Earthliŋ

今年もよろしくおねがいします

あけましておめでとうございます

I see, that's too bad. I think some years ago they had some period of not wanting to write any new answers, but I was hoping they might start contributing at some point again...

@EddieKal Yes, I also just noticed. I think they were inactive for quite a while (no way to check their recent activity now, though)...

I get confused over these things too easily — is 彼女を信用できる not ok?

I also hope everything is alright

@Chocolate Oh, interesting. My IME doesn't have this. Have you seen 安 read as しずか somewhere?

@Chocolate 「王を追おう」でした　;)

@FelipeChavesdeOliveira There is this question:

@ajsmart Congratulations!

Well, SE is a moderated community and among several things there is the "be nice" policy

but you could also edit the question to remove offensive parts — or first leave a comment and see if the post owner responds

I guess if the answer was flagged "rude or abusive", the moderators would discuss this and try to tone down the answer, since the user doesn't seem to be active now

if this answer was posted now, it would probably be downvoted and heavily commented, and then amended by the post owner

there is no "disputed" post notice

not sure what would be the best course of action

although I feel that most of us here support the cause

I'm quite glad that at a community we have not had too much controversy on these issues

hm... I think the gender discussion has become quite heated across the whole SE network

I agree — in 2011 sensitivity towards gender issues was not what it is today

In June it's the 10-year anniversary of the site

Anyway, I think we're doing quite well — there are still many interesting questions, but at this stage it's certainly quite different than the first months or years of a site

Like playing Monopoly — in the beginning it's fun for everyone

In the early days of a SE site there is a lot of room for "building content", even with mediocre questions. Keeping the community alive and buzzing with interesting questions after all the obvious questions have been answered is more difficult I think

and people probably end up finding old questions, so it might become more and more likely that "localized" questions make it past the "Submit" button, whereas more general questions don't...

But I also think that there are less and less new "canonical" questions, because most of them have been asked before

Random processes will of course produce time periods, where the number of questions is above average

@Will My impression is that the level of elementary questions is quite stable

Happy New Year everyone!

@EddieKal The search function also gives an error for me, but I can access the entries via the index

:55398927 萩原朔太郎

@WissenMachtFrei I might have misinterpreted the intent of your question... Of course in traditional tea ceremony there is usually no kissing involved. (Sorry to disappoint ;))

@WissenMachtFrei Yes, you always have to kiss the person performing the tea ceremony on the mouth. If you're not used to this, it can lead to awkward reactions (both for same sex and opposite sex kisses!). I guess if you grow up with this tradition, it is just normal, but for me it still feels a little strange...

チャンネルのコンテンツについてはノーコメントです w

最近YouTubeチャンネルつくったみたいです

@Chocolate TutorJackは前JACKってユーザー名だった

For tag issues, it seems to be the better strategy to take the initiative and actually do something (merging, renaming, etc.), rather than trying to start a discussion on meta, which will likely not be a discussion at all. So if anyone wants to talk about it again, we can discuss here in chat or on meta =)

OK, done =)

So [colors] with three synonyms? (I think I changed my mind and think plural makes more sense...)

@snailcar I expected also the AE spelling to be more prominent, but I was surprised to see that [colours] was more often used than [color]. Any thoughts on singular vs. plural?

anybody else? =)

great

(Of course we can make tag synonyms, the question is just which of [color] [colour] [colors] [colours] to keep as the main tag.)

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

We usually use plural for tags, like [verbs], [nouns], etc. but here the tag should not be about different colours, but about the concept of colour, so I think my preferred tag would actually be [colour]

so there should be some tag merging waiting to be done

We currently have two tags related to the concept of colour: [color] (5 questions) and [colours] (14 questions)

It's impossible to judge the concrete situation from the internet, but you could turn it around and say OP gets supervision "for free" while completing essential final steps on finishing a paper. As with most things, they can take it or leave it, even more so that they are no longer financially dependent on their supervisor...