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Can we add faq to this Q? @JourneymanGeek

@Pandya I'd decline based on revision 6

@JourneymanGeek Ohk. I need to check rules of FAQ

and while I am a fan of Shog's writing, I feel that a commumity FAQ should be more formal

@JourneymanGeek Rewrite, then FAQ ;)

humor is a very effective tool to get people to actually read something though. I wouldn't use it in the manual for a space shuttle, but for a FAQ of a website with many rules? Please yes.

It's effective as long as you're communicating with peers. Anything beyond that and someone will complain that it's not funny, it's belittling, sarcastic, rude, discriminating...etc.

Ideally that would still mean people read it, but in practice it seems that as soon as someone put out the label, no one really cares anymore about what's written ;)

There is a crowd I want to reach with documentation, and there is a crowd that can smell their own farts all day for all I care. I'm not going to tailor documentation towards the latter group.

(just to note: that is a South Park reference; the smug episode is one of my favorites: youtube.com/watch?v=ZTpgqqLyAs8).

Ah. That's the shouty cartoon, right?

It got less shouty over time, but yes

Well if that's the kind of humor you like, you can smell your own farts all day ;)

No no, you smell yours

Mine are girly farts. They smell like flowers :D

Lovely hanging out here with a bunch of adults, discussing serious problems :P

Indeed.

These are the important subjects.

I think documentation on here can carry a certain amount of lightheartedness, but humor is a bridge too far.

@Gimby more that the people who get my humour are not the ones who need an FAQ :D

@Tinkeringbell *raises eyebrow* You might want to check your diet

@Mithical There's loads of edible flowers :)

Some age badly ...

Or are just very blurry.

@rene Others age very well ;)

yes, yes, always others ...

Poor others ;)

Nick is freakin' hilarious.

@Spevacus LOL ... it is all PHP, but he caters for WordPress as well: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/330161/578411 ;)

"xmlrpc.php", how oddly specific. And OLD.

It is what I used for webservices when SOAP was only a standard because people kept erroneously using that word to describe it.

LOL

Think I got a serial upvoter on my tail... For a week or so I keep getting daily upvotes on old SO answers, quite randomly. :/

@Gimby Opera too?

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance Opera?

A quick google tells me that was another webservice thingymebob, I wasn't even actively aware that it exists :)

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance you're welcome.

@SonictheStay-HomeHedgehog happy now?

@Gimby lol... Well... Soap Opera... Duh... :P

@YaakovEllis he's never happy... ;)

@rene busted! sending flag 🚩

@rene You're doomed now. 🚩🚩🚩

Now? I already was doomed 6 to 8 years ago

So your demise is just in time.

lol

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@rene I watched Doom (the movie) last night.

Was missing the Bomb/Beholder monster... 👾

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance I don't think I know the movie.

@rene but you know the game, right?! ;)

vaguely yes.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(film)

gone

Would have pinged you if I hadn't forgotten that you're on the list of ping-desirers. Preciated.

Also your profile picture is really cool :)

Ehehehe whoops, I slipped on something ;-)

@Spevacus :) thanks

@Mithical Did you make it yourself? Or did someone else make it for you?

i customized it using a picrew

Cute. :)