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Journeyman Geek

12:29 AM

morning

Jason C

3:03 AM

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Elephant

3:42 AM

morning

Elephant

3:54 AM

Just realized MetaSmoke has an announcement. Interesting about 4chan vs Mi Yodeya, but the thread on 4chan only attracted 3 replies since June 13 and has been closed.

wondering if there's really a troll-attack there

Feeds

Magnetohydrodyanmics combines the intuitive nature of Maxwell's equations with the easy solvability of the Navier-Stokes equations. It's so straightforward physicists add "relativistic" or "quantum" just to keep it from getting boring.

Elephant

4:11 AM

Spending your free time in the [c] and [c++] tag is like taking vacation in Syria. You have to participate in the jihad and shall pick a side. Taking a break on the breezy [c#] coast is not a bad idea, it has a lot less religion. — Hans Passant 9 hours ago

Journeyman Geek

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Pritt Balagopal

6:38 AM

Hi

I have a suggestion, but I'm afraid of downvotes

JamesENL

Well all we can do is set smokey on you here, so what is your suggestion

boo

Elephant

@PrittBalagopal you can try search it on MSE/MSO first, or well... just share your idea here

Pritt Balagopal

7:47 AM

@Elephant thanks for the suggestion, and sorry for late reply, had to visit the market to get vegetables.

I was thinking

since voting is different on meta

shouldn't that be made clear on the hover message over the downvote button

if you hover over the downvote button, you'll see "This question does not show research effort; its unclear or not useful"

On meta shouldnt it be changed to "This question does not show research effort; its unclear or not useful or if you disagree"

?

Elephant

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Q: Change upvote/downvote tooltip on meta sites

Since voting on meta sites mean something different on the main sites, can you change the tooltip as well: This question is useful and clear --> I agree This question is unclear or not useful --> I disagree This answer is useful --> I agree This answer is not useful --> I disagree ...or somet...

the request is there already ;)

but declined

Pritt Balagopal

Bummer

Why in the world was it declined?

Now they pound newcomers into visiting the FAQ so they can learn that voting is different on meta.

Elephant

Because Jeff (the owner of Stack Exchange, but already left) said so.

Well, ideally, users should have read [tour] and some of help centers before they participate in a site.

Pritt Balagopal

Ideally

Journeyman Geek

8:10 AM

@Elephant co-founder ;p

tho he was a lot more visible than joel in the old days

rene

12:58 PM

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Derpy

1:11 PM

Bootleg Stuff

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Elephant

1:42 PM

@Derpy lol, thanks but no thanks :p

user315433

Blender graduated two years ago today. One of their most viewed post-graduation questions is Group objects in blender [duplicate]. It was marked as a duplicate within a few hours after creation... but still gets views, 30K by now. Unusual.

Elephant

speaking of duplicate...

nvm... I was going to ask Jason about his More Share Links (Markdown / HTML / BBCode) since it uses the post title (including [duplicate] or [closed]) for the markdown.

Not sure whether to remove it or not, but in the end, it's trivial for the user to just delete the status before posting