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geoffc
geoffc
12:36 AM
@TildalWave It seems to focus on more than 5 votes for one person by one person in a day.
Never thought it might notice per tag upvoting.
So I will probably lose the 110 points I just got. Oh well.
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
@geoffc It probably doesn't, I did. :) I'm not gonna do anything about it, it just seems to be some genuine enthusiast not discriminating on who the author was, only somewhat partial to what the tag is ... but I can't vouch that the system won't take those points back. And I don't think that I can ask someone to deactivate that for a day either.
@geoffc You know what? Write an answer I won't have to edit after you and I'll personally award you a bounty for extra effort :P :))
 
geoffc
geoffc
Hehe... I do try you know. But you sir, are a nit picker. A picker of nits. But not a Nit Wit, perhaps a wit nit though.
Would be my third rep cap day as well. No where close to 250 though for that gold badge.
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
You know I'm not tho :P Here is different, it's just teasing for the fun of it, but I tend not to submit trivial edits. If I don't think it'll improve the post much, I don't really bother with it.
@geoffc yeah I'm a few centuries away from that one too
 
geoffc
geoffc
That bar seems a bit high... Almost a year of rep cap days?
Other golds seem easier to get.
Oh, 50 for bronze, 150 for gold, my bad.
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
OK, think about our site for a split second and if there's any "loyal voters" on it. Now extrapolate that to 10.000 time more members and 100.000 more traffic of the SE trilogy. We'd both get those badges by now if we were SO
 
geoffc
geoffc
12:49 AM
I guess.
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
(order of magnitude numbers are casual)
 
geoffc
geoffc
Understood.
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
On non-trilogy sites I only know of one single person that has it. Tho I wasn't really fishing for more people in stats, I mean those I actually exchange a word or two on occasion.
 
 
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Feeds
Feeds
2:24 AM
TildalWave has added an event to this room's schedule.
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
2:36 AM
heh this is a funny mixup on NASA Calendar:
there's some interesting info in it if you feel like decoding it
e.g. it shows "SpX-6(?) Docking Port"
and a CO2 tanks replacement TBD
and "Halo" which I guess would be a new SEP experiment?
nope that's a new interface for SPHERES (processing power and data handling capabilities)
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
2:58 AM
The Space Show w/ Paul Turner regarding his new book "The Space Trade" is now podcast live. More info in the newsletter
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
3:36 AM
@JerardPuckett I'm not so sure about your last edit ...
from stagirit.at/Ionenantrieb-5.pdf and there are other sources using this form
mind that it's not written in capital
it's merely "from"
as in "from the family of", it's not a barron title
 
Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
Saw several citations without the 'von', Wiki skips it as well.
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
alternatively it can also be "Adelsprädikat" i.e. a title but not exclusively ... I guess it's preferred without in English literature not to be ambiguous about it
 
Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
But, then again, I'm hardly German :)
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
yeah it's not one of the languages I'd be really confident in either
 
Jerard Puckett
Jerard Puckett
Anyway, i feel like I've done me duty to Queen and country RE: interstellar question.
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
3:49 AM
Every German I ever spoke with in German asked me if I'm Austrian (that's a polite way of saying "I think I recognize the language but not the meaning" LOL)
@JerardPuckett Which Queen would that be?
BTW I saw the answer, +1 and I didn't yet upvote Mark because he'll get upvotes anyway and can live without mine for a day or so ... he'll get it eventually anyway :)
it's a tough question ... I mean, what feasibility does one assign to what Sonny White is working on?
It's one of those "it doesn't cost that much to sponsor this research but it'd cost a whole lot more if we didn't and he's right" :)
it's also hard to find anyone in the accountability office that would understand a word of it LOL
 
 
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XKCD
XKCD
5:07 AM
 
Everyone
Everyone
5:24 AM
@TildalWave It'll serve. We also had a rather pointed question that :D you shot-down without even any pieces left. Would that be the one that was migrated over to sceptics.SE?
 
Everyone
Everyone
5:47 AM
Do we know the comm.frequency of the Apollo 11 EVA suits?
 
 
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TildalWave
TildalWave
12:36 PM
@Everyone We only made one single migration to Skeptics and even that one was rejected for being too speculative. There are pieces left of it: space.stackexchange.com/questions/4840/…
Nobody seems to have wanted that question. I didn't "nuke" it, it was closed by our community before migration but I have to reopen to migrate, so I kinda "un-nuked" it first, then when it bounced back nuked it again as per the will of the community :)))
 
geoffc
geoffc
1:38 PM
So 75 points got revoked for serial voting... So do I still get a third rep cap day? :)
I.e. I got 230 yesterday, then today 75 removed.
How does that math add up?
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
@geoffc As I understand it, it counts any day when you reached 200 or more without the bounties, it's not the rep cap by votes alone (deducting bounties and accepts and if you're still at 200 then you reached it) ... so I think it should count
 
geoffc
geoffc
Well then, I will take it. :)
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
@geoffc actually 100 points were reversed, you just got some new ones for a running total of -75 so far
 
geoffc
geoffc
(Right. Knew that).
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
I tried to establish how many upvotes you got from that individual alone and counted 16 ... tho some of those might have been votes by others that happen to have been made at about the same time. So it looks you still kept at least 4 of those upvotes, maybe 5
 
geoffc
geoffc
1:49 PM
And you are rep capped, 21 times, Pearson 17, Erik 6 (Who is Erik?),
Mark, Hash, AlanSE, Undo, and I are all at 3.
How do you see who did an upvote? Mod priv?
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
I don't really, not directly at least unless the system rises some alarms and notifies us
there are simpler ways of establishing that tho, it was the beginning of the week and someone obviously made lots of votes ... there's a page for that :)
it looked slightly differently yesterday before the reversal
@geoffc mods do see those reversals tho
 
geoffc
geoffc
Interesting.
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
you seem to be guilty of some of those :)))
 
geoffc
geoffc
Heheh. Till I learned the rules.
Now I know not to go over 5 a day.
If I see a great answer, I go look at his/her other stuff and do some side voting.
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
I wanted to dispute those with SE stuff because they actually weren't "serial" or "targeted" it just happened so that there were loads of questions made by same people on same days
private beta days are the worst for that
 
geoffc
geoffc
1:56 PM
I get that.
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
say someone asks a handful of questions and also answers some ... if they're any good then chances are many people would upvote them ... and the opposite if they're really bad ... but if that's more than 5 (I think) votes on the same person and on the same day, the system invalidates those then
 
geoffc
geoffc
Me, I am just trying to stay ahead of that mark adler slacker. :)
(Not like he has a real job, or is an actual rocket scientist).
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
hehehe
 
geoffc
geoffc
If Henry Spencer were here, and I could stay ahead of him, I would be very proud. (Not sure Mark Adler is Henry Spencer category, but still).
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
he is on SE
 
geoffc
geoffc
1:59 PM
Henry? Where?
Woo Hoo! If we suck in Henry we are SET!
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
I can't comment :P
 
geoffc
geoffc
Oh come on now... If you think I am a SpaceX fanboy, then you ain't seen me on Henry!
I was there for the crazy guy from Texas, who worked for Dell, running the "I corrected Henry Spencer T-shirts". I never got one, but I remember the joy and happiness that ensued when one of the three was granted!
(I started something similar in my niche, for I Corrected Father Ramon... I suspect i am the only one who ever got the magnitude of the compliment I was trying to bestow).
Turns out, he worked in Toronto, and I never met up with him. Then I was at dinner with a friends dad, who worked with Henry decades ago and is still friends.
Small small world.
I will probably stalk him when I am moved back to Toronto next month.
(oops, did I say that out loud, in a searchable forum? I mean grow celery stalks to send to him, ya, that was it).
 
TildalWave
TildalWave
hehehe
 
 
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Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange
4:00 PM
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Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange
4:33 PM
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