I'm not used to being an evil manipulator who glees in public. I'm working more from behind the scenes, and I'm not good at snappy evil one-liners.
@Randal'Thor Well, NapoleonWilson was trying to say something about that meta post, but I still don't really understand what. The problem is probably on my side.
@b_jonas Don't put too much blame on yourself. I'm not working particularly hard at it, though. I'm half bored and half trying to figure out what's going on. ;-)
@Randal'Thor sure you would. But at the end of the book/movie, with the hero tied up to a chair. You'd gloat just long enough for the rescue to arrive, or said hero to pull up a Houdini
@Rand Re scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12103/… I don't think pointing at election announcements is useful here though, because those are generally posted by moderators, and they explicitly have extra powers on Meta, specifically mod-only tags.
They're allowed to post about more topics on site Meta than I am.
If half bloods were filthy scums, according to Voldemort, I don't have words to describe muggles. Why didn't Voldemort choose to eliminate muggles first which would have been very easy? Also, destruction of entire muggle gene pool would have removed the possibility of birth of half bloods.
@b_jonas Content dispute (used when there's an edit war), off-topic comments (used when there's a comment war), historical significance (very off-topic but worth preserving for some reason), wiki answer (don't post any new answers beyond the existing CW one).
Oh, there's one explicitly for disallowing answers when there's a big CW list? That's useful (for...the 2 cases a year that are like that). Is that new?
From TVTropes:
Early in his career he had trouble finding roles as Englishmen because casting directors thought his Italian heritage made him look too "foreign". As a result, he's played Germans, Italians, French, Arabs, Chinese...it's probably easier to mention ethnicities he hasn't played.
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@NapoleonWilson I imagine that even in most of those cases, you wouldn't want to lock, because like in a multi-id question, low-rep users can give useful additions in answers that are then deleted after we edit it into the long answer.
@NapoleonWilson Those image-based multi-id questions are hard and often require tiny contributions by a lot of different people, and they're very enjoyable for me.
Wow! I'm surprised. I haven't got an automatic reply email saying "we will take your concerns seriously" or "our team will address your concerns" or "a ticket got created, please use the reference number #6031438 in any further correspondence regarding" or anything
Really good reference post, tells almost everything you ever want to know about rep limits, except certain things in chat, but few mortals understand how chat works.
@Jenayah I looked up "correspndence". I'm always in trouble with -ance vs -ence spellings in English. They seem random to me, although some people say "it's easy, they're spelled the same as in French" (where it also casuses no difference in pronunciation) or "comes from the latin roots"
@b_jonas to be honest I wouldn't be able to cite the exact grammar rule, but if the word seems to be the gerund of a verb, you should use the one with "ance"
If it seems like it could have been a word on its own... it can be both?
@Jenayah There's no grammar rule. It's all etymology, from latin or old French in which the -ance vs -ence were pronounced differently. French and English just copied the suffixes blindly.
@Jenayah The really famous one is -able vs -ible, with also no real rule unless you're deep into etymology, but that's small fish compared to the -ance vs -ence because the list of -ible words is closed and reasonably short, but -ance and -ence both go on forever.
@b_jonas well, trying to explain French to non-French-speaking people, I've come to the conclusion that French is a horrible language which makes no sense, but hey, démerdons-nous!
I submitted a support query using this form about 50-60 minutes ago and it said I should receive an email "shortly"... There is no email in my inbox or spam folders. Does that mean support didn't receive my query?
When you reach out through Contact Us, you receive the following confirmation message. Sending a followup email that just echoes that seems redundant and not particularly any more convincing. As it notes, though, a proper response usually would come "shortly", and as I note, if the person expects it to take longer, we usually would send an intervening message just to give word. The times it falls through are those rare situations where it's not expected to take long, but it ends up taking long. — Grace Note ♦May 23 '17 at 11:57
@Randal'Thor That's for the /contact form. This was in the team@ email. And I'm not worried, I don't need an automatic confirmation. The email will get there.
The only useful automatic confirmation emails are ones that give a ticket number I can refer back to. The plain "we got your email and will address your concerns" are mostly useless.
They're for stupid people who'd resend their email otherwise, because they expect that someone in the big evil company headquarters will reply to them in five minutes or something.
@NapoleonWilson Yes, and that "It is important to <Ourbrand Co> that we continuously communicate important news to our customers. We cannot currently say anything about <currently popular issue>, but as soon as we have any news, we will tell you." (with no mention of where they'll tell me) as one current customer support hotline keeps telling me.
That notice takes up like two minutes before I even get to the other notices (about the call being recorded and how I can request a copy of the recording and all that) before I get to the menu.
Though lately they moved that notice down a level in the menu, so I don't always have to listen to it, if I choose any other menu item.
Wow.
I only just read OOTS #1141, I was so busy. Now I see why some people were so excited about the current OOTS storyline. Some of them effectively guessed the ending of #1141 a few strips before. And someone asked exactly about whether that statement in the last but one panel was true. I thought it wasn't. It is, or so the guy in this strip claims.
(Sorry that's vague, but spoilers and all, I must be vague.)
I turned a "I found it, it was book XYZ" comment into an answer. There was already an answer (to which OP replied to with their comment), which had been upvoted, meaning the actual answer, both in comments or my post, is further below on the page. If someone could upvote it to rise to the top, that would be better organized. If that feels like I'm rep-farming, tell me if that makes you uncomfortable and I'll make it a CW.
(though it's not one and I did spend some time browsing reviews to find the stuff that matched the description given)
@Jenayah It's not rep farming, but there are only two answers, so I don't think it matters too much which one is on the top, and the top one is only at 1 rep, so that can change quickly.
@b_jonas well if someone else wants to find the book, but isn't brave enough to scrolll down past first answer, they'll miss out the actual answer.
Granted, it's too bad if they don't scroll down... But that's precisely the reason why accepted answer stick to the top, isn't it? Because they are "the" answer
If half bloods were filthy scums, according to Voldemort, I don't have words to describe muggles. Why didn't Voldemort choose to eliminate muggles first which would have been very easy? Also, destruction of entire muggle gene pool would have removed the possibility of birth of half bloods.
From TVTropes:
Early in his career he had trouble finding roles as Englishmen because casting directors thought his Italian heritage made him look too "foreign". As a result, he's played Germans, Italians, French, Arabs, Chinese...it's probably easier to mention ethnicities he hasn't played.
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I submitted a support query using this form about 50-60 minutes ago and it said I should receive an email "shortly"... There is no email in my inbox or spam folders. Does that mean support didn't receive my query?
