Jamal

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First I can confirm that nobody will be banned if they don't get enough likes. That was a joke for which @"Benkei" should be blamed. Otherwise, it's p...

Ok Jack, I'm sorry, it's just a joke. A cruel, terrible joke. I couldn't resist winding you up when you took it seriously. No bans based on likes.

Sites with a small membership are often the highest in quality, I think. I just feel we need a membership cleansing to start fresh. Anyway, you're on ...

Well, let's see what everyone else thinks. BTW I think you're a good contributor, so I do hope you get a like before July. EDIT: You got one! Well don...

Well, we're trying a few things to improve the quality, and we have more than enough members already. We'll see how it goes.

Yes I forgot to mention that. In a nutshell, it's part of a TPF streamlining drive to help some members transition to other, more suitable websites. A...

As a compatriot of yours he might be able to make more sense of your question than I can :razz:

Dunno, ask Hanover.

Yep!

Likes were on for a short while back in the beginning. My posts were so good back then...

Notwithstanding your fragile ego, I would like to try downvotes, but the software doesn't allow it.

Did we have downvotes at the old place? I can't recall.

I'm thinking I'll run it with the reputation feature turned on for a couple of weeks and then run a poll to see if you all like it. Like, do you like ...

https://youtu.be/Etq0nCHxh-8 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/06/24/free-britney-pro-putin-babushkas-demand-a74334

To become really good at it you need to do 10,000 hours of sit-ups.

Baden banned her for low quality, and I would probably have done the same had I been paying attention, and that's despite the fact that I agreed with ...

My wife bought Scotland flags and tickets for the Moscow fan zone to watch Scotland vs England tonight, but the mayor announced a few hours ago that t...

Remember to flag bad posts and PM the staff about serial offenders.

Unfortunately there is no such feature, but @"SophistiCat" did make a browser extension a couple of years ago, as described here: https://thephilosoph...

Don't worry Jack, it won't happen. It's the worst idea I've ever heard.

Coq au vin is traditionally made with cockerels. They're tough so they need to be done long, slow, and wet.

People do fine and there's no need for a manual. The functionality is either obvious or can be discovered by experimenting. Or members can ask if they...

In my experience, spending more time on the forum is not going to cure problem members of their problem posting, so I don't think it's worth it, and p...

I don't know. I don't even know if the Symposium category is going to have any other discussions. It's about the shoutbox and that's as far as my defi...

Maybe. So far it's just a way of getting the shoutbox on the main page, but maybe, somehow, it could be used for something else. Currently only staff ...

Not bias so much as good advice.

The Shoutbox is back on the main page, moved to a new category (currently closed to new discussions) called "Symposium" (maybe it needs a "the"), and ...

I've put the Shoutbox back on the main page, in a new category (currently closed to new discussions) called "Symposium", and pinned at the top.

Yep. What we really need is a real, separate shoutbox in a little box at the side, as in the old forum and a few alternative forum platforms. We can't...

When I joined PF--the now-expired site from which this one sprouted--around 2010, long-time members talked with fondness about the good old days, but ...

Indeed. :scream:

Cool. I used to dismiss family history but I've come to see it as a window on the past, a useful standpoint.

It was crucial in the February Revolution (March in the Gregorian calendar), and then the Bolsheviks made it a national holiday, as it still is today ...

/uploads/resized/files/7o/s9c3yt6ufyn1db4z.jpg "8th of March is the day of rebellion of the working women against kitchen slavery. Down with the oppre...

Sounds complex. A default view based on up and down votes works well for the question and answer format, as implemented on Stack Exchange, but here I ...

As far as I know there hasn't been an episode of Conflicted since December, and if Aimen Dean has reacted to the air strike, I don't know what his rea...

I can't recall ever using that functionality, so I didn't know until a few seconds ago that I have 14 followers. I am sure that this has nothing to do...

You can't send private messages until you have posted 20 times.

So that's what he's been up to. I'll watch it some time soon. Thanks for posting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdxv2AFky3I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZilgU7ljlQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WoBaU2Vpg0 (Jazz elitists: I ...

This. And ideally this. Simple.

If this were my personal fiefdom I'd remove the philosophy of religion category and I'd probably delete most of the philosophy of religion that turned...

One can agree with all this, as I do, and yet find the majority of these discussions about God's existence and omnipotence bloody awful.

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Navalny gets 2 years and 8 months. In a "penal colony", which always makes me think of the Gulag.

To add to what SophistiCat said, it goes back to Plato's Theaetetus. To show that there must be more to knowledge than true belief, Socrates gives the...

I thought there were too many of them.

done

I've merged three of them.