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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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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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[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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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: "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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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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Downvoting answers costs reputation. Your reputation is refunded if the answer is deleted, but otherwise, downvoting answers costs 1 reputation and downvoting questions are free.
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No.
Reputation has a floor of 1. it can never reach zero or a negative number.
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No such feature exists, Stack Exchange is not a social network. You should be able to keep track of your friends without a list in the system.
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I believe the correct thing to do is to post a new answer to the outdated question and specify that the new answer is for the updated version.
You can leave a comment on the new (duplicate) question telling the user that you have posted an updated answer - this gets the new user to go to the original question, see your new answer and upvote it.
You can ...
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There's a proposed FAQ on Meta Stack Exchange precisely about this topic. @arghtype's answer summarizes the main differences.
when should I consider using each of them?
You should use the 'follow' feature when:
you want to receive inbox notifications
you want to keep the fact that you're following a post private
you want to keep a reference to an answer,...
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This is for users who come across an answer they think is great that they want to award some of their reputation to as a bonus. Maybe there's an answer with a lot fewer upvotes than another that you think deserves some recognition or just to encourage a poster to continue creating quality content.
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Meme: Wipqozn
Cultural Height: Wipqozn realises his memetic status
Background: This question, This question, This question & This question
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Not sure exactly what you did there, but somehow you managed to hit the answer submission route twice within a few seconds. So the spam-checker got spooked and decided to test you.
Congratulations, you're probably human!
...for now...
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Obsolete flags can only be handled by moderators. When you create work for the moderation team, you enter into a working relationship with them. You can decide to stop flagging at any time, they can't decide to stop handling your flags at any time. If your flags are detracting from the time that they feel they should be spending on issues that are more ...
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@Frank is right. We don't release information on why a user was deleted, so you're just going to need to remain in the dark about it.
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First off: while your grammar could use some improvement, it's not that bad, and it usually isn't the main reason.
Why isn't this mob farm working? is a Minecraft question. Some users have a tendency to downvote Minecraft questions that they think aren't well researched because we get A LOT of them, and not always of decent quality. In addition, it was ...
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This is how the site is designed.
Upvoting and downvoting are some of the many privileges that are unlocked that require 15 and 125 reputation respectively. Downvoting will lower users reputation, so you need to be more established in the site before unlocking this privilege.
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As much as I don't want to throw names around - I asked our #1 Minecraft answerer (fredley) whether the edit made that resulted in the reopening of the question fundamentally changed the meaning of the question and he said yes - thereby invalidating your opinion that the actions were taken "by people who don't play on Bukkit servers or participate in the ...
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All of these flags below are for comments that say things like "thanks", or "this worked for me", or "you should edit X into your answer/question" followed by a "I have edited X into my answer/question", all the sort of stuff that doesn't need to exist.
I agree, all of these comments should be nuked, preferably from orbit. I find it unfortunate that there's ...
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It was locked to prevent a rollback war, and to prevent users from defacing the post, which you can see in the edit history.
Unfortunately, locking a post locks all aspects, including votes, but sometimes it's necessary when people are feeling destructive.
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We are currently in the process of ironing out a fourth close reason. The close reasons were clunky before, with too much being put into each one. The fourth one will make that better, but until that is finished, we don't have a close reason for ITG.
Only top voted, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible