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You are allowed to approve them but you're not allowed to view them yet. 
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Bureaucracy is a wonderful thing!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: Bureaucracy is a wonderful thing
Only when you're part of it.
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CarefulCoder wrote: My profile tells me that I can now approve articles!!
 You need 5000 Authority points for that, you are not even close.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: You need 5000 Authority points for that
Or 1500 Organiser or Editor points.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: 1500 Organiser
WTE ? You upvote 1500 drivel posts in the Lounge, and you are allowed to approve articles ? There must be something rotten in the kingdom of Denmark.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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That does seem off, the ability to approve articles and edit stuff (delete bad questions in Q&A, etc) should be gained by people marking trust in your judgement, not be obtainable by upvoting stuff.
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Could be some truth in that.
However, I'm definitely not an upvote maniac. Most of those points I earned by downloading code and faithfully reporting spammers. Took me quite a while to get 1500, so maybe it's the participation that counts.
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Yes, this is not a personal dig at your worthiness to moderate, but it does seem to me that this should be awarded to people for valued and well judged contributions in articles (and maybe Tips & Tricks and Q&A) – apart from the ability to farm upvotes to moderation status, how is someone going to know what makes a good article if they've never been through the process themselves?
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No offence meant at you or at your abilities. The 1500 Organiser points seems easier to gain as the 5000 points Authority, for instance.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: You need 5000 Authority points for that
Or 1500 Organizer points, which I just acquired... 
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See my post above, this is does not make sense.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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CarefulCoder wrote: Where can I view these pending articles?
I guess this award came a bit early in your development lifecycle.
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Congratulations!
Welcome to a whole world of fun and pain...
You are now a moderator: so it's up to you to help us keep the quality of articles up - and if you think QA is full of morons, you have seen nothing yet! Some people seem to think that copying a paragraph or two from MSDN is an article, and worth the points...  And a few can get abusive when you tell them that isn't acceptable behaviour.
Be careful what you do, and remember: moderation is about helping people to post good articles - so polite explanations of what you think is wrong is fine, but abuse is bad. Except for obvious plagiarism, which is fair game...
Help people to produce quality, or persuade them that it's a tip: but don't just reject it because you don't understand what they are saying!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Thanks for the advice 
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You're welcome!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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A man who has worked at a solicitors, as a solicitor, for 39 years suddenly decides that he no longer wants to be known as Mike, but wants to be known as Melanie.
Melanie has been on hormone treatment and is on the list for GRS soon.
Melanie has had trouble at home with the Hausfrau unt Kinder, unsurprisingly.
Then Melanie turns up at work in frock and make-up.
Melanie is escorted from building and promptly fired.
How do I know this?
A friend of Michelle's is his secretary and has spilled the beans.
Now, I think that it is generally illegal to fire someone of the grounds of sexual orientation or gender reassignment.
Secondly, it seems foolish for a legal firm to do it, by breaking the law they could lose the right to practise.
Thirdly, and this is the really moronic thing to do, do not fire the firms TOP PROSECUTION LAWYER!
As 'Mike' this guy was sh*t-hot at suing people and companies and had earned a fortune for himself, the company and his clients.
Although 'Melanie' may be wearing a gold lame dress and a pair of slingbacks, that forensic mind will now be outside the tent pissing in!
Best of luck Melanie.
No pun intended, but it takes balls to do what you did.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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... wasn't that an episode of Boston Legal?
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You hired a man with these qualifications.
Would you hire a woman with the same qualifications?
So what's the problem?
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Sounds like craniorectal impaction on the part of the pointy hairs.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Assuming this is real (it does seem a little too close to the setup for an online drama piece to be sure!), it does seem very odd. I can't see how that's not straight up and down sexual discrimination.
I'm sure it's a huge shock when a man you've worked with for decades is suddenly a woman, but that doesn't make firing him/her justifiable.
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Obligitory Monty Python reference... From now on I want you all to call me Loretta.
Perhaps there is more to the story than meets the eye. It isn't legal on this side of the pond and I wouldn't think that it is leagal to dismiss someone based on the gender reassignment on your side either. Good luck to Melenie.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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It happened at a contractor's office where a man decided to become a woman (not sure if everything was removed at that point). The office didn't fire him, but the women refused to allow him/her to use their restroom since they knew him for years and felt uncomfortable. So s/he was asked to use a restroom on another floor. Not sure what happened afterwards since I quit my company and moved away.
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