Do I sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist when I wonder if there is some concerted effort (by an indivual or group) to bring down Stack Overflow by asking tons of crappy questions in some kind of automated way (thus driving away all the good users)?
@JanD I don't think that's exactly true. Not every site gets to the point where they're getting eight thousand questions per day, the majority of which are total crap.
Or, I wouldn't expect so.
I haven't exactly done formal research across internet communities with user generated content.
its so annoying, that the auto-login message thing "refresh the page to login or whatever it says" , like barely ever works. It use to work all the time. Now it only works like 10% of the time or so. This has been going on for like 2 months now. I don't want to start a question about it, since it will be closed as a duplicate, but it really has me visiting SE less, since it's annoying to type in the username and pw for each site I'm a member of.
I used to get "upset" (though that is too strong a term) when I got downvoted without comment. If my answer isn't good enough then I'd like to know why. Not only does it improve the answer for the OP but it improves my knowledge too.
Where the down-vote has been explained I've found it useful & ...
@rene No. I have noticed weird behavior where it did do that sometimes. Like one day it would work fine when switching to CodeReview, but not MetaSO/SE, and then the next vice versa. Now it just usally doesn't work 8.5/10 times. I left IE back in 2006, haven't been back.
Several users tend to scream in comments Why was my answer downvoted and such whenever their post is downvoted. (The reason for downvote might be legitimate or not, that's not the point.)
My question is are such comments constructive? I might have deferred asking but the official stand on urgi...
"I'm new with the API mallet, I need a code example on the use CRF for named entity recognition" - is what it says. So yea, i figured it coulda been closed as something else to.
Hypothesis
Stackoverflow contains some automated review auditing logic. The goal is to ensure that reviewers are paying attention and not blindly accepting content without critical scrutiny.
The logic implemented to reach this goal is flawed however, because it incorrectly identifies favorable ...
You've also approved other things that really shouldn't have. I went through the first two pages of your reviews and found this one and this one, for example. Don't make it look like you're getting something you don't deserve. — Undo30 secs ago
"identify unfavorable performance by giving specific guidance on how such performance can be improved" next time you see an edit like that, reject it ;). — Braiam8 secs ago
Ok, so nothing relevant. Old browsers are security holes and probably less than 0.001% of all SE users have that plugin (actually a plugin and not just an extension?)...
One another question about the meta split : would it be a good idea to let users migrating (reviewed) their own questions which belong to meta.stackoverflow?
Deleting one question won't lead to a question ban on its own, especially not on meta, and by the time you get answers, migration is probably not even useful.
Deleting one question won't lead to a question ban on its own, especially not on meta, and by the time you get answers, migration is probably not even useful.
@3ventic and it's the low-scoring posts that contribute to an automatic ban when you delete them - positively scoring posts should be fine. Deleting a whole bunch might raise a flag for mods, but they'll probably see what's going on.
For a question to be migrated it usually needs to be a very good quality one, and the target site must not be a beta site. (Exceptions exist, but they're just that, exceptions)
I'd rather use my delete votes on old off-topic questions rather than new low quality posts, especially when recommending deletion seems to work fine against those..
Don't really see the problem here. You get X number of delete votes per day (between 5 and 30, depending on reputation - so by the time you can vote to delete answers, you'll have at least 15). You can use them on whatever you want: questions or answers.
Review gives you a bit of a boost by all...