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Murch

00:58

@chytrik Well, feel free to read over all answers on the question and vote to help sort them better :)

@chytrik If it's very specific, so that it actually wouldn't be answered by the duplicate target, you should rather answer it and then link in the answer to the duplicate target for further reading or context

But yeah, can sometimes be hard to decide

@RaghavSood I grew up in Germany, but grew up bilingually (with German being heavily favored, naturally)

Now I feel that I have a decent vocab, but in some ways my grammar has actually disimproved after coming to live in the US.

I also have a terrible accent when I speak

chytrik

01:52

@Murch ha, true, I actually hadn't voted on the Q/As for that one, just changed that though. There are a few good answers on there now, though also a number that just recommend services for out-of-band tx fee payments, or tx publishers (which aren't really helpful for the avg unconfirmed tx anyways)

I think your reply was the only one I had cast a vote on previously, for whatever reason :p

Murch

Heh, thanks

Yeah, there are a few good ones there now

and txaccelerators are sooo overpriced these days

They want something like $50-100 to bump a tx

I guess they haven't automated it and actually someone manually picks the tx

which is good, because out of band payments are something that can really mess up the gametheory of the system

@chytrik: I don't know where we got on the train that every service recommendation is spam, but I don't really feel that's the case ;)

chytrik

@Murch I flagged two of the answers there, maybe I'm too trigger-happy on that, but the 'author does not disclose affiliation' is perhaps relevant in the case of answers that only mention a single service, compared to a range of services. The issue of services later going defunct, and the answer becoming useless is also present I guess

Murch

Zono has sixty posts on the page. :)

So, if someone is 1 rep, and then immediately shills something, that's usually spam, sure

If someone writes a bit of an explanation and then gives an example for a service that might solve the concrete problem of the user, probably not spam

chytrik

Thats true! Fair points

Murch

02:07

If a user has been around a while and then posts an answer that recommends a service in a fitting context, probably not spam

Can still be a bad answer, or could be recommended to add more explanation

But we have soo few people that actually come back, we should try to administer the principle of charity

that said, the two answers are a bit weak

One should also note that accelerators were actually affordable back then and getting used

chytrik

Yea, I'd agree all around. I imagine we'll see an uptick in site visits if this network congestion and price rise keeps up too. Nice to have more people around to keep the site lively and useful

Murch

I combined the two answers by Zono and added a bit of context. It's still not a great answer, but at least it's not a link-only answer anymore :)

@chytrik: Didn't mean to say that your flags were wrong, just figured I might as well use it as an opportunity to share some thoughts on something that had been swirling around in my head

E.g. it bugs me a bit that a lot of questions that might require someone to mention a service get immediately stomped with the "request for review flag".

If you're new to the site and you are just trying to figure out how to do something that is a valid problem, imho

I think my delineation goes somewhere between "Hey, what's the best xyz?" and "What do I need to do to <solve problem which may require me to use a service>?"

Maybe we should have a standard or so, that lists the requirements such a question needs to fulfill in Meta, that we can just link to, but if they do, it can be answered

preferably, that standard would include that it's tagged with some specific tag, so that people who don't want to see the questions can filter them easily

Sort of like the story-identification tag in scifi

Let me know if none of this makes any sense ^^

lol. 1/4 of all questions on Scifi are [story-identification] questions.

okay, maybe not exactly like that

@SmokeDetector Good bot

Raghav Sood

02:41

@Murch Definitely - My English skills have deteriorated markedly since I left India - growing up, between school and my parents, I had a near perfect Queen's English speaking style, to the extent that I aced the English SAT modules and pretty much every test I had to take for visas etc. to get out of India

After I left, it's all downhill, mostly due to my time in the US and SG

NZ is pretty smooth and consistent still

Murch

My neighbors are having a party

by the sound of it when they open the door to let more people in, it's at least a dozen people

Have sort of a mixed feeling about it

But, before I open up the can of worms that further elaboration might bring, I must note that it would be more fitting to a campfire and after the first couple beers (or other beverages of your preference)

Raghav Sood

Hopefully they're all wearing masks in the spirit of Halloween, if nothing else

Murch

The pandemic and the secondary effects of the pandemic and the severe mismanagement of the response to the pandemic here in the US are really driving me nuts

@RaghavSood Not sure, I haven't seen anyone, just hear them open the door occasionalliy

Raghav Sood

@Murch Wouldn't it almost definitely be cheaper to do a CPFP at this rate?

Murch

@RaghavSood Yes, exactly

at $15k+ and 1,000 sat/vB, $30 bucks were sometimes acceptable

but at ~$10k and 130 sat/vB, when I inspected a tx accelerator a few months ago, $50 just seemed outlandish

Raghav Sood

02:52

Preying on those who don't know any better, I suppose

They're likely optimized for SEO for people searching "my bitcoin tx is stuck for 4 days"

Murch

and very likely they actually need to address it manually

I wouldn't do that for $5 either

@Murch One of the feelings is that it would be nice to meet some people, alas I'm new to the city

Raghav Sood

I sort of assumed they have that semi-automated by now, considering many mining pools have ways to bump up the priority of their own pool payout txs when including them in their own blocks

Should be the same mechanic

Murch

@RaghavSood You'd think that, yes. But I find that semi-decent provisional solutions tend to survive extra-ordinarily long

Maybe I'm becoming a bit of a pessimist with the age :p

Raghav Sood

I've just taken to writing all of my temporary fixes with the assumption that they'll be permanent

They usually are

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