Timeline for Are requests for arbitrary lines from novels on-topic?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:38 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 24, 2016 at 22:08 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi Mod | @rand al'thor. Thank for advice. I saw your comment in the inbox of the site. I took record of all back and forth of our argument on on / off topic of my question, which amounted to the length of 3,802 words in 10 pages in A1 size paper. I think I've made my point enough. Now that I got the good answers with relative high upvotes, and the question was reopened, I don't mind to migrate the present question to the Sience Fiction & Fantasy for the record, or even cancel this question, unless it should effect on the candid answerers' reputation scores that were awarded by appreciative upvoters. | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 14:24 | comment | added | Kit Z. Fox Mod | @YoichiOishi I deleted the comments on the question on the main site because I left specific instructions to direct further commentary to this post on Meta. Arguing on the main site is counterproductive and gives an negative impression to visitors. Meta is the most appropriate place for this discussion. | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 14:16 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/768452046924156928 | ||
| Aug 24, 2016 at 11:17 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | As a note, this question would certainly be on-topic on the Science Fiction & Fantasy SE. So if it does end up being declared off-topic here, the mods would be very welcome to migrate it over to us at SFF. | |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 12:10 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi Mod | Mari-Lou A. Thank for your advice. I remember once I urged you to become a mod, and you said no thanks. You were right, and wise now. I'll try to cool my head. Honestly I was really, really angry, and may have acted a bit emotionally. GImme time to cool my head by reading Roman philosophers' books on the worldly wisdom. | |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 11:44 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Yes, but I haven't been elected by anyone. You have. Users have entrusted you with a certain responsibility because of your maturity and your invaluable contributions to the site. You have a duty to be "rise above" the situation, and stay calm. This is why I couldn't and wouldn't make a good mod. And my previous comment is referring to those users and colleagues who have been insulted on this page, but have kept calm. | |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 11:35 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi Mod | Mari Lou A. I'm civil by nature unless I'm provoked or challenged by obstinately. I apologize when I admit I crossed the line, which happened once in the past. Have you ever seen I used brash word but for once ever scince I joined this site? This time challenge was extraordinary, which let me use the harsh word. But I don't think I was wrong at all in this occasion. I was just frank in expressing that I lost rag against the obstinate provocation by the counterpart just like, exactly like you would have lost your rag in your situation. | |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 10:53 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I hadn't read the many comments added recently since I last logged on. I admire the composure of those who have been insulted in public. I in your same situation would have lost my rag (temper). | |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 10:47 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @YoichiOishi you realize that the person or persons who deleted the train of comments are your colleagues. Accusing a colleague who is doing their job, of behaving like a police officer of the gestapo is frankly extreme, and dare I say it, slanderous? A little perspective is in order here. | |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 5:01 | comment | added | curiousdannii | @Yoichi Dealing with the subtleties of the site scope is ugly but necessary, especially for mods. | |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 2:28 | answer | added | Yoichi OishiMod | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 23:53 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi Mod | I'm also dumfounded to see a close vote on the question after it being reopened. It's an ugly bad-loser play. I likened it to the Bremain's trying to carry out another National Referendum on Brixsit to a British user who replied me the analogy "strikes home." Are we going to engage in endless Close-Reopen game and waste time and energy? I'm sick'n tired of dealing with "off-topic" syndrome to the bone. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 23:23 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi Mod | I thank for Lawrence's effort for editing the discussion into Meta question. I visited the outlet, but I was deeply disappointed to find there was no record of initial proposition for closure of the question made by Edwin Ashworth on off-topic ground, my rebuttal, and ensuing discussion among a bunch of users left out. My question was eventually reopened. But it's like receiving the not-guilty judgement without having the record of claims and changing thinking process of neither testimonies nor a jury over the discussion. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 15:21 | answer | added | Lawrence | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 23:36 | comment | added | Mitch | @sumelic Answering your own question certainly is in the direction of strange, but warranted in some situations. | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 22:49 | answer | added | Sven Yargs | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 20:44 | comment | added | herisson | @Mitch: Isn't that annoying? That's why I like to answer my own questions on Meta (although Mari-Lou A has teased me about it). | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 19:44 | comment | added | Mitch | What does an upvote mean here? Does it mean for the title, that phrase searches are good, or like the contents that phrase searches are not good here? | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 15:24 | comment | added | Matsmath | Is the site actually lacking of good, meaningful questions? I feel like some questions here are entertained, simply because there is nothing better to do. | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 15:01 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I don't approve of positive discrimination, Josh61. ELU is about the only English web-site I've come across which has a policy designed to maintain standards. The question would be valid elsewhere. While I also try to address the 'question behind the question', 'What is the actual wording?' would not be one I could reasonably do that with. | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 14:59 | answer | added | tchristMod | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 12:06 | history | edited | curiousdannii |
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| Aug 21, 2016 at 9:18 | history | edited | user66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 21, 2016 at 8:43 | answer | added | curiousdannii | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 8:25 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @Josh61 that comment deserves to be put down as an answer. I am also another user who voted to reopen because the answers told me that the question is an English language one. The OP had no way of knowing what the idiomatic expression was. And it is interesting/curious to see how translators can overcomplicate and "muck" a typical English phrase. | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 8:17 | comment | added | user66974 | I generally tend to read "between the lines" and see if a "simple" question is actually an opportunity to discuss related issues such as its usage in different contexts and origin. While from a strict perspective of the site rules application you are right, I don't see anything wrong, unhelpful or really out of scope in this question. Please take also into account its "non native" origin. | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 8:16 | comment | added | deadrat | I hope that no one is very disturbed by the re-opening. Likely there are many who disagree with it. | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 7:55 | history | asked | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |