The Screening Room

Napoleon Wilson

4:00 PM

We also have talked with SE about it and have been told (and experienced) that polls are just ass.

We were encouraged to take a more progressive route in the matter.

Rand al'Thor

@AnkitSharma See, if I said things like this on SFF, I'd get called a Nazi mod ;-)

Napoleon Wilson

But I admittedly dragged this out quite a bit, so if it comes up as a natural discussion in the community, that's how it is then.

Movie Reel

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Q: What Object Did Marilyn Take & What Does it Mean?

In a scene of the final episode of the TV series Longmire (Goodbye Is Always Implied), the reoccuring character, a Crow Medicine Woman named Marilyn Yarlott (Tantoo Cardinal) is in the Police Station and swipes an inanmate object off of another character's desk. It seems like it was some kind of ...

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Q: Why does Luv cry?

SPOILERS, obviously. I watched the movie twice already and I think I have almost everything figured out. The one think though that I still can't understand are these moments where Luv cries: In the scene where Wallace examines the new replicant model (BTW what does he mean by "new model"?) Luv...

plot-explanation character blade-runner-2049

Ankit Sharma

@Randal'Thor i took my hat off when I said that :p

Paulie_D

@MovieReel Am I being too harsh here? I don't think so but I'm open to opinions. Isn't this just an Image ID question?

Napoleon Wilson

4:05 PM

Maybe a bit of both at least. If anything, the response from the asker isn't particularly awesome either.

Ankit Sharma

Uff will get no time today also to watch Punisher

9:37 already and still this cab is going zig zag

DForck42

@Paulie_D did the wiki for id this actor get updated at some oint? it seems to allude that an image-only question is ok

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "progressive", but I've seen what happens when mods "take a stand" and announce that a large class of questions are going to be declared off-topic, without doing sufficient polling with the community first. Suffice to say, it resulted in the ugliest few weeks I've ever observed on SE, and you really don't want that kind of thing happening here.

Paulie_D

I would assume that Image Id is just that regardless of what we are bing asked to identify.

Rand al'Thor

@Paulie_D Doesn't being about a specific film make it more answerable and within-scope?

Or does that make it a trivia question?

DForck42

4:09 PM

@Paulie_D I agree, but with the wiki as it currently stands, I can see how they could be confused

Napoleon Wilson

@Randal'Thor Well, no polls at least, in contrast to reasonable assessment of the state of the site and its community and a properly reasoned judgment call.

DForck42

also, they do include what movie it is from, so I guess it's not really an image-only question

Napoleon Wilson

Polling is ass because you don't have to say why they're so awesome and why all the arguments against them don't hold water. You just upvote the 1-line answer that says "Yes, I like quiz shows!".

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson Oh, I agree that simply asking people to vote for "yes" or "no" is a poor way to go about these decisions. There should always be reasons.

Paulie_D

@Randal'Thor Regarding polling...I'm concerned that the results are representative of involved users. We're a pretty small community of regulars but the voting on the last "poll" was way out of proportion to that community.

Rand al'Thor

4:12 PM

@Paulie_D If the larger userbase is getting involved with an issue, then that's great, right? I mean, you don't want the small clique of regulars to be able to decide everything.

Napoleon Wilson

And as expected, most of the maintenance work on these things is generally done by the people who don't care much about the questions.

Paulie_D

@DForck42 The Image ID...you may be right and perhaps I misspoke and it was just a "lack of research"...I found the actor with little trouble.

@Randal'Thor I don't disagree but those voters aren't the ones doing the "moderating".

DForck42

@Paulie_D it was

@Paulie_D yeah, you might be conflating the two

Napoleon Wilson

Well, doesn't help that actor-ID often also closely borders on trivia, if not carefully phrased.

Paulie_D

OK...CV retracted, I'll post an answer. If a mod could clean up the comments it would be appreciated. @NapoleonWilson @AnkitSharma

Napoleon Wilson

4:15 PM

@Paulie_D I...don't know. They're still helpful.

It's not like the question lacks problems.

Ankit Sharma

I am still on mobile, so can’t check without getting irritated with bad interface

Napoleon Wilson

It's not clear if he's actually after the character and the scene this picture takes place in, which might make a ton more sense than the current question.

Ankit Sharma

Why cab need fueling now, grrrrrr

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson If the information doesn't exist in Wikipedia or IMDb, is that enough to make it not trivia? (General query - I'm not asking about the specific question you guys are discussing, which I haven't even looked at in detail.)

Ankit Sharma

Can I get enough time to make pasta o.o

Napoleon Wilson

4:18 PM

@Randal'Thor It depends. Is the question also properly motivated?

Rand al'Thor

The "trivia" close reason is quite ... obscure at times, at least to me (and to others too, if I recall meta correctly).

@NapoleonWilson How do you mean, motivated? Isn't "because I want to know" sufficient motivation for asking a question here?

Napoleon Wilson

That's what usually makes the difference in those cases. Wanna know what car model that dude in that background scene drove or who played that dude in that 5 second scene there? I...don't know.

Tell us why you wanna know that.

@Randal'Thor It depends. If the matter itself is inherently trivial, a little context and motivation doesn't hurt.

@Randal'Thor I know. But it's neccessary for pretty much stuff like "who played that dude over there?".

Rand al'Thor

For example, how would a question like this (which I remember mainly because of its awesomely well-researched answer) have fared on M&TV?

Napoleon Wilson

"Trivia" doesn't mean "everyone knows" (we don't necessarily close easily googlable stuff) rather than "noone cares". They might overlap sometimes, though.

@Randal'Thor It seems okay, I guess. Hard to tell. A little fleshing out surely doesn't hurt.

I know SciFi is a ton more lenient in this regard anyway.

But it might have been okay here as well.

Characters make more sense than actors anyway. Since a character implies a certain degree of significance already.

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson Hmm, I see. That seems quite hard to define though, since clearly someone cares simply by the fact that they posted the question in the first place.

Napoleon Wilson

4:23 PM

@Randal'Thor Indeed it is. It can also be overused, I agree.

It was primarily created to shield against exactly those stupid database lookup factoids.

Rand al'Thor

I'm probably getting mixed up with ELU in thinking about "everyone knows" as a problem.

Napoleon Wilson

@Randal'Thor Then why don't they tell us why that's so interesting?

That's my point. If it adds to your appreciation of the work, why don't you share that with us?

DForck42

@Randal'Thor I'd say it's kinda borderline, but I wouldn't vtc it out of hand on movies

Napoleon Wilson

Often providing just a little bit of context helps to make a factoid interesting to the community at large.

DForck42

but I def agree with @NapoleonWilson that the question could be fleshed out more with what sources they are willing ot accept answers from, even if they say both movie and book sources

Napoleon Wilson

4:27 PM

I know that close-reason is a point of controversy, especially from the way more fan-driven SciFi.SE. But I think it's a necessary one.

Rand al'Thor

Hmm, I'm hunting for a meta post about the "trivia" close reason. Relatively recent, certainly 2015 or later. Possibly either asked or answered by @Catija. Well-received answer saying that this close reason is unclear and should perhaps be got rid of. But I'm not finding it ... do any of you guys know the one I mean?

Napoleon Wilson

The site has to struggle with many a stupid crap question, I won't deny that. And yes, that's to some degree due to the rather accessible and "trivial" topic it's about.

DForck42

@Randal'Thor speak fo the devil, lol

Rand al'Thor

(There, I've included a year range and the name of an actor - is that enough info for a meta ID question? :-P )

DForck42

@Randal'Thor lol

Napoleon Wilson

4:29 PM

@Randal'Thor There was one from Catija, largely unanswered, though. But I think you mistake it for another one about the "current-events" one, which got exactly such an answer (from me) and was abolished for the "recommendation" reason.

Mithrandir

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Q: Can we please redefine "trivia"?

Here's our current definition of the off-topic reason "trivia" from the "What topics can I ask about here?" help page: Unimportant trivia that does not add to the understanding or appreciation of the title. This definition is not very useful as what one person's feeling on whether it "adds ...

discussion trivia

DForck42

@Mithrandir beat me to it

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir Thanks! That's the one I was thinking of. No idea why it didn't show up on this search.

Catija

That's a good question.

Napoleon Wilson

That answer pretty much is against the banal reference kind stuff.

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Q: Are we here to identify the random stuff that people use in films or TV shows?

As a corollary to Should movie trivia questions be closed? I'd like to have a discussion about these sorts of questions. Personally, I find them generally pointless and I don't see why we entertain them here. Most of the time, the specific model/brand of a random item has no bearing on the fil...

discussion scope trivia

Mithrandir

4:33 PM

(I found that by searching for trivia in this room and looking for oneboxes.)

Napoleon Wilson

I found it in my favourites, as part of many others I planned to tackle some day.

Ankit Sharma

@Mithrandir smart boy

DForck42

@NapoleonWilson lol

Ankit Sharma

Didn't you guys supposed to ask some good question by now for me to answer O.o

DForck42

@AnkitSharma we're discussing meta stuff today it seems

Ankit Sharma

4:35 PM

Anyway Time to search some quick pasta recipes

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma I keep distracted by people asking like the big questions about site policy all at once in chat. ;-)

Rand al'Thor

I'm generally against close reasons for things like trivia or quality, because it goes against the DV-CV orthogonality that's supposed to be part of the SE model.

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson I blame @Randal'Thor :P

Paulie_D

I think that the "Trivia" close REASON needs some work. It implies that we're replicating IMDB by answering rather than explicitly saying "This isn't really important!

Ankit Sharma

Geeze, I didn't realize that Ben Affleck was so darn tall. — Wayne Werner 6 mins ago

same here

Napoleon Wilson

4:36 PM

@Randal'Thor Sometimes it's just needed, though. You can't have half the site's questions downvoted to hell (or even worse, crap not downvoted at all).

Paulie_D

Expanding it to something like "Unless the item has some bearing on the plot, period accuracy, meaning (including symbolism, etc), character motivation and the like then these questions are off topic"

Napoleon Wilson

Like, why don't we have recommendation questions? They're totally about movies, too.

@AnkitSharma Yeah, me neither. He seemed rather normal to me, if not even shorter than normal.

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson I though the same but was surprised by the fact

Napoleon Wilson

The point is, though. Often some context can totally make a question reasonable. But that's the case with many things, first and foremost "unclear what you're asking" ones.

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson Those aren't properly answerable though, so they don't really fit the SE models. Trivia questions generally are uniquely and objectively answerable.

Napoleon Wilson

4:39 PM

I would never have survived asking what car model Bruce Wayne drives in the movie, because noone really cares.

DForck42

@NapoleonWilson because we've learned over time from other sites that they tend to be low quality with no real correct answer/s

Napoleon Wilson

@Randal'Thor They totally are. Tell us why the movie is awesome. What you're saying is that they aren't uniquely answerable. But then again, you're a Literature user, too.

Ankit Sharma

Can't we talk about something else like why Rock is making that stupid Rampage film. Or the generic one why Rock want to jump in everything

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Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson Fair point, I guess. You'd think people would learn after the first dozen got downvoted to hell, even if they weren't closed. But apparently not.

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma Are you talking about The Rock?

Rand al'Thor

4:43 PM

@NapoleonWilson True, they could work in the SE model if answers were strictly enough moderated. After all, Software Recommendations and Hardware Recommendations exist. But in general they're damn hard to moderate, because you can't stop people from upvoting "watch X, it's awesome!" just because they think it's awesome too.

Ankit Sharma

holy shit I flagged it by mistake

Rand al'Thor

"Why are you throwing rocks in the river, Ankit?"
"I'm not throwing them - they're jumping of their own accord. Rock wants to jump in everything!"

Ankit Sharma

sorry @NapoleonWilson

Napoleon Wilson

Oh, I was wondering for a second. ;-)

Don't worry.

Ankit Sharma

I mean he turn up in every film

DForck42

4:45 PM

@AnkitSharma lol

Ankit Sharma

RAMPAGE - OFFICIAL TRAILER 1 [HD]

►

Napoleon Wilson

@Randal'Thor Well... 'xactly.

Ankit Sharma

and this stupid white King Kong vs giant wolf concept is stupid

Napoleon Wilson

Similar to how you can't stop people giving one-liners "that's your movie". Because it's the correct answer, right? The asker couldn't care less about details. ;-)

DForck42

@Randal'Thor yeah, we kind of learned that the hard way for lit

@NapoleonWilson yeah, I wish we could just delete those

Napoleon Wilson

4:47 PM

@DForck42 We can to some degree. And we're not too shy of doing that really.

If they have that damn tick mark, though...

Ankit Sharma

And I hate new Jumanji too

And he will be in DCEU soon, grrrrr

Napoleon Wilson

...or are upvoted. ;-P

Rand al'Thor

@DForck42 SFF also learned that the hard way. Recommendation questions were allowed once upon a time, but then there were some tough moderation decisions by Gilles et al in the early days and they all ended up getting nuked.

Nog Shine

@steelersquirrel Hahaha. But that could lead to revenge downvoting. I have already lost faith on comment upvotes.

Rand al'Thor

@DForck42 Is there a meta about deleting one-line ID answers? If not, I don't mind writing one.

Napoleon Wilson

4:49 PM

@AnkitSharma Sturrange indeed.

DForck42

@Randal'Thor do eeet

Napoleon Wilson

@Randal'Thor There's a broader one.

@DForck42 But what about those precious votes? ;-)

Ankit Sharma

Eating this dehydrated candied mixed fruits but can't make out which one is which fruit

DForck42

@NapoleonWilson I don't provide one-line answers

Napoleon Wilson

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Q: How to handle low quality identification answers?

Yes, I'm talking about the answers to identification questions. While we have a few measures to handle low quality identification questions to some degree, one of the problems of those kinds of questions, even the good ones, is that they encourage bad low quality one-line answers of the kind: ...

discussion identify answers answer-quality

Rand al'Thor

4:50 PM

@AnkitSharma Just eat and enjoy.

DForck42

when I'm being lazy I just copy-paste the plot from Wikipedia, when I'm actually feeling doing the work I describe how I found it/what led me to it

Rand al'Thor

One thing India seems to be really good at, even for someone who doesn't like spicy food, is snacks and nibbles.

Napoleon Wilson

We porobably should delete more ID-answers, so the crappy closed questions become eligible for deletion, though. ;-)

DForck42

@Randal'Thor what's a nibble?

Rand al'Thor

But then, I haven't been there, so I may just be going by "British Indian food", which is apparently quite different from real Indian food.

Ankit Sharma

4:52 PM

ON the side note got the pasta recipe I can make now, 10:22 PM already

@DForck42 wikipeida plot is too long, I add IMDb plot, trailer and one self line

@Randal'Thor lol

You calling it british make it more funny

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson Hmm, I upvoted that question, but its answer isn't really very helpful: just saying what Anime.SE ~~does~~ did.

@AnkitSharma Why?

Napoleon Wilson

Well, yeah...

Rand al'Thor

Also, TL;DR, man! :-P Who's going to read all through that whole question?

Ankit Sharma

@Randal'Thor reminded me all the "britisher" talk

Napoleon Wilson

Noone, so better ask "should we delete all the ID answers? Yes/No?". ;-)

In seriousness, though, bold markup is my TL;DR. I despise the words "TL;DR" actually appearing in a post.

Rand al'Thor

4:58 PM

Bold markup for summaries is good, but it needs to be done in the right way ;-)

DForck42

data.stackexchange.com/movies/query/761764/short-id-answers

@NapoleonWilson ^^

Rand al'Thor

Holy smoke, how do I have so many badges on M&TV meta?

DForck42

@NapoleonWilson can I start flagging terrible id answers?

Nog Shine

@Randal'Thor You proposed an FR.

For tv.SE

Napoleon Wilson

@DForck42 What's that about?

@DForck42 I won't complain about flags on ID stuff. Might not lead to immediate deletion yet, though.

I haven't checked the list of post-noticed answers for quite some time either, though.

DForck42

5:02 PM

@NapoleonWilson basically, finds any open id question that has any answers on it that is the length or shorter of a tweet (280 chars), then sorts the answers by score

Napoleon Wilson

Ah.

Nog Shine

@DForck42 wow!

DForck42

@NogShine I dream of sql ;-)

i still need the marshal badge, so FLAG ALL THE THINGS!!!!!!!

Napoleon Wilson

Those flags will go through the community first anyway.

DForck42

@NapoleonWilson yeah, which is more fair tbh

if/when they arent' deleted, i'll flag them later for mod attention

so... DOUBLE FLAGS!!!

Napoleon Wilson

5:13 PM

Hehe!

If the situation calmed down a little, I might go watch The Revenant now, though. ;-)

Rand al'Thor

@DForck42 If they aren't deleted, your first round of flags won't be marked helpful, so that won't do your Marshal badge any good.

@NapoleonWilson I'm writing up a meta post ;-)

DForck42

@Randal'Thor fair

Ankit Sharma

@Randal'Thor means you are upto some crazy shit :P

DForck42

@NapoleonWilson movies.stackexchange.com/questions/59639/…

Ankit Sharma

And thus pasts recipe is not as quick as I though

DForck42

5:17 PM

a one-line answer that was accepted

Ankit Sharma

I might have opted for @DForck42's paper recipe

Rand al'Thor

@AnkitSharma The past isn't very quick - that's why it's in the past ;-)

DForck42

@AnkitSharma lol

Napoleon Wilson

@Randal'Thor Hmpf. :'(

@DForck42 See that little green check-mark? That ruins all the fun. ;-)

Ankit Sharma

@Randal'Thor lol

Rand al'Thor

5:19 PM

@NapoleonWilson Hey, why the sadface?

Ankit Sharma

@Randal'Thor O.o

Napoleon Wilson

@Randal'Thor I'm just kidding. Your effort is totally appreciated.

Ankit Sharma

So how many meta are we expecting O.o

Napoleon Wilson

I just thought I could finally relax and watch my movie. ;-)

Ankit Sharma

I am Hangry, so free downvotes :P

Rand al'Thor

5:21 PM

@AnkitSharma Just one from me ... for now.

Don't worry, I think you'll like it.

I dunno why you guys get so jumpy when I say I'm writing a meta post :-P

Napoleon Wilson

@Randal'Thor I was just kidding, I knew you would probably write a reasonable meta post.

DForck42

@NapoleonWilson lol

Napoleon Wilson

It was just about me relaxing on my free day.

Ah, I see a red dot on the Low Quality review queue. ;-)

Nog Shine

There is a red dot in VLQ

@NapoleonWilson Jinx

Ankit Sharma

@Randal'Thor I am Hangry ( hungry +angry) , so don't take me serious

@NapoleonWilson I hate it

Napoleon Wilson

5:34 PM

Huh? You hate what?

Nog Shine

He hates that red dot.

Napoleon Wilson

I encouraged him to flood us with flags. (But I also think you''re meaning something different.)

Nog Shine

It is irritating to see like that review number in the old design.

Napoleon Wilson

Oh, I actually like it. If only there was also a grey dot before everything explodes.

Ankit Sharma

I hate the new top bar, that weird red dot and waiting for food

Nog Shine

5:35 PM

But I had no issues with the number in the old top bar

Napoleon Wilson

I don't particularly care about the new top-bar, apart from the lack of a review-reminder.

Ankit Sharma

I want old top bar back

Napoleon Wilson

And it is too high! After scrolling down with the mouse wheel once, our beloved movie banners aren't tight with the top window boundary anymore!

Nog Shine

@NapoleonWilson I proposed an FR for that and it got a status-planned

Dunno when it will be completed.

Napoleon Wilson

Yeah, there's multiple about that. Catija has some questions and answers for that too.

Nog Shine

5:38 PM

Yeah. She mentioned my post in it. :)

Rand al'Thor

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Q: Should one-liner ID answers be deleted or improved?

The problems with bad answers to ID questions have been discussed at Answering an ID Question, a PSA and How to handle low quality identification answers?, although not with any clear conclusion on how to handle them. I've also discussed, on another site, what I think makes a good ID answer. The ...

discussion identify answers answer-quality

Enjoy.

Nog Shine

@Randal'Thor Good you have posted the question by yourself otherwise we would see it after 2 hours if posted by @metareel

Napoleon Wilson

Oh! I thought an answer to the existing question. Wut?

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson Meh, answers to old meta posts don't tend to get much attention.

Nog Shine

I always thought it was a question.

Rand al'Thor

5:40 PM

Posting a new question seemed like a better way to actually get some discussion going.

Maybe even a "hot meta post" on the sidebar of the main site.

Napoleon Wilson

But isn't it aksing the same thing?

We also tend to delete some of them already. So I hope noone answers with "never". ;-)

Ankit Sharma

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Q: How Hela can hold or break Mjolnir?

I'm talking about Thor: Ragnarok trailer We know that Thor's hammer can be held only by them who are worthy of it. In the first trailer we saw Hela broke Thor's hammer. But how Hela is worthy of it. She has evil intentions and wants to destroy Asgard. Not only she held it, she broke it into p...

plot-explanation marvel-cinematic-universe thor-ragnarok

why it's in reopen queue

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson Well, yours is saying "here's a problem, what shall we do?", but mine is (I think?) being more proactive about proposing a solution.

Ankit Sharma

Question still have trailer screnshot not movie one :p

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma I guess because it could be answered now?

Rand al'Thor

5:43 PM

It could work as an answer to yours, but then it'd probably be largely ignored.

Napoleon Wilson

Similar to SciFi's (personally rather odd) "future works" policy.

Rand al'Thor

@AnkitSharma Because three people voted to reopen it.

Napoleon Wilson

@Randal'Thor I guess.

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson not really answered in film itself, magic mumbo jumbo that's it

Rand al'Thor

Not the ~~droids~~ answer you were looking for? :-P

Ankit Sharma

5:44 PM

@Randal'Thor THat I can surely check but screenshot is not canon to film as in film it happen in norway not new work

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma Yeah, I'm not convinced about it either. It is asking for comics references, though. For whatever that's worth.

@Randal'Thor Well, it's a reasonable question and I upvoted it, don't worry.

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson I meant my comment to Ankit.

Ankit Sharma

This should be reopened as it is answerable now that the movie has been released and explains it. — J Doe Nov 6 at 3:57

Napoleon Wilson

It just feels like pretty much a duplicate of the other one. But I could get behind your viewpoint.

Ankit Sharma

ok

Napoleon Wilson

5:45 PM

@AnkitSharma Yeah, it's not. The movie doesn't adress this at all. ;-)

Ankit Sharma

and screenshot is wrong, get the movie screenshot :p

Napoleon Wilson

I'm fine with waiting for 2 other people on that. 5 mortals closed it.

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson same here

I don't interfere in muggle business :P

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson Hmm, could be a candidate for migration then, if it's not reopenable here.

@AnkitSharma flags for mod There, it's your business now :-P

Ankit Sharma

Whoever flagging, keep patience, I need to eat first :P

Rand al'Thor

5:48 PM

Oh, a featured tag?

Ankit Sharma

@Randal'Thor ohhh u are the flagger

@Randal'Thor we are so generous people here ;)

Rand al'Thor

@AnkitSharma No, I haven't flagged anything here today.

Blame @DForck42 ;-)

@AnkitSharma You can afford to be, with your volume of meta posts.

Ankit Sharma

No point of having diforck's question in feature tag as -ve score keep it away from bulletin @NapoleonWilson

Rand al'Thor

Wait until you get half a dozen hot controversial meta discussions going on at the same time.

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma ?_?

Rand al'Thor

5:51 PM

@AnkitSharma s/Dizzle/DForck?

Napoleon Wilson

Are you talking about the other guy with a D?

I'm not sure -1 keeps it out of the bulletin, though. Are you sure about that?

Ankit Sharma

@Randal'Thor ooops

@NapoleonWilson 99% sure

Napoleon Wilson

Uhuh. We'll see then.

Can't hurt, though, I just freed up some places anyway.

Ankit Sharma

When I made that meme meta it never came in bulletin board after getting -ve vote

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson A negative score shouldn't keep a featured post from being featured.

Napoleon Wilson

5:54 PM

Once it switches it will be there.

Rand al'Thor

It might stop it from appearing in the "hot meta posts" section if it's not featured, maybe.

But that's actually a good reason to feature it - if it won't have a chance of appearing in the sidebar otherwise.

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma Didn't that thing go out in a flash of a few hours? (if even that.)

Rand al'Thor

@AnkitSharma What meme meta?

> Me, me, me - ta.

Ankit Sharma

It's 11:24 already, is my pasta my dinner or next day brekfast O.o

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma I know, all these important policy discussions. Hmpf!

iandotkelly

5:55 PM

Why do we have 27 flags on ID questions?

Rand al'Thor

You guys did sign up for this ;-)

Napoleon Wilson

@Randal'Thor Well, you'd also think a bounty would make a heavily downvoted post appear on the front-page. It doesn't, though.

iandotkelly

@Randal'Thor It was so long ago I barely remember signing up for anything ;)

Rand al'Thor

49 mins ago, by DForck42

i still need the marshal badge, so FLAG ALL THE THINGS!!!!!!!

Napoleon Wilson

@iandotkelly We talked about one-line answers and I encouraged people to flag them.

iandotkelly

5:56 PM

ahh

Ankit Sharma

@Randal'Thor movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1899/…

Napoleon Wilson

55 mins ago, by Napoleon Wilson

@DForck42 I won't complain about flags on ID stuff. Might not lead to immediate deletion yet, though.

iandotkelly

Yeah - I may wait for some conclusion from the meta-discussion first

Rand al'Thor

@iandotkelly Well, you didn't sign up, at least originally ;-)

iandotkelly

That is true

Ankit Sharma

5:57 PM

@Randal'Thor holy moly

I can get marshal if I retire

Rand al'Thor

@AnkitSharma Aww, why deleted? :-(

Napoleon Wilson

We can at least slap some post notices on them. Or kill the ones with existing notices, downvotes and no tick marks.

iandotkelly

I wonder if we could get an ID this 'book / movie / music / whatever' site going, and free this one up

Napoleon Wilson

@iandotkelly I doubt it. It has been discussed before and even proposed, I think.

Like ELL was originally founded as a ~~low quality~~ beginner version of ELU? ;-)

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson Isn't the whole point of a post notice to be a warning of impending deletion if you don't fix up your post?

Napoleon Wilson

5:59 PM

@Randal'Thor Well, sure.

Rand al'Thor

So if it's had an existing notice for a while and hasn't been improved, HAMMERTIME!

Napoleon Wilson

I guess?

As said, I haven't been through the list of post-noticed answers in a while.

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