AFAICT this is new:

> If you are located within the European Union, you must be at least 16 years old to access or use the Network or Services, including without limitation to complete a Stack Overflow Account Registration.

IIRC it used to be 13 years in general, EU or non-EU.

From On Recent Concerns regarding the direction of Stack Exchange:

> There’s nothing in any law that says we need to actively look for under age users, which is a huge relief. If you notice someone revealing their age and you wonder if they’re too young to have an account, just use the ‘contact CM’ feature from the user’s profile and feel free to forget about it. An absence of action on our part can be taken as an indication that we looked, but didn’t find grounds to remove the account.

Even with that addition, I do not like it very much. (But well, maybe the situation is that lawyers say that it has to be this way.)

When I read this in a new answer to Is CRUDE healthy? I was a bit surprised:

> All discussions are public. Anything you say can and will be used against you on meta. The RO team has an offline/private lounge for sensitive subjects if necessary.

Only then I realized that this is about SOCVR and not about CRUDE.

BTW the question is 12 days old, so after two or three more days it will not longer be displayed in community bulletin.

@MartinSleziak If you ask me, that fits the category of "not-nice". Whether it is necessary is another matter, but if people can't even agree on what is 'nice' then I think the be-nice policy cannot even get up on its feet.

@user21820 I am not sure what exactly you refer to when you are talking about violating be nice policy. To the recent answer in this thread?

@MartinSleziak I meant the part of the quote that said "Anything you say can and will be used against you on meta".

Naturally, that's a subjective judgement. So whatever.

In any case, I see now that I should not have posted this here. Moving to Math Meta Chat?

I would certainly see "threats" that anything you can say can be used against you as violation of being nice. But this is entirely different context. It is part of room rules designed by room creators in order to keep high standardds.

BTW the bit I was surprised by was: "The RO team has an offline/private lounge for sensitive subjects if necessary." (Still, I copied the full quote.)

@MartinSleziak Yup I got that. Yes please feel free to move. Thanks!

Ok, let's hope I do not catch some messages that belong here by mistake. (Practice makes perfect. Even in the case of moving messages.)

← 1 message moved from CRUDE

← 3 messages moved from CRUDE

← 9 messages moved from CRUDE

I should have moved all of them in one go. Let's hope I'll get better in using this eventually.

The first one was simply mistake. And in addition to that, I did not realize I can move nonconsecutive messages.

@MartinSleziak Ah yes by using Ctrl. I'm surprised you didn't know that. =)

Sorry for disappointing you. But you're neither the first nor the last user of this site that was disappointed by me...

@MartinSleziak No I wasn't disappointed. I was just joking a little haha..

The smiley wasn't big enough I guess. =D

Well, my response was not meant seriously either. (Although the last part is true.) Probably I should have used \begin{sarcasm} ... \end{sarcasm}.

Hahaha okay.

Yesterday there was a good long Mathematica answer for this quesiton: math.stackexchange.com/questions/2789094/…

I can't find it anymore. Do you know if it has been deleted?

@Basj You can still see some parts of the answer here: math.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/1015573 And yes, the answer you've edited says: "deleted by owner 5 hours ago".

@Basj Indeed, the owner had deleted it. I can't see any obvious reason. Users with enough reputation (such as Martin) can see deleted answers.

I will just add to the above that independent of reputation, used can see suggested edits. So quite a good part of that post is visible to any user in the link I gave above.

@MartinSleziak do you know what does RO team mean?

Oh. Maybe Room Operators.

@quid I thought RO is a standard shortcut for "room owner". (Which amounts to the same as your suggestion.)

@MartinSleziak ah, that makes sense. In hindsight it is not clear how it could not have thought of that.

Thanks!

OTOH I see RO in neither of posts with common acronyms: Stack Exchange Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-Used Terms and Common acronyms used on main and meta.

The usage on Meta Stack Exchange suggests that the shortcut RO is used mostly in this sense.

Quora: Are Math Overflow and Math Stack Exchange more successful than Physics Overflow/Physics Stack Exchange? If so, why?

> MathSE is more successful than PhysSE because they do not make policies in acc. with SE philosophy, e.g. the homework policy of MathSE is far more better than that of PhysSE. Another reason is that now a days PhysSE doesn't welcome beginner level questions whereas MathSE does.

> The main difference between MathSE and PhysSE is the diff b/w their cultures. Users rarely downvote silently on MathSE whereas on PhysSE it is prominent.

The post is from 2014. I doubt many people would agree with the above characterization today.