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[scourge728]

I noticed that the moderation log has someone listed as "muted", what does that actually imply here

[TamerVirus]

I noticed that the moderation log has someone listed as "muted", what does that actually imply here

"You talk too much" - Toady

Most likely no posting for the mute duration

[Rolan7]

My understanding is that there's no guarantee of a tempban if you defy the rules.  If you willfully abuse someone (not their opinions), or otherwise break the rules of conduct, you are liable for a permanent ban at the will of the very busy developer making a bizarrely complicated game.

Sometimes people are granted leniency.

[Kagus]

Oh, there's been lots of leniency granted. Toady is generally a very patient person, despite everything, and is willing to see when an individual is capable of getting along with the greater flow of chill. Usually it's just a matter of a warning or two, and then seeing how the person reacts to being corrected.

Abuse the system though, and it's a quick ticket to bye-bye.

[Iduno]

Oh, there's been lots of leniency granted. Toady is generally a very patient person, despite everything, and is willing to see when an individual is capable of getting along with the greater flow of chill. Usually it's just a matter of a warning or two, and then seeing how the person reacts to being corrected.

Abuse the system though, and it's a quick ticket to bye-bye.

That sounds right, except for the "chill" part.

Bay12 is a group of ADHD sadistic (at best, sociopathic) micromanagers. We don't drop things because we've avoiding fights, we do it because we got distracted. Creative and interesting, sure. Not generally angry. But I'm not sure I'd go with chill.

[TamerVirus]

Not generally angry.

I distinctly remember the existence of a rage thread, but then it got banned.
Anger is not allowed in this here parts!

[Kagus]

"Let us maintain our chill composure" --Toady One

[Magistrum]

As The Great One orders, so be it.

[Hanslanda]

If you were to shine a light into a box or sphere of inward facing mirrors, then "close" the box fast enough (presumably requiring FTL speeds I'm guessing) would the light keep shining off the mirrors? Would it fade? I've always wondered.

[Il Palazzo]

Only if the mirrors were perfectly reflective and the box was filled with perfect vacuum.

[Kagus]

Wouldn't it still run out of energy eventually? I'm not good with light physics (or physics in general), but a wave would potentially interfere with itself and a particle would have to lose energy by traveling, wouldn't it?

[Il Palazzo]

Where would it lose energy to?

[wierd]

Possibly through non-local interaction?
Spontaneous tunneling through the perfectly reflective barrier?

The hypothetical "box" needs to keep all INFORMATION locked up inside too.

[Il Palazzo]

Either it is perfectly reflective or it isn't.

[wierd]

There's more ways to transmit information than just radiant {implied EM} energy.

Take for instance, the infinitesimally small losses that would happen through gravitational wave formation from spontaneously formed electron positron pairs whirling about each other before turning back into photons.  Both of those particles have masses, so they would produce very small wakes, which could leave the enclosure.