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 Discussion on question by EoDmnFOr3q:…

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Nij
Mar 13 00:11
Then every system which is not a simple game is not a simple game. You know there are some that do, and you know there are some that don't. The list of each is unreasonable to include here, so it's too broad. Any level you look at, this isn't a question that fits on SE.
Nij
Mar 13 00:11
The question is trivial, since all vote systems allow for abstention, shich simple games don't account. If this is plainly ignored, then it isn't about the real world's politics or governments or voting systems, so the question makes no sense. It at least needs clarity
 

 Discussion on answer by Maarten Buis:…

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Nij
Mar 7 15:27
Unless it is in a very specific and esoteric niche, one university does not typically make up an entire field. Biomedical research certainly isn't among them.
 

 Sports News

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Nij
Jan 25 07:47
Criticisms of idiosyncrasy with no wider import than personal dislike are not news or newsworthy.
Nij
Jan 25 07:46
News only, please.
 

 Math Mods' Office

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Nij
Jan 23 19:12
Yes, all moderators on a site can view all moderation and curation records/history on that site, while all moderators on the network can view and act for moderation in chat (SO and Meta separately)
Nij
Jan 23 19:04
As it is, presuming good faith is far harder now, because good faith means applying the correct process without factually-unsupported accusations, even in a vacuum without prior history.
Nij
Jan 23 19:01
Had the question simply been asked here originally, without pre-judging the outcome and instead seeking the facts they do not possess, or raised to CM via the contact form, there would be no problem with it receiving a straightforward response.
Nij
Jan 23 18:59
Yes, he did,, by immediately calling it "moderator abuse".
Nij
Jan 23 18:58
If. But without any evidence of that, jumping immediately to the reaction of a flag calling the situation abuse, then repeating that reaction in 'public' chat, is entirely inappropriate.
Nij
Jan 23 18:51
Fact is, you do not have a right to get clarifications. If someone declines to respond and makes that clear through other means, your comment is no longer needed and is in line for deletion at any point.
Nij
Jan 23 18:50
Exactly. You have literally nothing to show why your flags are declined. You don't know who declined them. You have made an accusation of "moderator abuse" with no possible objective basis, so the only cause must be emotional dissatisfaction.
Nij
Jan 23 07:22
I would heavily advise stepped away from the issue for at least a day, and only returning to it if there is high confidence that improprieties have actually occurred, and not a purely emotional reaction to your flag being rejected.
Nij
Jan 23 07:21
If you have actual evidence of improprieties, it should be provided directly to community managers (CM) via the contact form, not raised as a flag and certainly not in chat. Avoidance and circumvention makes it very much appear that this complaint is not in good faith.
Nij
Jan 23 07:19
In the complete absence of any evidence that a moderator with a conflict of interest took action on the content, such a flag and re-rainsing in chat is making accusations of impropriety that are unsupportable. If you have a specific issue with potentially improper deletion of comments, your flag should specify that exactly, and request checking by another moderator.
Nij
Oct 11, 2024 08:52
Write your own answer that is correct, bounty it for someone else to write their own answer that is correct, upvote the good-but-not-sufficient answer so it stops getting bumped, or accept that this is the system working as intended regardless of any individual's feeling.
Nij
Sep 3, 2024 09:56
If the question has no answers, or has upvotes, there is no need or reason to delete it. If the question has answers and both question and answer have upvotes, it should not be deleted. Why would sending the problem to a magazine require its deletion here?
Nij
Mar 15, 2024 09:05
@BenWebster flag them as needing improvement > community specific > missing context or other details. Downvote for lack of research effort.
Nij
Sep 23, 2023 02:40
If your idea of fun is "voting out of spite" you should be going to 4chan, not wasting people's energy here.
Nij
Aug 22, 2023 11:55
@SineoftheTime reading the profile gives exactly the reasons why and how. Beyond that, details of suspension are never shared publicly.
 

 Ukrainian Conflict 2022

Room for discussing the conflict in Ukraine.
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Nij
Jan 4 21:17
@handan_toddler you already have a place to discuss politics around the Ukraine war. Please do not bring political commentary to other rooms that are intended for specific purposes.
 

 Discussion on answer by Martin - マーチン…

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Nij
Dec 18, 2024 19:05
You were complaining about "consistency" three weeks ago, yet made no effort to change your approach. Even when given a direct clarification that you are not paying attention to the key point, "the underlying principles and ... what a thorough edit is", you merely repeat yourself. @jenny.essex
 

 Discussion on question by CeCe Duvoir…

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Nij
Aug 30, 2024 18:37
How is this a question relevant to travel? "This weird thing happened to me, who else, huh?"
 

 Discussion on answer by Ted Wrigley: …

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Nij
Jul 22, 2024 07:54
But.. it doesn't even work for Australia. People are literally fleeing genocide in some cases, and fleeing significant certain violence in their homelands in most other cases. There is no disincentive because Australia cannot and has not done worse with greater frequency to illegal immigrants than those people face already. It didn't work for Australia, it certainly isn't going to work with USA's implementations. In particular when it is not "boat people" or whatever else they might be named, but straightforward visa overstayers that make up the vast majority of illegal immigrants.
 

 Discussion on question by Nagaraju Ch…

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Nij
Jul 8, 2024 11:28
This question is similar to: Could I be using proof by contradiction too much?. If you believe it’s different, please edit the question, make it clear how it’s different and/or how the answers on that question are not helpful for your problem.
 

 Discussion on question by Lalunalatap…

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Nij
Jul 3, 2024 14:04
Who would have thought, experience and education and mentoring and support and networking all actually matter when it comes to resolving problems that humanity collectively struggled with for decades/centuries.
 

 Rugby World Cup 2019: Tokyo, Japan: […

Nij
Apr 27, 2024 22:16
room topic changed to Rugby World Cup 2019: Tokyo, Japan: [rugby-union] : (no tags)
 

 The Clubhouse

General discussion for sports.stackexchange.com
Nij
Apr 27, 2024 22:15
As such, I have added Martin Sleziak to the room owner list and removed user 70432. The name will be corrected as well.
Nij
Apr 27, 2024 22:14
This appears to be an abuse of the room owner privileges, including removal of other room owners. The user appears to have done the same to a number of other rooms.
Nij
Mar 12, 2024 00:02
(Il)legality is only relevant in following rules of competition, which are a sporting aspect especially for a stated stroke, rather than fitness aspect.
Nij
Mar 12, 2024 00:01
Efficiency is important in the use of energy to achieve the result, either speed for a given distance or distance covered for a given time, which are sporting aspects rather than fitness aspects.
Nij
Mar 12, 2024 00:00
@MartinSleziak given they ask about both efficiency and (il)legality, this seems to be a sports question.
Nij
Jan 22, 2024 02:53
@MartinSleziak Seems to fit just fine there.
Nij
Dec 26, 2023 00:22
Not from this user, no.
Nij
Dec 16, 2023 01:29
Since both of those are actually questions about interpreting or identifying relevant rules, I have added this tag instead and removed the others. They are not adding any extra searchability or differentiation from similar questions.
Nij
Jul 2, 2023 20:48
Whether it is or is not on-topic for Bicycles SE, is not something I think we can presume to tell you, either generally or in particular as a mod there. From your comments on the question there, it seems like you're leaning towards off-topic? Feel free to migrate and we'll tidy up, if that's your community consensus or moderator decision.
Nij
Jul 2, 2023 20:45
Hello @Criggie I think that question would be on-topic here. We have similar questions about other sports, not necessarily those that the asker even plays themselves, strategy and tactics are among our most frequently-used tags as well.
Nij
Jan 13, 2023 10:17
@JohnK.N. we have a tag for shooting which is currently a catch-all for a range of sports. I doubt we'd get to a tag specifically for this kind of shooting for a while, but as long as they're clearly about a specific competitive sport as you seem to suggest, they're on topic.
Nij
Jan 12, 2023 21:56
Welcome @JohnK.N. it would depend on what those things are.. acronyms from the USA tend to be very opaque and unknown pretty much everywhere else.
 

 Discussion on answer by Felix B.: Is …

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Nij
Mar 31, 2024 14:17
I don't have students perform calculations on paper or in their heads because they might not have a calculator, I do it so they can understand what the calculator will eventually do for them, and be capable of checking it is done accurately. Wolfram-Alpha can solve almost any calculation problem through and beyond high school, but just showing my students how to use that would be a total waste of time as well as cripple any capability they might otherwise have developed. Not everything is learnt purely to know it, nor even purely to understand it, and this answer doesn't seem to do either.
 

 Discussion on answer by Franck Dernon…

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Nij
Mar 27, 2024 18:51
The question is as explicit as possible without saying exactly the words "tipping money to the restaurant or its staff while paying for a meal at that restaurant as an additional payment to acknowledge good service". Playing stupid word games isn't helpful, isn't responsive, and still doesn't actually answer the question.
Nij
Mar 27, 2024 18:51
This is not an answer to the question asked here; it belongas a separatepost on Law SE. The legality is only relevant to the extent someone wants all tips to go to the staff and not strictly the business, but says nothing about whether an individual should still be tipping anyway.
 

 Discussion on answer by Kevin: 10-yea…

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Nij
Mar 2, 2024 12:20
Visa denial and ban is an entirely different matter @terdon. They made the decision to totally disallow any access no matter what to this person for a decade. That is more than "on a list and caused .. trouble".
 

 Discussion on question by Rob Arthan:…

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Nij
Dec 22, 2023 23:34
Continuing to clutter comments with discussion is the equivalent of smashing glasses on the table and yelling at each other in the restaurant. Aside from the MathJax issue, go to comments.
 

 Discussion on answer by Arno: Is it l…

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Nij
Feb 13, 2023 15:44
"If they are irrational the market will take care of them" is possibly the most ironic thing I've read in some time. The market itself is not rational, since it is built and run by people, who are inherently not rational actors, as history has repeatedly proven. The idea of rational actors making the best decisions for the optimal profit is a myth long dead, yet still too many can't resist pushing it.
 

 Discussion on answer by Schwern: Did …

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Nij
Jan 5, 2023 12:47
"No, it doesn't." - whether you like or not, professional codes of conduct mean exactly that every practising individual is responsible for the public perception of that practise and profession. Flat rejections don't change the reality, sorry. @Acccumulation
 

 Discussion between Nij and Pablo

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Nij
Dec 28, 2022 23:41
To be explicit: the user who added that content to the Wikipedia article has a history of making unsubstantiated changes, plagiarism, and using that user's material as its own source.
Nij
Dec 28, 2022 23:27
When the source is crap, it'll be called such. As for "being in Wikipedia" well, that's not meaning much, I've already pointed out the enormous issue with the sentence's presence there. If you want to look at the edit history, you can see who put it there, and how little credibility the edit has.
Nij
Dec 28, 2022 23:27
Do you object to the source being labelled crap? Or to the edit on Wikipedia? The language is accurate and acceptable here.
Nij
Dec 28, 2022 23:27
"Notice Wikipedia formerly claimed he had 200+ goals and now it claims it has 850 goals" - no, it doesn't. The information panel lists all senior teams and years played, with the caps and goals beside them. What you have is one crap website being used to supporting a crap edit in Wikipedia; the text claiming the 850 goals is a single sentence with no connection to the paragraph around it, it has no alignment with any other information in the article or in any other independent source.