Folks- Is there a way to contact members "out of band" ? Private message, text, or some facility? Forgive my ignorance. Do you have to create a room and ping them into it? There's some things I'd like to talk about with certain people (given upcoming mod elections) that I'd prefer not to be public. Is there a way, or (as I have a feeling) does such communication run counter to SE philosophy?
Seeing as how I am the Director of Foward Projects... yes.
Damn this alcohol (ETOH) and its cooling boost-enhancing properties. In light of my plight, I have resolved myself to only drink on days that end in "y"...
@SteveRacer there is a hacky way involving User A pinging email in chat, User B acknowledging they have recorded the email, then User A deleting said chat message containing email address
Like I said, hacky. But where there's a will, there's a way, an inheritance lawyer (or both)
@SteveRacer - if you are wanting to talk to an existing mod privately, then that can be done. If it is something that could concern moderation of the site, you can request they set up a private mod room (other mods and CM's will be able to see it, but it will not be visible to general community)
Or you could let a mod know they can check your profile for your email address if it isn't public, then they could email you, but whether or not a mod wants their email to become known at that point is up to them though
@Zaid @RoryAlsop Thanks guys, I hope I didn't mean to make it sound doom and gloom. It is as I suspected: Not really the philosophy of SE. It had more to do with me possibly nominating someone for mod, but I felt like that wouldn't be appropriate without discussing it with her beforehand.
In other thoughts, it occurs to me that "my paint damged cats vs keyed" is not an XOR. In other words, vengeful cats may have keyed the poster's car. Because of weak paws and the lack of opposing thumbs, the scratches would not be very deep... consistent with the OP's pictures. I will research further.
Absolutely love it. Around $100 if I remember, it even does manufacturer specific (P1xxx) if you identify the make. It has a great IM readiness screen useful for those critical drive cycles before the dreaded P0420 reappears. It always connects. It also does Mode 1 and Mode 2 PIDS with unit conversion, including graphs if you want it. I think I have an AL519 or AL719. They have many varients, including those that handle ABS, C-codes, and TPMS
I also have a Snapon Solus with Domestic/Euro/Asian and every know adapter (another addiction; "SnapOn" which cost me many thousands (and continues to cost for legit software updates). Quite necessary for heavy lifting, activating solenoids for EVAP testing, etc. But that said, the Autel is far superior in price/performance evaluations. And if it breaks, so what? I'll buy another one for $100.
I have a calibrated paper clip for that. No, Autel doesn't talk, it just listens. Maybe their full-on diagnostic machine does those things, but I'm not interested. Too vested in SnapOn at this point.
Yup. BMW use to sell a tool... which was a fancy push-button with lights. A fully calibrated paper clip shorted the same terminals in the diagnostic connector (not OBD II) which caused the same maintenance reset as the expensive tool. GM cars still respond to the key on three accel pedal stomps and key off. Most Asians respond to holding in the trip reset and key on. Fancy Asians have the reset burried in a stalk menu.
I deal with older used stuff, but haven't found one couldn't reset with a paper clip and/or some knowledge.
I have a MSR Xpedition motorcycle helmet. It's rather cheaply made, and one of the side screws, that holds the visor on fell out. Any ideas on where I can get a replacement screw for it? I reached out to their customer service via e-mail, to see if I can get one from them.
I live in an apartment complex with some stray cats. I have multiple sets of scratch marks on the side doors of my car. I am unsure if these are from cats or from someone keying my car. Is it possible for cats to scratch car paint?
Here are some of the pictures.
I have more pictures but s...
Lol, I'll retract my comment, but leave my vote there. I'll let the rest of the community decide. In any case, the vote will expire if it doesn't gain support.
Wait, maybe I should do the inverse.
Well, ran my original plan in the end. Hope I did the right thing. :)
No, I guess not. At some point, too, you have to learn to make decisions and live with the consequences. Shouldn't be too dire in this particular case. :)
Some sort of off topic -> custom close reason, I suppose. But I'm having a hard time deciding what that would be... which goes back to my theory that perhaps it shouldn't be closed.
I can certainly see why the POB people went that route, though.
It's one of the challengers that reviewers have. Do you close or don't you? If it doesn't look on topic, what kind of closing should we use?
Frequently what ends up happening is that one person votes to close ie, as POB, and others, who also think it should be closed, just vote to close on the same basis.
I'm sure there's a psych experiment out there that demonstrates that people feel better when they take action vs. doing nothing. Even when that action is the wrong action.
"But at least I _did_ something!"
I heard an absolutely excellent analogy for mods at one point.
Mods are like the exception handler for StackExchange. They should hardly ever need to use their power. But every once in a while, something occurs which can not be resolved via the standard flow mechanisms (close voting, downvoting, flagging), and thats where mods become the last-ditch effort to offer corrective action.
okay, Thank you. Is there any form of repellent for keeping the cats off? They're strays and very sweet cats but I am on a budget and don't have funds for a new paint job. — earlyriser0129 mins ago
Travel tip: it doesn't matter what direction you go. If you travel for enough hours, jet lag AKA jet kick you in the face will eventually crush your weak human mind.
Fortunately, crushing my mind only compresses more fuel into the central core of pure evil.
Yeah, when that happens to me the room generally rapidly clears. It's a bad sign when Bob starts talking about "human frailty" in front of normal people. ;-)
Note to self: don't tell normals that contact lenses are an augmentation to your targeting system. That spooks people. ;-)
@DucatiKiller think you still have 2 hours don't you?
or is that the noms closed
2 hours
I hope Larry @MoveMoreCommentsLinkToTop gets his questionnaire answers in within the next 2 hours. I assume it doesn't rule folks out if they haven't, but it may
I have to get this off my chest. I'm a little irritated with the entire Global Clown Thing. Anyone else? It's just not that funny. I'm going to bet that on Halloween, there will be a 25% Scary Clown Costume penetration rate.
I was at a pretty large meeting on Friday and someone asked, "what are you going to dress up as for Halloween?" EVERYONE said some kind of clown......then everybody looked around the table like.....Jeeeeze....EVERYONE else is going to do that to. It was pretty hilarious. EVERYONE also determined that they were NOT going to go as a murder clown before it broke.
I don't find clowns scary in the slightest, but I am willing to bet a lot of people dressed as clowns who try to scare others will end up in hospital this Halloween.
Indeed, it will peak this Halloween to the highest levels of craptacular.
If you gentleman were not on the inside regarding the truth about existence and reality, I will share a little secret with you.....
First, this is not reality.
Second, neither is the reality you are in, where you are seeing these words magically appear on your screen or the one where you get into your car and go someplace.
@LynnCrumbling Nope, Fayetteville NC. We got 18 inches of rain in less than 24 hours, that was a week after we got 10 inches. I'm on the fire department, so between rescues, my basement flooded, and my parents losing power. I've been busy...lol
I didn't have it nearly as bad as some of the people we rescued. So folks have 12 inches of water covering there entire house :( I was just stretched thin on time and sleep. We have a good community of neighbors helping neighbors so it went as good as it could have.
@RoryAlsop Not pushy at all. Nice reminder actually, as I told myself last night I'll get to that tomorrow... and here it is and I hadn't thought about it....lol
@Zaid Now just playing catch up from all the lost time, the crisis is over for the most part for me. I am sure there are others that are still in crisis mode, but they are getting help, even it they don't think it fast enough. Sometimes you just need to remind folks that we have it pretty good even with all of this going on. Remind them to step back and think about there blessings and not so much about the things that they lost.
I had a lady in Lowes livid that it was going to take the power company more than a week to restore power and there was no excuse. I explained that teams from Ohio and New Jersey were already here and working 20 hour days to restore her power. Then I reminded her she was standing in lowes to get a connector to hook up the generator to her house and there were people who couldn't even get to their house
I have a MSR Xpedition motorcycle helmet. It's rather cheaply made, and one of the side screws, that holds the visor on fell out. Any ideas on where I can get a replacement screw for it? I reached out to their customer service via e-mail, to see if I can get one from them.
I live in an apartment complex with some stray cats. I have multiple sets of scratch marks on the side doors of my car. I am unsure if these are from cats or from someone keying my car. Is it possible for cats to scratch car paint?
Here are some of the pictures.
I have more pictures but s...
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