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3:03 PM
@Jenayah Well that got me an upvote at least.
 
That looks wired
 
I don't know Marvel stuff, but why is this unclear?
 
@Jenayah Yowza, holy uncanny valley.
 
@Randal'Thor From where I stand:
I'm voting to close as unclear as I don't understand what's the distinction between movies may have "taken over". I also strongly suggest editing in why the link provided in comments don't seem to answer your question. — Jenayah yesterday
 
I'd assume there's a definition of what makes a film "Marvel" and what makes it "MCU", so it seems fairly answerable.
 
3:28 PM
The distinction of exactly what is "Marvel" per the OP's question is somewhat unclear
 
Actually, wait, it got edited.
 
@Randal'Thor I VtC yesterday before the re-write; Ed's change makes it much better. Don't know why it wasn't re-opened.
 
@Jenayah I don't understand your first sentence, actually ... and the phrase "taken over" doesn't seem to appear in any revision of the question?
 
@Randal'Thor I was about to say that.
 
@DavidW It passed through Reopen review (that's how I came across it), but got three Leave Closed votes including @TheLethalCarrot.
... and, oddly enough, Edlothiad (the same user who edited to improve it).
 
3:30 PM
Okay, now the question, while not necessarily being what the OP meant at first, is rather clear
 
Why edit a closed question if you then vote to leave it closed?
 
wait wtf why do you make a question clear and VTLC
 
There was a suggested edit
Though to be honest I still find it unclear as to exactly what constitutes to a Marvel film under their definition
 
Jinxayah.
 
okay wait wtf why do you reject an edit, edit further to say what the edit you rejected was saying, and then VTLC
@TheLethalCarrot "list of movies based on Marvel characters" is pretty sound actually.
 
3:32 PM
@Jenayah TBF, the suggested edit isn't the same as the edit he made.
"based on Marvel comics" vs "featuring Marvel characters" IIUC.
 
Like, the 90s Punisher adaptations, while not being a "Marvel" movie like today's Marvel movies which are dliberately produced by Marvel as a company
Or, say, the X-Men or The Amazing Spider-Man movies which do have a MArvel logo and introduction but aren't MCU
 
@Jenayah His right brain re-wrote the question, then his left brain judged it?
 
Whilst I don't fully understand the intent of the original question I think ""list of movies based on Marvel characters"" moves away from it
 
@Randal'Thor and... Marvel characters don't come from Marvel comics maybe? :)
 
The OP seemed to be asking list of [Marvel] movies but then what constitutes a Marvel movie is unclear per rights changing hands and what not
 
3:35 PM
@DavidW That sounds like sockpuppetry :-P
@Jenayah I dunno. Again, I know almost nothing about Marvel.
 
Do we include those that were Marvel when made but not now? (if any) That weren't Marvel when made but are now? Only those that have always been Marvel? etc. etc.
 
@TheLethalCarrot it was unclear when they asked it, I'll give you that (heck, I VTCed), but now it is clear.
 
@TheLethalCarrot I guess a good answer would clarify those distinctions. You can't expect every OP to be expert enough to know all those details.
 
ALbeit completely meh.
The Punisher is a 1989 American action film directed by Mark Goldblatt, written by Boaz Yakin, and starring Dolph Lundgren and Louis Gossett Jr. Based on the Marvel Comics' character of the same name, the film changes many details of the character's comic book origin and the main character does not wear the trademark "skull" shirt. Shot in Sydney, Australia, The Punisher co-stars Jeroen Krabbé, Kim Miyori, Nancy Everhard, and Barry Otto. == Plot == Frank Castle is the city's most wanted, and most mysterious vigilante, known as "The Punisher". He has killed 125 criminals in the past five years....
^ one of the examples I was quoting above
 
Clear but doesn't appear to be what they originally asked so at that point do you roll back?
 
3:37 PM
Split-brain or callosal syndrome is a type of disconnection syndrome when the corpus callosum connecting the two hemispheres of the brain is severed to some degree. It is an association of symptoms produced by disruption of or interference with the connection between the hemispheres of the brain. The surgical operation to produce this condition (corpus callosotomy) involves transection of the corpus callosum, and is usually a last resort to treat refractory epilepsy. Initially, partial callosotomies are performed; if this operation does not succeed, a complete callosotomy is performed to mitigate...
Or, more specifically, how that is typically mis-represented in fiction. :)
 
@TheLethalCarrot Do all films which could be called "Marvel films" (under any definition) feature Marvel characters?
 
@TheLethalCarrot okay so we have two things here
First, if you agree it's clear, why do you leave closed?
 
If so, then I guess the edited version would give the OP everything that could possibly be an answer.
 
There was a story about that, where the (alien?) protagonist heard commanding voices "from the gods" in his head, but from the external perspective it was clear it was simply another part of the brain...
 
Then, isn't the whole "community editing stuff" thing about getting the questions fit for the site?
 
3:39 PM
@Jenayah Well yeah but you should keep to the original intent
If you change it to asking something different you're not editing it so it's fit for the site but asking a new question
@Randal'Thor No idea to be honest
 
@TheLethalCarrot that doesn't seem 100% away from the original intent, plus we don't get what the original intent was exactly, so improving it is appropriate. Voting to leave closed because it wasn't the original intent isn't a reason especially when you agree it's clear
 
@DavidW I wouldn't know about that.
 
@Randal'Thor Yes you would.
 
And heck, I still don't get why one would reject something, possibly because it "deviated from OP's intent", edit it further while still being... in the same vein of deviation. (and VTLC)
 
(^^ dunno if anyone will get that joke :-P )
 
3:43 PM
raises hand
 
@Randal'Thor is that related to the sock that just logged in
 
@Randal'Thor You're hearing voices in your head?
 
@Jenayah How do you know it's a sock? :-P
 
Yes, I want to know the films even if Marvel took control later on. for example if they took over X-Men I would also want to see the previous X-Men movies. — Mor Zamir yesterday
 
@Randal'Thor I'd guess so
 
3:44 PM
@Jenayah I'm not a sock. He's my sock.
 
^ Suggests that the OP is okay with the edits?
 
@LewsTherinTelamon you got your sock the wrong way, pal
 
Why do I have a madman inside my head?!
 
@DavidW re-reading it, I think it does. Although X-Men was the worst example they could have chosen to demonstrate their point.
The X-Men movies are the start of what we nowadays call "Marvel movies" (not just MCU).
So there was nothing to "take over".
However, there were for instance other movies, such as Punisher (the laughable 90s one with Dolph Lundgren) and Captain America (the stupid one with whathisface), which weren't produced by Marvel as a company.
 
My point is that if the OP is on-board with the edits, we can't say "keep closed because it deviates from OP's intent."
 
3:47 PM
@Jenayah That supports my point. We shouldn't (usually) penalise the OP for not knowing as much as we do.
 
But "Marvel as a company" then made new Punisher and CA movies, which are "MArvel movies" as we hear it now.
I think it's what OP was referring to by "taking over".
 
@DavidW That's not a reason to keep the edited version closed anyway. Either roll back and leave closed, or reopen.
 
@Jenayah So? How many Spider Man movies have there been? It's just more reboots.
 
@DavidW that comment was before the edits
 
@Jenayah I understood the edits as trying to make the question express the comment, which was a clarification of the original question.
 
3:49 PM
@DavidW The difference is that, AFAIK, Spider-Man live action movies started directly as part of the "Marvel movies" I was describing above. With the Sam Raimi trilogy
 
What I'm getting from this is that Marvel somehow messed everything up.
 
yes and no, but not the point :P
 
DC would never cause a problem like this.
 
@DavidW what edit are we talking about, Ed's or the rejected one scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/147310
 
@Alex It's Disney now, so we can just blame them. Just like we can blame them for retroactively messing up Star Wars 15 years before they bought Lucasfilm.
 
3:51 PM
@Alex yes and no, but still not the point :P
 
@Jenayah But hopefully it will insult someone.
Not you, though:
Oct 24 '18 at 15:43, by Jenayah
If I get a Marvel tag badge before a DC one it will feel like treachery to where my heart rests :p
 
@Jenayah TBH, I'm trying to debug something, so this conversation is only getting about 40% of my mental capacity. There are more threads here than in my app, and I'm losing track...
 
@Alex fortunately I got the DC one first
 
@Jenayah How's this for treachery?
Apr 9 at 11:39, by Jenayah
Marvel handles its shared universe way better than DC does.
 
So I'm confused, why do we call alternating currents "Marvel"?
 
3:54 PM
@Alex you read the line that followed, right?
Apr 9 at 11:39, by Jenayah
Even if it pains me to say it 'cause I wish the places were reversed
 
@Randal'Thor Money.
@Jenayah No.
 
@Randal'Thor what?
 
I read it in Search results.
No context.
 
@Jenayah People keep talking about DC vs Marvel. I know DC is direct current, but ...
 
I thought DC stood for Dumb Comics.
 
3:56 PM
Maybe it's "DC vs. TRotUS?"
 
Nov 28 '18 at 20:34, by Alex
@Jenayah Context is overrrated.
@Randal'Thor oh duck you, I thought you were talking about that closed question :P
 
The rage train is here! I see bread low.
How's it going @CBredlow?
 
@Randal'Thor as a French person I would urge you not to leave bread laying around on railtracks
 
ahah
 
4:03 PM
One kill isn't bad.
 
?
 
@Jenayah pssst, I think it's a joke against the French
 
Oh DUCKER
 
2 days ago, by Alex
Apr 12 at 20:05, by Alex
@Jenayah If you can't win at war at least win at cursing.
 
:D
 
4:05 PM
I once heard a guy tell the following joke:
> How many people does it take to defend Paris?
> We don't know - nobody's ever tried.
 
@Jenayah If he was a ducker the sniper might have missed.
 
He was GERMAN.
I was shocked at his gall.
 
@Alex you're the ducker
 
@Alex Rofl. Nice one.
 
@Jenayah I guess that's why I'm not impaled by French bread.
 
4:06 PM
@Randal'Thor Sometimes, @Gall does shock people
 
@Mithrandir But I think he's Russian, not German.
 
@Mithrandir By turning blue, for example.
 
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Q: Do the Fallen know what their Shadows know?

anonWhen a person gets "infested" with a Denarian shadow, does the Fallen from who that Shadow is a copy of have access to any knowledge about what that shadow then goes on to learn/do? For instance: Shadow Fallen knows Fact A and therefore Actual Fallen also knows Fact A automatically. Or is the ...

 
@Randal'Thor I'll just say that Paris is full of Parisians.
 
@Jenayah And tourists.
But then most of us have two wrists.
 
4:09 PM
yeah, and tourists.
 
@Jenayah How many partisan Parisians part at Parisian parties in parts of Paris?
 
@Randal'Thor no cbredlow here, just a ghost
 
@Alex I don't know, ask them. I'm not associated with 'em
 
@Jenayah I don't talk to Parisians.
 
Finally something you say that makes sense.
 
4:13 PM
@Alex we don't negotiate with Parisians.
 
@Jenayah Oh, just wait until I finish the question I'm in the middle of.
 
@Alex don't ruin my illusions...
 
@AncientSwordRage Nego, she ate. Hm, Parisians eating Russians.
 
@Alex You're on fire today.
 
@Randal'Thor So put me out!
 
4:18 PM
With gasoline?
 
Would you be somewhat put out if I closed a Harry Potter question as POB?
 
@Jenayah Doesn't that tend to increase the fire?
@Randal'Thor Depends if it was really opinion-based or not.
 
@Alex Not on Jupiter...
 
@DavidW By Jove, you're right!
 
4:21 PM
@Alex No, no I'm not. I'm very much left, TYVM.
 
> Well it's been so long
And I've been putting out fire with gasoline
Putting out fire with gasoline
 
@DavidW That explains your odd high five practices from the other day.
 
@DavidW You left? Looks like you're still here.
 
@Jenayah the fire
@Randal'Thor Yeah, he was left here.
 
What's that about his left ear?
 
4:23 PM
@Alex I think you mean he was left right here.
@Randal'Thor maybe he likes painting?
 
@Randal'Thor He must have got Sectumsepra'd.
 
@Alex You missed an M.
Hand in your HP nerd badge, please.
 
@Randal'Thor Or my spelling badge.
 
I mean this one:
 
4:27 PM
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Q: In Shrek 1, did Shrek save Far Far Away from Farquaad?

Alex DownsBecause if you think about it, he technically might have, without knowing it. If Farquaad succeeded in marrying Fiona, he may be happy about inheriting a much larger land and would want Far Far Away more Duloc-ish and get rid of the magical creatures there.

 
@Randal'Thor That will drastically alter the Harry Potter balance on this site.
 
@Alex You always use British English spellings? I never noticed.
 
@Randal'Thor No. I randomly switch off.
But given that you unceremoniously accused me of not being a Brit the other day, perhaps I should never use British spellings.
 
or any European jargon
:P
 
Rand loves jargon.
Jargonayah.
 
4:30 PM
@Alex Is jargon a cross between Jar-Jar and Qui-Gon?
 
@Randal'Thor If there's one thing that could make Star Wars fans even madder...
 
@Alex It would be that Luke is really Rey's father, and Thrawn is a mind-puppet of a resurrected Palpatine?
 
@DavidW How far gone am I if I don't know who Thrawn is?
 
...Maybe it's better if Luuke is Rey's father.
@Alex Ah, it's not canon (anymore), but one of the more popular villains of the pre-Disney extended universe.
 
@Randal'Thor and Quijar is technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
 
4:43 PM
Plot twist: Kyle Reese is Rey's father.
 
@DavidW Thrawn's canon
Two books (with a third on the way) and was the bad guy in Rebels
 
Kylo Reese?
 
@CBredlow But Thrawn-as-originally conceived or some nerfed/1-dimensional Disney version?
 
@NapoleonWilson ahah!
 
Thrawn as in, "Let's bring Zahn in and have him consult on the tv show, and write the books" Thrawn
 
4:44 PM
I pretty much stopped caring once Disney nuked existing canon.
@CBredlow Oh, that piques my interest. I might actually watch that then.
 
@DavidW Yeah, nukes tend to be superior to canons.
 
Yeah, who could forget such things as "Secret Doomsday weapon number 4121" who's being run by Palpatine Clone 45
jk, the EU was good, but it had some bad
 
@DavidW You can nuke canon, but can you destroy a nuclear weapon with a cannonball?
 
But it gave Disney/Lucasfilm the chance to open up to different stories, and add in new canon
 
@Alex If you make a cannonball out of plutonium, both could be the same.
 
4:46 PM
and bring in the old
 
@Randal'Thor If you make a nuke out of a canon both could be the same.
 
That would be rather more challenging, I imagine.
 
And if you make Luke Rey's father, he's apparently her father.
 
One of the great things about Thrawn was that he wasn't some raving power-mad freak out to destroy things; he actually had a plan to make things better. Just not a plan that the "heroes" agreed with.
 
Maybe I should start answering Star Wars questions so I can disagree with these things too.
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4:47 PM
@Alex By the power of Retcon I denounce thee.
 
@Randal'Thor Of course you can. You can do it with a shotgun if you can get close enough. Those things are (relatively speaking) somewhat fragile.
 
@Randal'Thor Nucular, the word is nucular.
 
@Randal'Thor I don't recognize the authority of Retcon.
 
@NapoleonWilson Is that a film quote?
22 mins ago, by Rand al'Thor
Hand in your HP nerd badge, please.
 
You guys have it all wrong. It isn't about whether cannons beat nukes or nukes beat cannons. Why does it always have to be a comparison?
Just have a cannon that shoots nukes.
 
4:48 PM
@Jenayah How about gorillas and sharks?
 
@Randal'Thor More like JK Rowling should hand in her badge.
 
meh :P
 
You know what, we have a deal. If she retracts all her extratextual statements, I'll stop disagreeing with her.
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@Alex Is she aware of this proposed deal?
 
4:50 PM
@Alex The difference being that in Star Wars even the fans think the creator has it all wrong. ;-)
 
@Randal'Thor Is she aware that I disagree with her?
 
@Alex send her a ttweet
 
@NapoleonWilson Seems to me that in both HP and SW, once you pass some level of nerdiness in the franchise, most of the fans are fed up and disillusioned with the creators' crap.
 
Dear Ms. Rowling,

You don't know me, but I sometimes post answers disagreeing with your statements about what happened in Harry Potter. If you stop making these statements, I'll stop disagreeing with them.

Sincerely,
Alex
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ahahahahah
 
4:53 PM
rofl
 
@Randal'Thor Disillusioned maybe, but they'll still go on and advertize her crap as the one truth, though, as much as I can see. While in Star Wars it seems to be largely accepted that Lucas is straight-up lying or making up things.
 
@NapoleonWilson I think many/most HP supernerds are critical of Rowling's retconning tweets. Even if technically they count them as canon when you get right down to it.
... I guess that's the point you're making too, sorry.
 
Don't worry.
 
I guess that make me not a fan?
 
@Alex You're the biggest fan of them all, since you have the guts to question her authority for the sake of her work. ;-)
If anything, you're an HP fan, not a JKR fan.
 
5:00 PM
And a downvote fan.
 
Take it how Oliver Stone calls himself a patriot for questioning his government.
(Which probably goes back to something Thomas Jefferson or whoever once said.)
 
I got 14 downvotes (across three answers) for disagreeing on one issue.
 
Voldemort being human?
Quirrell not being human?
Timeline?
Hagrid not being an animal?
Ravenclaw classes?
Burrow thing?
 
Not all of those disagreed with her.
And none are what I was referring to.
 
ah
 
5:09 PM
Interestingly, I got 21 upvotes on the Burrow thing after it went to Meta. As they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
 
5:25 PM
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Invisible TrihedronA cautionary tale of the "if this goes on..." ilk. The government, which includes all humanity, sets down a law that copyright and royalties apply to any musical theme, and with the aid of computers manages to keep track of them. Although at first this is seen as a boon to composers, as the centu...

 
5:45 PM
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Q: Resurrection of Richard Strauss

Invisible TrihedronA new art form has captured the world's attention: the reconstruction of past personalities based on their works and historical records. When the Richard Strauss, composer of such works as Also Sprach Zarathustra [the theme music at the beginning of "2001: A Space Odyssey"!] is resurrected, he un...

 
6:04 PM
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Kevin MooreI remember reading a novel about a city that moved across the landscape by continually being disassembled at the rear and those materials used to build at the front. The inhabitants had to walk from the back to the front when they were displaced. In the story the city has stopped, and eventually ...

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Q: (How) Does the scheduling for electives work?

AlexBeginning in Third Year, students take elective courses in addition to the core courses they had been taking the previous two years. From Chapter Fourteen of Chamber of Secrets: The second years were given something new to think about during their Easter holidays. The time had come to choose ...

 
I refuse to believe someone read, understood and agreed with that in less than 3 minutes
 
@Jenayah Maybe someone saw it, got a "TL;DR" reaction, and gave a point for effort?
 
When did people start giving Alex upvotes for long posts?
 
Today.
 
6:24 PM
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Invisible TrihedronA boy is resting in bed when he feels an insect sting. Now he is paralyzed and anaesthetized, and he watches in horrid fascination as a stream of antlike insects digs a hole into his abdomen. Presently there is one stream of insects going in empty-handed while another stream leaves carrying littl...

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Q: Very Creepy short story by Lord Dunsany

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6:51 PM
Can you see others’ close votes if they weren’t successful (yet)?
 
@Stormblessed After you vote, if you use the back button in your browser you can immediately see the current state of the vote.
If you keep the page there and refresh it, you'll be able to watch other votes as they are made.
 
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Q: Children's Fiction: Trilogy, pre 1975

David UnderwoodThis was a series of books published prior to the mid-seventies: Trilogy; Full colour illustrations; Adult central character, not a child; Aliens schooled in water, but were, individually, very small; Possibly brought to Earth accidentally in some form of probe/research rocket.

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Q: Short story with aliens who hear their own thoughts as god-like voices

DavidWI would have read this about 20-25 years ago. I believe the subject was an alien individual, but it could have been a non-standard human instead. The hook of the story was that the subject lacked an organ like the Corpus Callosum that allows the halves of the brain to communicate efficiently, a...

 
This question would be improved by going through the checklists here; How to ask a good story-ID question?Valorum 5 mins ago
I am somewhat nonplussed.
 
@DavidW this... is irritating.
to say the least.
 
7:07 PM
Like I said, I'm a bit bemused by it.
But by posting here, I have given it a good public eyeroll, so I'm going to drop it at that. :)
 
Maybe it's a scripted comment.
 
Not quite as bad as doing that to FuzzyBoots (no offense @DavidW)
 
@Stormblessed None taken. Relatively speaking I'm still a newbie.
 
Still, not very useful to give that link to someone who does about as many of those comments as Valorum does...
 
@Stormblessed when was that? :-)
 
7:15 PM
Now, if Valorum put a comment like that on their own post, that is when this is too far
 
@Alex looks like it
 
Mar 15 at 13:26, by Jenayah
Someone pointed Fuzzy to the story-id guide :'D
Scroll up a bit
 
Yeah I remember that, but that wasn't David
 
@Stormblessed Someone's memory is a bit fuzzy.
 
That was... some guy
 
7:17 PM
@Jenayah I mentioned DavidW because I meant to say that he isn’t a newb
 
nah he isn't ;)
 
 
7:33 PM
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Q: Why didn't people care where-abouts this character much in endgame

Zaid Syed M MdIn Avengers-Endgame after all superheroes return with infinity stones from their respective timelines, We see that Hawk-Eye returns with soul-stone and Rhodes return with power-stone. Here Nebula and Natasha fail to return. Everyone is so depressed and concerned about Natasha but no one gives ...

 
@xkcd but spoilerz
 
Pursuant to earlier discussion:
> We as fans don't get a say in canon. We can simply decide what if we like it or not, but we don't get to change it.

> You're either a Star Wars fan or your not, and if you disregard canon and mislead others with misinformation, than you're not, in my opinion.
 
@Jenayah There are NINE levels in the Inferno!? I'm only at 3! You've spoiled it for me!!!
 
7:51 PM
@NapoleonWilson Yeah, I mostly just ignore her newer statements when they aren't compatible with what's in the books. Such as scifi.stackexchange.com/a/115046/4918 "Was Severus Snape based on a real person?"
I wonder what real persons's nose did she base Dumbledore's nose on
 
Seriously?
Unclear what I’m asking?
 
@Randal'Thor Is that dwarven bread?
 
@Alex That's kind of like a cold reading isn't it? "It's Alex, it's obviously unclear."
 
8:07 PM
Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, mediums, illusionists (readers), and scam artists to imply that the reader knows much more about the person than the reader actually does. Without prior knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly obtain a great deal of information by analyzing the person's body language, age, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. Cold readings commonly employ high-probability guesses, quickly picking up on signals as to whether...
That?
 
Yeah.
 
Now I have to figure out whether you're being serious or not.
 
It's kind of a short-hand for a response that can be made automatically that makes it seem like the person making the response knows more than they really do.
 
Right, but are you actually suggesting that that's what the closevoters did?
 
Not seriously.
 
8:10 PM
Ah, so I am no closer to finding out what's unclear.
 
OTOH, I did read that long, long (did I say long?) post, and you start with a question "How does it work?" and then appear to argue at great length that it can't work. So if you've done all the analysis yourself, why are you asking?
 
@DavidW Note that the "How" is deliberately in parentheses.
 
Are you expecting to find someone else who will do an even more exhaustive analysis of all possible scenarios?
Or do you just want me to supply a generic "well, it can't" answer again? :)
 
@DavidW That's one possibility. Another is that I've made a mistake in my analysis. Another is that there are other facts that I didn't take into account.
@DavidW If that's the answer then that's the answer.
 
@DavidW a synonym being, "knee jerk"
@DavidW because it's part of the "show your research" thingy?
 
8:21 PM
@Jenayah That's what this was partly an experiment for:
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Q: What is the difference between a Secrecy Sensor and a Probity Probe?

AlexWhat is the difference between a Probity Probe and a Secrecy Sensor?

 
mmmh
 
On the positive side it didn't get closed; on the negative side, there is no information in the answers that I wouldn't have already included in the question.
 
@Jenayah That's fair, I grant you he certainly did that. :)
 
ahah
 
@Alex BTW, without checking, did you fix the missing chapter number? The quote after the one attributed to Chapter Six.
Oh, and hey, without needlessly closing stuff we'd hardly ever have a chance to have re-open votes! :)
 
8:27 PM
@DavidW Ah, I forgot about that. Fixed. So now the question is clear?
@DavidW Good point.
 
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Q: Does "Captain Marvel" contain spoilers for "Avengers: Infinity War"?

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8:47 PM
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A: What's up with prominent users editing blatantly off topic posts?

JenayahAbbreviations reminder, just in case: DV = downvote, VTC/VTD = vote to close/delete, LQP = low quality posts. First, as Kevin pointed out in a comment, there are a couple of reasons to edit off-topic questions. Removing or fixing bad tags. In case the post later gets edited in an on-topic...

the important part being the last section.
 
@Jenayah How does that apply?
 
Mh?
To what David said?
 
Yeah.
 
ah, it's not aimed at David, sorry if that's how it came off
 
He's saying how it's good to close things because otherwise we wouldn't be able to reopen them.
@Jenayah Well... there is a reply link.
 
8:54 PM
Just that "we'd hardly ever have a chance to have re-open votes"; it's that... A good chunk of recently closed questions tend to get edited after the fact, sending them to reopen queue.
 
Ah, so it is basically aimed at him.
In any case, a large percentage of those probably don't get reopened.
 
The editing part... not necessarily a bad thing. The fact that they often get edited after the fact is what I'm less thrilled about...
...especially when the editor is one of the close voters, who then saw in review or outside review that the thing needed editing.
@Alex not the point.
 
I think his point was (in jest) that we deliberately close questions that are okay so that we can definitely reopen them.
As opposed to edits sending to the queue where it's just as likely that the question should remain closed.
 
Ah, that's not how I read it.
 
And therefore we won't get to reopen questions.
@Jenayah Ah, so slap an Unclear vote on his comment.
 
8:57 PM
I read it as "some people are cold reading you and that's a bad thing, but the good thing is that it gives us reopen votes"
 
@Jenayah You mean reopen reviews towards the badge?
 
Well, technically I guess it could be read as the CVers waiting for it to get to queue, as it definitely will (it's you after all), so that they cash in a vote
@Alex yes.
 
@Jenayah That sounds like a great trick.
 

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