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Q: Why does this popular off-topic question stay open?

Could a person scuba diving take off his air tank and use it to propel himself? Why isn't this one closed as a story set in a world? In what way is it worldbuilding? Please see related Should we finally allow reality checks of other plot elements? - answer was generally no. Questions by Lame...

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1:34 PM

@Trish That's the worst. If I have an answer that I think is going to be long, I've often considered writing a short, fast summary, and then editing it out to the full length immediately after. That way if someone else is giving a similar answer, or the question gets closed, mine will be in there first... I haven't done it yet, but the temptation is great.

1:47 PM

@AndyD273 The question in itself was good. Someone answered in comments... THAT is the worst. I mean: answering in comments is a NONO!

that the asker then deleted the question added insult to injury

@Trish Ah, yes. I don't know why someone would answer in comments, unless they don't think their answer is good enough to be a real answer...

I made it myself a sport to flag those comment-ansers (they are worst on held/closed questions)

2:04 PM

hmmm, it's 1600 local time and I haven't yet had lunch, or made a break :/

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2:32 PM

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Q: How to deal with questions that are clearly not meant seriously?

Yesterday there was a question by someone implying the real earth is flat and how a round world would keep all the water on it. It has been heavily edited since. The original question was: Water on world that is round? Since, gravity is a construct out of the question (backed by Pseudo-S...

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2:51 PM

@dot_Sp0T You should totally make a break for it. Don't forget to serpentine, it's harder to stop you that way.

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5:09 PM

@AndyD273 I did

now baking cookies

5:32 PM

Oh I love baking

Well

They'll see it

?

6:16 PM

Hey, is anybody else here?

@Gryphon yup

Yes, for 5 minutes, and then again later dtoday

And I decided to go ahead and post this question as a graduation from the Sandbox. Perhaps premature, but I had done a lot of thinking/editing.

It's got 1 answer already

Hope that it doesn't get closed (it might run the risk of TB/TSB, but I worked hard against that)

@L.Dutch sorry about that edit. I didn't mean to invalidate your answer. And it wasn't a huge edit: see this Meta Meta answer?

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6:52 PM

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Q: Is the "suitable dress" question off topic?

There has recently been a question asked: How plausible is it for a 12-year-old girl to walk through a village in her swimsuit in England? The question is asked well and has good answers...But is it worldbuilding? Reasons it might be: This is research for a novel so fits the intended purpose...

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7:07 PM

I just got 6 downvotes on my questions in 1 min. Is that "voting fraud"?

@FoxElemental Likely yes, it might very well be reversed by the system after some time (~24 hours). If not you could flag for mod attention and ask them to investigate.

Though it's called "serial downvoting", not "voting fraud". "Voting fraud" would be more something like someone creating multiple accounts and upvoting his own stuff.

7:46 PM

@Secespitus Thank you, I'll wait.

8:15 PM

Now I only gotta find some people to eat 36 cookies

or is it 48?

:/

@dot_Sp0T I know. That's so hard. You make a batch and then sit down with them. Willpower!

WTF happened to the dress question's comments?

No idea

Deleted? Moved to chat?

no 'moved to chat' link there. I assume they were mostly deleted - which sort-of pisses me off as my comment was about asking clarifications on an abbreviation used in the question

that's not cool

@FoxElemental well, I can't eat them all

@dot_Sp0T The explanation has been edited into the question

8:19 PM

@dot_Sp0T Not w/out a stomachache. Or a metabolism like mine

@Secespitus yeah, I saw that now. Still weirds you out the first moment.

@dot_Sp0T You have to train by eating lots of cookies

@FoxElemental ah, you'll get older and fatten up too. Just wait for it

@Secespitus or you finally make a holiday in Switzerland and come visit

@Secespitus well I bake about once every 3 days, so I'm an expert at eating cookies

@FoxElemental You are a role model :D

@dot_Sp0T I should definitely do that at some point.

8:21 PM

:D

@Secespitus Thank you, thank you. But I also specialize in cake, pastries, pies, tarts, fudge, truffles, caramels, hard candies, and ice creams.

I would honestly love having a WB meetup - or at least knowing there is one somewhere

@FoxElemental That's a lot of categories you specialize in

I fear the day I grow old

@dot_Sp0T The FBI would likely want to know about such a meetup, too

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8:23 PM

@Secespitus don't forget the NSA - albeit they probably already know of it

@Secespitus Oh yeah. "Fastest poison"? "AI killing smart-house?" Lots of explosives? Yeah . . . we're on the watchlist

@FoxElemental I'd add "cause a human the most pain"

Though

They'd get paranoid after this, this, and this. Gosh, I love those, especially 1&3.

Imagine a conversation between 2 FBI agents . .

"Those Worldbuilders are hardcore." "I know. I hope we never cross them." "Did you hear about that plan to take down the internet?"

"Yes. The NSA must be out of their minds with fear."

"They ask about how their pet chickens will survive after they've created the apocalypse. Heck, they blatantly even ask how many slaves they can abduct while admitting that some of their number are aliens!"

"I know. They even have 116 questions tagged as weapons-mass-destruction. I'm surprised they haven't all been arrested by now."

I love that fact that all but one mod were obfuscated

@dot_Sp0T Yes. I tried changing JDlugosz to KDługosz (changing it and adding the proper l with mark) but the edit was denied

8:36 PM

@FoxElemental it's intentional

Oh

^^

(at least I am pretty sure it must be)

Bye for now, see yall later

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10:01 PM

hey there @dot_Sp0T and @Mithrandir24601

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11:21 PM

Hello

hey there @FoxElemental, how're things going?

@Shalvenay meh. And you?

OK here

Well . . . if you see a bit above you'll see I lost a total of 14 rep to 7 downvotes on 7 of my questions within 1 min (suspecting: serial downvoting)

And this question got 3 answers, 2 of which seem to have been deleted

Because either my edits or

dunno man

11:31 PM

in 1 case, a user self-deleted the answer, then left several comments trying to take apart my question, said that it was impossible without coercion (which I said was prohibited in the original question and was what his "answer" was) and about 2 min later I got the downvotes. Wondering about that . . . but I answered his comments with my perspective on why it was possible. There's another edit I intended to make after the third answerer

interpreted the rules loosley, making a great but sadly non-viable answer for my situation

And I don't want to "invalidate" it

Aaand never mind it seems he deleted it. I feel embarrased

Because I've edited a bunch of times and it seems that every time an answer pops up, it gets self-deleted. I hope someone doesn't raise a mod flag.

over here, I'm pondering a bit of a worldbuilding question myself -- how the modern-day concept of a "weapons-free zone" (say the inside of a federal courthouse) would interact with having someone dropped into our world who has natural weapons (such as a breath weapon)

Easy. Use breath mints :)

lulz :P not very helpful for out-and-out fire breath

Then use peppermint mints. Or winter green

lulz!

11:37 PM

Well. Just edited. I hope no one deletes their answer again, or accuses me of invalidating answers so they'd be self deleted

Feel kinda guilty

AND I have 8 unfinished drafts in the Sandbox that need feedback and work and aren't getting (that) much

Thanks for listening to me vent, btw

I edit my drafts so often/quickly for minor things in groups that they basically cycle once through the list

And now, for the first time ever, I looked up "cow udder anatomy" because I'm following Raditz's advice on my acid cow

Oh lord. Cow anatomy turned up nothing. Now looking up "udder anatomy division" to understand milk production so my acid cow doesn't dissolve itself

Okay, I think I fixed the draft

Never looking at a cow with innocence again

which strangely has a double meaning ^

What's the weirdest thing you've ever looked up about worldbuilding, @Shalvenay ?

I dunno

Hey, could you tell me if this should be science-based or reality-check? If you don't want to, just don't say anything

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