@JoonasIlmavirta The old boundary, with Russia?

@JoonasIlmavirta All this is during the War?

Quite interesting.

@Cerberus Yes, Finnish troops invaded across the Russian border during the war.

OK thought so.

Not all the way to Moscow.

Oh, really.

@JoonasIlmavirta Q. Why isn't your aequivalent thread active on the main page? Did something happen, or have I been missing quite a few questions by only checking the front page?

@C.M.Weimer It seems to be there now.

Sometimes questions mysteriously disappear for a while.

I'm still not familiar with all the "features" of this site.

@JoonasIlmavirta Still not there for me.

And updated the question.

@C.M.Weimer Weird. Have you updated the page, or just waited for it to appear?

@C.M.Weimer Good! My best suggestion would be simply Prorsus! (maybe with una), but perhaps someone has more clever ideas.

@JoonasIlmavirta Refreshed and refreshed again. Not sure what the site is doing.

@C.M.Weimer Weird. Which page are you looking at? I usually use this: latin.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=active

I can see it.

@JoonasIlmavirta Ah, I'm referring to just latin.stackexchange.com.

Although with that link you sent me, it's not there for me either.

Which is especially weird considering I just voted and gave it a comment today !

@JoonasIlmavirta I have a few ideas, but didn't want to give too many suggestions in order to hear what others had to say.

I know SE isn't supposed to work like that, but I don't ever have real questions.

Not that I can't figure out, at least.

@C.M.Weimer You can always answer your own questions. But I'm not sure when it's better to give an answer instead of giving the idea in the question and asking for feedback or alternatives.

In this case I think it'd be better to give your own ideas as an answer. Voters can decide how good they are.

@JoonasIlmavirta It always feels too greedy to answer my own question. I didn't even award myself the "answered" status to my question on "Quick Brown Fox" even though I did in fact find an ancient example, because I didn't want to diminish the efforts of brianpck or Joel Derfner's answers.

@C.M.Weimer I understand; it does feel a little uncomfortable. But on the other hand if you had a good question and found a good answer, that's exactly the kind of content we need here.

(I answered that question, too.)

You did, that's right.

I voted them all up, I did appreciate the effort.

Useful in their own right.

I actually should revisit it, I don't really remember who had said what.

Feels like an eternity ago.

It sure does.

If I recall correctly, you didn't ask for a verse, but after I offered a couplet everyone started looking at poetry exclusively.

Didn't you offer up one of your own?

I think Joel did, too, and brian combed either Vergil or Ovid.

Yes. I couldn't resist the temptation to write in meter, and it was fun to make it meta. It describes the thing it does.

Smart thinking - best place for that sort of creativity is poetry!

And what's convenient, poetry comes in natural small units. A length sentence in prose would have been a duller answer and would have felt more artificial.

So you did!

I had forgotten it was meta.

Although I do appreciate the other answers (and I voted each one up), I still enjoy the meta aspect of my own suggestion.

It was a good one.

(Nothing wrong with favoring your own poetry!)

While you're around, I have a concern. I've noticed that quite a few questions get a single answer. Is there anything we can do to encourage more (besides targeting comments that give half-answers)?

@C.M.Weimer Thanks for bringing this up! I've been meaning to think about this, but it keeps slipping my mind.

Sometimes I wish moderators could convert comments to answers and not only the other way...

We currently average 1.5 answers per question, which is "OK".

That statistics is not that crucial, I'm told. Different sites have naturally different ratios.

I've been encouraging those who post comments to turn them into full answers, but I'm not always successful.

But I think we get too many answers as comments. People should just give their answers as answers. Worse answers get worse score, but that shouldn't be a problem.

@C.M.Weimer Me too.

I should write my ideas to your French question as an answer, too.

But I should go for dinner before that.

I admit sometimes giving a quick comment when I don't have time to write a full answer, but I think I give enough answers in return to be excused!

You do indeed!

I've given a lot of answers, too. Some of them are quite mediocre, I admit, but I still think it's better to have them around than never to have posted them.

If people don't convert their comments into answers when prompted, one can always collect ideas from comments and post an answer. If you don't feel you've put enough of your own thought into it, make it CW and say where the ideas came from.

I think I've done that once or twice. That should probably be done more.

Not the finest of my hexameter, but I'm getting hungry:

Nunc abeo cenans, bene dulcis amice valeto!

@JoonasIlmavirta I agree. There's nothing wrong with less than stellar answer.

@JoonasIlmavirta Interestingly, that construction is often considered a Graecism.

@Cerberus Post that as an answer!

@C.M.Weimer Mm I'm not sure it's good enough.

Read above. We were just talking about that.

With a little justification, it's a fine suggestion.

Mm perhaps!

Which construction is considered a Graecism? Abeo cenans?

I would not expect a present participle there in Greek?

books.google.com/…

Probably should have abeo ut cenem or something.

I got chided for the construction in Latin prose comp.