio files? Whenever you see an underscore, it means I probably have no idea what the speaker is saying there. And the words that are spelled with all caps are something that I'm exactly not sure of (can vs couldn't, and vs. in etc.).

https://clyp.it/cvlyff4h now back to Descartes AND his search for truth
https://clyp.it/gwcnapwf Here's some example of my own _____ from this course.
https://clyp.it/pmwjoxer that more complicated things WERE made up of
https://clyp.it/qegh00gb enumerationS so complete and reviewS so general
Michael Rybkin
Michael Rybkin
14:34
No worries. I already took care of that in another chat room. Thank you for your cooperation.
 
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ColleenV
ColleenV
19:22
Y’all might find this interesting- ELL is #11 if SE sites are listed by traffic:
stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#traffic
 
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AIQ
AIQ
21:04
@ColleenV Hi, you are right some of them have less than 15 rep. Very few have a 0 due to upvotes and downvotes cancelling out. But there are those by users with 300+ rep who selected an answer but did not upvote.
@ColleenV and @userr2684291 I think some of them (with voting privileges) do not upvote because they don't like the answer (its not useful to them) but do select them as the accepted answer because they get +2 rep.
That is awful ...
For example, this one: ell.stackexchange.com/questions/229546/…
ColleenV
ColleenV
21:46
@AIQ Well, maybe they feel their question was answered but their threshold for whether the answer was “good” and deserves an up-vote is higher than “sufficient to answer my question”.
Also, many learners don’t feel comfortable up-voting because they aren’t confident the answers deserve it.

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