I didn't expect that to be one of the games no one else had questions on.
Stack Exchange needs one of those surveys like the "What career would be right for you?" except it's "What other Stack Exchange sites would be right for you?"
@balpha Indeed it is an excellent interpretation what I am trying to express , thanks for that, however post was deleted before it gets -30. Hoping to seeing it MSO deleted archive
Hi, currently absent people. :) I am wondering whether or not I should ask a question on Meta. I found that user Mara is only promoting ZooZ in the answers given. Although full disclosure is given as well. And what's more, the CEO and CTO have done the same, though less severely.
I flagged an answer by Mara for it, which was considered helpful, but no action was undertaken. And given the FAQ on promotion, I'm not entirely sure if there's anything wrong with what they're doing. I do however remember flagging quite a few questions some time ago by other ZooZ employees who did not give disclosure.
I would say, if you want to promote your product this much, buy some advertisement. But I'm wondering if I should address this on MSO, or should just let it slide?
There's a hidden page on SE sites of 'hall of fame' questions - those that have made the biggest 'impact'. I can't remember what the link is, can anyone refresh my memory?
@bart - A quick glance and those users and their posts really shows that they are trying very hard to plug their product/service. I don't have much knowledge on the topic so I can not comment on the validity of the posts themselves - but it looks like every post is dealing with their company and trying to promote it. If they hide their promotion within constructive and helpful posts and fully disclose their affiliation I do not think that they are harming anyone.
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/reputation - show your reputation and where it came from
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@Lix That's why I hesitate to bring it up. Something about it irked me. They are almost fully in line with the FAQ though. So perhaps I should just leave it at that.
@Lix Fair enough. And I just noticed that casperone also deleted and later undeleted one of Mara's answers, so they are aware of the issue. I'll let it be for now. Thanks.
That's not how this site works. Getting a reputation of 50 is not all that hard. If you add it as an answer, it will most likely be deleted. If you're lucky it might be converted into a comment, but that might not always happen.
I see you've given 11 answers so far? I think the best thing you can do is improve these answers. Make them as good as you possibly can. Even the language of them. (Spelling errors and such). If you get a couple of upvotes, that might help to the ban being lifted. I'm a not a moderator nor developer though. So I can't say with 100% certainty.
While trying to ask a question, one could get:
Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:
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Likewise, for answers:
Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because:
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> +1 I like this, but remembering not to use d all the time could be costly. I'd forget my shoes if they weren't sewn into my feet :S – Curt10 mins ago
commented: @cdeszaq, Well well, How you are going to edit existing one if you don't own one, and the second thing is if you have rights to edit still the question could be way to older and it won't show it on recent feed. The thing about us is we never care to check more then first two page while looking for potential question to answer and sometimes as an OP you need answer straight away rather just wait for the old question to be found by someone. Instead stackoverflow should add feature in which if user found old question which hasn't been asked correctly then we should be able to flag it as NONSENSE!
I'm so used to facebook privacy mentality... Yesterday I wanted to showing a friend something that happened here in chat and was slightly taken aback when I saw you didn't have to sign in even to see all the chat messages and even listen in :P
@cde - na - I don't think that pining the user would be a good idea... They'd have to cancel that in the mod rooms also... I'm sure they talk about us behind out backs there ;)
I am amazed at how responsive the async voting updates are. I tested it out on two computers right next to each other with my brother yesterday, and he saw the changes to his rep pretty much instantly.
I disagree with Jeff. On sites like Physics, sometimes a discussion between a truckload of people{*} is necessary. This is usually when we have to beat out the correct answer.
Here's an example. Nobody really was sure which method was correct, and we ended up having cross-discussions between co...
@cdeszaq The only thing I can think of would be to query for comments with the exact auto-generated link text. Even then, you can't really know if anyone used it.
@cdeszaq Are you stuck using a crappy browser? I had that problem at first.
@jadarnel27 Nah, i'm on the Chrome Dev browser (v. 19 I think?). My guess is it has to do with the odd network I'm stuck in. There's at least 1 filtering proxy and likely other things in the way.
I'm an amateur programmer. I program for fun and/or to make stuff useful to me. On SO, you get 10 answers to a question at a time, and they are usually better than mine.
@Manishearth Amateur doesn't mean anything. If anything, it means that you are more likely to do things that most people don't. Most professional programmers are stuck using the same tech, and rarely venture outside that (the best do, but that's a diff. story)
@cdeszaq Yep, but I don't know best practices, etc. My knowledge has holes in it as well. My two good languages (JS, PHP) are trumped by the fact that I'm not too good at jQuery and PHP is just too big... I guess I need more practice (had to sort of cut down on programming due to exams)
@cdeszaq On SO if you post a valid answer, it gets downvoted anyways if there's a better way to do it. And I usually post the way I think of first..
@cdeszaq Good point. I'll try that. Once certain things are cleared up, I anyway have a plan to select certain SE sites, set a goal for them, and get there
Right now we have the habit of bludgeoning any pluralizsation complainer with a giant S.
This is great, but kind of messy. So I have a counter proposal:
Let anybody that wants to report a pluralization bug, bake a giant sized S shaped cake and get it to the SE team (fresh and complete).
@cdeszaq Yeah, I'll do something similar. I'll identify sites that I could answer stuff at (SO,SU,scifi,literature,English,Math,UX,gamedev), and set a rep goal based on how good I feel I will be at answering stuff there.
@Manishearth One think you could try is waiting for answers to fall off the front page, and answer those. You get less upvotes (typically), but can get a lot of rep from accepts. I will look at the "no answers" tab for a tag I know a little about. For you, that might be javascript: stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/…
Then go down to the one's with 1 or 2 votes, and troll through them looking for stuff you can answer =)
@jdarnel nice idea, ill try that later.. I do that on Physics at times, sorting unanswered questions by votes, finding the zero-vote bunch (these are neglected), and answer these when bored.
@cdes actually, I just realised that I already knew that questions get you rep.
My fourth best site is TeX.SE. Now, my TeX is rudimentary and limited to math formatting. I ask two, extremely simple/naïve questions there, and get to 260 rep. That left me O_0 ;P
@Manishearth It seems that the simple questions that every beginner asks get the most rep. The flip-side is that many of these have already been asked.
Proposed Q&A site for people who are enthusiastic about fashion, and about clothing, tailoring, cobbling, hatmaking, haberdashery and bespoke or couture clothing items.
Currently in definition.
Fashion.SE? Close the whole website as "too localized" =)
Proposal: Clothing and Fashion
One of SE's goals is to make the internet better. This means that posts on an SE site should be useful for a future audience. This is exactly why we have the 'close as too localised' option.
Now, Fashion is pretty localised. It changes by the week, day, minute, wh...
How exactly do you get the dev/mods attention on a feature-request when a bounty and plenty of exposure time fails? The attached tool says "It's Aiden Bell's fault." Should I blame him? :)
@cdeszaq hm okay. Well, I hope they hurry up. I don't really care about my meta-rep that much but I don't want that (granted, quite small) bounty to go to waste
@ThomasShields I wouldn't hold your breath too much for that request. In general, unless something gets a lot of attention and a lot of people feel strongly about it, most requests sit fairly idle.
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Bit of a disappointing onebox, but that explains all the possible statuses.
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You'll never make it. No one cares enough about your "discussion" / rant to bother with it. In general, people only care about things that seem serious
I disagree with Jeff. On sites like Physics, sometimes a discussion between a truckload of people{*} is necessary. This is usually when we have to beat out the correct answer.
Here's an example. Nobody really was sure which method was correct, and we ended up having cross-discussions between co...
Right now we have the habit of bludgeoning any pluralizsation complainer with a giant S.
This is great, but kind of messy. So I have a counter proposal:
Let anybody that wants to report a pluralization bug, bake a giant sized S shaped cake and get it to the SE team (fresh and complete).
Required Tags
When asking a question on Meta, you must include one of the four following required tags. This helps classify questions according to the type of response needed.
bug
You've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed. Your question will include...
Meta Stack Overflow/(any room): red tags
Send a message consisting solely of [status-SOME_PLAINTEXT_STRING] and it will appear in chat like a moderator tag. Doing this as a reply to another message is okay, but other text or formatting will not work.
Gaming/The Bridge: minigame
Send the mess...