The clearest way to improve discussions here, which has been called for numerous times, is reorganizing the subreddits and adding a few new ones. So far we haven’t even got a separate subreddit for meetups, which should be uncontroversial, although I hear it is under development. Despite the simplicity of this proposed change, apparently the codebase makes it difficult. How much would it cost to expedite the development, if that’s a possibility, and could we let people donate money directly toward this feature? If it’s too expensive, how about cheap alternative approaches, such as adding a menu with links to a handful of “top-level” tags, at least one of which every new post should be tagged with? .
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Yes it is.
I’d say it’s worth it to have some humor and somewhat self-deprecating fun here.
ya sorry, i misread things. showing the numbers of upvotes and downvotes would indeed solve the precision problem.
What do you do when you’re low on mental energy? I have had trouble thinking of anything productive to do when my brain seems to need a break from hard thinking.
(hovering your mouse over the karma scores shows that)
I’ve had success with Mack’s soft silicone earplugs.
I’d say the benefits of cosmetic surgery can sometimes be sizable.
Would it change for particular behavior, e.g. clothes, dancing/gestures, language?
How would you define the word “sexy” in terms of signaling?
I just meant “dead” as in the current legal sense.
Right, murder of someone already dead
interesting use of the word “suicide”
sweet location
Should people ask for Chris’s table?
it’s a question of live vs. dead metaphors
Crocker’s Rules might help?
Declaring yourself to be operating by “Crocker’s Rules” means that other people are allowed to optimize their messages for information, not for being nice to you.
I hear “er”, literally (rhotically), quite infrequently and I always assumed that people said it that way because of seeing “er” in written English and not knowing that it was intended to be pronounced “uh”; similarly, I’ve heard “arg” spoken by people who thought “argh” from written English was pronounced that way.
Any particular reason why you write “erm” even though (I assume) you don’t have a British accent?
Ah, you’re right about meetups. It happened (24 days ago).