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Maybe a whitelist instead. We could start out with known users on the platform and then add as people request it and are somehow screened. That would be a lot of work, too, and a pain to the good user, but if we're talking about cutting plagiarism, there needs to be a way to filter out the plagiarizing accounts.
Utilize the existing list/database of questions and then frequently refer to it. I've been using the search for a question box at the top of the page, and it's taken me to questions that were made weeks if not months ago if the question is duplicated. The musing community managers/curators could type in a question before rewarding it. If it's word for word, than they merely stop rewarding those repeated questions. Eventually, those accounts might see they're not getting the benefit of the musing upvote.
I'm not a fan of flagging, but done right, and maybe only given to community managers or certain users, it would be helpful. We don't need flag wars here on musing, though, and I don't know how flagging could be fairly and appropriately distributed if any users were allowed to do it without all being able to.
See if these accounts are already blacklisted elsewhere and work from there. There could be some issues with someone else's list, but incorporating an existing blacklist from somewhere else on STEEM would be faster than creating one from scratch.

Things I wouldn't do:

Limit the number of questions and answers a user can create, unless it's high, like a dozen a day. That probably wouldn't be of much good, anyway. However, I don't think we want to discourage prolific users from asking and answering questions. We want to discourage the plagiarism by de-incentivizing it while not doing the same for good users.
Stop the musing account from upvoting all questions. Since questions drive answers, we still need them, and I think it's only fair that those who ask original and engaging questions be rewarded accordingly.

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Hey.. Really thanks for answering the question. I actually had went for buying the substrate into the local aquarium, I inquired the same details I asked here and even the owner was not able to explain in proper manner.

Even I found the soil substrate too expensive and instead of buying for the whole tank I bought only around 1 kg of the soil substrate.

I added it carefully in one corner of the tank and place some pebbles to create a wall around the soil. Planted the same kind of plants shown at the right corner of the above picture.

I really hope the plants branch out their roots quickly to hold the soil in its place as I keep finding my goldfish digging the soil in search of food. (P.S. I do feed her regularly!)

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I don't have the answer, but I thought I would reply to you, anyway. I've asked in musing's discord channel under bug reports, but have yet to hear anything back. I thought it might just be me. Are you using Firefox by any chance, because that's the browser I use. If it's not browser specific due to some change, then perhaps it was deliberate, but I can't think of a good reason at all for it.

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I can only think of one time that a surprise of mine didn't work out so well.

In a little over a week, my wife and I will be married for 30 years.

Close to ten years ago, (so we'd been married at least 20 years by now), I wanted to do something special for her.

There's a rather nice hotel on the coast within an hour and a half drive from where we lived. Both of us had remarked that we'd like to stay there one day as we driven by it a few times on other trips. It would most likely be expensive, but since it sat on a private beach and every room faced the ocean with floor to ceiling windows, it would have a view most hotels didn't. It would be a singular experience.

Well, despite talking about it, it never happened. Rooms start at around $200 and go from there. It just seemed to be too much of an expense.

Somehow, this particular time I discovered that the hotel was discounting their rooms, which put them into the lower $100 range, like $125-$150 a night. Still more than what we would normally try to spend, but considerably cheaper than regular price.

Without telling my wife, I decided to buy the tickets. I think it was for two nights, so somewhere between $250-$300. Because of the discount, the reservations were non-refundable. I figured she would be delighted to go, so didn't think anything about it.

Well, the time came to tell her. I think it was the day before. When I did, she wasn't happy at all, but upset. She told me she didn't want to go. I told her they were on sale, that I has still spend x amount, and that they were non-refundable. We'd just lose that money.

For the first time in our marriage, she didn't care the money would be wasted. She didn't want to go. I told her we'd talked about going a few times and that I thought she would be thrilled. It was then she told me, "I'm not. I don't like surprises."

Really? I'd done other things, like brought home flowers, or even traded older cars for newer ones while she was visiting relatives to surprise her. She hadn't ever told me she didn't like surprises.

Well, we didn't go. We've still never gone. We just lost the money. I still try to surprise her now and then, mostly with a gift for Christmas or her birthday, but nothing like a trip or something like that. So far, she's not said she doesn't like surprises in those instances. I'm thinking I just caught her at a bad time. I haven't been able to muster up enough bravery to try it again. If there ever is a next time, though, if she says she doesn't want to, I'll go by myself.

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I am a husband and a father. I've worked for others, been a business owner, been in church leadership roles, and participated in different kinds of activities throughout the years. While I've tried to get involved only to the point where it's useful, I can think of numerous times where I would have rather stayed on the sidelines, but didn't because I felt I should help, or realized something wasn't going to get done if I didn't either do it, or lead out.

In doing so, I can say that, for the most part, things have turned out to my satisfaction, and maybe to a lesser degree, to that of the family members, co-workers, church members, customers, schoolmates, etc., I was trying to assist or lead.

However, it does have its limits. Some people just don't want the help, no matter the results, and so helping has on occasion made things worse.

Here's a recent case in point, and a fairly mundane example to boot:

My oldest son and I are avid Oregon Duck football fans (college American football). They were playing their bowl game on New Year's Eve day. I had suggested previously that we have pizza (since that's our go to for many a game day). My son offered to get it. He wanted something of higher quality than what he thought he would get buying at Little Caesar's or Domino's, and wanted to get it from a smaller, more local pizza chain.

My wife found out he was buying it, and even though she might have been influential in him volunteering, she decided she didn't want him paying for it. At least not all of it. Or he should consider a cheaper alternative. I told him that, but even though he's just graduated from college, and neither his wife or himself have found a job since their move back here, he insisted on getting the pizza.

At one point during this process, I was going to take care of it completely. Then, at least reimburse him for some of it. But the more I tried to help, the more he pushed back. So, I gave up and let him do it.

Well, it turns out that despite me telling him it was going to be expensive, he didn't think it would be as expensive as it turned out to be. He bought one giant pizza and one large pizza, along with a 2-liter soda. He didn't tell me how much it cost, but since I've bought pizza from there before, I'm guessing it was around $50. He said later that he kind of regretted being the one to solely pay for the pizza. It wasn't like I didn't try!

As a father and a husband I've stepped into situations I'd rather not have done. I've done it in many other capacities, too. By and large, I'd say I accomplished something. Over the last few years, though, I've been trying to stay out of more and more decisions, even if it does turn out less than favorable. In the case of my son, he learned that pizza from that particular place is considerably more expensive than the larger brand alternatives, something he wouldn't have had I paid for it.

I'm not sure exactly what the lesson for him will be, but I'm hoping he'll be less anxious to buy the expensive pizza, or more willing to have someone help with the cost.

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Do you like cooking with beer? Try it with a Irish Stout next time.

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Good and direct answer mate, the knowledge and freedom that internet has given us is amazing, I'm an addict to knowledge and I could live without it either

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I understand, sometimes when I want to be free, I leave all my devices and enjoy my day but I only can do that when Im on vacation because I am a developer, my work depends on the internet, in fact I wish I could live without it! xD

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Hi Rok. I had to go read your comment on steemworld.org as I battled to open it on musing.
have I ever used steroids? No I haven't and the only steroid I was given was an injection into my Achilles tendon to help speed up the healing process. It wasn't a choice I had as the specialist had me lying on his desk and I didn't expect it. He said he was going to give me an injection, but had no idea it was steroids at the time as it can make you bloated.

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glenalbrethsen (68) · 6 years ago (edited)

A very good question, and I guess it depends on how you wish to interpret the facts.

In the United States, 23 people were executed (21 by lethal injection, two electrocution), through mid-August, 2018 according to a CNN report. A total of 39 death sentences were mandated, and through July 1, 2017, 2,817 people were on death row throughout the various prisons in the U.S. Also as of August, 2018, 31 states had the death penalty in one form or another.

In my mind, that's not a lot of people who are being executed, or awaiting execution in comparison to certainly all crime, but even to that which generally rises to the level of a death penalty conviction—murder and a few other crimes, such as treason—those numbers seem pretty low.

So, if few people are actually being convicted, let alone executed, and yet crimes that could draw a death penalty sentence are constant or up, I would say, no, the death penalty has not been an effective deterrent. According to at least one source I read, the south, where the bulk of the death penalty convictions are actually carried out, murder and other crimes have not gone down.

Regardless, I believe there are factors at work here which should be considered:

What does it take to get the death sentence? Some states are relatively lenient, so the same violent crime could be multiple life sentences with various options for parole in one state, while garner the death penalty in another.
How quickly are the sentences carried out? In nearly all cases, there are legal battles that take place well after the convictions. Some end up in stays of execution (for one reason or another, including a person actually being innocent), while others go on indefinitely. In other words, those convicted of the death penalty are rarely, if ever, executed quickly.
What type of individual is committing crimes that will receive the death penalty? Typically it's the hardened criminal, one who has been in prison for an assortment of different crimes that become more violent over time. They are folks who, for one reason or another, effectively place little value on human life. It could be mental illness, it could be irrational decision making, it could be pure evil. These kinds of folks aren't likely to be deterred by anything.

Based on the answers to these questions, and probably more, we might get to the effectiveness of the death penalty as a deterrent, if properly implemented, from the sentencing to the time in which it takes to be carried out. As it is, it doesn't appear to be enough of a deterrent, certainly not as much as it could be. The likelihood of the changes being made to make it so, however, are slim to none.

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glenalbrethsen (68) · 6 years ago (edited)

I actually like the idea of taking a multi-day cruise, 7 to 10 at least, and my wife and I have looked into it a time or two, but as of yet, no cruise.

I think the reasons for that is:

Overall expense. We live in the Pacific Northwest. Aside for maybe a trip around Alaska, there aren't any cruise originating near to where we live, and especially to where we would want to go. Which means, in addition to the cost of the cruise, we'd also be looking at the cost of roundtrip airfare.
Cruise ships are too often in the news, and not for good things. Be it sinking, engine or power trouble, or diseases of some kind that break out at sea, it's not been a good five to ten years for the cruise industry. And yet, by and large, prices seem to remain high.

However, if we were able to get around those two issues, here's what I would like about it:

Cruise ships have a lot of different things to do on them. It wouldn't be hard to find an activity. Or you could just stay in your cabin. A people person could find plenty of people to interact with, while an introvert could find a quiet spot to read.
See different places. A cruise ship isn't just about the sea, but ferries take you inland to whatever destinations are available on the cruise. That would allow for sampling different places, getting a vibe for what a place is like, while having other places to compare and contrast it to. That way, you could decide if you wanted to go back or not, and not necessarily spend the money or the time that you might otherwise.
All-inclusive. While there are plenty of resorts that are all-inclusive, there are plenty that aren't. Cruises are nearly always all-inclusive, so food, beverages, and onboard activities are generally a part of the price, which is probably why they cost so much. Still, it's a convenience that's hard to ignore.