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Anonymous 13946 — 21:30

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8 months
therandomperson is a person — Saturday, 24th May 2025 20:35

and also not much people online in this…

13 minutes
therandomperson is a person — Saturday, 24th May 2025 20:22

*alot of people

therandomperson is a person — Saturday, 24th May 2025 20:22

omg a tnb knockoff… wow and everyone from cgcc is here

2 months
Twineee — Sunday, 16th Mar 2025 07:32

and a TNB knockoff lol

Twineee replying to Jack Douglas — Sunday, 16th Mar 2025 07:31

wait, you import from SE?

Twineee replying to Jack Douglas — Sunday, 16th Mar 2025 07:30

nice one day apart

3 years
Anonymous 2389 — Saturday, 11th Jun 2022 03:06

Hola, everyone

8 months
LearningFTW — Tuesday, 28th Sep 2021 15:58

hello

2 months
Monica — Saturday, 17th Jul 2021 01:19

(Oh, and nothing in the agreement would preclude that statement, despite the comments from some sore winners.)

12 hours
Monica replying to Adám — Friday, 16th Jul 2021 13:03

(Sorry not really a reply but this seems the only way to ping you.) Thanks for that MSE answer – I appreciate the support.

17 days
Jack Douglas replying to Anonymous 2039 — Tuesday, 29th Jun 2021 23:20

Hi Andrew

2 days
Anonymous 2039 — Monday, 28th Jun 2021 08:17

I’m Andrew from cgcc. I’m stopping here

Anonymous 2039 — Monday, 28th Jun 2021 08:17

Hey there I guess

4 months
user replying to Razetime — Wednesday, 10th Mar 2021 02:16

Let me try that out.

16 minutes
Razetime replying to user — Wednesday, 10th Mar 2021 02:00

I don’t see any way to do so, but you might be able to do it with the search bar.

user — Wednesday, 10th Mar 2021 01:55

Is it possible to sort questions/answers by date and number of stars?

3 months
Jack Douglas replying to topnush — Tuesday, 15th Dec 2020 04:21

Hi 😃

a day
wizzwizz4 replying to topnush — Sunday, 13th Dec 2020 23:46

Hello!

3 hours
topnush — Sunday, 13th Dec 2020 21:11

hi all

a month
Jack Douglas replying to wizzwizz4 — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 09:53

Yes I wouldn’t expect it to do so because I edited directly on the database to permanently redact so it’s not visible in the history either — I’m not particularly worried if other people see it too, as long as it’s people who actually know me, so I think I’m safe 😃

3 hours
wizzwizz4 replying to Jack Douglas — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 06:32

Thanks. That addresses my concerns. (By the way, your email address didn’t black out for me until I refreshed the page; that might have been coincidental timing, but it might also be a bug.)

23 minutes
Jack Douglas replying to wizzwizz4 — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 06:09

replied

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wizzwizz4 replying to Jack Douglas — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 05:59

I’ve sent you an email.

wizzwizz4 replying to Jack Douglas — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 05:53

Got it.

Jack Douglas — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 05:51

if you let me know when you’ve got that down I’ll blot it out

Jack Douglas replying to wizzwizz4 — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 05:50

can you email ████@███████████████████████

wizzwizz4 replying to Jack Douglas — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 05:47

I’m not on Twitter. I do have a Fediverse account, but apart from that no social media.

Jack Douglas — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 05:46

or I could create a private room here on TA we could chat in

Jack Douglas replying to wizzwizz4 — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 05:45

are you on Twitter? otherwise my email is faily easy to find online (or if you can’t I’ll post it in here and then delete the message)

wizzwizz4 replying to Jack Douglas — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 05:40

How do I do that?

Jack Douglas — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 05:34

@wizzwizz4 Can you DM me so we can discuss — as you say the legal bits are complicated by local variations

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wizzwizz4 replying to Jack Douglas — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 05:05

If they’re above the age for their member state’s GDPR implementation (e.g. 13 for the UK), is that okay?

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wizzwizz4 — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 04:48

I wrote up my reasons for thinking the GDPR said that, but it was long.

wizzwizz4 — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 04:46

I did some reading of the GDPR, and whilst I’m not a lawyer, I’m fairly sure that, for TopAnswers, an “if I am under 16, I have parental consent to create this account” checkbox (or, perhaps, piece of text) should be enough to comply – if even that is necessary.
My vague recollections of somebody else talking about COPPA say that, since the site isn’t attractive to children, a “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy would work.

2 hours
wizzwizz4 replying to Jack Douglas — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 03:14

Some of them are not. If I stop them posting it, would that be okay?

an hour
Jack Douglas — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 02:26

e.g. in comments or posts — anything that can identify a person makes everything they post PII

Jack Douglas — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 02:25

although we don’t collect PII, we can’t stop people posting it

Jack Douglas replying to wizzwizz4 — Sunday, 15th Nov 2020 02:24

Totally fine if they are 16 or over

5 hours
wizzwizz4 — Saturday, 14th Nov 2020 21:06

Obviously they wouldn’t be sharing PII – TopAnswers’ authentication system makes this unnecessary – so there shouldn’t be any legal trouble; I just don’t want a repeat of Eternal September.

wizzwizz4 — Saturday, 14th Nov 2020 21:05

I’m planning to use TopAnswers material in a programming club, which might result in a dozen or so new users (many children). Is this okay?

3 days
topnush — Wednesday, 11th Nov 2020 19:59

thanks!

Adám replying to topnush — Wednesday, 11th Nov 2020 19:58

Click [Post] then click the post type drop down.

topnush — Wednesday, 11th Nov 2020 19:56

how can I see a list of post types?

topnush replying to Adám — Wednesday, 11th Nov 2020 19:56

oh I see. I didn’t know about post types

Adám replying to topnush — Wednesday, 11th Nov 2020 19:47

No, it is a post type.

11 minutes
topnush — Wednesday, 11th Nov 2020 19:36

I don’t see a fastest-code/algorithm tag

Adám replying to Jack Douglas — Wednesday, 11th Nov 2020 19:31

Sure, but it doesn’t really look that that’s an intrinsic part. Maybe time for a site name change?

Adám replying to topnush — Wednesday, 11th Nov 2020 19:29

If phrased as a competition or as asking for tips to implement algorithmically fast code, then yes.

topnush — Wednesday, 11th Nov 2020 19:27

is that on topic?

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