Autoclosing topics... Competition time again!
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Continuing the discussion from We can still communicate by editing the titles of locked threads - confirmed: it's been
36 hours since system closed the topic:Where do we even have auto-closing topics outside this category? :puzzled:
We've had them very occasionally. Rather than closing a topic immediately, I've set it to auto-close in X hours. Only had it once since I introduced the INB4 badges however.
Topic concerned: http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/scrollbar-test-topic-1/1923
Results: http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/scrollbar-test-topic-1-results/1959Cue amusement.
Well quite...
Just for fun, I'll set this one to autoclose for another three badges...
and yet they have been awarded to 4 people...
One of those badges isn't like the others.
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I won that one topic that didn't matter btw. But I got a price so I am fine.
Filed Under: Nothing to say here
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Speaking of badges, the badge page doesn't seem to be designed for mobile, since the badges themselves are set to not wrap, and the layout matches desktop view's (3 columns of info instead of trying to stack info).
Not anything I think you can fix, just pointing it out.
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How many hours are 2 Discodays even?
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Between 36 and 52. Maybe.
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Since the last one closed around 2am UTC on a weekday, this one is Monday afternoon UTC.
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Oh, and for a list of closed posts (for example):
http://what.thedailywtf.com/category/meta/none?status=closed
(That's how I found the last one - normal search wasn't exactly helpful in trying to find it.)
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I'm hoping to win the silver badge this time around. Don't let me down people.
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If you want, you can edit the title and move this topic somewhere safe and bring it back out later.
Thats what we are supposed to do, right?
This is a test of creativity and thinking outside the box, isn't it?Filed Under: Still no Bad Advice-topic anywhere to be found!
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Filed Under: Still no Bad Advice-topic anywhere to be found!
I think you should make one.
Filed under: And then put this reply into it.
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I can't! Not only did I refernce this nonexistent topic twice already I am also still smiling from the idea of having this in a job interview:
What would you do if you were in a forum and there was a challenge to post last before a timer is hit?
I would wait 50 days and post some things to becomeLeaderveteran, then post in that topic and move it so nobody else can post after me!
Welcome to EA / Whatever terrible company you can think ofAlso, that topic would probably derail after 3 seconds anyway. So no need creating it.
Filed Under: I used * AND _ to make the text italic... I will never understand Markdown
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Well, now.
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I think you barely scraped the minimum amount of characters needed for a post there. And hell if I know what you want to tell me here.
Were you telling me my reasoning for not opening such a topic were stupid?
Were you complaining about me using EA as an example for a terrible company?
Maybe you have a problem with my statement about topics derailing?
Or you could (like most people) simply reply to my Filed Under-thing.If you try again with some more details I could maybe respond with some insightful comment (probably not).
Filed Under: INSIGHTFUL!
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6 characters appears to be sufficient
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works but still doesn't give me any room to give any useful reply to.
Filed Under: I write multiple lines of content and you guys only read one line max! :D
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Oh, I read it all, but that's a barrier to abusing Discourse.
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I was aware about that but to keep a discussion alive it is usually helpful to say something provocative! And throwig out assumptions as to what you did and didn't do are pretty much the most provocative thing I could do in this enviourment!
Filed Under: Then again, just posting 2 words as a reply seems to work on me as a provocation
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If you try again with some more details I could maybe respond with some insightful comment (probably not).
Probably not, because I was just trying to get notifications on this thread.
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Apparently < is enough--a.k.a. four characters.
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My insightful comment on that is that below the last post there is a dropdown-thingy that says "Tracking", "Watching", "Regular", or "Muted". So there is that.
Filed Under: Pretty sure @PJH can set up (and tell us) the minimum amount of chars required!
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My insightful comment on that is that below the last post there is a dropdown-thingy that says "Tracking", "Watching", "Regular", or "Muted". So there is that.
That seems like it's too easy.
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The post can be 1 character as I have just found out!
Filed Under: thats even easier! | I think 2 characters if the first one is capitalized!
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AAAgh. Tried 5-6 non-breaking space pasted in from charmap, got a little thing that says "post can't be empty." It shakes, like the wordpress login does when you type your password wrong. Jeff needs a boot to the head for that.
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Still one character, but it was a combining diacritic. I wonder if Discurse is aware of combining whitespace characters, if any exist.
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that was the character that gets created when you press Ctrl + Backspace. I deem it a negative character (even though it is obviously not) thereby I have cheated the system with a negative string!
Filed Under: If you don't think about it hard enough it almost makes sense! | What is actually the unicode of that character? Does anybody know?... I'll be googleing that now!
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Neat. I found a bunch of combining whitespace characters like U+2028, but Discurse knows about 'em.
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No.
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Okay.
Filed Under: Last post for tonight. Gonna go to sleep! Good night everybody
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🕘 This topic will automatically close in 1 day.
so specific
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>This topic will automatically close in 1 day.
so specific
This topic will automatically close sometime tomorrow maybe.
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This topic will automatically close sometime tomorrow maybe.
Or maybe the day after.
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Filed Under: Pretty sure @PJH can set up (and tell us) the minimum amount of chars required!
This?:
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Ouch, that hurt!
Filed Under: Since when can I trust what Discourse shows me on screen?
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All these hours later, still 1 day until close
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All these hours later, still 1 day until close
Exciting! I can't stop refreshing this page to see if the line will change ....
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Nope ... still 1 day left.
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Probably will be 1 day for another 12-16 hours, at which time it should (theoretically?) switch to 0 days, or maybe a direct hour count.
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You guys act as if there had never been a Topic that had a lifetime of 1 hour which was denoted by minutes until the last minute was reached in wich case it changed to seconds.
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Filed Under: I put my money on -> switch to Discohours -> switch to Discominutes -> switch to Discoseconds -> end. Unless it breaks in the middle!
FTFY
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And now it says 22 hours.
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I'm sure it still said 1 day about 25 minutes ago.
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so apparently there are 3 hard things in CS: cache invalidation, the other thing, off-by-one errors, and countdown timers.
Er...I'll come in again.
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Cache invalidation, naming things (.wmd classes for example), off by one errors, countdown timers and an almost fanatical devotion to TCofCDCK?
Amongst the hard things in CS...
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One o' t' lanes has gone out askew on the PCI bus.
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But what does that even mean?