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The Pantheon

General discussion for mythology.stackexchange.com

yannis

Mar 10, 2022 17:00

@b_jonas HDE 226868 is stepping down, so a position is available

yannis

Sep 19, 2019 15:27

Wonder if the voting fraud script will reverse this...

yannis

Sep 19, 2019 15:27

Hm, it seems I have a fan...

yannis

Sep 19, 2019 15:26

yannis

Mar 1, 2019 12:49

This is the main issue with the question.

yannis

Mar 1, 2019 12:49

Hi, do you have any sort of evidence for this being mythological rather than a SF trope? The obvious point of reference for me is RA Heinlein's short story "Universe". This may do better over on SF&F. — Spencer Feb 23 at 16:15

yannis

Mar 1, 2019 12:48

@bleh Eh, three "Leave Open" votes in review. Don't see this one getting closed.

Agora

General discussion for politics.stackexchange.com

yannis

Oct 7, 2020 09:35

(finally...)

yannis

Oct 7, 2020 09:34

Greece Golden Dawn: Neo-Nazi leaders guilty of running crime gang

yannis

Sep 28, 2020 20:04

The election just began. Good luck @CDJB, @Thymine, @TedWrigley, @SurpriseDog, @Hack-R, @agc, @JJJ

yannis

Oct 7, 2019 12:28

Plus, some of the OP's comments were borderline trolling, which may had something to do with the quick deletion.

yannis

Oct 7, 2019 12:28

Your example question, other than being off topic, shows no prior research effort at all. There's little value in keeping it around, as the answer doesn't add anything to what you can very easily discover with a quick Google search.

yannis

Oct 7, 2019 12:26

@BradC In theory, all closed questions may eventually be deleted. In practice, there isn't much value in deleting well-defined and well-received (but off topic) questions.

yannis

Oct 7, 2019 12:21

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Q: Dear Stack Exchange: a statement and a letter from your moderators

Dear Stack Exchange, Inc., We know you know about this already, so we'll keep this brief. The past two weeks have been rough. Lots of moderators have lost confidence in you; for some, it was the final straw. For many of us, though, we like being here and we don't want it to get to that point. So...

yannis

Jul 12, 2019 13:00

@jpmc26 On second read, I'm convinced. Deleted. I was hoping the post notice would make a difference, but it was ignored.

yannis

Jul 12, 2019 12:54

Hm, now that I think about it what I remember might be a mod-only thing.

yannis

Jul 12, 2019 12:52

Was it? I missed that. There used to be a mods ping (one that wasn't advertised) in chat, but perhaps I'm misremebering something.

yannis

Jul 12, 2019 10:04

yannis

Jul 12, 2019 10:04

@MartinSleziak Now that you mention it, I don't remember a related feature request (except the one you linked to). But... it works, I got an inbox notification for your "mods" message.

yannis

Jul 12, 2019 08:53

@MartinSleziak Typing "mods" does the trick

yannis

Jul 12, 2019 08:53

@jpmc26 Yes. There's nothing wrong with using chat to coordinate content curation efforts.

yannis

Mar 26, 2019 11:39

This is not how flags work.

yannis

Mar 26, 2019 11:38

> It's wrong, incorrect, inaccurate and the poster is of dubious mental capacity.

yannis

Jan 4, 2019 16:09

Ok, this works. Stopped me from commenting more than once today.

yannis

Jan 4, 2019 16:09

> *** is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.

yannis

Oct 15, 2018 10:49

@DVK-on-Ahch-To It seems that the downvotes you got weren't targeted. Apparently the voter just happened to (up|down)vote a ton of old stuff (by different people) around the same time. My guess is that your posts showed up together in a search or two.

yannis

Oct 13, 2018 14:28

Looking for better sources is a good thing.

yannis

Oct 13, 2018 14:25

@DVK-on-Ahch-To It's HuffPost. If it happens to be accurate, it's by accident.

yannis

Oct 13, 2018 14:25

Given that USSR put gays in jail in large numbers, and Fidel modeled Cuba heavily on USSR.... why the sudden skepticism? — user4012 1 hour ago

Discussion on answer by KRyan: Is the…

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yannis

Oct 7, 2019 17:51

This may be of interest...

yannis

Oct 7, 2019 17:51

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Q: Dear Stack Exchange: a statement and a letter from your moderators

discussion moderators

yannis

Oct 7, 2019 17:49

@Demonblack Fair warning - we don't tolerate being an ass to anyone on this site, for whatever reason.

yannis

Oct 7, 2019 17:48

That is not to say that I don't find the influence someone on Twitter (who isn't even a SE user) had over SE completely ridiculous.

yannis

Oct 7, 2019 17:47

@Mindwin "muted" is a very strong word there. Taking the site off HNQ isn't necessarily a bad thing - if I could I'd drop the feature alltogether.

yannis

Oct 7, 2019 17:44

@WGroleau I wish it was as simple as that. Unfortunately, there are more than two sides to this story...

yannis

Oct 7, 2019 17:43

@Joe Without going into detail, Monica did not "only asked questions". No one is claiming that, not even her. That is not to say that she was treated fairly, she definitely was not.

Discussion on question by Mohammad Sa…

Imported from a comment discussion on history.stackexchange.co...

yannis

Sep 16, 2019 06:13

The History Channel? I guess questions about ancient aliens are on topic then @TomAu. On a more serious note, if your only reason to vote to close a question is that it might be better suited elsewhere, then I'd urge you to stop. That's an abuse of the privilege, and we gain nothing by closing down questions that can be sufficiently answered by historians.

yannis

Sep 16, 2019 06:13

@TomAu I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "accepted" history. Accepted by who? I don't disagree that this isn't a great question, but I don't see how it's off topic. Even if it's indeed better suited elsewhere, that doesn't make it off topic.

yannis

Sep 16, 2019 06:13

How is this off topic for History.SE @TomAu?

The Time Machine

General discussion for history.stackexchange.com. For urgent i...

yannis

Mar 4, 2019 10:43

@LangLangC Yes, of course you are correct. I completely missed the deleted answers, and by the time I realized it the Meta question was locked and I couldn't remove my comment. Sorry about that.

2019 Software Engineering Moderator E…

Open Discussion for softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/elec...

yannis

Mar 4, 2019 09:26

@JimmyHoffa A task for the new mods!

yannis

Mar 1, 2019 17:11

@amon thanks!

yannis

Mar 1, 2019 14:37

(also the community deserves a much more dedicated moderator than I have been the past year or so)

yannis

Mar 1, 2019 14:35

@amon Yes, in this instance two of us are stepping down. I recently became a dad, and time is extremely limited.

yannis

Mar 1, 2019 14:35

@amon I can understand that, but I feel we should give the community a bit of choice. All three of you would be excellent candidates.

yannis

Mar 1, 2019 12:46

@amon @DocBrown @AaronHall

yannis

Mar 1, 2019 12:46

We need moar candidates!

Discussion on question by Mozibur Ull…

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yannis

Nov 8, 2018 23:18

Solznetsiyn didn't "escape to the West". He was deported to West Germany. Also not entirely sure what you mean by "he was dropped like a hot potato by the West". He spent two decades in the West and returned to Russia only after the Soviet Union was dissolved.

The Whiteboard

General Discussion for softwareengineering.stackexchange.com P...

yannis

Oct 17, 2018 20:58

@gnat Have fun! ;)

yannis

Oct 17, 2018 20:58

Q: Revisiting the "Hot Network Questions" feature, what are our shared goals for having it?

Some things happened yesterday that caused a need for us to (quickly) remove a site's eligibility to contribute to the list of hot network questions. For those of you not familiar with what we've come to call the 'HNQ' list, please visit the link; the list of questions shown as 'hot' on stackexch...

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