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Q: Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange

devinbThis is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network. It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes the accepted answer to ensure that the latest changes remain on top (given default user settings)....

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@Stormblessed in French, both work
 
@Jenayah without hyphen is much more common in America, not sure about other English-speaking countries
 
12:51 AM
I abbreviate it as spero.
 
 
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3:12 AM
@Jenayah I doubt that. Indian cartoons are not this complex
Can be a dubbed one
 
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Q: Whose blood did Carol Danver's receive, Mar-vell's or Yon-Rogg's in the movie?

slmI recently watched the Captain Marvel movie (2019) and understood that Yon-Rogg claims that Carol/Vers received his blood in a transfusion that saved her life. Was Yon-Rogg lying to Carol/Vers when he said this or was her DNA fused with Mar-Vell's as part of the explosion that led to her becomin...

 
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Q: Why they named the movie "Captain Marvel"?

Kushal BhuyanWhy they choose the title to be "Captain Marvel"? Firstly Carol Danvers was a pilot. And Captain is a rank in the Army. I understand the title "Captain America" because Steve was in the Army and thus the title make sense. But for Carol, I didn't get the logic behind the "Captain" title. And als...

 
@Babelfish And another one...
 
3:54 AM
@Stormblessed For something like this, you should raise a flag instead of a chat ping.
 
4:13 AM
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Q: Story Identification - 2 Books

VoiceofSFA man wakes up in the hospital, family in the room, with new and super-normal ability. He uses this to create peace and advance mankind. Takes place in the U.S. and of course there's great resistance from the government. A 2nd book takes place in the U.S. northwest (Washington or Oregon). Young ...

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Q: Why didn’t Fury ask for Captain Marvel’s help earlier?

Paul D. WaiteAt the end of Captain Marvel, Carol gives Nick Fury a She also leaves on earth with him. In the post-credits scene of Avengers: Infinity War, he uses However, weren’t there earlier occasions that called for the same action? Specifically:

 
@Mithrandir Can't flag to migrate to Worldbuilding
Ok, never mind, the user asked it on Worldbuilding
 
4:29 AM
@Stormblessed Right, but there are custom flags.
In general, I'd recommend against recommending migration unless you're pretty familiar with the target site.
 
4:51 AM
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Q: Harry Potter fanfic about him going missing with voldemort after the war

NicolasI read, about four or five years ago, a fanfic about Harry going missing for two years after the war with Voldemort, and when he comes back, Ginny has two kids, and Harry is the father but he doesn't know. In those two years, he's been tortured by Voldemort with memories in a dark room. I'm 90%...

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Q: Help for Newbie with Book ID - NW US portal

VoiceofSFThe book takes place in the U.S. northwest (Washington or Oregon). Young people find a portal to another place / time and begin creating a base there. Eventually they bring across parts for a small plane. As I remember, there are no people on the other side and it was a version of their current l...

 
 
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Q: HTTYD Question The rest of this stuff is random I need the title to be longer

Keeper_Fox14So all HTTYD dragons are based on animals in real life. I need help on what a Razorwhip would be in real life. Any suggestions? (If ur wondering I want to draw Heather and Windshear as real life people and pets but it doesn’t have to be something that would usually be a pet for example Snotlouts ...

 
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Q: Why can't Skrulls heal?

Dr. Sheldon CooperSkrulls have the ability to completely replicate an entire beings DNA structure. That being said, when Skrulls are injured, all they need to is to turn into someone else and they will reconstruct there bodies?

 
7:02 AM
@AnkitSharma ok
 
I read story but nothing came to my mind
 
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Q: What is a flerken?

Dr. Sheldon CooperWhat exactly is a flerken? How does it swallow things much bigger than itself? Where do they originate from? Do they show up anywhere else in the MCU?

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Q: How do Skrulls create clothing?

Dr. Sheldon CooperAs mentioned here, Skrulls have the ability to copy anyones DNA structure and replicate it in their bodies. In the movie we see that they can also replicate clothing which doesn't make sense because clothing does not contain DNA?

 
7:24 AM
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Q: Fanfic where Snape reveals that he doesn't take house points from his house, but does spank them

Naraku KagiwakiThe story starts, I think, in a Potions class and Snape asks Draco to stay after class. When Draco goes up to Snape, Snape explains exactly what he wants. Snape had heard about a fight or something between Draco and Harry. Somewhere the author explains that Snape doesn't take points from his own...

 
@Marvin now I have to delete this from my head
3
 
7:43 AM
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Q: Can Marvel's Paige Guthrie (Husk) shapeshift into Mjölnir?

Mutants are LosersCan Marvel's Paige Guthrie change into Thors Mjölnir? According to Wikipedia "Paige most commonly takes on a Paige-like form in a new material. She can become any solid that she has studied (including glass, wood, rubber, brick, diamond, granite, and even adamantium). These forms take on new p...

 
8:00 AM
@Marvin just... Wow
"Fanfiction where Snape doesn't take house points from his house, but makes them his harem"
"Fanfiction where Snape doesn't take house points from his house, but does make them dress in maid outfits."
 
 
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Q: Why is there a Bewilderbeast responding to king Toothless in HTTYD 3?

Keeper_Fox14So in the hidden world scene ‘king’ Toothless calls out to the dragons of the hidden world. When the dragons respond next to the Light Furies, we a Bewilderbeast that looks EXACTLY like Drago’s Bewilderbeast from HTTYD 2. It’s even missing his left tusk. Why is this Bewilderbeast not in charge?

 
 
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Q: Book about a world where magic was enabled by nano tech

Steve PerksonThe world was described as a fantasy setting with the usual warriors, mages and thieves present. The mages had the instinctive ability to control the world's remaining nanobots. Level of control was determined by the accidental placement of nanobots at birth. If a mage had a cluster of bots in th...

 
 
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Q: What was the implant device Captain Marvel was using?

J LewisIn Captain Marvel we are shown that she has an implant that appears to help her control or regulate her powers, and lights up on occasion. What exactly is it, and what does it do?

 
1:29 PM
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Q: A cat named Goose?

SkoobaIn the new Captain Marvel film there is cat that plays a role in the plot that is named Goose. This character is also present in the comics but is known as Chewie. Now I don't think it is very hard to see where these names took inspiration from... Chewie from Star Wars and Goose from Top Gun....

 
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Q: Is the MCU version of Captain America a virgin?

Randy ZeitmanIs the MCU version of Captain America a virgin? (In which case he will die a virgin. Does that bother you?)

 
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Q: When has Captain Marvel previously listened to Nirvana?

Alessandro SanfilippoWhen Carol Denver goes to talk to the Supreme AI after she recovers her memories. She plays the Nirvana song "Come as Your Are" which was released in 1991. She had her accident in 1989 and they took her to the planet Hala. How and when did she listen to Nirvana "Come as You Are" song, for it to...

 
2:47 PM
Should sources for quotes be inside or outside the blockquote?
 
I prefer inside but it doesn't matter which, it's a stylistic change so up to the OP
 
@Marvin What the actual duck
 
Couldda removed all the nbsp's
 
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Q: Umbrella Academy Cause of the Apocalypse

JontiaWhile it's reasonably clear that is the root cause of the Apocalypse in both the timeline where Five lived after the event and the timeline where he came back to try to stop it, is the mechanics of the event different each time?

 
3:24 PM
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Q: What was the Kree's motivation in Captain Marvel?

TVannIn the Captain Marvel (2019) film, we learn of the Kree/Skrull war. Later in the film, we see that the Kree are Given that if their official reason is all a lie, why are the Kree actually trying to Is this ever addressed in the film by anyone?

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Q: Could when did the post-credits sequence take place greatly affect the events of Endgame?

VBartilucciThis'll likely get canned as opinion based, but what the hey. The "power core" as seen in captain marvel is give the name The Tesseract. While the events of this film precede the Avengers films, we "first" see Project Pegasus in Avengers (technically the post-credits sequence of Thor) - it's whe...

 
3:43 PM
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Q: Was Luke Skywalker the leader of the Rebel forces on Hoth?

RobertFRewatching Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, I noticed the opening crawl declares Luke Skywalker as the leader of the Rebel forces on Hoth: Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Luke Skywalker has established a new secret base on the remote ice world...

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Q: Why is there so much repetitiveness in Harry Potter?

Invent PaloozaIn the Harry Potter books, J.K. Rowling recycles the same lines of dialogue for many different characters. For example, "First years should note that the forest on the grounds is forbidden to all pupils. And a few of our older students would do well to remember that as well." ~ Albus Dumbledo...

 
4:22 PM
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Q: Novel where a former detective is reinstated to solve a case regarding the kidnappings of young men

FrosyInDaHoodI read this novel a very long time back. I think around '98. From what I can remember, I think the novel takes place in some kinda of fictional city/state. Anyways, basically the premise was that there have been a large number of kidnappings and disappearance of young men. In addition, crime and ...

 
5:15 PM
@TheLethalCarrot it made the image centered
 
On one device maybe
What about mobiles? Other screen resolutions?
Why does it need to be centred anyway?
etc.
 
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Q: Short story with a research facility that ends the world when it runs

DavidWA major research facility (like the Large Hadron Collider) is being commissioned. Unfortunately the project appears to be jinxed, because the device always breaks down before it can be successfully turned on. Every time the researchers try to run it, some random failure occurs. I can't recall ...

 
5:42 PM
@TheLethalCarrot I have a question about tagging. I (effectively) proposed a tag in my latest question, and you silently deleted it. May I ask what I did wrong?
 
@DavidW can't speak for TLC but I'd probably have done the same; , unless I'm missing something, is a bit unclear, and it doesn't really make sense to be an expert in "many worlds", not on SFF at least
Let me fetch the meta about tag criteria...
(and don't hesitate to tell me if I'm missing something :) )
Basically the guidelines to "does this tag have a reason to be" are in this post meta.stackexchange.com/a/239191/398063
1 Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
 
Try , though, since I think that's what you were looking for.
 
Contents, kinda, but "many worlds" is vague, especially when we have tag for instance
I mean I know it's a physics theory or some stuff way beyond my comprehension but that's not obvious form the name
2- is the concept described even on-topic for the site?
 
Ah, I see; I wrote context for tag, but it wasn't accepted. I tagged it "many-worlds" because the "Many-Worlds Interpretation" (specifically) of QM was more important than any of the characters in the story.
@Mithrandir I did look at "timeline," but rejected it since it specifies paradoxes, and the many-worlds interpretation does not permit paradoxes.
 
stops answering the four questions more important I guess, but on story-id I personally think what matters the most is media tag, as you can't really be an expert on "aliens", but you can be someone who's read a bunch of short stories, or never watch movies, and hence wouldn't be interested in movie-ID
Then again, my opinion onlyl
 
5:56 PM
@Jenayah Does "parallel-universes" apply to any actual science questions? I don't see any questions tagged that... (But my Harry Potter fan-fic filter is hiding some.)
 
Ah, try then
 
@Jenayah I only read alien stories.
 
Yep, that's the one. We don't even have consistency on plural vs singular on our tags ahah
@Alex OMG DUMBLEDORE IS AN ALIEN CONFIRMED
 
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Q: Can Thanos turn off Captain Marvel’s powers since he controls the Space Stone?

HRIATEXPSince Captain Marvel’s source of power comes from the Space Stone and Thanos controls the Space Stone via the Infinity Gauntlet, can he cut off the power that she is drawing from the Space Stone?

 
@Jenayah I was debating between aliens and robots when I wrote this:
Mar 3 at 18:46, by Alex
What if I ask: I'm looking for a Harry Potter fanfiction about a robot invasion. I don't remember whether it was a short story or a novella. Tags: . I only have one tag left, so I can't use both and even if I wanted to.
 
6:00 PM
Okay, thanks for your help.
 
@DavidW you're welcome, anytime. :) Stick around though, maybe @TheLethalCarrot has something to add on the matter
@Alex tag it fanfic and let it be
 
Then it won't attract the people who only read robot stories.
 
Do these people seek out HP fanfic for their reading?
 
@Alex I agree with Jenayah; just tag it fanfiction so I can ignore it! :)
 
People ignore fanfiction questions???!!!
@Jenayah If they can find such fanfiction about robots or aliens.
 
6:03 PM
Oof I wouldn't be surprised if that was the most ignored tag on this site
Do have access to this kind of statistics?
 
Currently I only ignore and whatever the Fantastic Beasts tag is.
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Q: How to find out how many users ignore a tag?

WrzlprmftWhen I hover a tag with the mouse, I see the number of followers (i.e. users who added that tag to their favorite tags list) in the popup: (As far as I know this is the only place where this information is displayed.) Is there any way to obtain the number of people that ignore a tag? Thi...

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Q: What are the most ignored tags on Stack Overflow (or any Stack Exchange site)?

p1100iThere is the option to ignore tags on any Stack Exchange site. Questions with these tags do not appear on the landing page for that user. I was wondering what would be the most ignored tags. Is there anywhere a statistic about that?

 
I ignore Ant-Man and the Wasp, Fallen Kingdom, Deadpool 2, Endgame
 
Because of spoilers, or because of lack of interest?
 
Was about to blacklist Captain Marvel as well but I don't really care about the movie and I guessed what happened based on 2-3 titles so meh
Spoilers
Buy as I said I've been keeping a more or less vague eye on the CM one and turns out my guesses on the script are confirmed, so
 
@Jenayah after a quick read through think you nailed it cc @DavidW
 
6:08 PM
Kind of the sad thing with Marvel, is that you can guess the whole movie now...
DC doesn't have that, yet.
 
@Marvin FWP
 
6:26 PM
Random Announcer badge, whither goest thou?
 
Better than my ines
But then I didn’t actually get it
 
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Q: What became of the "become a marvel superhero" contest ads in the '90s?

Jacob C.I vaguely recall that at some point in the 1990s, there were ads published in various Marvel comic titles, for a contest with some sort of promise to make the winner into a Marvel superhero -- specifically, the fan would be the temporary embodiment of Captain Universe, as host of the Enigma Force...

 
7:15 PM
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Q: Can Captain Marvel travel through space like Thanos does since her powers come from the Space Stone?

HRIATEXPIn the movie Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos was able to travel from planet to planet very quickly via use of the Space Stone. Since Captain Marvel is directly linked to the Space Stone, does this mean that she can also travel from planet to planet very quickly and thus does not have to fly to pla...

 
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Q: Why does Captain Marvel assume the people on this planet know this?

TemporaryIdentityI just watched Captain Marvel. Right after she crash-lands on planet C-53 (Earth), she walks right up to a security guard and introduces herself as "Vers" from "Kree Starforce." She continues to do this in a very conspicuous manner until she finally realizes that this planet knows nothing about S...

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Q: Did darth Vader really turn to the light side?

PatricktVader’s goal was to rule the galaxy. The emperor stood in his way. He killed the emperor. How does that qualify him as turning to the light side? Because he declares he is now on the light side? He kills thousands of innocent Padawans, unknown number of other beings. Utters one sentence about tur...

 
mmmh?
 
Deathbed conversions/repentances work (IIRC) in the Catholic church, so why not in a galaxy far, far away?
(As long as there's a priest-equivalent handy, at least.)
 
7:54 PM
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Q: Space war, humans recreated, grown from plants with an alien female supervisor

Danny3414This was a small hardback book I read in the UK in the late eighties. No memory of the cover. Story: Some kind of space war and a long lived female escapes the conflict in her starship, her side had lost. An evil enemy that she needs to trap so she gets (I think) human DNA from space dust and ...

 
8:32 PM
@DavidW who's the priest here? :P
also @Alex good catch
 
@Jenayah Thanks.
Finally gets me out of negative reputation for the day.
 
you were at neg?
 
-10 until just now.
 
oh, user removed
I thought you had a new hater :D
 
I have haters?
 
8:36 PM
you did seem to attract some DVs at time
 
Yeah, I know, it was rhetorical.
I'm about to post a new question. We'll see how that fairs.
 
ahah
 
I don't think it will be so twisted...
 
Haters
Are going to
Hate
 
never truer words have been said
 
8:49 PM
@Jenayah I thought this was truer:
Sep 14 '18 at 9:55, by Jenayah
@Alex you rock
 
ahah
 
Unrelated, when did this happen?
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Q: Updating the Hot Network Questions List - now with a bit more network and a little less "hotness"!

CatijaSome of you may have noticed that we've been making some changes to the Hot Network Questions on the back end over the last week or so. I'm here announcing our first round of changes to how the HNQ works and give you some ideas of why we're starting here and where we're planning to go in the futu...

(Rhetorical, I can read the timestamp.)
Moderators can now cool down questions.
 
@Jenayah I guess we're all dying unredeemed...
 
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Q: “What is given, can be taken away” says Yonn Rogg

enorl76Given that Carol Danvers is infused with the energy from the Tesseract or Space Stone in Captain Marvel, why does Yonn Rogg claim that her powers can be taken away? Or was this just an attempt by the Kree to keep ‘Vers under their control through manipulation without actually being able to remov...

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Q: Where does Goose even come from, was he Danvers’ pet before the incident?

enorl76Goose the cat is odd to me... He’s really a Flerken, a weird alien that looks like a cat So why would Danvers have an alien pet? Maybe Marr-Vell gave it to her? Seems unlikely given the trepidation inhibited by Talos when first presented with Goose.

 
9:05 PM
@Stormblessed Yes, I do know what the difference is.
 
9:16 PM
And so does Dr. Alan Grant.
> I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys. There are those who want to be astronomers...and those who want to be astronauts. The astronomer, or the paleontologist...gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety.
> But then you never get to go into space.
> Exactly.
 
9:47 PM
Space is primarily about the exploration aspects, missions, equipment, etc. Astronomy is primarily about the science and the stuff that makes up the universe - everything from interstellar media to galaxies.
 
@JenayahI'm only seeing 5 now?
 
@Donald.McLean ok, cool
 
10:08 PM
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Q: What happened to Drago?

Keeper_Fox14What happened to Drago when he was on his Bewilderbeast shoulder in HTTYD 2? (Bewilderbeast left tusk falls into the water) Drago: Fight back! (Bewilderbeast submits by lowering it’s head and uttering two low mournful sounds, before crashing into the water, Drago still on his shoulder) ...

 
10:28 PM
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Q: Ghost Hunting Ghost

David JohnstonThis was a manga that I think I read on mangafox. It's about two high school students. She is the kind of girl who amuses herself with an interest in the supernatural. He is very intelligent and very proud of his intelligence and rationality and scornful of her interest in such nonsense. The...

 
@Catija whoops didn't get the ping, yeah it's 5 now
Do you know if it was "fixed" fixed or if the new shuffling did it so that one dropped out because not enough points?
 
@Jenayah Imagine if you affixed fixed as a fixed modifier to fixed – we'd be in a fix.
 
eh
 
Speaking of which, we're almost out of time:
Nov 26 '18 at 18:14, by Alex
Aug 17 at 15:20, by Jenayah
@Alex if that's any consolation, you have 214 days to make up for it, get your normal-sized piece back and who knows, maybe even earn a bigger one :)
 
You remembered :D
 
10:37 PM
Mar 8 at 18:02, by Jenayah
But thanks for the "you're worth wasting memory space on" :D
 
@Jenayah There was a general error with stuff - the entire list disappeared for a while... when we fixed that, this was fixed, too.
 
@Jenayah What's this all about?
 
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A: Updating the Hot Network Questions List - now with a bit more network and a little less "hotness"!

Jenayah Each site can only have a max of five questions on the HNQ list at any given time. So wait, unless I'm missing something, home SFF currently has six questions on the list (warning, some may be Captain Marvel spoilers): Why was Goose renamed from Chewie for the Captain Marvel film? What is ...

@Catija all right, kill two birds...
 
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Q: Harry Potter fanfiction where Harry's skin is peeling off

Margaret McAteerI don't remember the name of the story or what site I read it on. however I remember the following points. 1 harry has some sort of creature inheritance ( snake based ) 2 his skin is peeling off and he hides it with gloves 3 i believe it takes place in 5th year as Umbridge is in it 4 harry ru...

 
11:02 PM
I'm having a problem.
I just posted my first question on Chinese
Then I tried to post my first question on Photo.
 
Got a "wait 40 minutes" warning?
 
However, when I hit post, I made an account. It seems to want me to wait
Why?
 
Probably to prevent network-wide spamming
 
Users with < 125 rep on the current site, 40 minutes since their last question anywhere on the network (This applies to the user's IP address, not their account. If the user shares that IP with other users, they can be limited by the other user asking a question anywhere on the network.)
From here:
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A: The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide

Lance RobertsRate Limit Rationale Loading pages Undisclosed limit, applies to IP addresses Applies to the entire network; if one makes too many requests on one or more sites, access to all network sites is restricted Does not apply to chat sites Should not be triggered during normal browsing; if you get ...

 
But I have a lot of rep. here, why does it think I'm likely to DDoS StackExchange?
 
11:05 PM
Meh, I'm much faster on story-ID than I am on Meta-ID :(
 
Write a "How to find a Meta-ID answer?"
 
@Stormblessed It's not about DDoS, rather about taking the time to learn each site's way of doing things, taking some 40 extra minutes to mature your question etc etc
@Alex and then I'll self-answer: "Just ping @Alex in TREU, it'll go fine"
 
@Jenayah That'll get you at least one upvote...
 
:P
 
Though to be honest, in this case I already knew the post.
 
11:07 PM
In fifty years, I bet "story identification" will be replaced by "story identification question identification"
 
Feb 10 at 11:08, by John Rennie
I have a reverse story id question if anyone can help.
 
@Stormblessed not necessarily... because in fifty years we'll have people posting "my father read this very old book when he was a kid, it's really super old, like published in 2019 or something lol". Those won't necessarily be dupes. Also, we'll have that "I'm old" feeling...
 
So do we have to postpone this:
Dec 31 '18 at 21:39, by Alex
Sep 12 at 22:02, by Jenayah
@Alex it's an appointment then. Let's say March 17, 2023?
 
Why would we?
 
You won't be old yet.
 
11:16 PM
Who said being old was a criteria for that one?
 
Then we'll need to schedule more than one appointment.
 
Sep 12 '18 at 21:56, by Jenayah
@Alex then just switch tabs with CTRL+number
 
@Alex I still don't get when "you have to be old" became a criteria :P
@Stormblessed mh?
 
Kinda late, but I feel like pointing out <kbd>ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>tab</kbd> and <kbd>ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>tab</kbd>+<kbd>shift</kbd> is better
@Jenayah Took forever due to mobile
Feb 28 at 12:00, by Jenayah
Also worth noting that I don't know about you, but I'm on mobile right now so speed is divided by two, at least :P
 
@Stormblessed ahah touché
@Stormblessed remebering the first 4-5 tabs is an habit now ;p
 
11:21 PM
@Stormblessed chat should have keyboard formatting
Why doesn’t it?
 
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Q: 80s or earlier book: last man on Earth rewoken, Earth's surface overrun (alien plant?), female near clone of him created to keep him company

AndrewAny help to identify a book I read some of at a summer camp, late 1970's or early 1980's would be much appreciated. Last man on Earth rewoken (by humanoid robots?), Earth's surface overrun by a threatening (alien?) plant IIRC. Again IIRC, the androids craft a female clone of him to keep him com...

 
dunno
I guess because chat is overall less "maintained"
 
@Jenayah Kill two birds.
 

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