@RegDwigнt I use a splash of cream to kill the acidity. Brioche works for that as well. But, yeah, I usually get your basic 500-600 ml dose in the morning.
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Oh OK you're talking about the 'be nice' thing that came up about a year ago? And did people generally start being nicer? And is that what is annoying?
But Tonepoet was referring to the mod queues which have always been there (for people once they get enough rep). That is annoying, to be a mod and have these buttons to push (which are always punitive) and come across looking like a jerk.
And my other impression is things started to get better since last year after some mismanagement on SE's side and some knee-jerk from the more jaded regulars
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ People may get snitty here on ELU, but I don't think it was ever common to use anything like those terms. Or ever. Slightly heated maybe, but never strong words.
What people are still upset about is how quickly SE acted on a couple of random accusations on blogs, Twitter etc. while useful features about moderation sit there waiting for attention from years ago.
Another, newer thing people are not happy about is after SE shed some of its staff, the new hires don't have much experience with this whole moderation thing and their view on SE, which bears quite some weight since they're now an SE employee, is more like that of an outsider than someone already well-versed with this system.
Also WTF. (I'm going to be weird now...) How is your English so good? Did you spend time immersed with native English speakers? Like almost all of your childhood?
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ My opinion on that is... software takes time and effort and planning to modify (sometimes changing the color to one button takes years of planning, but rearranging the entire look and feel, a matter of a few minutes (OK, not really that exactly, but that's the idea)), but some behavioral things like writing an op ed to say 'Don't be mean' is super easy.
Yeah, that was just considered a bit annoying in the past. What happened recently-ish, we're talking 6 months ago maybe, I lost track of time, is they immediately acted on a couple of critical, misguided slash hypocritical blog posts or tweets which related to that wagon thing
So regulars memified it that if they wanna be heard, they should go and rant on Twitter instead of meta.SO, for example
Basically, the regulars feel the company focuses on attracting new users at expense of quality, and they're being ignored although they're the really invested people
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ In the handful of times that a google search on 'how do you do X in programming language Y' that I do, I haven''t seen much weirdness in comments as I've seen extremely helpful questions and answers get 0 votes in any direction.
@Mitch I think what ultimately everyone agreed on is something like "look dude. The internet is 40 percent rude, 60 percent OK. SO is 95 percent OK, 5 percent rude. But rude stuff gets people, and OK stuff is usually considered business as usual. Let's work on that"
AFAIK that's the only thing staff and regs agreed upon
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ As to software product evolution, the system was set in stone by about 2010 (with mostly tweaks after 2008 after first release), everything else is tacked on afterthought, or very hard won miniscule tweaks.
@Mitch That's what I'm getting at now. One thing regulars and the whole community in general agreed upon was the problem is that of perception. New users expect to be served, satisfied and sent back home in a private jet no matter the cost
Regulars are building an interactive Wikipedia instead. If you have nothing to add to the knowledge, get out. And we don't care about your error because if you Google the goddamn question title you'd see 679 SO questions with the exact same title. True story.
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I sometimes think authoritarian niceness is called for. Somebody asks a extremely poor quality but nugget of interest question, a mod could edit the question radically so that it is useful and passes all the close reasons.
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Nobody reads below the top search item.
@Mitch Pretty sure people do it everywhere from time to time when they feel like it. But normal SE sites are usually 1 high-rep to 100 newbies, and SO is something like 1 high-rep to 10000
So, when a meta post comes around with "why wasn't the answer delivered to me on a silver platter", and it boils down to OP asking for some chivalry, the response is often that there is no way to be chivalrous to everyone. Not even close.
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ The time it takes to close vote and compose a comment to that effect (which is probably what someone with higher rep would do), might as well edit, same time and effort.
To be fair to myself, I have many years of software behind me, but 'how do you do X in programing language Y' because Y is constantly changing is a constant question.
@Cerberus: I switched to the Brave browser because the word on the street is that Chrome will be denying ad blockers access to certain calls they need to function.
It's built on Chrome, and appears identical except for a few cosmetics.
And the home page lists all the ad blocking and tracker blocking functions it's performed.
> Late Latin recalcitrant-, recalcitrans, present participle of recalcitrare to be stubbornly disobedient, from Latin, to kick back, from re- + calcitrare to kick, from calc-, calx heel
@skullpetrol Very well, thanks. Only 4K miles so far this year, but it was an unusually snowy winter. Not sure I'm going to make 10K unless things go very well and I don't get sick or injured.