So possible insta-death in a few months. Wife's friends are playing WoW so I told her she should, so the end result is that we're both going to start playing ...
He doesn't seem to understand "conversation" or "dialog" so well ... I presume it's a combination of preoccupication and language barrier (malaysia vs louisiana)
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is completely voluntary. I am working with the can...
@drach - for two of us, it's about playing. For the other two, it's about who is "screwing over" who with the knight. But worse, they made me and someone else double up because "
@drachenstern Eh, I just don't enjoy talking on the phone for that long that early in the morning. On top of that, I'm trying to fill in my timesheets right now, and I'm pretty frustrated about this whole framework integration bit. :P
and if it weren't for that whole tremendously awkward part I would kiss you for the gift you gave us ... except there's that whole tremendously awkward part. So I won't.
ok, so now I've made up my mind. I shall:
1) turn off the computer
2) turn on the mobile safari
3) walk the dogs and watch you all be even more quiet
4) lay down and keep watching my movie and pretend to sleep
5) oversleep in the morning. Again.
The "X people chatting" box to the right hand site on Meta.SO is very laggy: It tends to be massively out of date, and thus gives misleading information about the people present and the last post in each chat room.
It's not really a big deal, but it's notably out of sync all the time.
Can it be...
My current metric of choice is the ratio of upvotes to downvotes. If you look at that (on Yi's page), you come second. I think it means you're not a controversial choice - so more chances of making it!
I'm rather surprised how many downvotes there are. I'm curious how many are for real reasons and how many are just mass downvotes on everyone the voter didn't upvote
@MichaelMrozek, yeah, I think it's strategic downvoting. If you want to see someone at the top, you downvote all the others. I don't think it should necessarily be construed as negative (except for evil, of course :)
@badp just so you know, I'm removing the birthday event from the bridge (we don't allow events that far in the future anymore). It's Jan 24, in case you want to write it down :)
This is about the recently implemented Edit(1) (status-planned)
It is always Edit(1) because it never reaches 2, because it is either single-click accepted/rejected (owner, 20k+ user, 2k+user and anonymous edit) or accepted/rejected by two 1k+ users.
Source: How does peer review for edits work?...
@Dan, another, slightly less dramatic way would be to have two users, and always have user 2 edit the questions of user 1, but that would be detectable too...
Part of me wants to say that if the sock puppets are doing valuable edits, more power to them. (cue xkcd...)
Well low-rep sockpuppets aren't much use, but if you could boost them all to 1k, it could get interesting. But at 1-2 rep an edit, that's a heck of a lot of work!
It seems like if someone is motivated enough to have gained high rep in the first place, they place some value on reputation, and the act of creating puppet accounts to play the system with somehow would be too risky to your reputation for the people who can do so to be willing to do so.
For a few reasons, we recently changed the guts of how search works on our sites. If you keep up, you've probably read somewhere that we were using SQL Server Full Text Search. There are a few areas that utilize search that all got a replacement tonight:
Search itself (box in the upper right)...
if you're spending lots of time on SO gaining rep, you've probably convinced yourself, even if you know it's a lie, that your SO rep is useful in real life somehow (employers will be impressed! dev friends will be impressed! potential mates will be impressed!)... creating multiple accounts that might get you suspended and destroy that reputation would not be something that same person would do
There are 423,882 registered members at the SitePoint forums which I moderate, and there's maybe two or three cases a year of someone creating multiple simultaneous accounts for nefarious purposes.
There's not much community going on the SO sites, I think you're unlikely to remember the names of most people you interact with unless you always ask questions in some really tiny niche there's only one expert on
Aside from the dozen people that hang out in the chat rooms for each site
A programmer is generally a busy person with a lot on his plate. How do you find the time to ask and answer questions on Stack Overflow? How do you justify the time spent that could ostensibly be used for doing other things?
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is completely voluntary. I am working with the can...
The "X people chatting" box to the right hand site on Meta.SO is very laggy: It tends to be massively out of date, and thus gives misleading information about the people present and the last post in each chat room.
It's not really a big deal, but it's notably out of sync all the time.
Can it be...
This is about the recently implemented Edit(1) (status-planned)
It is always Edit(1) because it never reaches 2, because it is either single-click accepted/rejected (owner, 20k+ user, 2k+user and anonymous edit) or accepted/rejected by two 1k+ users.
Source: How does peer review for edits work?...
For a few reasons, we recently changed the guts of how search works on our sites. If you keep up, you've probably read somewhere that we were using SQL Server Full Text Search. There are a few areas that utilize search that all got a replacement tonight:
Search itself (box in the upper right)...
A programmer is generally a busy person with a lot on his plate. How do you find the time to ask and answer questions on Stack Overflow? How do you justify the time spent that could ostensibly be used for doing other things?
