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No.
Freedom of speech is an individual's limited freedom to publish his thoughts. It is not freedom to be published by anybody: the Wall Street Journal doesn't have to publish everything you send them, and neither does Stack Exchange.
In particular, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is as follows:
Congress shall make no law respecting an ...
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I was the mod who banned you.
Firstly, it was flagged. It was not an offensive flag, it was a private flag, so only mods can see it.
My reasoning behind the ban: You and Chris have been warned many, many times about fighting.
I understand calmly defending yourself from attacks from Chris. I will not, however, tolerate personal attacks. Especially ...
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Meme: GnomeSlice getting into trouble with Autocomplete
Originator: GnomeSlice's Funky Phone
Cultural Height: Whenever GnomeSlice is on the busty or has cold fjords.
Cultural Height 2.0: Snacks in a place
Background:
Back to wang / Back to worm
Jesus crusty/ Jesus cherish
@orgyrambo what? When did that happen
GOD DONUT
For duck shake / For tuck bake / ...
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Meme: Lazers
Originator:
Cultural Height:
The Mass Effect 3 promotion, "ME3Missions", which gave us:
Background: See here.
Special Shout-out: Jin. For giving us Lazers <3
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Meme: QA
Originator: Nick T
Cultural Height: June 12th, when the site name 'Arqade' and new design were published.
Background: Badp thought he was being oh, so clever. Now look what you've done. Half the chat has changed their name to include 'QA' in it somewhere.
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[the block decline of flags at the end yesterday] was indeed to send the message of not to take this sort of "shotgun" approach to flagging.
I'm sorry that this essentially boils down to some sort of miscommunication since not only did I have the above line, minus the bold, but very much there and explicitly saying what not to do, but I also figured that ...
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Below is a list of things which if you include in your question should protect you from being down voted/closed (unless it's a duplicate). Users can also just link back to this if a question lacks information so the poster can read.
Note: By community consensus, questions asking for support of Modded Minecraft are now off-topic on Arqade.
1) List your ...
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Nope, the minimum value is 1. If you lose rep (e.g. downvoted) when you are already at 1 then it has no effect.
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Your edit was rejected because it changed too much of the answer. The only words that are the same between the two answers are "to" "a" and "Hope this helps". You replaced the original answer with yours.
Questions can have multiple answers, and the users of the site will upvote the most correct and useful answers. You, as the question asker, have the ...
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The system prevents you from casting an upvote on your own questions or answers by way of a message telling you that you can't. There is no rep penalty invoked or anything, since it's very plausible for users to click that button, either accidentally or out of curiosity.
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Nope. You are allowed to ask as long as it's publicly available.
As you can see, it took people 4 hours to answer. To say that you need to wait some arbitrary amount of time is, frankly, absurd. Because you probably would have gotten the exact same comments 4 hours later, when people have done it and did have the answer.
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When the game name is in the tag, it will be automatically added to the title of the post in people's browsers, and it is clear from the tag what game you are asking about. Therefore, it is a valid edit to remove it from the title.
When you are having a disagreement about the content of a post, rolling back or repeatedly making edits is the wrong answer. ...
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So, the problem with your question is more the fact that without being one of the developers of the game, this question can't be answered. As a result, any answers to the question wouldn't really be definitive or more correct than other answers; so, which answer would you accept, or vote up? It doesn't really lend itself towards getting decent answers based ...
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I know, right? Folks are gonna dump all their tips and information in a convenient format that appeals to other readers and make off with all of our precious EXP!
Oh, wait... That's the idea.
This already happens. In fact, it's been encouraged in the first FAQ section from day one. It could - and maybe should - happen a lot more. Some of us tend to answer ...
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The key here is to acknowledge the difference between "expert knowledge" and "incidental knowledge".
"Expert knowledge", here on Arqade, is about playing video games. It's primarily about the actual gameplay but also deals with some things like getting things to run or terminology of the system. Point is, what we deal with is primarily as people who are ...
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Meme: Wipqozn has been removed from the list of this room's owners.
Originator: LessPop_MoreFizz
Cultural Height: Ongoing
Background:
Room owners in The Bridge derive a large amount of enjoyment from granting Wipqozn room ownership and then removing it soon after. This has recently started leaking into other chat rooms.
Transcript
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We've all Very many of us have been 1 rep unregistered users at some point in our "Stack Exchange" career. One of the main points about the engine is to make it as easy as possible for anybody with knowledge to share it.
Just because I don't want to name big names, Agent86 for example only registered after posting his fifth answer on the site. Today he's ...
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Welcome to the site, Bob!
Once you earn 50 reputation, you'll be able to post comments on any post.
By default, you may post comments on your own questions / answers.
See here for more info.
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You ask:
I absolutely do not understand why my edit was rejected
The answer is in the rejection reason: the edit was too radical. But it seems your real question is something like "okay, it's a big change, but it adds useful information, why reject such edits?" And you also add "Wiki means you edit existing content where appropriate".
And the answer to ...
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This question is answered at Meta StackOverflow
The StackOverflow team believes that everybody's special in their own way and doesn't deserve to have a negative self-esteem (aka reputation).
Other reasons for this design decision could be:
Reputation is stored as an unsigned integer (can't be negative)
Having negative reputation could cause people to ...
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If you mean ignoring them in chat, then yes, that is a possibility. If you mean ignoring them on the site, that's not possible.
If you notice comments that are unfriendly/offtopic/rude etc, flag them and a moderator will take a look.
As for the edits, this site is all about collaboration. The people who can edit without needing to get it approved have ...
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Your account was removed because it was very clear it was a sockpuppet for another account. This was reinforced by subsequent behaviour by the master account.
You can have more than one account on Arqade, so long as you don't use them to do what one cannot. Things like (but not limited to):
Using two to vote for each other
Voting on the same post ...
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Meme: @OrigamiRobot (and others) accepting data
Originator: @OrigamiRobot
Cultural Height: To date, the most-starred data message is: GNOMESLICE WANTS TO BE A BAD GIRL: DATA ACCEPTED
Background: Originally, before the first datum was accepted, commands and factoids were accepted, although since the advent of data acceptance these reponses have not been ...
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You can't. You have to live forever with your guilt.
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Game recommendations are off-topic and there's a close option for off-topic -> game/software/hardware recommendations.
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Scanning the question I'm responding to, I'd say "calling someone a dick" warranted the suspension.
Scanning the transcript, I'd say "arguing about politics in chat" warranted the timeout.
I wouldn't really call 24-hours an extreme response. Take the opportunity to, y'know, do something more fun for a day. Maybe play some games.
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Meme: "Good morning, Bridge"
Originator: @Frank
Cultural Height: Pretty much every morning when @Frank says "Good morning, Bridge" in chat and everybody stars it.
Yes, it's really a thing
Testimonials for the positive effects of "Good morning, Bridge": 1 2 3 4 5 6
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That's how the reputation system works, as you can read on our FAQ; specifically:
[reputation effect when] answer is voted down -2 (-1 to voter)
This is the way it works across the entire Stack Exchange network. As for why that is how reputation works across the network, you should check out this meta-discussion on the network's main meta site.
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Arqanoids! Arqadites? Arqadians. Hello, Arqadians!
Lemme address a few of the questions I see coming up here.
Q: Can we do something for Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm?
A: Possibly! Read on.
Q: How about we sponsor a team or a tournament?
A: Nope! You are correct that we've done this in the past, with League of Legends and WoW Mists of Pandaria. It's ...
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