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Cerberus

00:29

@sumelic Because until in this case implies that you were busy doing something and stopped doing so? Be going to send is more or less a future tense, so the action had not yet taken place by the way I saw your reply.

So it could not be "stopped" by that time.

> I was kneading bread until I saw your reply.

This works.

> I was about to knead bread until I saw your reply.

This sounds colloquial or informal to me.

The mental state of being about to do something may end, but I find that a bit weak.

stack

00:45

Is this avatar that thing we use it to point to the photo of account?

Cerberus

00:55

@stack Yes, sort of.

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user174558

01:56

Aaaah

NVZ

06:10

At what time do mods usually come online? Is there such time slots for each mod?

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TIPS

10:23

@NVZ As a site regular, that is your mission to find out.

NVZ

My guess is there is no such shifts or schedules.

TIPS

@NVZ There isn't. Why should there be? This is voluntary work.

NVZ

10:44

I was just wondering why there are a lot of pending flags.

Mods seem to be not reviewing since three days

If regular users with review privileges would lend some of their time, these review queues could be reduced.

TIPS

Q: What can/should I do when my flags have 'unusually' been pending for too much time?

In a site I'm active in, moderators approve when a user flags some old comments as "obsolete", "too chatty" etc. (All such flags I've raised have been marked helpful) It's a relatively small community, and thus flags don't piled up like they do in SO. I imagine flagging such ancient comments isn'...

@NVZ Waits, reviews on the site? That's not part of their job.

I thought you meant reviewing flags at first.

NVZ

It's all related

If regular users review VLQ posts, that will reduce the pending VLQ/NAA flags

TIPS

@NVZ Well, everything is related to everything.

Review queues are NOT mods' job.

NVZ

Most "Very Low Quality answer" flags I make are reviewed by Mods. But that happens usually when regular users are not actively reviewing their VLQ queues.

6 "recommend deletion" votes by regular users, or 3 "delete" votes by heavyweight users, or 1 "delete" vote by a moderator can "delete" a VLQ answer from site and also remove it from queue

TIPS

I'm saying that you should worry if your flags go unprocessed, but not when mods don't do normal review queues.

They have their own queues, I assure you.

NVZ

10:52

I know.

Comment flags are handled only by mods.

And many other custom flags are handled by mods.

Here, I'm only talking about VLQ flags on low-quality answers.

Such VLQ flags are reviewed by users and mods.

TIPS

@NVZ All custom flags are handled by mods.

All flags are handled by mods.

But high-rep users with certain privileges may do something that ends up in an auto-process of your flag.

NVZ

hmm

Soooo... What causes a post to reach my low-quality queue if not the flags?

I have handled a thousand such flags. At least I have handled 1/6th of each flag.

TIPS

11:51

@NVZ Your VLQ queue? What do you mean?

TIPS

12:03

If you just mean the general VLQ queue, yeah, there are always complications.

For instance, user -1 (the Community bot) auto-flags posts shorter than a certain minimum length.

I'm pretty sure I wanted to link to some meta, but I just forgot.

user208178

@crl I thought you liked flies.

Shafizadeh

13:07

@crl "I'm not fond of PHP" .. Shame on you :P (just kidding)

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Shafizadeh

15:44

The word of "right" is weird. It has multiple meanings:
- I want to do that right now
- So she has any right to do that
- Go right in the street and you will arrive where you want

user174558

@Shafizadeh Many words in English have many meanings. English is a difficult language to learn.

Shafizadeh

yeah it really is

user174558

@NVZ I think you are taking the mechanics of this site too seriously, chill.

Saladin

16:53

Hello guys

user174558

17:05

Aaaaaaaaaaah

Saladin

Hello Tom,

It is nice hearing from you once again, I appreciate you taking time out and showing interest in meeting me on ABC Asia Conference. You are right a lot, have happened in-between we (MARS) have now become Jupiter partner, and we are the only one in the country.

We have plans to introduce Jupiter in our xyz architecture, In a week or less, I will have you updated If the meeting at ABC conference be possible for me.

Is above ok?

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TIPS

18:26

@Saladin How has he happened?

Also "you are right a lot" is at the very least weird in this letter.

@Saladin I can't make head and tail of this sentence. "You are right a lot, have happened in-between we (MARS) have now become Jupiter partner, and we are the only one in the country. "

You either need to be more careful about punctuation, or shouldn't try to be so fancy in writing.

Although your English in the other sentences proves some fluency.

*heads and tails

My typos are weird.

Damkerng T.

My guess: You are right. A lot has happened between now and then. We (MARS) have now become Jupiter's partner, and we are the only one in our country.

TIPS

OK then that's some horrid punctuation.

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tchrist

20:05

@DamkerngT. Between then and now, if it's in the past.

Damkerng T.

@tchrist nods -- Thanks!

tchrist

@Cerberus Do you have any idea what a cyning’s daughter was called in Old English?

She wasn’t a princess; that's a late import.

Also, the son of the king was never the prince; he was the king's son.

Hell, even royalty is an import. But kings they had.

Ok, so Ætheling was a prince of the royal blood eligible for the kingship.

Ætheling

Ætheling (also spelt Aetheling, Atheling or Etheling) was an Old English term (æþeling) used in Anglo-Saxon England to designate princes of the royal dynasty who were eligible for the kingship. The term is an Old English and Old Saxon compound of aethele, æþele or (a)ethel, meaning "noble family", and -ing, which means "belonging to", It derives from the Germanic word Edeling or Edling and is etymologically related to the modern German words Adel, "nobility", and adelig or adlig, "noble". It was usually rendered in Latin as clito. Ætheling can be found in the Suffolk toponym of Athelington. �...

Hah, I read clito as dito.

So Æthelingin, mayhap?

> The later clerical Latin translation of "aethel" as "clito" may be a reflection of the fact that there was no such formal position after the Roman civil authority disappeared. "Clito" was from "incluto" and an earlier Greek word that certainly did not mean "noble" in the sense of an inherited class status, but rather famous or illustrious.

> Be þam lẏtlan æþelinᵹe.

But I think that is a plural inflection, not a feminine one.

amazon.co.uk/…

Or maybe not.