Marked this comment as caught correctly (tp). Currently marked 1tps/0fps. beep boop My human overlords won't let me flag that, so you'll have to do it yourself.
What's my best course of action when I post a meta asking why a flag was declined and it gets dupe hammered by a gold badge holder in under a minute with an entirely unrelated question that happens to have an answer about the type of flag I used?
@Rainbacon Errrmm. Try to edit your question so it becomes you clear you're aware of that answer, but that it still doesn't answer why your flag there was declined?
@Rainbacon if you can ping the dupe-hammerer in a comment you could also try that. or just hope that enough people see the comment and are persuaded to vote to reopen
@EmC I had thought of that, but I've run across this user before and I frankly dislike them. My experience has consistently been that they don't respond well to being challenged. I'll probably go with the advice that Tink and AElis gave me
I'd rather not name them, but let's just say that I had the "unwelcome newbie" experience on my first SO post courtesy of the comments they left for me.
@Ælis I'm fine with it on main, but I don't particularly like the idea of a non-moderator unilaterally closing a meta question where I ask why a moderator did what they did.
At a tournament for a video game I'm a big fan of, someone threw a crab up on stage at a player they didn't like (who also happens to be the #1 player right now). It's been all the community's talking about, so my life is just full of crustaceans everywhere I look :P
@Ælis Nope, not at all. Work is a little stressful and I'm feeling particularly autistic today.
@scohe001 If you want some activity, I think there could still be an on-topic question in here I just haven't had the time today to prod the OP to give us all of the information needed to make that happen.
@Rainbacon This is totally out of context, but I was thinking about it earlier and, since you sound like needing a cheer up, here I go: I think you would make a great mod for IPS. You should consider it when then election while be open (other people here might be great mods too, but I'm saving those compliments for later ^^ )
@Ælis Thank you! I hadn't thought much about it yet, but I will definitely consider it. Also, thank you for being an exceptionally excellent human today. :)
Man I was trying to be silly-jerkish at Rainbacon and complimentary at Ælis and now I'm worried that I was genuinely jerkish at Rainbacon. That came off as good-natured, right? ^.^,
Are you at the new gig now btw @Rainbacon? I think I've asked you that before and you told me you were but my memory is being about as reliable as usual
@Rainbacon :/ That must suck feeling like you were so close but didn't make it :/ But, at least, you know that you have value since they take all this time to interview you
@Ælis Yeah, I was kind of annoyed at the reason they gave for not hiring me. They were concerned that my consulting experience would make it hard for me to join a collaborative team.
@Rainbacon I got to the last round with one company like that. To be fair I have a lot of dev experience, and some experience with the technologies they use, but they wanted a lot of experience with the technologies they use, and that comes out more readily in interviews than in resumes (I guess?)
@Rainbacon ugh, I've had that happen before too. they basically told me after the on-site "everyone really liked you and you did great, but try applying next year when you have more experience" -__-
@TheTinyMan It was a language I'd never used before and I told them that up front (I think they were actually just looking for an excuse because they want to have their initial release a week before my wedding)
At least our class was judged on how we made that point, as we had to debate some issues and you can't really expect everyone to fully support some arbitrary point you're discussing in class.
like 4 minutes for each debater to talk, 4 minutes to discuss in group then 4 minutes for cross examination... but if we didnt have a good idea of what kind of formality she wanted us to do, how could we have reached it??
@TheTinyMan Yeahh.... that's my first thought when she just announced it
like okay this team has 45 out of 50 points and this other team has 42 out of 50 points... like seriously ouch
my mom also called me and surprised me with some news related to some advocacy work for deaf community people
so i got to vent to her about the class and now I feel a bit better. @El'endiaStarman isn't gonna get the full force when he gets home because now I vented to my mom lol
@Rainbacon Thank you. I'm trying to move past this and think positively.
Easy. Just say "it's a choice I've made" and don't discuss further. If you discuss further, you're going to make them resent you, so don't do that. — only_pro1 min ago
@Tushar Like XtremeBaumer said, taking time to think is normal in text conversations, but not in face to face. Unfortunately, the question of how to think of replies faster is an intrapersonal skill (within oneself) rather than an interpersonal skill (between two people) so it is off topic here. Fortunately, there are other parts to being a good conversationalist that are on topic here. I think we should pick one of those and focus your post on that so that it won't be too broad. — Rainbacon1 min ago
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Recently, a member of the team that I work on has been intermittently absent. Her direct boss "Joe" has started attending some of our meetings that she can't make it to. We do agile and try to keep our meetings (scrum, retrospectives, etc...) as close to their intended purpose as poss...
