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Ed.Kloonk:
It's Mr. Animal to you!

Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: eti on February 19, 2022, 05:33:50 am ---Someone actually referred to you as “Nominal Animal”, on a note, in ACTUAL REAL LIFE?!

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No.  I wrote it in italics, to indicate that in real life, it had my actual first name instead.  The other option would have been to write "[Nominal Animal], one of the ..."
Apparently, I chose a poor way to indicate this replacement.  Apologies.

Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on February 19, 2022, 04:48:02 am ---Both a Thanks and Endorse like option would be nice.
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This is SMF 2.0.18, right?  With the "Say thanks" -feature provided by kelvincool's Say Thanks v1.3.6?

If so, creating a variant that differs by the visible texts and the database keys, so that it can safely be installed in parallel with the Say Thanks itself (mostly replacing 'say_thanks', 'saythanks' and upper/lower/camelcase variants with 'i_agree', 'iagree', and similar), would not be much work.  (I'd unpack the package in two directories, modify one, and regularly compare the changes with e.g. diff).  Most work would be in testing the modified module with a test installation of SMF 2.0.18, since friends don't let friends test any code in production, ever.  Since kelvincool licensed the module under CC BY 3.0, this would be perfectly allowed/acceptable/legal, too.

fourfathom:
The good news is that as long as these various counts just show as a couple of lines under the member ID, probably nobody is going to pay them much attention.  One can hope, anyway.  I voted "NFW"

Siwastaja:

--- Quote from: HobGoblyn on February 18, 2022, 11:12:31 pm ---Sometimes  an expert can be the wrong person to explain things to a beginner.

The thing I’ve often seen, when you are an expert, someone asks a question and you give a reply that makes perfect sense to you, but leaves the question asker totally baffled.

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The problem isn't being an expert, the problem is either:

* Con expertise - remember, true experts understand the very basics well, and once you understand something well, it's usually easy to explain, too. Many who act like experts, are actually not, and hence struggle explaining the thing to beginners. Leaving others baffled is a way to hide your incapabilities and make others think you truly must be an expert.
* Personal unsuitability for teaching others. Teaching is a skill of its own, many just are not good at it. But they sucked at it even when they were beginners themselves. It's not the expertise that took the skill away.

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