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6:48 AM
@Feeds I miss when XKCD was almost all nerd stuff. :(
 
 
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1:48 PM
connection failure?
 
@MetaAndrewT. where?
 
oh, I guess just a blip...
 
@MetaAndrewT. bloop
@rene
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Q: Is the old, non image based flair actually going away, and if so, why?

jamesdlinFor a long(ish?) while now, the flair page has said: What about the old, non image based flair? The earlier methods of sharing flair are deprecated and will go away eventually. Please use the simpler image flair from this point onward! Are there still serious plans to remove it? I c...

There was HTML version of the flair. ^
 
Ah, that might have had impact as well
 
Hmm... quick fix of the blog can be editing it to have the image flair of the past moderators, but there will be no diamond now...
 
1:55 PM
I don't mind how it get fixed. I'm also fine with just ditching the post as only mmyers appointment is relevant today. Nothing of value will be lost. Maybe a bit of history writing but that is about it.
 
@rene this can be said on the vast majority of the old blog posts.
They don't have any real value these days.
 
2:15 PM
My initial thought was to ask for the link under Tim Post to be linked as I assumed the other link would go to a meta post. As that didn't seem true nor did I find an appropriate meta to link to for Tim I decided to have at least the blog content behind the link fixed.
And leave Tim unlinked. That doesn't mean he is unloved. Don't make that mistake.
 
Rob
> "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
 
@Rob And those who do remember the past often long to repeat it. ;)
 
@Tinkeringbell Only the good parts :D
 
Rob
I get that, and yet I know how bad off I would have been had I taken that path. It's like dodging the bullet, yet wanting to go back to collect your due.
 
@JourneymanGeek I often wish I could repeat some bad parts and stand up for myself more :)
 
2:21 PM
More seriously - Its nice to appreciate where we came from, and fix the broken windows :D
so I'm really good with posting bug reports on old posts with value on the blog
 
@JourneymanGeek Or break a bit more ;)
burn things to the ground :D
 
@Tinkeringbell Bit of both :D
But are we building a monument, or tending a garden? :D
 
A garden can do well with controlled burns too :)
Monuments... meh.
I've learned those are ephemeral ;)
 
"Look upon thee works, oh mighty and despair!"
 
If they're mighty, they probably outsourced the work.
 
2:27 PM
Oh certainly!
 
Rob
Some of the most famous gardens have monuments:
Princes Street Gardens are two adjacent public parks in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland, lying in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle. The Gardens were created in the 1820s following the long draining of the Nor Loch and building of the New Town, beginning in the 1760s. The loch, situated on the north side of the town, was originally an artificial creation forming part of its medieval defences and made expansion northwards difficult. The water was habitually polluted from sewage draining downhill from the Old Town. The gardens run along the south side of Princes Street and are divided by The Mound...
The Public Garden, also known as Boston Public Garden, is a large park in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, adjacent to Boston Common. It is a part of the Emerald Necklace system of parks, and is bounded by Charles Street and Boston Common to the east, Beacon Street to the north, Arlington Street and Back Bay to the west, and Boylston Street to the south. The Public Garden was the first public botanical garden in America. == History == Boston's Back Bay, including the land the garden sits on, was mudflats until filling began in the early 1800s. The land of the Public Garden was the earl...
 
(entirely metaphorically speaking...)
 
Neither of those two are known here, so are they really famous?
I could use a good monument to put in my own garden...
 
Rob
Do you have a garden known worldwide?
 
It'll probably be a gnome XD
 
2:29 PM
hands @Tinkeringbell a malicious garden gnome
@Tinkeringbell I started typing that before I saw you say it'll probably be a gnome :D
 
I think I feel a vacation to Germany coming up. The touristy towns there often sell garden decorations too, funny ones. You don't see much of those over here.
@JourneymanGeek Hahaha
 
Rob
This one?:
The travelling gnome (also known as the roaming gnome or gnoming) is when someone brings a garden gnome lawn ornament on a trip and takes pictures of it in front of famous landmarks. Some instances became national and international news stories, where people have stolen a garden gnome from a garden, and then sent the owner photos of the gnome for a period of time as a practical joke, before returning it. The Garden Gnome Liberation Front in France is a community that considers gnoming to be stealing garden gnomes from other people's property, without the intention of returning them, as part of...
 
If I have enough front yard, I've actually been thinking about a mini mill and pond :D
Something like this: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/…
 
Rob
Tink Quixote
 
@Rob only if she tilts at it, Maybe if it was a tilted mill...
If I ever have a front yard, I am parking a trebuchet on it
 
2:35 PM
@JourneymanGeek and good farts, they're too often just ignored. :P
 
@ShadowWizardisVaccinating With enough faith in yourself, and beans, anything is possible
 
@JourneymanGeek I'm immune to beans... :(
Not boasting, it's just a dry fact (literally) - beans don't cause me to have gas. :D
So, no reliable way for me to repeat past glory.
@Rob you got one?
 
Rob
Yes, it's a good one.
 
Rob
@ShadowWizardisVaccinating Yes, like this.
@Tinkeringbell That's available in Germany.
 
2:46 PM
@Rob that's a smurf, not gnome though.
 
Rob
@ShadowWizardisVaccinating The origin is Dutch, and they are described as having a gnome-like appearance; unlike Shrek.
 
 
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5:52 PM
Must be getting desperate, spamming the formatting sandbox ...
 
6:30 PM
Does the author of a community wiki post get tag points for the rep earned on the wiki post?
 
no, CW is exempted for everyone's tag score
the tooltip says "non-wiki answers"
 
@MetaAndrewT. So providing bad posts won't contribute to an automated posting ban?
 
@AnnZen Using community wiki just to avoid the penalty of downvotes is already a reason to mod-message/suspend. Even if you wouldn't get the automated ban, you'd get a suspension.
 
😬
 
Don't you dare pull that face on me! :P
 
 
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7:49 PM
@Tinkeringbell 😬
Sorry, facial muscles are a little bit spasmic after an online class
Spasmastic
Spammic
Spasomatic
 
Spammic... spam..? Spam!?
 
 
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Rob
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Is there any official MSE post on "funny" but useless answers?
It seems a very large number of my declined answer flags are for posts that are gibberish, non-answer funny posts, or inside jokes that wouldn't stand on any other SE site.
Of course each site has its own rules, but I'm curious to know if there's any official stance on just how relaxed MSE is in terms of accepting non-answers, jokes, or non-sequitur responses.
 
On MSE anything goes, when it comes to lame humour. Don't try to force your high-brow quality comedy on us ....
 
@rene Are there any posts which officially state that? Not trying to argue whether or not it's the case (I think it'd be stupid if it is the case, but that's beside the point). I just would like guidance so I don't keep getting flags declined when I flag posts that say nothing but "alkdjfaosdufaosejfa" (literally) or "down with commie pigs!" or whatever other inane banter they contain.
 
That appears to be an opinion-based question. Is there no official response, just a sort of unwritten rule, then?
Aw I see it has a moderator response, at least.
> So, we hate fun where it's in the way of the primary role of the site.
 
11:43 PM
I'm not going to give you an argument to have an endless debate here about your declined flags. Stop removing our fun. Find something else to get upset over.
 
@rene As I said above, I was asking for guidelines for my future flags.
If random or silly posts are on-topic here, I'd like to know so I don't flag them like I would elsewhere.
 
My guideline is: don't flag.
 
Because as it is, some of my flags are approved and some are declined for similar posts.
 
Or don't be bothered about declined flags, if you're pressing forward anyway.
 
Well I'd prefer not to spam moderators with useless flags if I can predict whether or not it's valid, since flag accept ratio is important (and mods probably don't want to keep reviewing flags).
 
11:47 PM
If you have no sense of humor, do not flag fun posts.
accept ratio is not important at all. Don't be silly.
 
I have a sense of humor but I also appreciate quality resources. If it's just an unwritten rule that "not an answer" is not an acceptable flag on MSE, then I'd certainly like to know (in that case, it'd probably be worth submitting a bug report to change that flag's wording on this site).
@rene It isn't? I thought it determined flag bans or something. Am I thinking of something else?
 
So what? A flag ban expires after 7 days. It is not important.
 
oh, huh
:p
I love that image.
 

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