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Re: List of Special Elevator Modes

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Post by codetrotter »

dinkleberg wrote: post #8

Maybe this is common knowledge, but I never knew people used fandom for topics like this. I’m amazed that it had 800+ articles and over 1000 videos on a wiki dedicated to elevators.

Here’s another couple pretty random Fandom wikis that I came across just recently. Linking the specific pages I landed on them at.

https://allspecies.fandom.com/wiki/Bogdanoff_Twins

A fandom wiki about “all species” and it has just short of 1k articles about everything from these two guys to fictional species such as Alien.

https://monstercat.fandom.com/wiki/Crab_Rave

This one is specifically about the music label Monstercat. It has about 4k pages.

Re: List of Special Elevator Modes

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Post by ortusdux »

I had read somewhere that holding the boor close button along with your desired floor button will override the que in many elevators, taking you directly to that floor. I successfully tested the button combo in the elevator in my building. It came in handy when a kid pressed all the buttons and then stuck his tongue out at me.

Re: List of Special Elevator Modes

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Post by dmurray »

jackbeck wrote: post #22
hawk_ wrote: post #6

my personal favorite is the Sabbath mode https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Sabbath_service_(SHO) not to pick on a specific belief system, but it's quite interesting the lengths people go to follow the letter but not the spirit of things.

There are sects (like the ultra orthodox) who don't use Sabbath mode specifically for this reason. They say that the added weight causes the elevator's motor to work harder thereby desecrating the Sabbath.

Are they allowed to go down?

Also, depending on the counterweight and the current load of the elevator, adding an extra person to it might tax the motor less even when ascending.

Re: List of Special Elevator Modes

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Post by Y_Y »

phnofive wrote: post #4

Pet mode is interesting; it allows you to take your pet on an express ride to your desired floor at the cost of a slightly slower speed.

> Pros

> Does not infect other passengers if the animal has an infection

I'm glad that elevators are concerned about such a scenario.

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Post by thrdbndndn »

fortran77 wrote: post #16
dinkleberg wrote: post #8

Maybe this is common knowledge, but I never knew people used fandom for topics like this. I’m amazed that it had 800+ articles and over 1000 videos on a wiki dedicated to elevators.

There are many "elevator spotters" on YouTube. I can watch elevator videos for hours. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE9x-S_3sdY It's a very interesting community: See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz9ZzIgyDR8

I think the surprising part (to me at least) isn't there are communities for elevator lovers, but there is a wiki about it on Fandom.

Re: List of Special Elevator Modes

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

jannyfer wrote: post #29
dbcurtis wrote: post #11

Pfft. List is far from complete. I have done 3rd party interfaces to several elevator controllers. I am highly encumbered by NDA’s, so won’t say much. But I still wonder what “Korean Lunch 2” mode does???

Ooh I've no idea what that would do, but wanted to share something interesting I noticed. When I visited Korea, I've noticed companies tend to have exact 12-1PM lunchtimes, all at the same time. People raise eyebrows if you leave at 11:50 and return 12:50. At 12PM, it's hard to grab an elevator going down, so people will press the "up" button to try to catch an empty elevator, then ride it to the top then down to the…

> When I visited Korea, I've noticed companies tend to have exact 12-1PM lunchtimes, all at the same time. People raise eyebrows if you leave at 11:50 and return 12:50.

It just seems so inefficient to do it that way? In theory, I guess the company sorta benefits from having everyone on/off at once, but doing it like that basically guarantees traffic jams.

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Post by swiley »

dinkleberg wrote: post #8

Maybe this is common knowledge, but I never knew people used fandom for topics like this. I’m amazed that it had 800+ articles and over 1000 videos on a wiki dedicated to elevators.

Are you aware of the vim fandom?

It seems to be one of the more complete vim wikis and it's probably the most annoying wiki for a piece of open source software ever. I often go without using whatever information is on there just to avoid listening to my fans (heh) spin up.

Re: List of Special Elevator Modes

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Post by krapp »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #15
hawk_ wrote: post #6

my personal favorite is the Sabbath mode https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Sabbath_service_(SHO) not to pick on a specific belief system, but it's quite interesting the lengths people go to follow the letter but not the spirit of things.

The letter was, they believe, the word of God. If God hadn't meant the loophole to be there then he would have used different words. The loophole is divine .

>If God hadn't meant the loophole to be there then he would have used different words. The loophole is divine.

One could just as well state that if God had meant the loophole to be there, he would have mentioned it.

Re: List of Special Elevator Modes

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Post by pjerem »

Aardwolf wrote: post #9
phnofive wrote: post #4

Pet mode is interesting; it allows you to take your pet on an express ride to your desired floor at the cost of a slightly slower speed.

Or can be abused, without pet, to go directly to your desired floor without being interrupted by those passengers at other floors.

In Japan, where this pet mode exists, honor and respect of social rules are something, and I doubt you would take the risk to be seen leaving an elevator in pet mode without a pet.
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