@AnneDaunted Could you please reconsider your decision to delete this answer of yours? I think it's helpful and adds to the discussion, plus adds on new arguments not present in the question.
Especially considering that there's been no further update during the "first half of 2019" (as quoted in the official response), I think your answer would help the team know that the request is important.
@SonictheAnonymousWizHog please stop nagging people more than once about things. I understand your point, but what you do might annoy those people. You already asked them here and got a response. I really doubt that asking again would bring any different result.
(Sorry if it's bit harsh, but such actions led you to be banned in the past, I want to prevent such a thing, that's all.)
So that user was female... while this explains the "victim attitude" at some level, it's no excuse for the unfriendly comments and chat messages. </passing-thoughts>
@Marshmallow nope. Someone who is now suspended for a year, so guess we better not discuss this a lot further, I just posted something I thought about.
@Marshmallow nah.... that user was unfriendly towards me personally for some reason from the very beginning when they just joined the site and the chat, few months back.
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@rene Deja vu
That word is badass. It must be Dutch or something.
@Marshmallow It doesn't really have a Dutch synonym (only a literal translation: Eerder gezien). The German word is awesome too though: Bekanntheitstäuschung
The more scientific Dutch word for it is paramnesie
I can't possibly imagine anyone going to full frontal assault a heavily defended millitary research base where even if you breach the fence (lol, good luck), you'd be trecking across 18 miles of nevada desert in the blazing sun in september
@Magisch these days it's totally not needed. Just plant a malware in one of the senior staff phones, and you win the jackpot. Or even not senior, anyone who is inside that "heavily defended" base. ;)
do you think anyone in a top secret millitary base is allowed to a) keep their phone on base or b) has internet reception or c) has internet at their workstation?
They have more strict security requirements then that in the central bank IT building where I briefly worked, and that isn't even the building where something actually sensitive happens
@AnneDaunted Okay, I understand. (It's just that deleting it comes across as retracting your viewpoint, and could be perceived as such by staff. If I were deleting an answer for the same reason you initially pointed out, I'd edit it to make it clear that it was for cleanup reasons and not a retraction of my viewpoint.)
(For context to others: the user stated that the reason they deleted their answer was solely for cleanup reasons)
I just wanted to say that, since Anne stated that the reason for deleting it was because they thought it wouldn't be of much value to the OP, I'm simply clarifying to them that I (the OP) do consider it valuable.
@SonictheAnonymousWizHog My viewpoint is of no importance. If they can read it, they can not only form their own opinion, they can also see its score and thereby what the community thinks.
@Aibobot Out of curiosity, and I'm not currently planning to do this, but is it against policy if I were to post an answer saying, "Anne Daunted answered this question with an excellent explanation on why users should be notified of mod-only tag edits, but deleted their answer for cleanup reasons; here's what they said: [quote of answer in quote markup]"?
Perhaps stop asking us about things you're not planning to do too... it's getting annoying to 'correct' or 'explain' things that are hypothetical anyways.
@ShaWiz I said hypothetical, not trivial... this is the second time in a few days that people spend time explaining something, only to be 'dismissed' with 'I wasn't going to do this'. :P
@ShaWiz It's the fact that it's already determined these things won't be done that makes it annoying... If you want to check whether something is OK or not because you're planning to do them, that's entirely different (though sometimes still annoying).
But there's no use in rules lawyering if you already know you're not going to...
For all those who are curious, but have not the rep to see the answer or simply better things to do to look it up: The answer this is about had a score of 4. That's not exactly high (it'd need a score of 10 to earn me a "nice answer" badge) and it had been visible for months, before I deleted it.
@Tinkeringbell At least by saying in advance that I'm not planning, it gives people the choice to not spend time answering, and thus reduces the annoyance. But if you consider it annoying, I'll reconsider before posting such things.
Whenever you're trying to explore the frayed edges of what you can and can't do on here, chances are you're already into "annoying an authority figure" territory and are trying to chart it. While on some sites policy forbids the authority figures from reacting negatively to that, it still has a high probability of annoying them somewhat severely.
@Magisch Ah, good point. That relates back to when I used to persistently ping Shog: his job policy meant that he'd have to respond nicely to my questions, but he wouldn't actually feel positive about it in the end
@SonictheAnonymousWizHog By the time someone tells you you're annoying them, it's already been going on for a long time
People don't like having negative interactions with others. Especially when they're already annoyed by them. The threshold for telling someone that is not "They're annoying me", it's "They're annoying me so much that it's becoming seriously obnoxious and I'm unwilling to leave instead"
It's something I had to learn too: silence does not mean consent in most cases
Hey @Tinkeringbell did you happen to have used the snelbus between 't Harde and Zwolle and if you did was that doable? I need to reach Groningen tomorrow and wonder if the NS reisplanner is accurate or if I have to allow for more slack.
But this time around, they're pretty organized, you get on the bus, bus leaves and goes to Zwolle, and drops you pretty much at the rear entrance of the station.
That's about an hour later than I usually travel, can't tell if there'll be much traffic. I think you'll be fine, I've had driving classes around those times and usually there's not much ;)
Oh, that should be more than enough I think, unless there's some serious kind of accident/traffic
Hahaha.... Here it's mostly that the busses take a certain route because it means they can mostly go with the flow of traffic (no lane switching, or left hand turns)... Which means they can drive a bit safer, better... even though it may be a whole minute longer ;)
@Stormblessed If it does, it should show up in Charcoal HQ pretty quickly. (Note: that's a serious room that likes to stick to their topic, SmokeDetector. You've been warned now not to be too chatty or off-topic in there :P)
@Stormblessed I said "basically immune" because I know there are some checks that reputation doesn't exempt you from, but I can't remember which ones they are