So, those are the legal and sociological concerns.
Not to mention, there's always the potential threat of child predators, and some members of the SE network (users, not staff or moderators) have gone around with swastika or pedobear avatars, so we obviously can't be adults even when we're adults. Bringing children around just increases the potential negative behaviors.
Which is an interesting tidbit if you want to hang out on meta, we do have a minimum level of acceptable on avatars. Things which are known to be hate- or predatory- oriented are deemed unacceptable, so if you ever see someone that has a specifically hateful or predatory avatar, you're not doing an injustice to mention it to a mod or here.
Doesn't mean that it gets removed for sure, just saying there's a precedent and it would be acceptable to ask about it.
but, as a 15 year old myself, I can say that there are plenty of people my age and younger who are capable of interacting in SE just fine
perhaps not Meta, though.
The only reason I haven't lost all my rep is because I've deleted the insanely downvoted ones with incomplete plans to improve them, echoed what the old farts say all the time in answers (ensuring I get upvotes), and making radical suggestions only occasionally
and you know, even my "radical" suggestions aren't even that radical. they're usually big for a day then die down, lol
If I visit
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer/cv/18130
I see that this candidate wants to hear about positions in "Canada, England United Kingdom".
Note there actually is a tiny village called Canada in the county of Hampshire - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellow,_Hampshire. However...
Every time I see someone type "You are to [adjective]!" (i.e. "You are to funny!"), it makes me think they were writing an analogy and gave up halfway through. "You are to proper-grammar as Charlie Sheen is to sobriety"
> Consider the bipartite graph whose vertices are all your messages and all the users, and whose edges are the stars you received. So a user (vertex) and a message (vertex) are connected by an edge if and only if the given user has starred the given message. You are eligible for the Outspoken badge if and only if this graph has a matching number of at least ten. source
I just noticed there are always two versions of Ubuntu, X.04 and X.10. Which is the best? Is it really that X.04 are more stable BUT with less applications?
I have 12.04 and 11.10 but 12.04 keeps logging me off. Should I rather wait for the 12.10?
Please say the differences between a X.04 and a...
I am on this question on my iPad: Is there an explanation for Amy Pond's selective remembering of people?
How do I view the spoilers on the question??
There is no way for me to "hover over"
So now I am at a loss.... How do I see the whole question now?
Tapping or sliding does not seem ...
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Official reference for “don't leave ‘thank you’ comments”
Is it acceptable to write a thank you in a comment?
I think there's general agreement that thanking a person for a good answer isn't what comments are for. However, if a user does thank me for an answer, may I ackn...
lol, I almost suggest an answer saying to "...you can up-vote his comment before flagging. If he don't lack basic deduction skills, he will assume you got his message (in case the comment is not yet deleted)."
but, it is obviously not possible to up-vote and flag...
Maybe you don't. There are literally millions of SO users, I'm sure some of them do it. I think I've done it once or twice when I was extra-appreciative of an answer.
A friend of mine got really irritated a few years ago when people were making fun of Sarah Palin for not being able to name all the countries of North America, on the grounds that the Caribbean nations technically have to be included, and very few people can do that.
Peña Nieto failed to name 3 books he had read... He named two (one including the bible) and the other he said the author was X instead of Y and still won the president elections in mexico
Yeah, I expect politicians to surround themselves with people they trust and who know what they're talking about and who actually get listened to. We could call them "advisors".
@balpha Agreed. I sometimes wonder if people like us are merely outnumbered by anti-intellectuals, or if good people do get elected and then get overwhelmed by the system, or we talk a lot but don't vote, or what. (Actually the answer is probably the same answer that applies to most complex questions, "a combination of the above factors and other factors not listed.")
> I think he may have a valid point. Perhaps apple have invented some new numbers, like eleventy-four, that don't fit into the old computers properly due to magic and stuff.
@mccarthynator Ah, the joys of using a term that doesn't have a widely agreed-upon definition. You don't seem to be one of the group I'm talking about.
Are people posting more "it's been five nanoseconds since X happened, why doesn't my network rep look right/why don't I have the badge yet" reports on Meta than they used to?
Currently when you edit a question and change tags, the tags list to the right doesn't become synchronized. At least on SO using FF10.
So only page reload updates the list. Please fix that.
If I visit
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer/cv/18130
I see that this candidate wants to hear about positions in "Canada, England United Kingdom".
Note there actually is a tiny village called Canada in the county of Hampshire - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellow,_Hampshire. However...
I just noticed there are always two versions of Ubuntu, X.04 and X.10. Which is the best? Is it really that X.04 are more stable BUT with less applications?
I have 12.04 and 11.10 but 12.04 keeps logging me off. Should I rather wait for the 12.10?
Please say the differences between a X.04 and a...
I am on this question on my iPad: Is there an explanation for Amy Pond's selective remembering of people?
How do I view the spoilers on the question??
There is no way for me to "hover over"
So now I am at a loss.... How do I see the whole question now?
Tapping or sliding does not seem ...
Previous discussion:
Official reference for “don't leave ‘thank you’ comments”
Is it acceptable to write a thank you in a comment?
I think there's general agreement that thanking a person for a good answer isn't what comments are for. However, if a user does thank me for an answer, may I ackn...
Currently when you edit a question and change tags, the tags list to the right doesn't become synchronized. At least on SO using FF10.
So only page reload updates the list. Please fix that.
