I participated in the network as a minor, back in 2013-14. Much of that participation was at my school, which had two major problems: first, with disruptions and interruptions from that environment, and second, the fact that many major services, including image host Imgur as well as stackexchange.com (but not stackoverflow.com, superuser.com, or other SE domains) were blocked there.
Which meant that if I were a moderator, I wouldn't be able to moderate any site hosted on that domain, neither would I be able to see or moderate images, or access moderator resources such as chat.SE and the then (and upcoming) TL.
While my school allowed us to bring our own laptops, quite a few don't, and so using SE at school requires using public computer terminals (which creates an obvious privacy and security risk, what with the rights held by a mod). I remember that 50%+ of my SE use at school then was on public computers.
I was forced by my family to leave Meta in November 2013, and the rest of the SE network in December 2014.
(my father literally sent an email to SE management asking to delete my Meta account, this was before the 24-hour timer existed; at some points after that was invented, he'd send emails asking for deletion and the team'd respond by starting the timer, which I'd cancel)
Moderators can resign for personal reasons, sure. But family pressure to leave is different from that. Also, it creates logistical hurdles for SE, such as having to set up elections to get a replacement, questions about whether the user would be able to moderate another site again or if they'll have family pressure, etc.
I'm well aware of the long history of excellent minor moderators SE has had.
But I can also completely understand where SE's coming from, from a non-legal perspective.
Even after I turned 18, I still had fear in me that my family would notice what I'm doing and would stop me. Which is why I didn't rejoin the network until a year and a half later.
(To be clear: now they're well aware of my participation here and have no objection to it.)
And even if they hadn't objected, they'd still one day ask me what I'm up to all the time and show them exactly what I do, which would likely involve showing them PII.
(To those wondering how I was able to access Meta.SE while I couldn't access stackexchange.com sites: back then, it was hosted on meta.stackoverflow.com.)
If I'm handling PII at a given point in time and a family member shows up in my room, I'd have to quickly close what I'm doing to make sure no PII is exposed to anyone else. Which creates obvious questions from the family member (you were doing something illegal, you were talking to a dangerous stranger, etc.). And once I'd assure them that that's not so, I'd lose track of what I was looking for or thinking about.
That's not even mentioning Internet connection monitoring software or PITM software.
Practically this is literally growing pains from an organisation that ran on purely trust and "eh it'll work" to something getting bigger and legal going "WAIT WHAT??????"
especially as legal isn't one person who started early on, and probably just got asked things as needed
@SonictheK-DayHedgehog That's just as much of a concern for someone with roommates. As always, if you're not in a position where you can effectively and safely moderate, then... don't. This is why I made sure to ask my parents before officially accepting the position :D.
The Assembly was recommended as a room to request unfreezing in this answer: How do I unfreeze a frozen chat room? (Although Tavern on Meta was mentioned in the comments, too.)
@SonictheK-DayHedgehog but you do realize they did it for your own sake? That's something I'd also do with my kids if I'll think something is distracting them too much from things which I consider more important.
e.g. my (7 y/o) son plays game called Brawl Stars whenever he can, sometimes forgetting to do homework because of that. So I limit the time he can play. To me it's just a silly game, but for him it might be important. He even chat with friends from school in there.
@SonictheK-DayHedgehog oh, totally true.
If one is willing to become moderator, they should know in advance they can do it, in all aspects.
In my case, however, they didn't merely limit my time on it or merely stop me from logging on. They erased my account, which meant that if I ever wanted to rejoin later, I'd have to start with a brand new account.
Imgur image processing after uploading an image is slow again: it used to be below 1 second for the past few weeks, and now it is back to over five seconds. Tested on different connections and different computers. In rare cases (<10%) the Imgur image processing is below 1 second.
compare with still quite famous things like Azur Lane.
@Shadow10YearsWizard Azur Lane has all female units cast, and lots of swimsuits... Fanservice-driven at its core. And it is not the only one, many gatchas seems to follow that idea
@Νеvеrꭑoꭇе yeah, looked at it now. Well, reason Brawl Stars is popular among kids in Israel is that it has Hebrew interface. My son tried to play Among Us at some point after seeing my nephews play it, but couldn't overcome the language barrier. He can read English letters and few basic words, but that's about it.
@RyanM well, I'm just "Sha" or if one wants to have the long version "Shadow"... and SonictheK-DayHedgehog is just @Sonic. All the rest of the name is just noise that change anyway every few months. ;)
@JourneymanGeek meta jurisprudence shows that users were allowed to use zalgo, even if that overflowed on other users messages, so cute character sets should be the last of problems :P
@Rob it's improvised, bakery didn't have toasts today (they were busy making those), I asked about it, and the bakery owner suggested to make me a toast anyway from the available ingredients. ;)
@Rob well it's cheap for whole meal.
@RyanM you can try and revert, we have 15 minutes grace period.
Bagel toast (Hebrew: בייגל טוסט, romanized: Beygel Tost) is a sandwich commonly eaten in Israel. It is composed of a pressed, toasted bagel filled with vegetables and cheese and is grilled on a sandwich toaster or panini press. While the bagel is round with a hole in the center, it is unlike the typical American bagel in that it is made from a different dough with sesame seeds. Bagel toast is generally filled with tzfatit, feta, white, or yellow cheese, green olives, corn, tomatoes, onions, dressing, and pizza or chili sauce.Bagel toast is typically found in cafes or coffee houses in Israel and...
@Shadow10YearsWizard Here we have tacobell.com/food - it's an oversimplification to say that everything on the menu is one of those, with variations on the casing and fillings.
@Shadow10YearsWizard Apparently the copy of "Taco Bell" was "El Taco", but they closed. You do have Mexicana, but that's not a copy, it's a huge upscaling of Improvement.
@Shadow10YearsWizard I noticed that there are a lot of questions online, why? - Speculation that there's not much travel between the two countries, but I don't know why that prohibits people from liking and eating the food - missed opportunity. It's not like it's going to be expensive or unpopular.
@JNat elaborate cross-site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/19344651/purnima spamming almost identical questions everywere, in hopes of generating leads to a spammy profile description
The fugu (河豚; 鰒; フグ) in Japanese, bogeo (복어) or bok (복) in Korean, and hétún (河豚; 河鲀) in Standard Modern Chinese is a pufferfish, normally of the genus Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides, or a porcupinefish of the genus Diodon, or a dish prepared from these fish.
Fugu can be lethally poisonous due to its tetrodotoxin, meaning it must be carefully prepared to remove toxic parts and to avoid contaminating the meat.The restaurant preparation of fugu is strictly controlled by law in Japan and several other countries, and only chefs who have qualified after three or more years of rigorous training...
@Mithical I remember: back when that existed, one canonical post referred to the 10k queue as the "moderator queue", while the real moderator queue was referred to as the "diamond moderator queue".
(The rep league tables were retroactively recalculated to revalue question upvotes at 10, and the value shown there doubled, so it wasn't caused by that.)
What's really outstanding is that (as far as I'm aware) I outpaced every non-mod or staff in rep gain at this point, clocking in at 60k in three years. Glorfindel only had 55k in 3.5 years, then his rep doubled in 2019.
(That's after taking into account the revaluation, by the way)
There was an incident a while back when a (non-SE-related) author claimed a YouTube channel was plagiarizing their content by showing their content in a video, even though a link to the source was in the description, claiming that they didn't supply adequate attribution because it wasn't in the video content itself.
...because "no one reads the description" in their view
(got it partially wrong, it was an issue of plagiarism, not copyright)
@user400654 ^ 2nd link = last few minutes, not a particularly spectacular explosion; small compared to some of the early missions - probably very low on fuel, the amount being exactly calculated.
There's blue sky background, difficult to determine horizontal speed exactly, you can tell that they were coming in fast and fired a bit late; crashing slowly.