Today is exactly 3 years since Arduino went into public beta. The site gets 18 questions/day and 12K visits/day, but still has not graduated, apparently lacking some intangibles like self-moderation and user engagement. The fact that one of three mods has 420 rep shows how shallow the pool is.

another question: would SE like to maintain 100,000+ children sites

@hichris123 except Stack Overflow en español

@hichris123 more so than outdoors.stackexchange.com?

I am amazed

In the sense of having pro tem mods and beta-level privileges, both Stack Overflow en español and スタック・オーバーフロー are betas. Stack Overflow em Português and Stack Overflow на русском graduated.

@ThomasWard Signal Processing has 12 QPD, Emacs 11, Music: Practice & Theory 10 -- all graduated and even have their design.

it's not always about effort, sometimes it's about expertise

The cats were fighting,
but one fought with expert timing.

not true for 1337 tr011s ... we are always happy after some claiming a score of victims

I should be doing something productive, but I ended up solving riddles for fun instead, then I came across this:

crossing without any cars can you spell that without any r's

My answer was 'X' - being a crossing, but the official answer was 'that'

mate.stackexchange.com ... sounds like a drug dealing site

mate trading stacks

@JasonC No, but here is Sara & the little trolling husky's next instalment

Once upon a time, there was a woman named Sara Rapunzel trapped in a tower by a witch. One day a prince, a knight and a royal guard was riding by the river on kings land with prince’s little trolling husky. The guard said ‘I heard some terrible howling, lemme find out what it is’.

So the dashing young man followed the excruciating , loud growl and found a towel in the distance. ‘Strange’, the young man said, ‘I have been around here for ages and I have never seen such a tower’. As he approaches the tower, the sound stopped. Finally he reached the white tower and as he got off the horse, a sudden deafening howl pierced the air. The guard was disoriented and he walked back to the knight and the prince.

The handsome knight followed guards direction, he too, saw the tower. When he arrived that the foot of the tower, he spotted a greasy rope what had many flies around it. Then he saw some beautiful lights coming out from the window located on the top of the tower. Enchanted, the knight climbed up the greasy rope. As he reached the window, he was saddenly greeted by a massive face covered in pimples, on it there was 2 little green eyes and a gigantic mouth with many sharp yellow teeth.

bored, so spent time working on something that would alleviate someone else's boredom ... coz altruism </trollololo>

there are many stories, and yes, most of them have ... happy endings, yes, but more for sara than the little trolling husky :x

down & up are relative

@rene Also what do you mean by downward spiral, how is it a down ward? Is it because it doesn't conform? Because all fairy tales have to follow certain cliche?

not it wouldn't

I wrote that on the train, it's either that or working on an app's layout issue

if you analyse any well known novels, you can get very cynical about it

I still have apps to fix ... and a house to fix & rent

I am obviously not a good one

and also I am not desperate for money

besides I wrote that in 30 minutes

by being very productive, you tend to have a lot of free time too, because what takes other people 100 hours to do, you do it in 20 hours & then you are like 'what to do with all those free time?' </trollololo>

@ShadowWizard hello!

@ShadowWizard ikr ;)

@ShadowWizardI think you know more about SE meta than anyone. You do not sleep, you are always there, have the link, know the post... Are you sure you're not Shog?

@ShadowWizard I think you're shog's right hand man. Tell the truth!

@ShadowWizard did I say you were holding hands? ok you're Shog's right arm then! big baby :D

the only thing Sha does quickly in edit and close meta posts

@ShadowWizard are you scared of the flower ?

@JourneymanGeek hm you've made a valid point

I felt like I was being watched

she's so cute :D <3

@ShadowWizard This looks like a sensible post making some good points.

@bjb568 It's still a jet plane

Who knows about reviewing, it's meta. The web archive of that page has "Did this answer by TheTXI help you? It's easy to give back. Sign up to get started"... don't remember this feature.