The Awkward Silence

Q: How do I back out an invitation that I already accepted?

11:38 AM

Extroverted Main Man

12:17 PM

Context: Friend A invited me, friend B and friend C to go out to have dinner together as friend A is planning to leave the state in few days. Initially, all of us agreed to hang out for the night. However, I just been told that friend C is not coming. The thing is friend C and I get along really ...

5 hours later…

5:09 PM

Boring day and nothing to do! ;_;

CaldeiraG

@lila sort of :D

@Tinkeringbell I just now noticed this message.. and just now I checked my post..

I'm glad that the notice is removed.

Is there anything else which I can improve (probably in future)?

5:26 PM

Start with backup from the start, so we don't have to ask :P

@Tinkeringbell My bad!

how did you notice my post after a month of posting?

@technastic_tc It had a (long) pending flag :)

@Tinkeringbell oh... so mods look into pending flags?

Was it a low quality pending flag?

Newest c***d-19 stats, it's really disturbing, we have been hit really hard.

Passing the 30.000 new daily cases mark is the tipping point I guess? ;_;

5:43 PM

why the asterisks?

Oh they are so that automatic data gathering robots won't get notified that I am talking about it.

there are bots in the chat room which gather data about what we're chatting?

What will the bot do if a person mentions c***d-19?

@technastic_tc Either that, or a Not An Answer one (as recommended by a former CM here)

No, the bots in chat room are only monitoring IPS Q&A and use chat only to report to us, I am actually only half-serious with this, it started from the fact that once the pandemic started to go south then youtube started to demonetize all videos about covid and that was based on mentioning these words in video, in title, etc. and I think it's in some way hilarious, almost as if c***d was a swear word.

And I don't think anything happens if you say covid or coronavirus on this chat, but just to make it intriguing I am saying c***d.

It is a publicly visible chat after all, who knows whether some external robots aren't gathering data from all over the internet about c***d, one never knows ^.^

@Tinkeringbell ok..

@lila ok..

bye!

5:57 PM

Goodbye see you soon o/

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Ael

8:06 PM

@lila That looks like a red feather bird. Am I right? :p

@Ael It is from plot of Tinkeringbell, yes you are right :D

Ael

@lila Now I'm curious to know which one you will do next :D

IPS Comment Bot

8:36 PM

Thanks for the suggestions! I think my initial example was overly complicated, so I've replaced it with two others, far simpler. — Dan Dascalescu 2 mins ago

#25976 Dan Dascalescu (91 rep) | A: How to deal with non-answers to simple, direct questions, from people doing their job (score: 4) | posted 110 days ago by Sarah Bowman (1386 rep) | edited 110 days ago by Sarah Bowman (1386 rep) | Toxicity 0.0824633 | Comment on inactive pos

@Ael I dream that one day I will do it with IPS Comment Bot's reputation chart and it will match the reality about new cases, but looks like it isn't going to be anytime soon :(

Mithical

(side glance at @IPSCommentBot) when did that happen

Ael

@Mithical On Friday if I remember correctly? @lila made the avatar :)