celtschk‭

I just looked up what Borland wrote in their user manual of the Turbo Pascal UI back when using a mouse was optional and the UI could be operated also by keyboard (you don't click on the keyboard e...

posted 4y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 4y ago by celtschk‭

I just noticed that when you go to the users page and select the age tab, the start of the list is dominated by user names that are obvious spam. While they are not very effective because few peop...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by celtschk‭

In the hot questions, it is not clear what are actual questions and what are Meta questions (well, if the title starts with Suggestion, it probably is meta). It would be nice if Meta questions woul...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

That he has no ambitions to heroism or adventure doesn't mean he has no ambitions at all. It just means that his ambitions are of a different type. Maybe he has the ambition to learn everything he ...

posted 5y ago by celtschk‭

You've already gotten quite a few good answers, but there's one important point that I didn't see in any of them: You can easily omit visual and aural details. If you don't want to tell the age o...

posted 5y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 4y ago by celtschk‭

Will upvotes on imported posts be included in the authors reputation when that user joins? Or does it make sense to wait with upvoting until the user actually joined?

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by celtschk‭

One way to make the leaving of that secondary antagonist satisfying could be if it gives a problem for the protagonist. Now how could an antagonist leaving be a problem? Well, it is a problem if th...

posted 5y ago by celtschk‭

Your problem could be summarized as follows: If your protagonist's life is really totally perfect in any way, he has no reason to change anything. End of story. So if you want to have a story, ...

posted 5y ago by celtschk‭

I tried to upvote this answer but my vote doesn't seem to register. Maybe it is because it is owned by System, but then, there are other answers owned by System that already have upvotes. Note that...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

John had a short life. Right after he was born, he was running out of characters

posted 2mo ago by celtschk‭

One thing I would think about is: Are those things the other person says really unnecessary? They actually might give the reader valuable background information about what the other person already ...

posted 11y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

I think there are two important aspects that you should make clear: That you indeed do care about the issue. Your letter is not just a rant, you sincerely are concerned about the damage the issue...

posted 5y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

As far as I can tell, there is no way to explain the edit you do. There is no field to enter one. Also, in my latest edit, I tried to supply one as HTML comment in my post, but in the edit histor...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

It took me quite a while to discover how to see what was changed in an edit. Some visual clue on how to get it would be a good idea, I think.

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

Sentence free, meaning no sentence, possible? Depending on definition, probably. This text, sentence free? No wrong answers. Well, in that case, sentence free or not irrelevant. Or not? Anyway, wi...

posted 6mo ago by celtschk‭