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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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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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[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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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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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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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: @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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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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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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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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Game recommendations are off-topic and there's a close option for off-topic -> game/software/hardware recommendations.
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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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Meme: kalina setting people on fire
Originator: kalina
Cultural Height: still kindling
Related: Spreadsheet of people kalina has set fire to in the Bridge (2012, 2013, 2014)
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No, I'm sorry, that is not good enough. We've tried. We have. It didn't work out.
If you'd like, there are other websites that can help you in your search, such as:
Wikipedia's lists of videogames
/r/tipofmytongue
/r/tipofmyjoystick
/r/askgames
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The thing is, answers aren't meant to help only the asker. They're meant to help the internet at large; that's one of the core tenets of the StackExchange network.
Insisting on a specific format of answer is something that answers can and should disregard if it's not something that's helpful. Artificially limiting the people who can answer to only people ...
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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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No.
Reputation has a floor of 1. it can never reach zero or a negative number.
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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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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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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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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
Only top voted, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible