I cast the final close vote when the score was tied 2-2 and so had the casting vote on what the close reason would be. To be clear this is the revision of the post at the time it was closed.
Power of Infinity Stones in the Avengers Infinity War movie
Is it just me or the power of Infinit...
It's quite long and I do sometimes muddle my words so let me know if I need to reword anything
@TheLethalCarrot I stopped reading at Infinity War - I don't know the consensus on spoilers in Meta, and I agree that too much spoiler-hiding is too much, but if there are indeed spoilers, might want to hide them since IW is still fairly new
@TheLethalCarrot RTOCB = Random Thought On Coffee Break. I called dibs and patented the abbreviation on this very chat, but I'm still struggling to popularize it, heavens know why...
I remember reading an issue of a Vault of Horror/Tales From The Crypt type comic in the late 70s/the early 80s, and one story stuck with me and I am trying to track it down.
The story centers around a honeymooning couple who are on an ocean cruise liner. Everything is going fine until the crew o...
Well I think you know what I mean by that comment, you're never really going to go to some of the sites so having an account, that essentially acts as a bot there, to moderate it is odd to me
I mean I like the work Charcoal does but I think it does need to be bit more restrictive on certain things
@TheLethalCarrot Meh. I think you're separating the network too much - it's all the same network, intertwined. The sites aren't super different. While sites are individual, they're all part of one network that has the same overarching rules.
Then again, I also seek out spam on sites where I'm not active at all, such as Medium. Make of that what you will.
My point is it's just more awkward and harder to track down any problems if you're not actually around that site
@Mithrandir Well according to SFF there is some downside to the amount of work Charcoal does, though before you question me I was actually on the side of raising the flags. I just didn't think it should be done automatically without the site being able to have a specific say in the matter (which again is another problem)
Wait there's a Star Trek/X-Men crossover? So Marvel got the rights at some point and still holds them? Doesn't that go against the Star Trek/Green Lantern crossover from like two years ago?
@TheLethalCarrot That's a heck of a lot of work. We were originally going to create a meta post for each site, but Shog said to just do it network-wide on Meta.SE.
@Mithrandir A lot of work is what's needed to moderate the site properly though but if Shog said so that's fine. Doesn't feel right but whatever, I think you know some of my disagreements with it
@Jenayah Are you saying Marvel has the rights to Star Trek?
@TheLethalCarrot I dunno the details of it but there's a X-Men/Star Trek comics crossover so they've got to have bought the rights at some point right?
This is a long-shot as I remember very little about the book. It may not even have been written in English, but in Dutch.
I read this in the first half of the 1980's. Got it from my school library. I read it in Dutch (had to be Dutch because the school library only had "proper literature" in E...
@TheLethalCarrot my opinion: people are offering to shovel your crap for you, quickly, so that you don't have to see it. They've proven they're good at shoveling crap and they like it. You get to sit back and take care of the occasional piece they miss (or go over and say "hey, you missed this one"). They can pull up stats on exactly what crap they've shoveled, who shoveled it, when, and have several people look at each piece before getting rid of it. What, exactly, is the downside?
@TheLethalCarrot Don't know how that worked out, I'll try to get my hands on an issue/scan of that Star Trek/X-Men one
I've read the Star Trek/Green Lantern one and I'd recommend it. It's stupid but entertaining, but as I'm not a big fan of Star Trek in the first place, I can't guarantee actual fans would like it
@Mithrandir As I've said above it appeared as if they would make changes to how they moderate the whole network without specifically letting each individual site know or even be able to question it, that isn't right. Also it's not exactly easy to know Charcoal handled something if you're unaware of it. I personally still see crap to be shovelled so that argument doesn't work on me personally.
And moderating a site you aren't personally a part of is odd to me and it makes it harder for those users to be accountable
(i've been around Charcoal for over a year and a half and actively participate in everything from flagging posts to submitting abuse reports and getting sites taken down (I've gotten over 30 spam sites taken down, whee) to tagging domains to blacklisting keywords. I'm rather more involved than a lot of people, so not exactly unbiased.)
I'd be interested in seeing you drop into CHQ and (productively) suggest those changes. You never know, could actually be implemented, depending on the idea ;)
Well I believe I've been saying my arguments productively here... and I would at some point but I'd have to put some thought into how to word it because CHQ, in my experience, have been known to get on the defensive easily
Whenever I see that kind of scene in a movie I rant on and on about how it couldn't be damn possible because of the bushes, the charcoal gaps, the brambles... So friends have learned to only suggest we watch movies set in cities ahah
I was part of the army cadets when I was younger (and spent a lot of time camping and walking with the family) so have done a lot of map reading and what not
I mean you're seen as a weirdo when you say you just love to go running in the bushes under the rain, show up with your arms covered in scratches from the low branches and reveal that the animal you fear the most is the dreaded tick, but who cares?
@Derpy read the article and as expected the main counter-argument (apart from the "don't play God" one) is that they're part of a food chain - though their place would be taken over if they were to disappear
But mosquitoes breed like everywhere, especially water spots aye
I'd be curious to see if ticks have such an important role in the food chain.
Guy's looking for a book he read in Dutch. You're Dutch. So according to my lazy brain, since there aren't that much Dutch around, and even fewer who read scifi, you'd be qualified to answer. Stereotypes and shortcuts all the way :)
@Kevin Okay just wondering a flag of mine was marked helpful with the comment "escalated for consideration by the proper authorities", is there anyway to see the final outcome of that flag or not? (I mean by monitoring what the flag was about I can see but is there any feedback that would come from it?)
I'd like to post a question about which memory characters in HP use to cast their respective Patronuses. Browsing through the site doesn't seem to bring up dupes (see query and query), but could that be listed as too broad since it's kind of a list?
(on the other hand there are what, a dozen characters who casted a Patronus?)
That's in Vlissingen, in The Netherlands. We live near Vlissingen. Every year they dump a lot of europallets and hand out hammers and nails to the kids.
Parents are allowed to help the first few days.
So I did.
I think they dump about four truckloads the first days.
The woman with the THC cap is one of the staff, because this is The Netherlands.
(Bringing it back on topic) surprisingly few Lord of the Flies-like scenes.