@AnnZen People used to think URL shorteners are kewl. Some still do.
But if it was ever kewl to hide stuff behind another small link that's probably going to bombard you with fishy ads, there's no reason to do it in an SE post
It might get rejected by someone whose stance on shorteners isn't that clear. You should avoid getting into a long boring debate on whether the edit makes the post any easier to edit yadda yadda
meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350918/… — What's wrong with this edit is "favour" is not wrong, it's British, and it shouldn't have been edited. "on" and "in" are both used for meta folks, so it's just not substantial, this edit @Ann
@Ann I took a cursory look at your rejected edits, and they tend to either be very minor, or change something that they shouldn't. Edits require more effort than that. On Chem.SE, my edits sometimes took a whopping 30 minutes to submit
Grammar-only edits are certainly possible, but they're desirable mostly only in posts that need them. When I'm understanding the guy perfectly, I don't much care how well they worded their post, especially on a meta.SE where the goal isn't to propagate knowledge
@AnnZen Ummm... Sort of. If I look at your profile, I can see your rep graph. I dunno at what point in your rep history that was snapshotted, but I believe that is frozen until your rep is recalculated when your suspension ends.
@AnnZen Oof, before this devolves into a philosophical discussion of why helping one person might be at the expense of every other person's enjoyment of a site, I think I wanna go study for some exam
@Mith here will voluntarily explain it all in a very concise manner:
@M.A.R. "helping one person might be at the expense of every other person's enjoyment of a site" I don't see how helping someone will be at the expense of every other person :/
it's easy to not see the damage something causes if the damage is so minor that it would take several thousand of them to cause any meaningful difference
@AnnZen So . . . basically, an argument every single person that's headed in the opposite direction than an SE site's curators brings up sooner or later is "I'm just helping the poor soul, the post might have terrible grammar and be solved on a whim if they cared to google the title of the post and is the 589th duplicate of something, but THEY ARE HUMAN! THERE ARE NO STUPID QUESTIONS! AN EYE FOR AN EYE MAKES THE WORLD BLIND! THERE ARE TWO LIMITLESS THINGS: THE UNIVERSE, AND HU you get the point
And the blanket response is SE can either be a helpdesk, or a library of knowledge, not both. Because there are stupid things and there are stupid people, as opposed to smart. If you call a question smart, you have to call a question on the opposite extreme stupid.
But, the result is, few years later, when someone has a real problem, they reflect on themselves "that site! What a dump! Spent a whole hour trying to find the post with the canon answer, but failed" and then apocalypse and stuff
Is it on purpose that users under 10K rep cannot click on the link of their deleted answer on their rep tab, but they can still view them if they have the link?
You're waiting for a train. One that will take you far far away. You don't know where it's gonna take you, but still come with me because OUCH THAT TRAIN HIT MY HEAD IT HURT
Sorry if this is confusing, will this clear things?
Here, you can see the titles aren't links, they are plain text, so I won't be able to click on them and have a look. Is that on purpose? If so, it doesn't work, as I can google the exact titles, and find the links.
what looked odd to me was the number of incidents of voting reversals/user removed in your short rep history. that's not an indication that you did something wrong, it's just... odd. I've had a few of those over the years, but never that many in a 60 day timespan.
Well, I commented my concern of all those user removed messages in the SO chat room before, and a mod told me not to worry, as they had nothing to do with me.
we can't see any more than you can here, less even, but from this PoV that does look very irregular. clearly, they have evidence that some form of voting fraud occurred. If you believe none did, then the only other possibilities are 1: the evidence is just coincidental, or 2: someone else at your location is voting on your posts.
Votes can be up or down for: like, dislike, don't care - including for the correct reason. Serial upvoting rips huge chunks of rep out of many accounts when the sock gets caught years (months?) later.
@AnnZen Maybe people who know you from your YouTube channel or Facebook Python stuff have been upvoting your answers. Do you think that's a possibility?
if you talk your MSE question, some time a user love another and go upvote a lot of his answers. It's problematic to say the least, as It give a flag to a mod and bring you under scrutiny, but, if a ban occur there was a doubt the one that upvoted is linked with you. Invistagating in a more good way, as a CM, not with the tool the mod got, would take more than the 7 days suspension period you had. It's the problem there, having more CM could probably help
@Ann I'd appreciate it if you could drop the topic of being suspended now, and not start any conversations that circle back to that same thing time and time again.
As for the rest of the room, they can rest assured Ann has had plenty of replies already about how to handle appeals and stuff, and there's no need to discuss anything further.
The plane of the Moon's orbit precesses with a rather short cycle of 18.6 years. So the motion of the sublunar point is rather more complex than that of the subsolar point. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_precession for details & various diagrams.
The last hour's conversation was about the alignment, for the most recent it could have been good enough for him; and as the diagram shows, not elsewhere. There was no suggestion to ping him tomorrow, if that's what your getting at.
@Ollie Oh, there's a few things in here that generally get moderated, but we'll let you know when they come up instead of keeping a list. It's easier ;)
At first I felt strange using they/them as singular pronouns. I'm used to it now, but still have some issues with that.
Like, for example, I say "they downvoted my post". It could make other users think I made a bad post, and many people downvoted, when I only meant one.
@AnnZen Like user said, most of it is context then. If there's one someone/user somewhere, not many people will read the following they/them as plural.
Some people do. I find it only makes things more complicated, but that's probably because English isn't my native language anyways. I'm more easily using they/them as singular than the Dutch hen/hun
In order for three characters to work, however, the user needs to have chatted in the last 48 hours. If they haven't (but have chatted in the last 7 days), you must use the full username.
@Ollie Well, someone may post a comment, and later see it's not there, and think they forgot to press send, and post it again, and repeat, and that's why.
