@Beofett - speaking of parents, should we offer "user6460" advice to join the chat here? she may get some useful advice not suitable as a SE answer; or heck, find friendly people here.
@TorbenGundtofte-Bruun - May I ask which question is being referred to?
Holy first posts batman! 22 - never seen that many at once needing review before.
@DVK That's a great saying - makes perfect sense. I also like, "don't hang noodles on my ears" for "oh, you're embarrassing me!" but, obviously, for different reasons.
I know you meant the mods - I being a little (um, I have no idea how to spell fecitious??) Silly?
I just don't see any problem with the idea - it really is like inviting someone to be a "friend" online. I have to jet - but I'm in total support of offering up ideas in chat too. If the invitation is taken up and you guys do "chat" about it, you might link the chat to the question specifically so future users can also take a look.
@JeremyMiller - Much as downvotes sometimes suck, technically speaking, a user has a right to downvote pretty much for any and every reason. I generally try to explain when I downvote, but not always. The only problem is when they start targeting many posts of specific user (as Mama alluded to, there are system scripts that try to detect that and rectify serial voting)
@KarlBielefeldt - I know someone from another SE with autism-related experience. I can point that person at your question if you wish (they never joined this SE)
@balancedmama - Romeo and Juliet? Let's see... child abuse. Gang violence glorifocation.Child pornography. Homicide. Suicide. Anyone else thinks that Sheakspeare would have been committed to looney bin if he wrote that today?
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@balancedmama - According to what a mod once told me (could be Beofett actually), there's special Mod-only chat where you can ask guidance from other mods, even from other sites, when you aren't sure. BTW, congrats on being a mod - I don't know your work here but I like your SFF content :)
@JeremyMiller - Having a photo ALWAYS helps though :) A picture is worth 1k words and all.
@Beofett - Some Drs offices have nurses you can call and they will tell you if something is worth seeing a Dr. for. Ours used to have that, and with Thing#1, being new parents, it was very helpful.
@balancedmama - You're asking an ESL to spell? :) Google says "facetious"
@balancedmama facetious. (sorry for being a word geek!) :-)
@DVK how did you manage to earn 200 000 rep and 30+ gold badges - and still be unsure of the existence of the Teachers' Lounge, the private chat room for mods across all of SE. It's a place for mods to discuss topics before taking action, and to learn best practices from another - and to coordinate post migrations.
@DVK Can and ought are totally different concepts. Discretion as they say...
@DVK Really? Really? ... I'm just saying, Really??? Your kid is sick... there's nothing to take a photo of... and someone flippantly comments when another suggests seeking a professional, "a picture is worth 1k words?" Well, tbh, my daughter is worth more than 1k pictures, so I seek medical attention whether the issue can be photographed or not.
@TorbenGundtofte-Bruun That's also the only non-science English word with all vowels in alphabetical order and only used once in the word. ;) Go Geeks! lol
@KarlBielefeldt When I saw that post, I just had to post a response... you know my whole obsession with our childrens' safety! :)
@Beofett As you can see from the response I linked to, water isn't always the solution. ;) The question presumes the nature of the answer which may be a fallacy depending on the entirety of the underlying cause.
@TorbenGundtofte-Bruun No, thank you - I should have looked it up but had to "jet."
@DVK It certainly wouldn't have been published and taught in schools.
@DVK Thanks, I only just became a moderator a week or so ago. There isn't much SFF content compared to here, but thanks.
@DVK In my experience, "ESL's" (at least those educated in Europe anyway) are better at English spelling and grammar than most US Public School educated kids (which I am one) and I was never good at spelling, but I really would have looked it up today, I went to bed thinking about it.
@TorbenGundtofte-Bruun You had to tell me what TL was too!
@DVK I was the same way.
@JeremyMiller He also commented there is often a line to call to ask if a doctor needs to see baby or not - and he is right. Taking a pic of rashes, tongue coats and the like is helpful when you get to an appointment and the symptoms have cleared.
@JeremyMiller That will help me remember how to spell it!
It would be so nice, if the higher activity stayed even while interest in the specific question faded.
I wonder if we should protect it or something though - 26 answers?
Many of the answers seem great - it isn't as if there is a bunch of controversy or something, but WOW how much of that can actually be completely new and unique information and tips?
Obviously I haven't read all of it at this point - only those I've reviewed.
@balancedmama How is parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/11089/… about "price-shopping assistance"? The phrase isn't "price/shopping assistance" meaning that price-shopping is a compound adjective not "or" like "/" would be.
Actually, I see the link now, but if you read the bottom of that page where they recommend how to write a question that will be valid, I'd say that the question in question is an example of a valid question... how to decide instead of which one to buy.
@balancedmama Yes but you don't have five times my rep points... I just thought that such a veteran would've heard it through the grapevine a long time ago.
@balancedmama sounds like a good idea. I can do so too but I'll let you have that honor :)
@JeremyMiller @balancedmama I agree, that doesn't look like a "product recommendation" request but more like a "what factors to consider" request. It could be worded more clearly in that direction but I already read it like that. Voted to reopen.
@TorbenGundtofte-Bruun I agree. I could have sworn it was a dup, though, but sometimes you think "of course we've covered that!" when we actually haven't.
@jamesbradbury is there a reason you removed the picture on:
My daughter's tummy seems strangely fat. I know babies are chubby and they usually grow out of this, but it seems oddly distended.
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Her tummy has been like this for a few months and she seems healthy. She started solids some 6 months ago and been fully off the breast milk for a...
@KarlBielefeldt I actually think the question makes some sense, as a result of the answers, without it. I assume he had privacy concerns (hence the comment I posted). BTW, am I correct in believing it stays in the edit history for (a long time|forever), or will it get removed from the SE servers automatically?
Meta question: does voting on meta.parenting work like voting on meta.so? IE, is downvote supposed to mean 'disagree'? Or is it still upvote=nice question downvote=bad question?
@Joe Yeah, meta is different. It doesn't affect your rep, so people use it more as an agree/disagree.
That's also why you see more self-answers on meta. You can upvote the question if you think it's a good discussion, then downvote the answer if you disagree with that particular proposed solution.
Okay, thanks. I'm a very experienced SO'er who just noticed p.se yesterday due to the hot question, but I haven't really been on other sites much other than meta.so which I know is somewhat different from other metas as well
Was a bit confused since I saw a meta question that was generally disagreed with but with lots of upvotes
It's interesting to see how a totally different kind of site works in the SE model
like, recommendations for strollers - that discussion was interesting, IMO
on SO that would be almost immediately gone, but it does make sense to keep a question like that on p.se as long as it's about qualities and not specific models
I've had to use it occasionally, it's by far the easiest way to deal with massive text changes
like, "take this list of 60 million files in a complex directory structure, append the directory name to them, and append all of the rows in each file to one massive 800MM row file"
I agree with you. It's great for text processing. I bet you started using it in the 90's though, am I right? People who graduated after 2000 don't even try to learn it, it seems.
@KarlBielefeldt - technically speaking I "learned" Perl in 1998/99 (I had the pleasure of having my very first Perl lesson taught by none other than Randal Schwartz!), but didn't start using it for real till 2000 :)
@KarlBielefeldt - You haven't read Perl code by someone who's a real Perl developer (as opposed to scripter).
I actually first learned Object oriented programming with perl and the camel book. I tried with C++ and it didn't click. Something about having to explicitly bless an object as belonging to a class solidified the difference between the two in my mind.
@DVK Yes I have. I agree perl isn't intrinsically difficult to read. Unfortunately, it's also not intrinsically difficult to make working code that's completely unreadable.
@Joe - In case that was a swipe at Perl, Perl has EPIC support for Eclipse which most people consider the pinnacle of all IDEs. There are also Perl native IDEs (Padre) and general good quality IDEs supporting perl (UltraEdit Studio, though I know people are snobbish about that).
Not a swipe, just a note :) Of course there are good IDEs for perl as well, but the fact that you can program in a text environment means there's a lot of bad code out there.
Looking at Dariusz's question, may I suggest that gas and gas-pain be set up as tag synonyms? Seems like they're basically the same thing (aren't almost all of the gas questions going to be about pain?).
One of the reasons SO doesn't allow product recommendations, according to the close reasons, is that they "attract spam" - even if they're not intended that way, they're likely for spammers to find via google and add a spam answer to
@JeremyMiller I actually agree- especially now with the edits. Perhaps because I was up late and exhausted, I couldn't make much sense of it with the original way it was worded. I'm so glad you brought it up and it has been re-opened with the nice editing job Karl did.
@Joe I have some questions about the physics behind the variety of sounds as well as the volume such small children can create - but I don't think I'll be asking any of them. :-)
@Joe We try to make sure any questions about what to buy are all about qualities and things to look for in the item rather than about brands and the "products" themselves.
I don't agree with any of those answers. They aren't speaking from experience. I have four kids. Ages 11, 7, 3, &2. The three oldest are boys and my daughter is the two yr old. My three year old son refused to wear clothes for almost a year. I finally told him you have to so your privates don't ...
@balancedmama, I think on answers like this, with a brand new user, it's okay to just go ahead and delete without consulting the other mods.
My daughter's tummy seems strangely fat. I know babies are chubby and they usually grow out of this, but it seems oddly distended.
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Her tummy has been like this for a few months and she seems healthy. She started solids some 6 months ago and been fully off the breast milk for a...
