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@Rainbacon TWP has slowed down as well
 
 
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Is she a student there? it sounds like it, but it's not clear. — baldPrussian 54 secs ago
#12373 baldPrussian (9725 rep) | Q: How can I tactfully ask someone to reply more promptly? (score: 0) | posted 3 minutes ago by Canada - Area 51 Proposal (987 rep)
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Q: How can I tactfully ask someone to reply more promptly?

Canada - Area 51 ProposalHow can my student grandmother convince her university's staff to answer her succinct emails promptly, say within 24-48 hours? Most of them can't be reached by telephone. After each email, she usually has to email again to chase, before she receives an answer or a holding reply (acknowledgement...

 
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Q: How can I tactfully convince someone not to repeat something I already know?

Canada - Area 51 ProposalMy student grandmother's university staff always uselessly reminds her to consult the university's website for information, when she already did and could not find the necessary information there. She feels that she's been tactful with these staff, as they're not acknowledging the uselessness of ...

 
3:47 AM
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Q: Girlfriend cheated on me long time ago, still can't overcome it

JohnDoeContext: I (29M) have been with my girlfriend (28F) for 1 year 5 months. 8 months in, she cheated on me, but due to the circumstances, I told her I forgive her and we kept dating. We are still together. Details: 3 days before becoming my girlfriend, she slept with somebody else (let's call him...

 
 
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5:02 AM
...and the safest thing is to avoid confronting the person oneself! Discretion is the better part of valor and an abusive patron is just as much the club's problem (as the affected customer's), which is why you have my upvote @D.Hutchinson -- you really hit a home run here! — English Student 1 min ago
#12298 English Student (7557 rep) | A: Witnessed a woman being abused (groped) in a nightclub (score: 106) | posted 3 days ago by D.Hutchinson (3336 rep) | edited 2 days ago by Nerd (15 rep)
Matched regex(es) ["chatty"]
 
 
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6:06 AM
morning
 
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morning
 
 
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7:29 AM
yesss thank you shog for dealing with the gay-coworker-flirt question :)
 
7:58 AM
@D.Hutchinson people can and do change
FWIW I'm voting for that person as my first choice in the current SO election
 
@Magisch yeah :)
really nice story (though I still have to read it ... )
SE CMs working their magic with people who go through tough times in their personal life (and take it out on internet strangers) and helping them get better and actually become valuable users to SE in the end ...
^ that's only my guess at what happened; I'm not entirely sure. I should really read up on it at some point ...
 
 
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10:20 AM
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Q: How to stop people from looking at my mouth when we're having a conversation?

CartmanContext I am a male in the early 20s. My work requires me to frequently communicate face-to-face with customers that are often strangers to me. Because of this I tend to take good care of my appearance. I neatly trim my beard, put product in my hair and work out a few times a week. When I'm in ...

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Q: How to "force" group member to deliver work?

XtremeBaumerI am currently experiencing a very unpleasent situation. We are a group of 5, working on a software project for school. We use discord to orginize us and to talk with each other. Everybody is doing his/her task and delivers on time as well as communicates properly, except for one guy. He takes ...

 
11:06 AM
What is the course of action now for questions that ask how to make X do Y? as in this new question.
I didn't follow the meta recently and all I can find about it are these 2 but no conclusion was reached.
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Q: Do we need to re-write "How can I get X to do Y" questions?

MagischThis was primarily spurred by yesterdays question of: How can I get my sister to stop asking me to help her smoke? I think the title (and problem statement) is problematic here, for two reasons: It is asking about a way to compel an action from someone. Not to talk to them about it, not to co...

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Q: Let's talk with X about Y so we can achieve Z

TinkeringbellI rummaged through our questions from last week and noticed they most all fit into certain categories: How to talk to X about Y, so I achieve Z? How to ask a friend to do professional work? How to ask ex to not be too personal How do I ask my Dad to finance my computer? How do I approach tell...

 
11:26 AM
I don't think 'making X do Y' is an XY problem, even if the two capital letters are the same
 
...right
Sorry, bit distracted
 
hah don't worry, no harm done, no db table dropped
 
Can I post a "How can I make my neighbor understand that I am right", question? I hsvrn't had anything deleted yet.
 
@IPSCommentBot Random thought: we should rename you "skeleton", since then you'd be the skeleton in the closet.
 
11:43 AM
@RichardU this is exactly the type of 'make X do Y' questions I was Inquiring about half an hour ago. You can't make him understand. What you can do is improving the chance that he understands. But I can't find a meta thread saying it is off-topic. Somewhere in meta I read "Questions about interpersonal problems including how to talk to X about Y to get them to do Z are currently on topic here"
So theoretically You should be fine if you decide to post your Q. personally I would try to reword that question a little before posting. Or you could intentionally leave it as is, and help start a discussion about exactly that problem :)
 
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Q: How should I react on the feeling of being left out?

JaegerI have asked this question in The Workplace, but it didn't seem to be the good place for this question, so I'm trying my luck here. I have been working in the place I currenly am for more than a year now (IT sector), and since a few month, I have the feeling that I'm being left out. We're about ...

 
12:00 PM
@Cashbee Yeah, that was what I was getting at. A question like that should be closed.
 
On a sidenote; "How can I make my neighbor understand that I am right" sounds a little snotty, therefore almost asking for another wild discussion in comments. How about "How can I help my neighbor reevaluate his position on topicXYZ"
but that again sounds too strange or forced. idk, do what you gotta do :)
 
 
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1:13 PM
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1:37 PM
Oooh my edits are now applied immediately, no more waiting for the edit review. Let the trolling begin! thehe just kidding, but I reeeally like that privilege
@AJ i removed my comments to your answer and edited the question myself :)
 
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Q: How can I help a close person that is toxic?

André SousaThe person I'm talking about is my own mother. She has depression and she's seeing a doctor. It is a little rough talking about your own kind like this, but as rough as it is, it's the truth. My mother grew me and my sisters by herself, after my dad passed away a long time ago. I think that th...

 
@ExtrovertedMainMan "My mother grew me and my sisters by herself" - didn't we just this week talk about parents 'growing' their children? :D
 
@Cashbee I fixed it :) My edits just don't get applied as fast as yours
 
@Rainbacon noooo why would you edit that out
 
I was trying to make the post a bit easier to read
 
1:49 PM
nonono you did fine I am just messing around ;)
 
It certainly does make sense that parents would grow children. After all, why else would the send them to the child garden?
 
hhhaahahahhaha well played
 
 
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3:00 PM
interpersonal.stackexchange.com/a/12401/11659 Is it worth editing this answer to remove the suggestion that the OP needs god to solve their problem or should I just wait for the flag I raised on it to go through?
 
@Rainbacon Mods already responded to it.
 
Yeah, I just saw that
 
@Rainbacon IMO that's something you could have done yourself. Edit and comment.
The only thing getting a mod adds in that scenario is a diamond next to the comment.
 
@sphennings I agree that I could have done it myself, but I wasn't sure, which is why I asked here. Also, I could only suggest the edit.
 
Only being able to suggest edits complicates things a little bit.
 
3:12 PM
indeed it does
Is there a way I can get chat to show me a timestamp on all messages or am I limited to just the ones it decides I need to see a time on?
 
Hover over the "yesterday" or "an hour ago". The z time is there for everything if you hover.
 
Ah, thank you.
 
I can't find any "yesterday" or "an hour ago".. But i see the time passed since the message was posted when clicking on the chevron-down on the left
 
@Catija you missed all the fun yesterday, including a visit from Uncle Shog. He delivered several spankings to the naughty little boys and girls who were being mean.
 
@RichardU I'm not sure what you're talking about... but I'm glad you had fun?
 
3:23 PM
@Catija a few of us exhausted our flags on this one interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/12348/…
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Q: How to tell a gay co-worker to stay far and to never try to flirt

Moslem CherifI am working in a company in Germany, and I have co-workers from different cultures and countries. As a person, I am open and I don't have any problem with any religion or idea, because I believe everyone is free in this life. Around 2 months ago, the company recruited someone who's gay. For me, ...

The nastiness was up to 11, but the community acted well in flagging all the nasty comments and answers. It was done very well and demonstrated a cohesiveness that I haven't seen before. Everyone should be proud.
I take it as a definite sign that this site is starting to find it's stride.
 
@RichardU proud that a closeworthy Q got into HNQ? :P
 
@Cashbee proud that it was shut down and all the nastiness was handled without a complete meltdown of the site. It was handled very well.
 
@Shog9 as you can see, the question was clear, and I wrote down above. — Moslem Cherif 9 hours ago
 
Things will always go wrong, that's life, but it's how those difficulties are handled that speaks volumes.
 
what is he trying to say?
 
3:27 PM
@Catija Do custom close reasons that are retracted still show up when looking at custom close reasons?
 
@Cashbee I am not sure what he is trying to say. The OP is having problems with English, it appears.
 
I was only loosely following things but it looked like the core question changed multiple times before being closed.
 
is it allowed/ok to answer your own question with another account and then accept that answer? I find this very strange
look at the votes of that answer and the one with the most votes
 
I believe that's not ok.
 
@Cashbee I was actually thinking of raising a custom mod flag on SO this morning for that same user for that very reason, though this is probably a better example of the behavior
 
3:36 PM
@sphennings It was originally poorly phrased due to language difference.
 
@Rainbacon what example did you have?
 
I suspect when he said a "friendship" with someone who is gay, he meant relationship. Later edits seem to confirm that.
 
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@Catija you really need to take a look at other room.
 
@Cashbee Nope. You can raise a mod flag about it.
 
It doesn't appear nearly as anomalous as the one from here though
I wasn't sure if there was enough evidence of wrongdoing on SO
 
3:44 PM
@Mithrandir on it
 
Publicly linking to suspicious pages, though, is highly discouraged.
 
@Mithrandir what is a suspicious page? Does TV Tropes count?
 
I'm sure that @Mag can tell you more about that.
 
@Mithrandir did not know, will refrain in future
 
@RichardU >.<
 
3:48 PM
And right now is the part where I pretend to put a witty, but annoying series of tropes, all linked in the answer..... refraining from actually doing so to save @Mithrandir from an almost certain migraine
 
@Rainbacon Flagged the answerer of that just today, fwiw
 
@Magisch Did they set off your sock puppet alarm?
 
showed up in my serial voting detection query, yeah
 
@Magisch you were conspicuously absent from the dustup that I had nothing to do with causing yesterday.
 
yesterday was my free day :(
what happened?
 
3:51 PM
@Magisch as for Cereal voting, I vote for Count Chocula.
 
Interestingly enough, it was that same user. Posted a question and changed the meaning several times
 
@RichardU don't you mean Count Shogula?
 
It hit HNQ and got some crazy stuff before shog came in and cleaned house
 
@Magisch Someone with a poor command of English tried to post that he had been hit on by a gay coworker, but his explanation that he didn't have a problem with gay people, just with being hit on was interpreted as him hating gays. Then the attacks came that made your post a few months back look like a love-in by comparison
 
sounds pointless and unpleasant
 
3:54 PM
@Magisch several of us exhausted our flags. Then, the Shogfather came in and made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
The community handled it well though.
Nobody really went on attack, comment wars were avoided, everyone just flagged.
Don't you just love it when you see your baby growing up and taking her first steps?
 
4:38 PM
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Q: My significant other has stuff from a past relationship that is also part of his work

Andrea MoraMy significant other got rid of old stuff and things he not longer needs from his house, for me that included past relationships objects.But I saw the other day in his desk some songs he wrote to his ex, I didn't say anything since he is a musician and his job is to make music.however it feels as...

 
4:56 PM
interpersonal.stackexchange.com/q/12348 Hint: we have a chatroom.
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@Tinkeringbell yes but it is so much more fun to watch those train wrecks happen.
Practicing Lokeanism is such a chore, but it does have it's rewards
 
@RichardU I guess our definitions of fun differ a looot then. If you prefer to watch someone struggle with their post just because they don't speak enough English, have fun!
 
@Tinkeringbell Oh no, I prefer to help him, unfortunately all of my comments telling people to cut him a break were deleted along with all the ones calling him all sorts of names. My fun was watching Shog smack the bad people silly.
I prefer to keep my trolling skills fresh by disrupting invading trolls. After all, one resident troll is enough
 
The Shoggoth's mighty power, none dare stand against.
 
My point was, I'm seeing 2 people in here saying 'the OP probably has difficulty communicating because of English', I'm seeing a comment stating the same on the question... yet no-one had the sense to invite that user to chat?
 
5:10 PM
@Tinkeringbell well, once Shog laid the smack down, there seemed no point, and before that we were putting out fires. Those comments were so nasty, they even filled me with disgust.
 
@RichardU Shog put out all fires, now it's the communities turn to rebuild
Anyways. I've done my job here for today, bye!
 
@Tinkeringbell Have fun. I'll leave the rebuilding to others, myself. I can't start earning a reputation of being trustworthy or anything.
 
 
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Q: Closure: How can I tactfully ask someone to reply more promptly?

Canada - Area 51 ProposalOne of the closers commented: I'm voting to close this question as off-topic [1.] because this site isn't an e-mail writing service as you've already been explained countless times. [2.] Also, please stop reposting your old, deleted questions without improvements. I didn't intend to ask f...

 
7:17 PM
^This guy words alot of his questions really similarly
and seems to post dupes of the questions he has already had answered
 
@spiralsucculent I'm on it... I did that.
 
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Q: How can I say I am an outstanding leader without sounding arrogant?

Patrick McKeenI'm filling out a short resume sort of form to apply for a volunteer leadership position and one question I need to answer is, "Why do you want to come back as a leader? What makes you good for this position?" I am a born leader with strong leadership qualities and I would like to make them know...

 
@spiralsucculent Yeah, I see 3 questions that are all about getting quicker replies to email
 
I posted an answer to superman's question there.
 
@RichardU Bonus points if your CAR story involves an actual motorized vehicle
 
7:26 PM
@Rainbacon The reason that 'we don't write your e-mail for you' is in the help center is probably largely due to that user.
 
@Rainbacon I have some CAR stories that involve trains. Does that count?
 
@sphennings Yes, trains have cars. Also I like trains so they get a pass for everything
@Tinkeringbell I can see why from their question history
 
The words "safety critical infrastructure" work with both recruiters and managers.
@Tinkeringbell Perhaps we should start flagging them as duplicates.
 
@sphennings I just popped in to check on the chatroom and saw them going at it again, and thought.... UGH! YUK! and 'why aren't there any close-votes yet' (question posted later was closed). So, I cast first vote because I'm done with those questions (After over 3 months of blissful silence, I actually had gotten my hopes up, in vain it seems)
I didn't have the will to look for duplicates.
 
@Tinkeringbell Since it can be closed as off topic, I can't blame you for not searching for duplicates.
My answer reflects this.
 
7:35 PM
Your answer already has earned my approval
 
Normally I don't like diving for old questions to close but since this question references their back catalog I was thinking it's time to put some votes back on those questions.
 
Oh seriously.
 
I think I already voted on most of those
 
And this induced a flagban. Lovely.
Well. That's that.
 
@Mithrandir Seems a bit odd. Even if you count declined, disputed, and retracted as negative you still have an 80% helpful rate
 
7:42 PM
what induced a flagban?
I'm fairly close to a flag ban myself.
 
I had 6 flags declined that had been pending for a while the other day. As soon as I had raised 10 flags this week, the automatic thing kicked in because that's more than 10% of my handled post flags in the past week.
 
@Mithrandir ouch!
 
Sounds annoying
 
At least I can still raise comment flags.
 
I don't understand the reticence to approve flags
 
7:46 PM
Rolling over those, the time for those declines shows as "Yesterday".
 
Those aren't the nicest decline messages either
 
I'm wondering how I've managed to avoid the axe. @Mithrandir is a good guy. I'm at best the token evil teammate
 
My guess is one mod got tired of those flags and decided to decline them all. I was unlucky.
 
@Mithrandir That's unfortunate
 
8:02 PM
@Mithrandir Yeah... not a mod.
 
Oh? A CM? O_o
 
Probably just a high rep user
 
High reputation users can't decline custom mod flags.
 
Are those custom mod flags? They don't look it from the picture you posted
Maybe I'm just reading something wrong
 
@Rainbacon Yeah, they were.
 
8:09 PM
Ah, ok.
I think I've only ever used 2 custom mod flags across all stacks. So I'm not as familiar with them
 
Ah, maybe @Mithrandir got caught up in Shog's purge
 
8:44 PM
It's getting very bothersome when people drive by downvote on meta without taking the time to offer up an alternative answer.
 
@sphennings yep, it's pretty much driven me out of Meta
 
@sphennings could be the OP not liking your answer to their question
 
I get that peoople may disagree with the existing answers but if you don't like any of the existing ones then make a better one.
 
I need to help stabilize this place. I can hardly be the token evil teammate when there is so much other evil out there.
 
@RichardU If you want to be troll protector of IPS you got a lot of work ahead of you.
 
8:54 PM
@Mithrandir I declined all of those flags.
 
@Shog9 Any particular reason?
 
well... going by the decline reasons, 3 particular reasons
 
I mean... I'm not sure what's to gain in addition to the comment I left and the flag itself.
 
moderators are here to assist you in moderating the site. But moderation neither begins nor ends with the team.
Presumably there's a reason why those answers should've been... something
Something you could've put into a comment when downvoting
But the flags contained neither reason nor request
 
I did leave a comment.
 
8:56 PM
then why skimp on the flag?
"This answer should be deleted because it provides a suggestion without explaining how it might solve the asker's problem"
 
Because I assume that the handling moderators are aware of the policies set on meta and/or will look at the post, including comments?
 
Why?
Why should anyone do that if you can't be bothered to give them something to look for?
...wow, GIMP takes a long time to start up
 
...I'll disagree, again, that I didn't give them anything to look for; I left a comment, complete with a link to meta, and raised an (albeit short) flag. I can see the argument for including more detail but it's not like that short flag was the only thing I did.
 
@Shog9 So does footyshoop
 
and folks say GIMP isn't competitive. Pfft.
@Mithrandir it was insufficient
and...
...it's kind of a bad sign that you left the exact same flag on numerous answers
if they'd been identical or even similar answers, that'd have been understandable
but...
 
9:04 PM
The answers themselves aren't similar except in what they lack.
Alright. So I'll include more explanation in my flags, when I'm out of the flagban. I wouldn't have minded the declines so much if not for that.
 
Q: Assuming I have no way of knowing this person's marital status, should I use "Mrs." or "Ms."? Or is it a best practice to use neither?
A: Unless you are positive that someone is married you should not use Mrs. If you want to use one of the two then use Ms.
Your comment on A:
> Hey, thanks for the answer! Can you please explain exactly why you think that this is a good idea? Why do you say to take this course of action? What’s the thought process behind this answer? As this currently stands, this is essentially a “Try this!” answer. We require that answers provide some sort of explanation for why they are suggesting this solution, and unfortunately, at the moment this answer doesn't appear to do that.
Now, why are you flagging that answer (twice)?
 
@Shog9 Because we have a meta policy that such answers without any explanation/backing up are not acceptable for the site. I tried a regular flag to push it into the Low Quality Posts queue, and when that was disputed by users clicking "Looks Okay", I escalated to a mod flag.
 
@sphennings the only time I tend to get into trouble are the times I actively try to avoid it.
 
@Mithrandir you know "meta policy" is meaningless by itself, right?
it's like a strongly worded letter from the UN
unless there are troops on the ground, no one cares
Meta is a venue for hashing out what to do on main
but if folks just talk... it doesn't do much
 
Right... which is why some people are actually trying to put 'em in place to avoid a crap overflow situation on main.
 
9:14 PM
you read meta, and then you go to main & put it into action
 
Which is exactly what I was attempting to do with those flags.
 
so if you read meta and become convinced that answers lacking explanation / back-up are problematic... You go to main and downvote, comment, and flag.
And if you flag as NAA and your flag gets disputed... Well, you're already on thin ice 'cause either the folks reviewing your flag didn't read meta or they have a different interpretation of back-up than you do.
So when you go to flag again, you better put forth a really credible argument for why this specific answer needs some sources to remain on the site.
 
@Shog9 They didn't read meta
 
that's where you use what you learned on meta
Not the fact that meta exists
I guarantee you, the mods here read meta as much as if not more than anyone else
and yet, those flags had been sitting in the queue for... In some cases over a week when I found 'em
if you can't convince the folks who practically live on meta with a link, then what hope do you have?
none.
none hopes
 
@Shog9 that sounds rather ominous
 
9:17 PM
so better to decline the flags & send you back to the drawing board, to flesh out some arguments
> Dearest moderator team, it is with joyful anticipation that I greet you on this fine April morning. This answer, you see, provides advice that may well be correct - yet, there exists no way to verify the information presented! Would that I could add references or supporting arguments based on my own experience... But, I have none; and the answer itself provides me with no augmentation in this regard. Though I've searched long for another way, I have concluded that this answer must be removed.
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WITH TWO CHARACTERS TO SPARE
 
Wonderful. I'll practice for my upcoming NaNoWriMo project in custom mod flags. *wry grin* Alright, I get the point, although if nobody is willing to act on what was decided on meta... I'm afraid the site has a problem.
Thank you for discussing this.
 
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@Shog9 It's still March ;)
 
> My own upbringing confirms that this answer is indeed likely to be correct: Mrs for married, Ms for unmarried. Yet, it provides no sources, and in these times of great change perhaps even the rules of respectful titles are in flux - I cannot say, nor does this answer provide me with any assurance that my misgivings are unwarranted. Should I follow its advice when greeting a Millenial, only to be roundly chastised, this answer will not save me from doom; please delete and save us all!
@Ash pretty sure it'll be April before Mith can flag again...
 
user15026
@Shog9 Ah, okay, I follow :)
 
user15026
(I wasn't sure how long flagban lasted)
 
9:27 PM
@Mithrandir same goes for canned comments, BTW
If you get the chance to relate the problem to the post you're commenting on, do it.
Don't expect anyone to care about a seemingly-abstract policy
"this is problematic because..." goes a lot further than "we decided things that match the pattern which this post matches should be deleted"
 
@Shog9 Summarizing entire meta threads in a single comment can be... difficult.
 
@Mithrandir that's the challenge
OTOH, the chance that an entire meta thread applies to a single post is usually small
Usually, there's One Big Thing
"This answer is problematic because..."
...it becomes useless when a link breaks.
...it lacks any evidence that the author didn't just make it up.
...it suggests a course of action that will likely result in a punch to the face.
...it grosses me out.
Now, of course any one of this can be and have been fodder for pages upon pages of meta discussion. But, that's not the problem that's the discussion; "this is problematic because ... you can fix it by ..." usually does fit into a comment.
or a flag
or both
 
9:45 PM
I feel like I'm doing something wrong downvoting and criticizing the other three answers that aren't mine on a question
I assume the other answerers think I'm a jerk downvoting to get my answer on top
 
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Q: How do I clarify that the gift someone gave me is mine when they are asking for it back?

treyI have a friend - let's call her Jane. Jane's a nice gal. We get along, meetup from time to time (when she doesn't decide to cancel at the last hour) and is someone I actually like hanging out with. As of late I've been turned off from trying to do anything with her because 3 times out of 5 she c...

 
@spiralsucculent As long as you're doing it honestly, you needn't feel bad. :) Sometimes, I wait a bit to vote on competing answers, to give them a chance to improve... but you don't have to.
 
Well, I guess I'll take this conversation and spend more time typing out longer flags.
 
On the question I'm talking about I've downvoted and commented, but then removed downvotes when the answer was edited in a way that fixed my complaint
 
And on that note I'll head to sleep. Night y'all.
 
why didn't he want to upvote my answer :(
lol
 
Ahahah
 
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Q: I goofed on this one, sorry :/

treyI posted this question How do I clarify that the gift someone gave me is mine when they are asking for it back? under a guest account. I want to accept an answer/comment but I'm not able to because, after I signed up something weird happened and the signup didn't work. I tried signing up again wi...

 
But what are we supposed to do with that question?
Well, other than moving it on meta
 
flag for mod attention
I think
 
10:42 PM
Excellent,it has already been moved to meta
We have very efficient mods :D
 
This is why everything gets sent to chat, and asking for special mod stuff should happen in chat
good job @LinuxBlanket :)
also, once it gets resolved, nice job on that answer
I need to get better at giving short and succinct answers
I always want to explain my reasoning for everything, but then I just have a huge rambling word wall
Also, nice avatar, I thought it was a hops bud, but now I see its fractal cauliflower
 
Thank you ^^
I'm actually the opposite, I am too succinct while writing
Unless the subject touches my interests or experiences (not the case for the camera question ;D)
 
If only we could combine our geometrically appealing plant and writing powers!
lol
 
Ahahah exactly!
I think your avatar inspired me tbh
 
really?
I feel so honored
 
10:51 PM
Together with the geometric drawings of the default avatars
Yes, and I really like that your nickname matches your avatar
 
@spiralsucculent OK... me hanging out in chat a lot only works because I hang out here a lot... too much. When I'm on vacation or something, it's not going to be as helpful as actually flagging things. ;)
 
haha, on the rest of SE I have my actual name, but i didn't want to have my IPS stuff be easily googleable tomy name
 
Good point
 
not much more straightforward anonymous username than a description of your avatar lol
 
So your avatar came first, then your nickname
 
10:54 PM
@Catija So I was right the first time: "Flag for mod attn"?
@LinuxBlanket yes
 
@spiralsucculent Always!
 
@spiralsucculent but now the question is - why a spiral succulent as an avatar?
 
It looks cool and is easy to find on google, I use this avatar across most of my developer related accounts
 
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Q: Any course that does online one on one or group sessions for negotiation skills?

toingI have seen various courses on udemy/coursera on negotiation skills but they tend to get academic. Is there any course where i can work on my negotiation skills with some trainer online?

 
10:58 PM
-1 before it gets to chat, not a good sign
 
Not a good question
I voted to close
 
user15026
hahaha @spiralsucculent I tried to reverse image search your avatar to see what kind of succulent it is
 
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Google Images is like "THIS IS A MONITOR" because apparently it's the background wallpaper for very many monitors for sale on various sites
 
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So...I still don't know what sort of succulent it is :P
 
Ahahah
 
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Great, now I'm in the swamp of taxon identification of that one spiral succulent
But I found out some cool Aloe spp. which are spiralled as well
 

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