That's a nice article it might interest you @ava @Rain. Also, I think I do conversation shifting (instead of supporting) a lot. But maybe it's a regular things to do when you are just trying to have a conversation and not supporting someone? (like: "Hey, I too want to Japan!")
Maybe I should do an IPS question out of that. I probably should sandbox it first though because, right now, I can only come up with opinion-based questions like "is shifting conversation always bad?". Or, "is there a time where I should try to shift a conversation instead of supporting?"
Also, good morning Parrot and good morning bleu girl/woman/person/fellow human being :D
Also, @Rainbacon I'm now ranked number 13 on all-time IPS \o/ Also, you are 2.800 IPS rep behind me for this year (sorry about saying that it was "just" 1.000 without taking the changes into account ^^')
Plus, I should probably try to use "Also" less, 'cause that's a lot of "also" in my previous message :p
In other news, I really like being a more than 20k user network-wide :D
All this rep is really nice and shiny :D
Ok, I was interested to know how much (network-wide rep) had the other regular of TAS but I probably shouldn't have looked at the one of @JourneymanGeek x)
@JourneymanGeek So you are basically cheating :p But, in any case, it's just really easy to get rep on MSE compare to other SE sites (at least, that is what I observe by being active in both IPS and MSE)
@JourneymanGeek "How to gain rep easily" by JourneymanGeek :p
@JourneymanGeek Whatever your reason is, I find it nice that you would post one (good) answer a day. If it's helping people, I don't see a problem with you doing it for the "bad reasons" (not that I think doing this for rep is bad)
Hey @Ælis your meta on repcapping was posted 35 seconds after another, so I marked it duplicate... sorry! But there's three already so it seems better to mark yours duplicate too...
:) Thanks. Duplicates aren't bad, and I understand how frustrating a 35 second window could be. We usually look at official answers too, but since both have one... Yours 'lost' :P
@OldPadawan Oh, that's not that very nice :/ I hope your cold get better soon (unless you are just talking about the weather, in which case it probably just will get worse ^^)
@OldPadawan oh, okay. I don't know this region very well, I used to live in the north of the country, that's as close as I got from Alsace Lorraine. Sounds lovely though :)
@OldPadawan I actually went to the same high school he did. His wife is from a family of famous chocolate makers in Amiens. She used to teach French in my high school too.
hope you don't turn bad too then :D (just kidding)
[ side note ] was ping'd by Tinkeringbell couple of days ago (about flags) but I didn't 1. understand the Q 2. have time to drop by -> if anyone knows... or let her know, thanks
I'll have to go back to work, just time for a coffee because next course
@OldPadawan Well, I see you flag a lot of posts without backup as Very Low Quality... And VLQ flags are marked 'valid' once a post is edited, and the post is taken out of the review queue then. So I was wondering if you do this on purpose, or if you'd want to use Not An Answer for those posts, as those will have to be reviewed (and on IPS, not every edit adds backup).
Hi Tinkeringbell. I use VLQ when I think the OP missed part of the point (but not all of it), writes an incomplete answer, lacks back-up... and so on. Well, eveything that makes a low quality stuff IMO. There's no hidden meaning behind it. Sometimes, on the app, I have no choice but one flag-type, that I may use or not, depending on the "quality"
but I can change my way of handling, no problem ;)
Note: I wasn't trying to say it was wrong, but I was wondering if you were aware of the difference, and if being made aware would change your choices ;)
I didn't know about the edit/flag/queue in this particular case. I'll have to think about that, I dunno if it'll change the way I handle things (unless it makes a mess for you guys)
Slowly. The bank approved everything for the loan, so I'm now waiting for the legal bits: I have to get an invite to sign some papers that'll transfer the 'apartment rights' to me.
I'm guessing they're not going to start building this year.
@Tinkeringbell May I ask for how many years you will be on debt with? I know that, in France, people are (nowaday) buying house with a 20~25 years of debt (it was much less when my parent did that, but time have changed)
I need to see how much money I can set aside once living on my own, each month. But as savings don't really get you much anymore, if I'm over a certain 'minimal savings amount' that you need for e.g. broken car, washer and fridge in the same month, I'm planning on putting it towards the loan as that means I have to pay less rent.
@Ælis Yes and no. I don't like 'regular' debts... but you can't really buy a home without some loaning so I'm okay with that. Also, a home loan comes with a bit of insurance here, so that I'll always have at least some part of the amount I'm loaning covered by that, should I ever end up in a position where I need that.
@user58 IMO, writing a letter is indeed an interpersonal skill. As it would be to express your emotions/feelings without using words. So, I think the question (and first answer) are fine
So, I have had 6 hours of sleep tonight when I usually need 9. It's 12:16 now and I'm ready to go to bed. Too bad I still have three hours of work to do ^^
@Ælis I agree with @Ava about the article. While I agree that saying "I know how you feel" is a poor choice, I think the phrase "conversational narcissism" is, at best an inaccurate portrayal of what's happening and, at worst fairly rude
So, I posted an answer that relied on a basic cultural understanding that you send flowers to people at funerals and it got deleted for "not citing an external source". I've since edited it to explicitly state that it's an ubiquitous understanding in Western Culture for my external source, so can...
There was a huge change to reputation that took place yesterday. How has this affected the top users on IPS? How has this affected the reputation league?
I think it's a bit of a shame to have general questions about answer deletions scoring -5.. it's a new user that could use our help understanding the site, not someone that's been around for years asking the same questions...
@Ælis Eh... I'll leave that. After all, their update also states they want to ask for undeletion, not really about how to improve their answer. I'll write an answer later tonight if there's none yet ;)
Oh wow, I didn't even notice that before. That's...not nice. And coupled with the assumption that the default for everyone on the site to be American...I don't think I'm going to touch this anymore
@scohe001 Rainbacon rolled it back. Now, if avazula can get that answer posted, we can lock it for 'content dispute' for a week or so and let the thread cool :)
I think you're working under a misconception regarding my goal. I was never intending to learn anything. I was simply intending to convince the moderators into taking a particular course of action. This can't be done if I can't post comments or edit my question
Okay, then. What do I need to do to convince you to change your mind, then? I don't care about being downvoted, I just want my answer to be visible to help the OP of that Question
@nick012000 I'm sorry to say this... but when we say answers need backup either from personal XP or literature/external websites, we need the actual info to be in the answer's body (in case the links rot). Could you please extract the interesting info, put it in your answer and explain why it supports your point/suggestion?
I edited to add the info that the links you provided are from flowers delivery services. Now, since it was deleted by the community, I'll let the community vote to undelete
@AlexRobinson Maybe but they were the first thing I found to back up my point when I was looking for external sources to cite to meet the site's requirements
you're still going about this with the wrong headspace - if someone on academia asked a question, would you use backup as a google search? if not, why would you here?
But if this was a super-basic question that "common sense" should answer, the user wouldn't have asked it, right? I'm not sure why what you perceive the difficulty of the question to be determines the quality of your answer. That sounds unfair to the person asking the question
@scohe001 The thrust of the answer was about the existence of online flower delivery services. The idea that people send flowers to people after funerals is so basic it shouldn't need to be explained - the idea that you can go onto the internet and pay people to do that for you might be, though.
I stand by what I said. I didn't cast a delete vote, the community voted to delete. I won't single-handedly undelete it. Nick, you can stay as long as you want, you're welcome to nicely chat until the community reviews your edited answer.
But if this was a super-basic question that "common sense" should answer, the user wouldn't have asked it, right? I'm not sure why what you perceive the difficulty of the question to be determines the quality of your answer. That sounds unfair to the person asking the question
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There was a huge change to reputation that took place yesterday. How has this affected the top users on IPS? How has this affected the reputation league?
