The Quill and Tankard

9:02 AM

How on Earth has this had +2? I actually sarcrificed my multiple of 5 cos of it

-2

A: Are there any real-life parallels to the Night's Watch?

This is pretty different from all of the other examples, but I thought I would throw this out here: The Aztec practice of human sacrifice. While the majority of adults sacrifices are thought to have been warriors captured in battle, the children sacrificed are thought to have been primarily noble...

Edlothiad

@amflare Just like the Night's Watch, it's an institution which had a very important function in society and thus also was held in great esteem, but it acquired a stigma as its function degraded. +1 for an excellent example "out of left field". — errantlinguist 15 hours ago

TheLethalCarrot

Oh yeah I read that so daft

Edlothiad

Why do people create so many tags =.=

TheLethalCarrot

Then the user that comments on my answer is like no you're Word of God is not good enough but this random speculation is awesome!!!

Edlothiad

Guess it's tag cleanup time

TheLethalCarrot

9:05 AM

What now?

Edlothiad

Just vote this up: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/180248/…

TheLethalCarrot

I did see that

It's the HNQ they do love their speculation

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot And shit answers, *cough* gate *cough*

TheLethalCarrot

Hahaha

Even with the odd HNQ voters I still don't understand how it got +200

Maybe I need to start putting less effort into some answers

Edlothiad

Ok I won't add a pass-ag comment

Less effort:

12

A: What was the Valar's ancient error?

D, none of the above The ancient error is touched on slightly earlier in the chapter, clarifying that they mean appearing in forms of majesty amongst the Children of Iluvatar as opposed to using secrecy (the Istari) And this the Valar did, desiring to amend the errors of old, especially that...

get source novel, ctrl + f line in question, scroll up one page, copy paste text, post.

TheLethalCarrot

9:10 AM

Well that's the OP less effort, you didn't really need to do much more than that

Edlothiad

Well I could explain what the ancient error was and find quotes for it etc, but you know my moto.

elizabeth-swann, NOOOOOOOPE. rian-johnson nooooooooope

TheLethalCarrot

Well they are crap tags haha

JAD

@TheLethalCarrot Uh, I guess with an extremely narrow scope of the question sure.

The OP seems to only be interested in the "Used to be respected, but no more" aspect

And I guess there are some parallels there. But none other whatsoever

TheLethalCarrot

I didn't really read their mountain of text

The title had enough information for me

Edlothiad

Lol

Has anyone actually read the full body of the question?

@TheLethalCarrot I love imparting my will on which tags get to exist and which don't

JAD

9:14 AM

> are/were there any real-life institutions/orders/traditions which originally served a highly-respected function to everyone but became stigmatized over time to everyone except for a certain subculture and yet continued to exist for a long time†?

TheLethalCarrot

Well a lot of tags are crap

JAD

it's in bold, youknow

TheLethalCarrot

That much bold gives no emphasis and makes it harder to read in my opinion

Edlothiad

You know what was in the title? "Things similar to the NW" and that's how I'm setting my criteria

TheLethalCarrot

I didn't even set it at that, I went straight in with his actual influences

Who cares what someone thinks now could have influenced him when he's commented on what actually influenced him

Edlothiad

9:16 AM

@TheLethalCarrot sympathy... yeeeeeeee, no

TheLethalCarrot

That was actually a tag? oh dear

JAD

Listen, I'm not saying your answer is incorrect, it's just not an answer to the question that was asked

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot oh dear, it's an IU thing :/

Still a useless tag,

@JAD GET YOUR FLAGS BOYS!

TheLethalCarrot

@JAD Well I could add a massive section explaining the similarities but I don't see the point myself

Edlothiad

modem what is this? Electrical Engineering?

TheLethalCarrot

9:19 AM

Lol

I actually thought it was completely random but at least it's a meta tag for that Q

Edlothiad

Front page is just me removing useless tags

TheLethalCarrot

There's nothing else going on at the moment so might as well

JAD

@Edlothiad meh, cbb'ed, I'm just saying that that answer is dumb, mostly is because the question is dumb, as that answer does answer the question.

Edlothiad

They're all dumb, flags out for Harambe

TheLethalCarrot

Woop came in 2nd for the monght :)

Edlothiad

9:22 AM

And this is why privileges shouldn't be rep based but should be provenedness based

provenedness = proven to be able to carry out the task.

TheLethalCarrot

That's what I've said from the beginning

Edlothiad

I know, I support your case. It's why I'm so worried about amflare getting 20k, we all know how unreasonable he can be and he'll have delete privs...

Or when he reaches 25k and gets site analytics, who knows what he'll get up to then!

Kepotx

@TheLethalCarrot dude, if even aztecs sacrifice can be speculatively related to NW (and upvoted), no wonder why Word of God answer have upvotes

Edlothiad

Wait you're saying that WoG shouldn't be upvoted

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad Damn! He'll know all our private data! :P

JAD

9:32 AM

@Edlothiad triggered

Kepotx

no, i mean that as some people upvote everything, including random answer, it's normal that they also upvote in mass good answers

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot If that's what you think site analytics is you're in for some serious disappointment.

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad I know site analytics is pointless, in my opinion anyway

Edlothiad

It's interesting to find historical site events, like the Futurama day, but that's about it.

TheLethalCarrot

So not at all then really :P

Edlothiad

9:34 AM

Ye nah it's pointless...

TheLethalCarrot

Lol

I only want 20k for delete privs then I don't care anymore

Edlothiad

Or the other thing that's been discovered is that a sports site was one of our top 25 traffic providers

TheLethalCarrot

Quidditch?

Edlothiad

38k for first page of rep, 100k for swag, y'know, the little things

@TheLethalCarrot Let me find it

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad Aye, I'm at 80th at the moment which isn't too bad :)

Edlothiad

9:36 AM

So halfway there...

No it's 36 per page, (which is bloody strange)

TheLethalCarrot

9:49 AM

Now is the slow slog through the bigger gaps though

Edlothiad

I was unable to read the fourth word as slow, I kept reading it as show and it made no sense to me...

TheLethalCarrot

Hahaha

try saying "slow slog" a few times it's quite hard

Edlothiad

Nah, I've got a highly skilled tongue ;)

Kepotx

that's what she said

TheLethalCarrot

Lol

Edlothiad

9:52 AM

@Kepotx I know what you meant to say, but it's not what you said, haha!

Kepotx

i wonder if the fact that robbert fought and win 3 battles in the same days is historically acurate, would it be off-topic to ask-it in history SE as it's fantasy-related ?

Edlothiad

Most of the gaps in the top 40-15 range are a month at most, then from 16-15 it's 11k rep... That's like 3 months

@Kepotx @Aegon would know. But I'd guess it's on-topic, you're asking if such thing has happened before

Kepotx

the thing is, we dont have lot of details about how big armies where

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad Yeah if I keep up rank 2 I'll easily get high in the ranks but I've slowed down massively

Edlothiad

17

Q: Why are we getting referrals from ratp.fr?

I was looking at the Google Analytics data1 for our site the other day, and I noticed something odd. We have access to data on referral traffic. We know that: Referral traffic is Google's method of reporting visits that came to your site from sources outside of its search engine. When som...

Kepotx

9:55 AM

i mean, battle like hastings would last longer than some small skirmish

TheLethalCarrot

Yeah it all depends on how big the armies are, locations of battle, type of battle, who commanders are etc.

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot The monthly rankings for everyone but Valorum depend on what content is asked, if HP is active, Bella is second, if LotR is asked (or star wars or questions I can google) i'm usually higher up and if it's whatever stuff you know you're in second

I reckon I could've beaten you last month, had I been active through the entire month as opposed to just the latter 2/3s

Kepotx

it also depends of what happen after the battle, how long you follow the routing ennemy...

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad Yeah and I was only really active for the first half

Kepotx

but still, three battle in the same day seems a lot to me

Edlothiad

9:57 AM

@TheLethalCarrot "active" = 50 answers in 10 days? lol

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad Well I forget how much I post sometimes :P

Edlothiad

Paha!

Aegon

10:16 AM

@Edlothiad None in which one belligerent fought off three different belligerents in one day come to mind. That too with 100% success rate

Edlothiad

2

Aegon

There are some where there were multiple battles on the same day but they were between two same belligerents and that too, with mixed results

Edlothiad

God censoring that was hard

TheLethalCarrot

Saw it yesterday, couldn't be bothered to use my amazing paint skills to censor it haha

Aegon

Found one

Battle of Alma

The Battle of the Alma (20 September 1854), which is usually considered the first battle of the Crimean War (1853–1856), took place just south of the River Alma in the Crimea. An Anglo-French force under Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud and FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan defeated General Aleksandr Sergeyevich Menshikov's Russian army, which suffered around 6,000 casualties. == Prelude == The Anglo-French forces landed on the western coast of the Crimean peninsula some 35 miles (56 km) north of Sevastopol, on 13 September 1854, at the Gulf of Kalamita ("Calamity Bay"). Although disorganised and...

Three battles on same day, collectively one battle

The result was inverse tho. Allies won, Russians lost

All three battles

Kepotx

10:20 AM

not medieval though, but nice catch

im currently writing it on HistorySE anyway

Aegon

1st: Allies win, Russians retreat.
2nd: Russians strike back, Allies retreat in confusion, Allies rally, Russians leg it.
3rd: Allies advance, Russians run for it

@Kepotx Would be interesting.

Edlothiad

They've supposedly got a muy juicy leak

TheLethalCarrot

The set that is on fire?

Edlothiad

You mean the smoke and lights?

Also, this is our new go to link when HNQ-ers come in here and complain about spoilers

TheLethalCarrot

Lol

Kepotx

10:26 AM

1

Q: Has any medieval army ever fought 3 or more distinct battles on the same day?

In the fantasy fiction A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of thrones, during Robert's Rebellion, three battles were fought in the same day, in the same place. There where particular conditions that lead to this event: Robert Baratheon knew that his ennemies would gather in particular place, so he decid...

middle-ages war battle

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad The only "leak" I've seen recently is the set that was on fire for filming I dunno what you're meaning haah

Kepotx

is Bael the bard only based on tags or can he scrap question to find "ASOIAF/GoT" related words ?

TheLethalCarrot

I think it just works for ASOIAF/GoT tags on SFF and GoT on MTV

Kepotx

is there any public API/SDK/library or whatever to create bots like this ?

Aegon

Does the comment padding feel off today to you guys or is it just me?

It looks like it is a little more right aligned than it used to be

Kepotx

10:30 AM

I know that you can make SQL querys about some SE data, but wonder how open their system is

TheLethalCarrot

@Aegon I noticed it yesterday seems to be a lot further right than it should be

JAD

@Kepotx well, you can use their post API to apply regex to every new post

but that seems a bit overkill to me

TheLethalCarrot

@Kepotx I think it's a feature of chat, it's a feed bot

@JAD You'd also probably hit the limit quite quickly

JAD

@TheLethalCarrot Smokedetector manages it somehow

Kepotx

well, you could limit to some potentially related SE like History or Worldbuilding

is there a cap of requestable post per day ?

TheLethalCarrot

10:33 AM

@JAD Yeah I don't know what the limit is just that I know there is one

Aegon

It just uses this feed scifi.stackexchange.com/feeds/…

JAD

@Kepotx I think there is an API quota of like 20k

Aegon

For all questions, you would need to use scifi.stackexchange.com/feeds

JAD

But I read somewhere that they use some kind of preliminary test to weed out obvious FPs, and only request the full body of possible spam candidates

@TheLethalCarrot charcoal-se.org/#technical-details

TheLethalCarrot

20k isn't bad aye

JAD

10:40 AM

@TheLethalCarrot especially since you can clump upto 100 postIDs together into one request

api.stackexchange.com/docs/vectors

TheLethalCarrot

Goodo

Kepotx

10:52 AM

oh, just realized know that NSNoob and @Aegon is the same person

Aegon

@Kepotx Lol

TheLethalCarrot

Yeah that threw me the first time I saw it too haha

I think I moaned at him on MTV for plagiarism of his own answer haha

Aegon

Your question is going to HNQ I think

@TheLethalCarrot Lol did you? I don't remember that. Maybe you deleted the comments before I could see them?

Kepotx

@Aegon i don't hink so, i though the HNQ algorythm was also based on answer (number of answered and cumulative score) so as there are no answer, no hotness

Aegon

@Kepotx Really? I thought activity counted as well. Edits+Comments. You are getting a nice number of views so I figured

TheLethalCarrot

10:56 AM

@Aegon It was before I was too active in the tags, as I was starting to but yeah we had an exchange in the comments haha

Aegon

Your question isn't an easy one, It would take a while for someone to dig up something, if there is something to dig up that is.

Kepotx

sure. but it is not like worldbuilding style question where you quickly got 10 answer...

you quickly found alma attle, but as I restricted it to medieval warfare, it can be harder to find a similar event

TheLethalCarrot

11:14 AM

Anyone got any idea what this user is getting at?

FWIW Hadrian's wall isn't in Scotland. — Undistraction 4 mins ago

Aegon

Found your answer

Kepotx

of course, its in Britannia, of the Roman Empire

How dare you negate the all-powernss of Empire ?

Aegon

@TheLethalCarrot He means to say, "Roma Invicta, Barbarian"

Funny how it didn't come to my mind

I asked a question about Battle of Mohi myself not too long ago

TheLethalCarrot

@Aegon Yeah but I don't see how it's relevant at all haha

That was a quick review haha

Edlothiad

11:32 AM

@TheLethalCarrot T'was this, yes, however I was trying to keep the chat reasonably clean

TheLethalCarrot

Ahh I was purposefully not saying which one

Edlothiad

> but I have been to Scotland and I have walked along what remains of Hadrian's Wall

It's Eastwatch HA SUCKERS! bet you never saw that coming

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad Yeah I know what he was referring to I just don;t see how it's relevant to the answer

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot Cuz it's obviously fake if it gets its facts wrong. It's not like Americans are just generally oblivious to anything outside their own orbit...

(was that rude?)

TheLethalCarrot

Well their not awake yet so your call :P

JAD

11:42 AM

generally, if you have to ask yourself that, it probably was

TheLethalCarrot

I think Eds filter is a lot lower than most

Edlothiad

Hey. I think everyone who appreciates GRRMs work to it's fullest and never gets insulted has a lower filter than most...

(I can't tell if you guys know which bit I think is rude?)

TheLethalCarrot

I wasn't saying my filter wasn't low haha

@Edlothiad Well there's 3 parts that people could decide to take offence it it's whether they do or not that's the case

Edlothiad

Well really there was no parts that a reasonable person would take offence to.

TheLethalCarrot

That's my opinion too

Edlothiad

11:47 AM

(what's the first part? I only see two)

TheLethalCarrot

Doesn't mean someone won't though

Well mainly 2 I was saying 3 to cover all bases :P

Edlothiad

If someone gets offended by "it's obviously fake if it gets its facts wrong", then I don't know if I can ever say anything again.

TheLethalCarrot

Well I tend not to take much offence but I know there are those who seem to find pleasure of looking for things to take offence at, even on behalf of people

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot Now I'm no Rhoynar, but you can't just say they're lost souls. They were forced from their homelands and found refuge in Dorne.

TheLethalCarrot

Lol

I've found the true inspiration for the NW

Edlothiad

12:00 PM

You've just made my earlier comments the least offensive thing in history.

TheLethalCarrot

Hahaha can't take offence at a quote though :P At least not at the quoter

If I make an answer out of it I'm bound to get some upvotes too, especially as the Aztec one has done

Edlothiad

You guys have gotten enough votes. I'm throwing a too broad vote on that Night's watch question.

TheLethalCarrot

Fair

Edlothiad

I'm voting to close this as too broad, the OP has stated in multiple comments etc. that their question is vague, and that they're looking for any parallels, this has led to the subjective list below were there is no one right answer but any example showing parallels is a valid answer. This does not fit the Q&A style of the site. — Edlothiad 9 secs ago

TheLethalCarrot

To be fair the OP did kind of ruin their own question by doing that

Edlothiad

12:08 PM

Hence why the close votes are coming in now

Or should come in now.

TheLethalCarrot

I'm waiting for the review

JAD

damn, I wanted to add an answer noting how the NW and coal miners are both covered in black

Lol

@JAD Savage

@Kepotx Told ya!

12:23 PM

Found something to answer finally and then realised it was GoT only -_-

Kepotx

@TheLethalCarrot "It is a common misconception that Hadrian's Wall marks the boundary between England and Scotland. In fact Hadrian's Wall lies entirely within England and has never formed the Anglo-Scottish border.[8] While it is less than 0.6 miles (1.0 km) south of the border with Scotland in the west at Bowness-on-Solway, in the east it is as much as 68 miles (109 km) away"

Edlothiad

Enjoy your gold badges, @Kepotx @TheLethalCarrot

TheLethalCarrot

@Kepotx I've said this twice now, I know that I just don't see how it's relevant to the answer at all

Kepotx

@Aegon yeah, two questions/answer in HNQ in the same time

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad mmmhm?

Oh

Whty?

Like, why?

JAD

12:25 PM

I guess because another answer was accepted?

but for Populist the accepted answer needs to be >10

and only the highest voted answer actually gets the populist badge afaik

TheLethalCarrot

Yeah we need it to hit 10

JAD

11*

its >10, not >= 10

Edlothiad

Lol GG TLC

TheLethalCarrot

Also FWIW I've walked the length of Hadrian's Wall so I know where it is :P

Edlothiad

Why did he accept it, because he thought it wards off the close votes, but he's wrong.

JAD

12:26 PM

Provide an answer that meets all of the following criteria (source):
it is the highest scoring answer on the question (source)
it does not have the accepted checkmark
it has a score of 23 or more
it has at least one vote more than double the score of the accepted answer
the accepted answer has a score of 11 or more
it is not an answer to your own question (source)

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad That's what you get for providing semi canon info where people just want speculation

Aegon

Populist is really hard

Edlothiad

@JAD gonna need sources

Aegon

I once thought I was close

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Q: Is it considered fair to recommend that people upvote an answer if they feel it is worth it?

I have been after the elusive Populist badge for a long time. It has been almost a year now and it still remains elusive as the candidate answer is shy of one vote and I am getting desperate. While I am confident of the answer's quality, I am not sure if asking people to consider upvoting the an...

discussion answers up-votes

JAD

669

Q: List of all badges with full descriptions

What are badge name's requirements? Why didn't I get badge name (right now)? Which badges can I earn multiple times? Jump to: Question Badges Answer Badges Participation Badges Tag Badges Moderation Badges Other Badges Area 51 Badges Documentation Badges (Stack Overf...

support faq badges tag-badges

Edlothiad

12:30 PM

Y'all talking about this badge? scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/49/populist?userid=68872

Aegon

@Edlothiad Lucky sod

TheLethalCarrot

DV's answers

Edlothiad

I'm not going to get into an argument with that guy, but I will say, I did warn him

JAD

@TheLethalCarrot it's not like you can lose the badge

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad I sense growth

@JAD Can't you? You can lose some badges

Edlothiad

12:32 PM

@TheLethalCarrot Don't be daft, I'm just doing other things

JAD

@TheLethalCarrot only tag badges

> Tag badges that are no longer applicable are revoked, unlike "regular" badges.

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad My Ed senses are failing me today

Ah fair enough

Edlothiad

@Aegon You mean providing a good answer to a question citing every occurrence in canon as opposed to some random calculation of years stating that's the requirement when it really isn't?

TheLethalCarrot

Mornin' @Mith

Edlothiad

I guess the luck is in the OP selecting the objectively worse answer.

Mithrandir

12:33 PM

@TheLethalCarrot 'fternoon

TheLethalCarrot

Evenin'

Woops ignore me

As you were

Don't mind me

Mithrandir

A Game of Thrones is long.

JAD

@Mithrandir its the shortest book though

so buckle up

Mithrandir

exactly

Edlothiad

Although there's the case where the HNQ upvotes a dumpster fire and the OP selects the one that got less love. Exhibit A

Just watch the TV show it's the same

TheLethalCarrot

12:37 PM

@Edlothiad Well they are both as bad really

Mithrandir

Normally I like long books, but I'm not sure if I want to jump into this one considering all I've heard about it

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot Both dumpster fires, but one got less love

TheLethalCarrot

Aye

JAD

@Edlothiad well, you know, a picture says more than a thousand words, and @amflare didn't include a tl:dr, so yeah tl:dr

Edlothiad

@Mithrandir It has certain topics you don't like.

@JAD 4 pictures = tl;dr?

Mithrandir

12:38 PM

I know

JAD

@Edlothiad that's >4000 words you know

Mithrandir

@Edlothiad I... don't really watch that much ;)

Edlothiad

@JAD Ah of course, the bullet points are the tl;dr

JAD

@Mithrandir I've got a feeling that that was sarcasm by Ed

@Edlothiad those make it even worse ;(

Edlothiad

@JAD y'all gotta get your ed senses fixed

TheLethalCarrot

12:39 PM

Lol

Mithrandir

My sarcasm detector always needs recalibration after a discussion with Ed.

Edlothiad

@JAD Can it get worse? Where's amflar? ANSWER FOR YOUR ABOMINATION

JAD

@Mithrandir I think it's still safe to interpret it as sarcasm

Edlothiad

Wow I still can't spell Daenerys...

JAD

Danny*

Edlothiad

12:41 PM

@Edlothiad That answer makes Rhaego look like his namesake...

0

A: How does one pronounce "Asshai"?

However you like George R. R. Martin has never been one for pronunciations and has said a few times that you can pronounce anything however you like. Favorite character? GRRM : Tyrion in Ice and Fire. Abner Marsh in Fevre Dream. Glad to hear you pronounce the names GRRM: In my youth I ...

TRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGERERERERERERERERERERERERERED

TheLethalCarrot

I want that ASOIAF badge :P

Edlothiad

Nah the quote by GRRM triggers me

Mithrandir

> knew a lot of words that I had never heard spoken aloud. When I went away to college I found I was pronouncing a lot of these words wrong.

TheLethalCarrot

@Skooba Any particular reason you want to leave that Q open?

Edlothiad

"I've come to not care about pronunciation"

Mithrandir

12:44 PM

I can definitely relate to that quote :P

TheLethalCarrot

I think the point is many cultures pronounce things differently anyway so even in the real world there's many correct pronunciations

Edlothiad

No there's one correct pronunciation, that's a ridiculous sentiment... Clearly not a linguist or a philologist

TheLethalCarrot

Well there's one pronunciation he has in mind but that doesn't mean there aren't others available

Mithrandir

You Say 'Tomato', I say 'Tomato'...

►

Edlothiad

@Mithrandir It's the british pronunciation and anything else is wrong.

JAD

12:47 PM

@TheLethalCarrot exactly, he won't go full Ed when people say something wrong ;)

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad I'll take that ;P

Kepotx

yeah, random unexpected DownVote on both TLC and my answer with NW

TheLethalCarrot

It happens

Edlothiad

@JAD Excuse me. Walk into Braavos and call it Bray-vows. A Bravo will happily come along in their colourful garms and carve you apart

Aegon

When I do that:

1. I don't get enough votes to outdo the accepted answer
2. My answer becomes the accepted answer

You're lucky that the OP didn't change the accepted answer before you had a chance to beat it.

Mithrandir

12:53 PM

> Ser Waymar Royce glanced at the sky with disinterest. “It does that every day about this time. Are you unmanned by the dark, Gared?”

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad Pronunciations are regional: Grarse and Grass for example. In Nottingham we pronounce the city Notten'am, Americans call it NottingHAM and a lot of others just say Nottingham as it's written. There are loads of examples

Edlothiad

@Aegon I'd smashed it long after the OP accepted it.

Mithrandir

...I don't believe that disinterest means what you think it means. At least, what it's supposed to mean, until people got very mixed up and started using disinterested as a synonym for uninterested.

JAD

disinterested

Adjective: disinterested (comparative more disinterested, superlative most disinterested)

Having no stake or interest in the outcome; free of bias, impartial. [from 17th c.]
1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 1:
With his disinterested passion for art, he had a real desire to call the attention of the wise to a talent which was in the highest degree original; [...]
2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 220:
People are better off abjuring violence, if everyone else agrees to do so, and vesting authority in a disinterested third party.

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> Uninterested, lacking interest

Mithrandir

It's only taken on that meaning because people keep mixing them up.

JAD

12:57 PM

that's how language works

it means whatever people use it for

Edlothiad

Mithrandir

Oh sure... after a certain while it becomes accepted and becomes acceptable. That doesn't mean that I won't complain about it while in the middle stage :P

JAD

plus, maybe Ser Royce is so uninterested, that he actually become disinterested. He didn't care about it that much, that he had no interest in the darkness whatsoever, be it 'un' or 'dis'

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