You mean Emma math posting 3 minutes ago? Well kind of a bug, yes.
The last non system post was indeed made by Emma math, but not 3 minutes before you took the screenshot, more like in May 16. However the last activity in the room was made indeed 3 minutes before you took the screenshot, the activity was unfreezing of the room by a moderator.
Feel free to submit bug report for that, if there's none yet. :)
I seriously need my head examining. I have a to-do list as long as four arms, and an upcoming (unscheduled) hospital admission for 4 days of tests, and have just reserved a new apartment, with all the hassle that involves. Lift access, level living, no garden (just a nice balcony to sit on), new build so should be relatively hassle free, closer to family... absolutely the right move except for all the angst until I'm settle din.
But, if I don't move now, I may not be well enough to do so in the future. And it is a lovely spacious bright apartment.
@Luuklag Worst will be not having a good working area in the new place until I've got a carpenter in to create a usable desk (huge screen, tower, huge printer, 2 x NAS and all the cabling). If I have to work with my teeny laptop for more than a week I'll be certifiable:)
had a family health issue that left me a complete mess for a time, and adjusting to being back in the office has been rough
And no I don't live in any flooded parts, but it's close. Some people here who work for disaster relief off time have been called in full time to help deal with the fact that several dozen towns are completely uninhabitable and have been washed over
The water is rough and a large area has been flooded. Due to downstream flowing it's expected that a lot more will be flooded. The people preparing for this are working around the clock currently. My home county is at an elevated position with mountains on three sides, so while we did get bad rains, we got no flooding.
De evacuatie van het Rivierenland is een van de grootste evacuaties uit de recente Nederlandse geschiedenis. Op 31 januari 1995 en in de dagen daarna werden 250.000 mensen, variërend van vijf dagen tot twee weken, verplicht uit grote delen van het Gelderse rivierengebied geëvacueerd vanwege de gevaarlijk hoge waterstand van de Maas, de Rijn, de Waal en de IJssel.
In het geval dat de dijken daadwerkelijk waren doorgebroken, zouden veel plaatsen in de Betuwe, de Bommelerwaard en het Land van Maas en Waal tot ongeveer vijf meter onder water zijn komen te staan. Concreet betekent dit dat van veel huizen...
@Ollie Nothing in the neighborhood, but yeah the southern parts of the country are struggling now and the rivers are expected to reach record heights throughout the country.
@DavidPostill So far, it turned out no dikes were harmed yet. What they thought was a breach was 'wel', a place behind the dike where water/sand were coming out of the ground. A few well-placed bags of sand provided counterpressure and the issue seems solved for now :)
@JohnDvorak septic enough to get sick from it, though most of the colour is probably from mud. Still, advice is always to not play in it because you can easily get diarrhea or an airway infection.
@JohnDvorak It wouldn't be drinkable, and I wouldn't trust it not to be septic. A dyke has burst, and in the second link of a video you can see a ~30m deep swath cut into the land and sewer pipes distributed on the left side in this drone flyover: aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/16/…youtu.be/HLikZFLuN5Y?t=390
PS: Clicking [CC] and chosing in the settings to translate works a little,you can get the gist of it.
Thanks. :). I appreciate the kind words, but I don't think of it as particularly brave. Rather, its' due diligence to make sure I don't muck things up too badly accidentally. And nobody better to help with that, than community members.
yeah, it is like "dansen met jansen", either drown or corona ...
@Philippe I haven't enough text for an answer but things you shouldn't touch for Stack Overflow is its core principles laid down in 2008 / 2009. The early podcasts might help there for context. Do change on-boarding of new users, improve their guidance, put out a clear narrative on social media that Q/A is different from wikipedio, forums, facebook and twitter
I was wondering if those two questions have widely different answers for the non-trilogy sites.
But I'm not engaged enough beyond SO/MSO and MSE to have an opinion or guess for that matter
this edit of mine got rejected... I was trying to just get rid of the tag following this, should I not bother editing when a more specific tag is already present or something?
@bobble Not sure why the reviewers rejected, but generally, when removing tags that fall under the category in your edit summary, it's preferred that there be a meta post about it first.
and it'd probably helpful to link that meta post in the edit summary. I'd certainly be more likely to approve that edit after seeing Geek's post, whereas I'd probably reject it otherwise.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog should I link the meta post every time? There was one, a while back, and I was reluctant to edit myself since I don't have full rights and I'd rather not look like a rep-hunter
When I tried to do a few small edits for a different tag removal before, and the other edits for this tag, I never linked and they all got approved. First time for everything, I guess
(well I mean one got rejected and "improved" with tags I strongly disagree with, but at least the original tag wasn't there any more)
Doing completely thorough edit summaries is one of those habits that waxes and wanes for me, particularly because it is the kind of thing I would want but that no one else seems to care about
It's more important when it's otherwise not clear why your edit should be approved. Think of it like when you'd use a plain spam flag (obvious spam) vs. a custom mod flag (not clear why it's spam, needs an explanation).
I usually don't read the edit summaries unless I go "huh?" when looking at the edit. If the edit is clearly good on its own, then I'll just approve it without reading the summary. If it's unclear, then I'll read the summary.
Yeah softwarerecs spam is a huge pain to spot. I've seen subtle spam campaigns elsewhere, too, though. Even ones that fooled a number of Charcoal reviewers who are used to spam.
Any site that allows product recommendation questions makes reliably identifying spam very difficult if the spammers know what they're doing.
Stack Overflow's rules make a number of spammer tricks not work because you can just close and delete the questions even if they're not provably spam ;-)
I'm just shy of 8k on Puzzling; was getting around one ~+10 Q a week and then Events occurred. Though not even 10k would be enough since I want to delete the bad answers more than the bad Qs
I get relatively little use out of my full deletion rights on Law, but it's useful now and again
Mostly non-answers and the occasional pseudo-law answer. Though there's a decent argument that pseudo-law answers should be left up as a signpost of how wrong they are.
Puzzling, by the nature of the topic, deals with joke/non-serious answers, and people also keep posting duplicate answers because they want to prove they solved it or something, and they don't want to check the other answers to "not spoil themselves" etc.