@zaq ...what?

I suspect you may have encountered that bug where somehow the bulletin pulls a very old cached copy of featured posts

Oh. I just asked her to unfeature it before the weekend. Got a game of telephone happening

(I was out starting Friday, & wasn't really able to respond to questions / comments, so featuring it was a bit of a tease if we hit a weekend and no one else would be around either)

@Shog9 hey, quick question. why is meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342440/time-to-take-a-stand/… constantly getting unlocked?

no, unlocked.

@CarrieKendall locks can be timed

@Shog9 i am trying to decide if i should delete my comments so i stop getting notifications from comment replies because i'm thoroughly done with discussing any moral dilemmas on meta

safe to assume it'll regularly be unlocked?

@zaq the link is just incomplete, it's missing the anchor. It's pointing to meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342440/time-to-take-a-stand/…

Although I assume Carrie is talking about the question itself, not that answer specifically.

yeah, i stipped the link myself, did a poor job

yeahhhh, i'll just delete my comments

o/

@Shog9 if i delete all my comments can people still @ me?

@CarrieKendall it's locked now

haha... welp

let's hope it stays locked this time

thanks for the help

@CarrieKendall Gotta say, it'd be really nice if there was a way to opt out of notifications for a specific post. Y'know, when you're done with a conversation and need to move on. Would really help in these situations where folks find it hard to extricate themselves from an argument, in spite of their better nature. @GeoffDalgas

In the meantime, I have a request for a comment-only lock in the pipeline, so... Next time...

@Shog9 completely agree. i would prefer to not remove my comments as my opinion hasn't changed and it breaks the conversation, but there doesnt seem to be a better way to stop notifications atm

wait, you dont like purging the comments every 2 minutes? pft

@CarrieKendall I don't like anything that requires me to camp on a post.

It has been before

We might revisit eventually

There's a certain logic to allowing it in cases where the answer is downvoted

@zaq I guess so, if I'm not mistaken

Yeah

@zaq It has GOT to be corrected

If they don't, it will correct itself

Other thing that'd be nice in these situations would be a way to subscribe to notifications on a given post. Even a comment-lock is overkill in those situations where it's just one irritating person; you'd like to be able to warn them and then - if they ignore the warning - deal with the person instead of the post, but again that requires camping on the post.

congregation of floating heads now

:)

@Shog9 Docs has a feature like that for the discussion tab. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Seems noisy and fiddly. (Though some noise will be reduced when we bundle discussion comments in the inbox like we do with post comments.)

@JonEricson still need sensible defaults. But having the option to opt-in / opt-out is preferable to polling / overwhelming noise.

FWIW, I locked that Stand post for historical significance - but really, for the practical reason that it's still getting flags and there are now so many past flags on it that even finding the new ones is a time-consuming process.

Good test-case; haven't had this much activity (answers + comments + flags) on a single question in a while.

@JonEricson not the same chat room, but I'm not worried about the deets. Did you ever get to follow up on that deletion?

@jcolebrand Yes. Just now. ;-)

Thanks!

Shame I didn't get to keep my referrals. Le sigh

Now I just gotta go beat the street for more

area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/97295/…

Why does committing to a proposal ask for your full name?

So it doesn't really matter what you type in that field, apparently

@Stijn shouldn't it be an new question instead of adding a bounty on it?

@rene maybe

it's too late now :p

yeah. I don't think you get a new answer and the field remains, specially after reading the answer from Joel. Once he takes a stand ... ;)

It would be time for us to lake a stand

@JasonC How do i become as attractive as neil degrasse tyson. How do i become as attractive as neil degrasse tyson.

It seems like a perfectly valid question to me.

Downvoter please explain.

I downvoted because they didn't capitalize Neil Degrasse Tyson.

@JasonC I thought Neil Degrasse Tyson was a physicist anyway?

For posterity.

@JasonC Hey now, I caught a screenshot first

Show me your timestamp.

Oh wait, I didn't

Darn

It depends on your data. is what baby wipes are for LH.se

I think that this user needs to be removed

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