I have a group of friends, and we have been together for a while now where we meet once or twice a week, to play games together - D&D, board games, etc. It's a social event.
However, especially lately I've noticed that one person has started to lean in a certain direction when it comes to conver...
@scohe001 (and maybe @Mithrandir too?) Is there a way to put regex on the comment bot to avoid reporting something as chatty if the regex also contains a question "?" or a link to a meta-post/the help center? I think it would avoid quite a few numbers of false-positive (but we shouldn't apply that if the comment have "Hight toxicity")
We often got the case of someone asking an off-topic question, getting one or more answers, in some case the OP accepts one of the answers and then, the question is finally close.
This leads me to wonder if answers to an off-topic question should be deleted?
@Noon Have you ever been in The Closet? There you could play a bit with triggering regexes. If you wanna give it a try please let me know and I'll show you how to do it :)
@Noon I wouldn't recommend excluding comments with help center links from being reported. I've seen comments like "This is a 'what should I do' question that is off-topic per [help], but I think you should..."
The vacation I took in September were already unpaid, and now if I want to have 3 days off on Christmas they're telling me I should go for unpaid vacation as well, whereas I have paid vacation days I could take
@JourneymanGeek ahah. No. If you don't take all your paid vacation days they get lost, unless you put them on a "time-saving account" that'd help you to go on retirement earlier (yeesh... I'm 22 guys ...)
@avazula I get that feeling :/ I have tried to make a rule for that (for myself): "Mental health is more important than loyalty, take care of yourself"
@JourneymanGeek haha, true. I was supposed to start a new mission this week and they told me yesterday I wouldn't start until another month, 'cause of All Saints' vacation (which I don't have, btw)
@avazula Yeah, I know it's hard to apply to yourself, that's why I have written "tried" because I know that I will have a hard time respecting that rule ^^
So they're giving me boring and pretty absurd stuff to do, and when I'm free because I'm waiting for customer answers and I do MOOCs to learn new useful stuff and not waste my time, I'm frowned upon
"Y'all need to pay me for my unused vacation time - while probationary employees don't get them, singapore government regulations state that a probation can't last more than 3 months"
(Basically my manager had asked for me to be made permanant and given a small increment. My director... basically rubbished my evaluation, questioned the stuff I was undoubtedly good at, and felt that I somehow needed an extra month, after a month of them sitting on their asses of probation)
Also felt that wearing short sleeves to work was unprofressional
@JourneymanGeek I know but, in the same situation, I pretty sure I would have still been anxious (over nothing but yet). Anyway, the fact that it didn't stress you is good for you :)
My example will be salary negotations specific but I'd like to know how not to let other person dismiss you easly from negotiations.
In a few days I'm planning to renogtiate my salary with boss of my company. He is charismatic and outspoken person, and I know from other people he is not very wil...
@Noon :) how did you come to suspect you were on the spectrum?
(I always felt weird & different in my life & yesterday when JAD said there's plenty of ways to be autistic the topic got my interest so I looked it up further, took some quizzes & stuff)
@avazula I stumble across an article of someone who was on the spectrum (a woman who had been diagnosed late in her life) and it really talked to me. There were differences but I was able to relate a lot. After that, I read a lot about Asperger women who were diagnosed late, took a lot of quizzes (who didn't help me because I didn't know how to respond to some of the questions and because the quizzes weren't concluding and because of other stuff). (stay tune for the rest of this message)
@avazula Then I decided that I was paranoïd and that since I wasn't checking all the boxes, I was complaining about nothing will other people had it worse than me. So, I decided to focus on fixing my anxiety and that my tiredness would magically disappear if I did so. (again, more is to come)
@avazula But then things didn't get better but worse and I feel that, if I wasn't able to fix it, my life would become worse and worse until I would do a very strong burnout and "crash". So, since my mother was thinking that I might be on the spectrum and since I was finally unemployed (which mean that I wasn't that tired anymore and so I was able to think more clearly and do things that would have been too tiring otherwise) I decided to check it out with someone who specialized in the field
@avazula Be careful to choose someone who actually knows about the topic. Otherwise, you will probably be more informed about it that the person you are talking to
@avazula If you don't know where to find them, you can start by look autism association in your city. If you (or someone, it was my mom for me) give them a call, they would likely be able to point you in the right direction
@avazula What it really ease is me, taking seriously the fact that I might be on the spectrum. If it wasn't for her, I'm pretty sure I would still not have been diagnosed. So yeah, I got lucky :)
@Noon you can add ...[^?]*$ to the end of your regex to ensure it only matches if there are no question marks. But I don't think it'd be a good idea to prevent any of the regex from matching questions. We would definitely want to catch "Have you tried...?" or "Maybe you could....?" comments.
@Tinkeringbell nah, to do that smoothly, you need to delete the messages, move them to the private trashcan, edit your moving message and include an intentional typo, purge the history, and then edit it to fix the typo, making sure that this message is unrelated to whatever you wanted to purge the history of
@scohe001 I was thinking to only do this for comment having "good answer" in them. I was also thinking of testing the regex for a week/month before replacing anything
Before the weekend I posted an answer which was reasonably well received, with a bunch of upvotes.
It was deleted because, although it told an of interesting and relevant experience, it did not actually answer the question.
I have absolutely no problem with my answer being deleted.
However, t...
Searched for "Mawg" in The Closet where the IPS Comment Bot keeps records of all made comments. Then looked for the inevitable mod comment announcing the deletion. Since I can view deleted posts, I was able to verify that it was the correct one
Hehehe all this talk about sneezing is cracking me up. I always find it funny to think about and talk about. I sneeze quite loud, and my dad and mom does too. The only difference is when I giggle after I sneeze especially if it was a sudden one or if I do something funny, my mom laughs along with me and my dad doesnt.... stick up his ass, I think haha
Spirit Island...it looks at a glance a little bit like Settlers of Catan, but instead of playing as Europeans settling on an island, you play as the primal spirits of nature that coexist with the native peoples, trying to drive the white man off - or kill him - before his defilement of nature and the native peoples destroys you.
The expansion doubles the number of playable spirits and brings it from an up-to-4-player game to an up-to-6-player game
It's fully co-op
It's got amazing art and thematics. There are no random elements that determine the success of your actions, only the situations that you have to respond to. The difficulty is highly customizable. Each spirit plays remarkably differently.
It doesn't play anything like Catan at all, the board just has a passing visual resemblance to it.
One of the pledge levels gets you everything that's ever been released for the game! :-D
Including wooden tokens, a third-party wooden box with compartments for all the tokens, previous limited-time promo spirits... It's not a cheap pledge level though.
Haha I'm already waiting on 4 KS projects to fulfill right now. I try not to get into too many of them at a time. I might buy the original though. I'll definitely have to do more research. Thanks for showing this tho!
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My disorder is mild and I can behave normally in everyday situations. But if the relationship is going to be prolonged, I use to say it very quickly because it is a way of defending against social behaviors that are not very adequate on my part.
Does it cause a lot of shock to be told that? Shou...
@EmC haha yeah. today's been messy for me... my body doesn't like me. I'm having that time of the month again for women and i have a cold as well... so cramping while my sinuses fill up. Oi. Plus studying.