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Q: Does Draco Malfoy truly love Hermione?

I have heard rumors that Draco had always had a soft spot for "Granger" as he called her... I have a million questions relating to this would have been ship. I sooo wish that Rowling would have done a little bit in Draco's perspective. Hermione was that special girl who is different. Smart, prett...

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Bat

3:47 AM

@DVK-on-Ahch-To Congratulations on getting 100 golds..

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Mithrandir

10:43 AM

Happy birthday, Professor Snivellus!

Daily floof 2017/1/9, in honor of Snape's birthday

Derpy

11:11 AM

@Mithrandir needs brass monocle.

Derpy

11:38 AM

Zaphod

12:14 PM

Q: An old SF novel about interstellar war fought without FTL drives

The funny thing about this one is that, until recently, I thought I already knew the title and author of the novel in question! For many years, I honestly believed that what I am about to describe was the Poul Anderson novel called Tau Zero. But then I found myself reading something online about ...

story-identification novel

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Gallifreyan

1:20 PM

@Catija there was no need to remove that message.

Catija

@Gallifreyan they spammed it in five rooms and it collected a bunch of flags that were breaking things. It was going to be deleted as spam/offensive.

Gallifreyan

@Catija I can't notice anything offensive there. And something being posted to other rooms doesn't and shouldn't concern the people in this room, especially since it's relevant thematically here. Granted, it's not the best review in my humble opinion, but there's nothing wrong with it that would warrant flags or deletion.

Catija

@Gallifreyan And yet, the five messages together attracted at least 15 flags.

Gallifreyan

@Catija There was only one message here, and by no stretch of imagination can I find anything flag-worthy in it. As I said, posting the same message in multiple rooms isn't an abuse of the system.

Mithrandir

1:53 PM

@Gallifreyan Yes, on its own it wasn't a problem, but sometimes you have to consider things in context. In this case, quickly spamming the message in multiple rooms. That's considered abusive behavior. So they were deleted.

Additionally, they were getting so many chat flags that it actually overloading the chat flag system. So... yeah, I'd say that deleting it was a good choice.

Gallifreyan

I don't see why that would be considered abusive behaviour.

Mithrandir

You don't think that sending the exact same message in many different rooms promoting your own blog is spammy/abusive behavior?

Derpy

@Mithrandir sorry to hijack the discussion, but just to point that out. Didn't find a monocle snake. But it seems that other pictures of that same snake also have mustaches

Gallifreyan

@Mithrandir Nope, no harm done.

Vroomfondel

2:20 PM

Q: Was Jonas Willard inspired by anyone in particular?

In Isaac Asimov's short story “Gold”, Laborian is clearly a self-insertion of Asimov himself, and the story in the story is Asimov's own book The Gods Themselves. I'm wondering though, what about the other major character in this short story? Is the film producer Jonas Willard invented complete...

isaac-asimov

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Zaphod

5:07 PM

Q: Short Story involving an investigation into crimes at a designer baby facility, ending implicates eugenics

I'm pretty sure I read this in the late 1980s to the early 1990s in Ashland, KY, in an anthology of science fiction. Someone was sent in to investigate crimes at a facility for designer babies. I don't remember if there had been an actual murder, destruction of property, or simply too many accide...