Conversation started Sep 17, 2019 at 18:06.
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Sep 17, 2019 18:06
But on a really serious note... what do we need to keep meta alive? Just fewer new users that mess up their posts?
410
410
About the only reason I'd post on meta is if I'm mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore.
Which hasn't really been the case recently.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@Tinkeringbell A healthy amount of drama is always necessary IMHO, I just think we got too much of it recently
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@410 That's not really about keeping alive though, we have plenty of posts :P
Meta Andrew T.
Meta Andrew T.
We need Fridays.
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Fridays?
Meta Andrew T.
Meta Andrew T.
Sep 17, 2019 18:08
In Iceland, particularly.
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@M.A.R. Well, I'm more thinking about... we have now a whole list of things that kill meta... but I doubt any new user is going to read that before they mess up. So, what can we do to help them, besides linking them to that post and having them understand what they did wrong? Perhaps that'll help keep meta more alive?
@MetaAndrewT. Hmmm. I'm looking for something a bit more serious than Fridays, I guess :/
And certainly a lot more serious than Iceland.
410
410
A soothing MIDI track playing on /ask page.
Is MIDI still a thing?
rene
rene
@410 the mad part or the not gonna take it part?
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@Tinkeringbell The few that do matter.
410
410
Still mad. But I'm going to take all of it. ALL.
rene
rene
Sep 17, 2019 18:11
@410 I do think so. Maybe it got a JSON representation to make it easier
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
And, especially, for things like this, you have somewhere to link people to so you won't spend your mental stamina arguing it over and over again with them
If people on meta.SO did that more often, everyone would have been happier.
Buuut "guidance is so dispersed on meta", which is a previous post of mine.
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@M.A.R. Sure, sure... but... Just dropping people a link doesn't give them the feeling they're understood, or that anyone is willing to help... it's more like throwing them the rulebook and saying 'here's all the things we've decided you can't do, now figure out what you can do that isn't this' :/
410
410
I'm looking forward to comments "see WKM:5.2.3"
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
This stuff is scattered so much so except the few famous ones that sometimes don't help because they're too old and don't say what you want to say people don't remember to link them first.
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@410 If there's going to be a lot of those, that post in this form might not stand a very good chance :/
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Sep 17, 2019 18:14
@Tinkeringbell It . . . doesn't sound as bad as it seems in practice.
410
410
What Meta Stack Exchange is Not.
Meta Andrew T.
Meta Andrew T.
whatkillsme.ta/
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
You're picturing someone yelling for help and everyone else ignoring them right now
That's not what happens
Meta Andrew T.
Meta Andrew T.
@410 (actually I'm also thinking that post and its SO couterpart...)
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@M.A.R. Perhaps ;) ... I'm just wondering if we can help more, in some way, with what to do instead of what to not do...
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Sep 17, 2019 18:15
I haven't done anything special, except maybe update guidance a bit. Questions on SO go obsolete but it hasn't occurred to people that meta guidance goes obsolete too.
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
We'll see how this turns out, but I can understand if people see your post this way too, and thus downvote it.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
I frankly don't care about the downvotes, as long as I have something to link people to now.
Its score is +10 so it's a VERY definitive guide now.
QC stamp
Meta Andrew T.
Meta Andrew T.
souns like Will, or Won't. Choose either one.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
I wish people did look at it that way, as something to link to.
Linking people to go somewhere else is always overdone somewhere and not done enough everywhere else.
And I'm pretty sure I'd end up in the not done enough team.
410
410
@MetaAndrewT. surprised there isn't .meta tld yet
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Sep 17, 2019 18:18
The other side of the coin is the bajillionth hammerdupe of something from 2010 that does not represent community stance at the moment.
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@M.A.R. Fingers crossed it's not only going to be people linking to that post ...
410
410
The .center TLD is managed by a registry called Donuts.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
OMG did I go viral among demons too.
410
410
Meta just needs better air conditioning.
Too hot and humid on some days.
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
Hmmm.
So, why is everyone hanging out on meta? What makes this stuff fun/rewarding for y'all?
 
Conversation ended Sep 17, 2019 at 18:29.