You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool th...
@apaul The core issue here is that the regulars are supposed to be better. Are people crossing lines and is that regrettable? Yes. But we need to all work towards civility, that includes not being hostile ourselves, even if you think the other people deserve it. It's hard to show civility when being shown none in return, but being shown none in return isn't a license to sink to the same level. Let the moderation tools deal with line crossing and remain firmly on the acceptable side
Hahaha, I now imagine a group of about 20 moderators, just storming into random chatrooms in a coordinated way, just to scare people and laughing about it amongs themselves XD
It was a great idea, but I think we tried to prank RPG.SE chat or something, and all we got was warm welcomes and hellos. No one was particularly concerned. Reverse pranked.
He didn't. He alone was a failed artist in austria. A lot of people caused the deaths of 80m people
To blame him alone is to pawn off the responsibility that a whole lot more then one person were actively participating or at least willingly complicit and enabling his destructive and genocidal behavior
Not true. Less than a hundred miles kilometers away from me, last week, people had poison gas tossed into enclosed places with the intention of killing civilians... and they did.
His goal was to essentially get rid of anyone who was Jewish, of the Romani people, disabled, or otherwise not filling his idea of perfection (the white Aryan race).
(And @Magisch to be clear I don't blame Germany or the Germans as a whole for anything. I'm aware this may be a touchy subject over there.)
@Cashbee He's a CM with an interesting bit of history; before he became a mod on Biblical Hermeneutics and then hired, he about quit SE because he was disillusioned with the rep system.
TL;DR: Stack Exchange favors standard, fast, and complete answers at the expense of novel, creative, and excellent answers. This bias results directly from reputation ratings, badges and other extrinsic motivations, which form the core of the system and can not be removed. Therefor, the quality o...
@Jesse Yeah, but you might want to stop it at some time, and just start flagging ;) Some people come in here, thinking they can change what the community worked on for months with a single comment ;)
Just flag the stuff NLN: It's not suggesting any improvement to the post...
First of all I come from India , from a place where depression is not at all recognized as disease. I have never met or heard a person from my place even mention the word " Depression"...Anyhow , moving on to the matter ..I really do not know if i suffer from depression or not . I wrote 2 or 3 on...
@Magisch first of all unclear what is asked. He knows he needs professional help, but he doesn't know how to get there. can be on-topic if edited a bit
@Magisch if the body is edited to reflect the question in the title, wouldn't that be on topic? how can I let my parents know that I need a doctor, for a subject that they do not understand?
I was just addressing this: “tough to break that to OP though.” I was just saying that we don’t need to send the OP on their way with nothing. A hotline number for their appropriate country, for example.
@Cashbee That sounds good. That’s exactly what I’m talking about. :)
Actually idk if this site has this already, but given that it sounds like you get a lot of mental health questions that you’re just not equipped to deal with....
Maybe making a canonical meta reference (with vetted hotline numbers) to be linked when closing those questions would be a good idea.
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I think Shog9's answer to the Meta Software Engineering question is good enough:
I hate to sound callous about this, but... This isn't a support group;
y'all probably aren't trained to deal with the outpouring of grief and
despair of someon...
What SE does in suicide cases, and this seems similar: Close it ASAP so that nobody can answer, escalate to a CM, and have SE reach out to them, optionally leaving a comment from that meta post.
@Mithrandir Right. That seems like the right approach. I think leaving the comment is important, though. It might help avoid making someone feel like they wasted their time or are being dismissed.
@Adamant absolutely. These people sometimes ask here as a last resort. Getting your question DVed and closed only intesifies their misery. Leaving a nice comment why it was closed and where to go from here is very appropriate
@Cashbee I've been through many stuff all my life and all I have learned is to not to worry about it (but it doesn't mean not to do anything about it). I have tried what should be done with a relaxed mind. That's how I got out of those tough situations.
Referring in particular to this one: How to let my family know that I suffer from depression?
There are other questions on this site that deal with talking to family members about difficult subjects. Usually those people are lacking in some kind of interpersonal skill (or needing to establish bo...
Background:
My wife and I have been together for about 8 years now (married for 6) and we have two gorgeous children. My wife, unfortunately, has been suffering from mild depression for quite a while, long before we even met so probably about 15 years. It comes and goes, some months she's fine a...
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Standing moderator guidance seems to be to direct off topic discussion from this question to chat
While I think that the desire to help is admirable, Richard's Rule #34 clearly warns that "Before helping, make sure you're helping". Armchair psychology can lead to very bad things
@Mithrandir oh that is a nice feature. I'm not sure though if i should do that, since i think richards comment says it already. I'm going with the flow and will just vote it as off-topic
I just got my bike out of the shed a few days back... I need to do something on the chain... It creaks and wakes up everyone if I cycle to the station at 6.30 AM :)
Unfortunately, the cleats and the shoes I was going to get were not in stock, but I was there today and they said they'd order them for me and that they'd be here next week.
The greatest innovators in history were the Romans though. They rarely invented a damn thing, but they had the attitude of "What the rest of the world can do, Rome can do better"