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@IvanT. - I think you're asking a legitimate question, but by virtue of having given your reasons you're drawing some analysis of your actual reasons. Maybe you can clarify - do you literally just care about the question in your title, or are you looking for insight into your exact specifics?

oh, yeah, I wasn't trying to suggest that anyone was saying to shut them down at all. Just sharing my thoughts, not targeted at anyone!

Ideally I'd like to see us do whatever we can to help facilitate these questions, versus find reasons to shut them down. I tried to write my meta question neutrally but with such a significant impact on so many workplaces, I think we need to do what we can to be helpful.

I don't think we have a real issue at this point, or that we need to change anything, but I feel like we're on the verge of getting flooded and I figured it would be worth having a discussion now because tensions could get high in the midst of things

@DarkCygnus thanks for pointing out the Health tag on my meta question

I agree regarding your frustration, and I think your answer does a good job of pointing out the UK specific context

@motosubatsu I think you want a "be" in your first sentence, as in "You'd have to be"

meanwhile they're all a high match for the "real" user I suspected of being the troll, which felt nice to confirm since I didn't get anywhere trying to look at date and time patterns in SEDE

I've been feeding all the troll posts I've been able to find through a software that categorizes speech and grammar patterns, that one doesn't really match at all.

I don't think it's the troll, the writing style doesn't fit

well done

Do you want to take a stab at editing that question? I'm happy to also, just didn't want to overlap if you already were

apparently

I don't do grammar this early in the morning

it get take...

I feel like it get take some edits to make it less bait-like

but then I thought, I can just go home and make my own (germ free) pie

@motosubatsu I have to admit I'm a little curious, being a big fan of pie

so let me get this straight, we're basically sending everyone home because of a contagious virus, but we want everyone to come to the break room and eat food together?

The funny part is, minutes after the email about WFH, someone else sent an email saying there was pie in the break room for "pi day" which is tomorrow

My employer just announced full time WFH for all back office staff if/when local schools are closed

I'm still trying to reconcile the fact that Shog doesn't like Beyonce

What's the German for dad joke? because that's what my kids would have called that.

haha

(rimshot)

...He's only 5'2"

I know a little German

I consider myself to have a wide vocabulary but I will admit this question had me googling for a definition:

well done everyone

I rarely get on in the evenings, after staring at computers all day I need a break!

oh I missed that

greetings

This new blockquote look is crap. It makes long answers look more like a wall of text and doesn't break things up visually like the yellow background did

Yeah I want the yellow back

At home though my chromebook is touch and I love it!

In some cases I've even found it distracting, when someone tries to point at a laptop screen and unintentionally moves the mouse. We have a touch sensitive screen in our main conference room here, and no one seems to remember it's touch, so it's a pretty frequent thing that people will go to point at a graph or something and inadvertently click on it.

details...

@motosubatsu jinx

Go to your user profile with ?tab=reputation at the end of the URL and it gives a play-by-play explanation of points

ah, that makes sense

I suppose it makes sense to hide who cast a vote so that it remains anonymous, but some votes have USERIDs

do you know why the userid column is mostly null on VOTES?

that would be an interesting angle as well

so this whole idea might be moot

I'm not sure if deleted content is stored permanently, since once a deleted question is a certain age (a few days?) you get a 404

this question is deleted, and isn't in POSTS or POSTSWITHDELETED or POSTHISTORY: 154669

yeah, that looks like just a tally of deleted things related to questions (i.e. a count of how many comments have been deleted from a question), not a list of actual deleted questions

My local government has requested that non-essential businesses either close or move to remote working if possible for the next two weeks so - to be clear - if VPN is not (officially) on the table, then is your office closing? Or are you considered an "essential" business?

All it takes is a shift in the employment market to the point where software/IT people aren't the kings of the hill any more, and advice like this will become damaging. Go ask anyone who is near retirement in traditional manufacturing or any of the other major industries of the past how things have gone for them over the last decade or so. Yes, you need to be able to take actual PTO, but that doesn't mean you should ignore the potential for a gray area where you might get called for a real emergency, and it might be in your best interest to take that call.