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user189275

7:00 PM

@Randal'Thor: No, RosieF mentioned its nothing more than a personalized magic square in the chat.

Lukas Rotter

The parker square is still the best magic square :P

user189275

Why ?

Lukas Rotter

The Parker Square - Numberphile

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dcfyj

@Randal'Thor would the link in this answer be considered promoting or no?

Rand al'Thor

@dcfyj I'm not sure. Here's the SE guidance (not tailored to Puzzling, btw) on self-promotion. The answer is relevant and useful, but as far as I can tell, the link isn't. Dunno if it's worth taking action on though, like editing out the link.

dcfyj

7:15 PM

The link he posted I think falls correctly under "...**Don't include links except to support what you've written.** Links are not a substitute for including information in your answer itself, and links should always be directly relevant to a part of your answer. See also: Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?..."

Rand al'Thor

@ArbitraryKangaroo No, why?

user189275

@Randal'Thor: Then what's the point of blocking you if you promote a non profit riddling website ?

user189275

I don't find any sane reason.

Rand al'Thor

@ArbitraryKangaroo Don't ask me, ask the PSE mods :-)

But whether any profit is made is irrelevant to whether SE considers a post spam.

Beastly Gerbil

How does the Stack system make money?

user189275

7:18 PM

@Randal'Thor: Then why users who mentions quipqiup or even google regularly isn't banned ? More seriously, google is not non profit

user189275

@BeastlyGerbil: From ads ?

Alenanno

@BeastlyGerbil Careers on StackOverflow, for example.

They provide a service there.

Lukas Rotter

@ArbitraryKangaroo Because they're not the owner/writers or those websites? :P

Beastly Gerbil

Hmmm, they must get some extra funding from somewhere though

Rand al'Thor

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Q: How does Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Overflow, etc. make money?

How do Stack Overflow and the rest of Stack Exchange sites stay up? Someone has got to pay for the infrastructure and people's wages. So how do these sites make money? Is it purely through advertising? (I'm not looking to copy it! :) I'm just amazed that such a great system works for free!)

Beastly Gerbil

7:20 PM

Damn it I could have had 106 upvotes if I had joined earlier...

Alenanno

Spam on SE is only when you're not actually contributing anything. If you want to share a link, it's fine as long as 1) it's relevant, 2) you add a disclaimer in case you are part of the linked service.

Rand al'Thor

@BeastlyGerbil You were too young to be allowed on SE in 2010 ;-)

Alenanno

I'm sure there are more in depth answers on Meta SE though.

user189275

@LukasRotter: What's the proof that you're not Larry Page nicknamed Luckas Rotter ? (I'm joking of course; But banning non profit website is completely nonsesense; isn't it ?)

Rand al'Thor

@ArbitraryKangaroo Let's say somebody set up a not-for-profit website or service and started spamming links to it all over SE. That would still be promotional content, whether or not they make money out of it.

Lukas Rotter

7:22 PM

@ArbitraryKangaroo Damn it, you just blew my cover :( So by now I'm Lukas, Will and also Larry. Nice. :P

user189275

@Randal'Thor: I bet quipqiuip is more mentioned here that RD.

user189275

@LukasRotter: See, isn't I very clever ? From the beginning, I was sure that you was Page. It's completely trivial too see.

Rand al'Thor

3 mins ago, by Lukas Rotter

@ArbitraryKangaroo Because they're not the owner/writers or those websites? :P

user189275

Does the promotional content get more ad if exactly same stuff is told by owners instead of users ? Completely nonsense, atleast I see no point.

Beastly Gerbil

7:35 PM

@Randal'Thor I didn't know there was an age limit!

Rand al'Thor

@ArbitraryKangaroo Sure, they'd get the same amount of eyeballs either way. But "look at this cool website someone else made" is much more likely to be posted because the poster actually thinks it's a useful/interesting website than "look at this cool website I made".

:32839037 What are the guidelines for marking an answer as community wiki? (answer by yours truly - on another site, but most of it is still true across all of SE)

user189275

@Randal'Thor: You can see deleted chat psots ?

Rand al'Thor

A: How do I use Stack Exchange if I'm under 13 years old?

How do I use Stack Exchange if I'm under 13? Unfortunately, children under 13 are not allowed to sign up for Stack Exchange accounts. If you are under 13, and are trying to participate, first off, we're sorry. It's awesome that you're already trying to help others learn, and it's frustrating to ...

@ArbitraryKangaroo Yep :-)

Beastly Gerbil

7:50 PM

Well I'm over :P

It was 5 days after my 13th when I joined :P

user189275

@BeastlyGerbil:Which year ?

Beastly Gerbil

This year

dcfyj

I was well over when I joined haha. I pretty much don't even think about age limits anymore.

Beastly Gerbil

I've only been on this site for 9 months

Lukas Rotter

Apparently the maximum age is 96, there are tons of PSE users of this age (they were completely honest, of course), but nothing above that. :P

What a terrible way of telling me how old I look :P

Beastly Gerbil

7:56 PM

What about youngest?

Lukas Rotter

@BeastlyGerbil Nothing below 13, obviously. Only 7 in the list. :P

user189275

@LukasRotter: Where are you finding it ?

Lukas Rotter

@ArbitraryKangaroo data.stackexchange.com/puzzling/revision/554071/699631 :P

Beastly Gerbil

There I am :P

dcfyj

@LukasRotter You should've sorted by Age, User link instead of by Age :P

user189275

8:01 PM

I am 14, but it's showing 15. Strange.

Beastly Gerbil

Probably put your dob in wrong

dcfyj

I didn't find me in there hehe

anyhow, I'm off for now.

Lukas Rotter

@dcfyj I actually did that in the first draft, but then I thought "Normally the name should be displayed first"... I guess that was exactly wrong, damn it! :P

The average age (if we exclude all the alleged 96 year-olds) is 29. :P

That ":P" after every message of mine is starting to annoy myself... :P

user189275

8:16 PM

@LukasRotter: O:Pkay, b:Put d:Pon't u:Pse i:Pt unne::P:PPce:Pssari:Ply, oth:Per:Pwis:Pe i:Pt b:Peco:Pmes an:Pnoyin:Pg t:Po r:Pea:Pd. :P, of ourse.

Lukas Rotter

@ArbitraryKangaroo Good idea, maybe I should make it insert ":P"'s in random places instead of just appending it! That wouldn't be annoying at all! :P

user189275

@LukasRotter: This excellent idea is gonna get a Nobel. (Well, it's so outstanding, that even a new field in Noble would be created too)