@KitZ.Fox As a forensic move, you have won. Rhetorically however, I can surely think up weirder things. "Friends Romans Countrymen, bla h blah blah. I come to bury placenta, not to praise it"
@tchrist Thanks for clearing that up. Here's a link from googling Ortolans: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/11101187/Ortolans-could-Frances-cruellest-food-be-back-on-the-menu.html>.
And on that rather tasteless note, I'm out, with apologies for the choice of food discussed. Nice chatting, everyone, and thanks @Wrzlprmft for dropping by ELU. See you all in the transcripts!
I'd like to take a brief moment to mention that the existing moderators have no ability to affect the outcome of the election, so you needn't try bribery or cozening up to us with chat stars or anything like that.
@Wrzlprmft I do get a little anxious in late February at the grocery store thinking vaguely "Should I go now? I feel like it's going to be packed this Saturday for some unknown reason. Sunday? I don't know!"
@KitZ.Fox Oh there was this time I almost died. But strangely it was not as scary as this time I was in a car in the middle of a World Cup victory celebration. Man I thought they were going to tip the car and set it on fire. Can't blame them really. At least they were happy.
@KitZ.Fox It's always best to wait for the outcome before you judge.
@KitZ.Fox gah! it's the review cue. It's so depressing seeing it at above 200. But also how to balance that with not scaring away people who have something to contribute, but just don't know the rules?
To be honest, and honesty is needed, closing and deleting does give some satisfaction.
VLQ/NAA show up to us if they are disputed. I think they go to the review queue first and show up to us disputed or not if they are not handled within a certain time frame.
@KitZ.Fox not what, but how many. so we non-mods have an idea of how much work you do ( so that people who want to nominate themselves can gauge properly)
We see flags for posts and comments and also Community auto flags, like too many comments, lots of recent answers, disputed flags, which are indicators that we probably need to intervene.
I would want someone who felt they could handle 20-30 flags per day with thoughtfulness, which could range from 30 minutes to maybe 2 hours, depending on the flags.
Also, it's not always possible to handle (i.e. mark as done) any particular flag at the time it occurs. investigation can take time, and it's necessary to wait to see results of intervention (e.g. commenting on a low quality SWR answer)
And also other moderators, for if you need help or they need advice.
Actually, if they are already a mod, that could be an advantage -- except that EL&U is one of the larger stacks, so most of the non-trio mods would have less experience with large queues and working with other mods. Hmm.
But then they'd probably have a good idea of what the work is.
Likewise, a person who is already a strong reviewer and involved daily with reading and editing, etc, would probably already being committing the necessary time.
The adjustment there is 1. binding effort and 2. changing tasks.
But editing and leaving comments is part of the work, and that is review queue work. Meta activity is something anyone can participate in as well, and that's also moderator work. Chat room networking, etc, are shared things.
@KitZ.Fox yes. So mods have an entirely separate queue of items that they can visit, and the actions they can take there/encouraged to take there are of a slightly different sort than actions on the review queue.
well yes you probably will like doing the mod queue too, but they may be more involved and involve more direct communication with individuals, rather than the anonymous feel of the review queue.
@KitZ.Fox According to the maker they are not made with dairy but are made in factories where other products are made with dairy, so there can be cross contamination.
To me that makes them vegan but not safe for a person with a dairy allergy. But there is no consensus about what makes something vegan so it's only my opinion.
@TIPS This seems like an unlikely exploit to me. The issue at hand here is that these people want their messages to be seen, and unbumped posts won't get much attention from anybody, rather than just the mods.
Which isn't to say I'm ignoring the fact that it was used once...
You're right that the spammer wants their content seen.
But when a smart spammer sees that their or their bot's post is deleted in seconds in sites like AU, their primary mission will be to ensure it remains there for longer.
@Tonepoet Potentially, much. Practically, not much since there haven't been such smart spammers.
So I have a question: Supposing that we implement that fix, and users can still undelete their posts, does that mean questioners will be able to undelete their otherwise legitimate questions to artificially bump them?
@KitZ.Fox How about the intonation? American English has a narrower range of pitch than British English... I know that... but what about Midwestern accents?
There once was a man from Japan whose limericks just wouldn't scan. When asked why this was, he answered, "Because I always cram as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can.
@ktm5124 They wouldn't pronounce any consonantal "r"s. British people perceive an "r" there, but the only phonetic realization is an alteration of the preceding vowel.
Also, if an "r" at the end of a syllable comes before a syllable that starts with a vowel, it can move to the start of the next syllable. And then it is pronounced. "Linking r."
I've been considering asking this question here on Meta-English Language & Usage for the past few days pursuant to help-center guidelines and after just having asked several users about it, have been encouraged to do so.
So a question regarding the spelling (or more accurately the lack thereof) ...
I may have unfairly blamed Star Trek. I think the Vulcans say insufficient often and that's what I was remembering at the time. They're somewhat similar words, particularly with the ins and ci portions.
A man is on his first visit to Boston, and he wants to try some of that delicious New England seafood that he'd long heard about. So he gets into a cab, and asks the driver, "Can you take me to where I can get scrod?" The driver replies, "I've heard that question a thousand times, but never in the pluperfect subjunctive."
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