Primordial Snark Badge awarded.
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Not āAbbyā? 
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Itās worth pointing out that the warrant canary posted in the lounge is no longer viewable.
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I moved it:
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These threads always bothered me and I hope Iām not pushing any buttons when I say I will not miss them.
I am sorry that the lounge is going away but not so much that itās a deal breaker, as the sort of regular who finds too much conversation exhausting I never really took advantage of the semi-private space the lounge afforded to be more open about some of the things Iād talk about if was a little more extroverted. but it always felt nice that I could have if I wanted to.
Having said that, Iād like to add my vote of confidence in the new system (Insert Kent Brockman āI for oneā¦ā image here), and my confidence lies not necessarily in the new direction bb wants to take the bbs but in Discourse itself. I feel its a really good platform that has worked really well for everybody irrespective of their trust level, I believe @codinghorror has put a lot of thought into it and it shows. It was great even before the first TL3 user was promoted. Furthermore the community BB attracts has always been great through its many iterations, which leads me to believe that while shutting down the semi-private space that was the lounge is a net loss, it is not the end of bbs as a community.
The way the lounge was used may have been unintended but the idea of tiered access to a communications platform based on trust is brilliant. Ahead of its time even, but the criteria for reaching TL3 always felt too arbitrary, that @grey_devil was not a āregularā and that somehow I was is a crime and something that needs to get better before it can be deemed successful. On that point, and that point alone, Iām OK with declaring the experiment with TL3 a failure and Iāll let it goā¦ for now.
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I think Iād already lapsed Regular status, anyway. A few days ago I noticed I hadnāt seen any Lounge posts in a minute.
EDIT: A-a-a-and now I have it (the badge, at least) backā¦ hmmm.
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Not attempting to derail, but shouldnāt a warrant canary necessarily require some amount of upkeep (a so called dead manās switch) so that in the event of a warrant, where someone could be prevented from doing something like deleting a post, it would therefore be obvious?
That was worded awkwardly. Hereās how one place does it:
https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
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Hail Eris!
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Often theyāre just added to terms of service.
Itās my post, I canāt imagine a situation where I wouldnāt be able to delete it. If I disappear, well, worry. 
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@orenwolf is the Warrant Canary.
You need a badge, too.
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Iām also listed just as member now; not regular.
But speaking only for myself; now that itās just another meaningless title with no benefits, I donāt see any reason for you guys to bother adjusting it. Save your time and energy for something else.
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What about the free parking?
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You also get 5% off at participating Arbyās restaurants.
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The word ācommunityā is notoriously vague, but at the very least it means multiple people.
It probably should not be used to attribute a decision made by a single person.
Re: the ātemporarily hiddenā warning on flagged posts and also now the Irregular badge.
how would the lounge be any more of a drain on finances than any other part of the bbs?
editāand i note that my regular status has been removed from me as well.
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What appears to be āa single personā is a community as well!
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Approximately 75% of the different entities that make up āmeā disagree with you.
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Well, if weāre looking at new badges, we can fill in some longstanding blanksā¦
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I discussed many things in my post above. Finance was not one of them because it was not a factor in the decision.
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In the past the entity known as @popobawa4u has been quite vehement that no one should claim to speak for another person?
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