I'm under the impression that people are more grumpy and prone to downvote when the weather is cold.
Is there any way of verifying this hypothesis? I mean, is the daily total of upvotes and downvotes available somewhere for mere mortals like me?
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This link is very interesting, I would...
Assuming that people being cold makes them grumpy and thus makes them more prone to downvoting is a terrible premise that apparently a lot of people don't agree has any merit.
I'd say it's much more likely that the cold weather makes more people stay indoors at home and post stupid things on the Internet...
@animuson I get grumpier when it's hot, but I just found it funny that someone asking, "How can I calculate this?" gets downvoted for the reason for the research, rather than the actual request.
It's the equivalent of having someone ask with help for code streaming audio on the internet, and getting downvoted because his code is for "justinbieber4everandever.com"
Not really. There is no applicable data. Sure, I gave him a link to some geographic data, but the data on that page is slightly outdated and only includes a subset of the population of Stack overflow. From there, you'd have to define what "cold weather" means, determine which locations were experiencing cold weather during periods of downvotes, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
Yeah, some awesome geographic data which isn't that out of date (I mean, it's only a couple months old). And all the other issues he can sort out himself. I doubt he'll find an answer, but I think there's no harm in pointing him at the tools to try.
@jmac I'd say because the insinuation is that Stack Overflow people downvote because of an emotional problem, as opposed to, well, bad content.
Although I'm sure he has kind of a point. I'm definitely more prone to downvoting (instead of, say, trying to help) when I'm in a bad mood, for example.
... and if he were able to correlate voting data with weather data, I wouldn't be surprised if he actually managed to find a correlation
I saw it as a guy who just got a bunch of downvotes (probably because of poor content of his questions/answers) looking to leap through hoops of flame to shirk blame. And I am all for pointless exercises like that as a great form of misdirected self-flagellation!
@animuson Don't know the details, but while we may think we get over things fairly quickly, we may find ourselves getting over getting over things fairly quickly as well. Be sure to take care of yourself and not try to convince yourself you're okay if you're not (not saying you aren't).
My parents are going to make me see a psychologist at some point. I've spent my entire life psycho-analyzing myself. She'snot gonna know what hit her. xP
Is this post a high quality post (please judge without looking at the upvotes)? I got this in a review audit (and failed). It doesnt show any attempted solutions. So is choosing the "Close" option for this one really wrong?
@Harry I am here but don't really have an opinion. It sounds like he tried using a basic partition integer but that didn't work because the results weren't sorted in order.
thanks for the reply @jmac. Maybe my question isn't probably right for this place. But just that I am too annoyed that I have got myself review banned for "wrongly" (?) reviewing these kind of posts. never mind, people have different opinions, so I will consider the system also as a person and leave it :)
@Harry Everyone knows there are less than ideal review audits. And that's fine. The system is designed to work such that occasional failures aren't punished, only regular failures are. So if you're failing so many of these audits, chances are that you may want to look more carefully when reviewing after the ban expires?
Chances are that they keep the actual mechanism top secret in order to prevent people from gaming the system somehow. As far as seeing how many audits you've failed, I don't know. Sorry!
I did @jmac and found a different post which basically said something similar to the last post you had linked. You can put it down to my laziness that I wanted to see if there was a better option than manually looking through each item :D
@jmac: hmm, I see. thanks again. Btw, did you notice that the question (that I failed the audit) had 11 upvotes but even the accepted answer has only 3. seems strange.
@Harry Personally I think it's a question that developers love to play around with and come up with a solution to, so lots of people liked the question (regardless of whether or not it is on-topic). But people are more interested in coming up with an answer than actually reading the answers of other people.
@jmac: Agreed, I wasn't pointing to the quality of that post (I have cooled down :D) just that it seemed strange. Any ways, thanks for your time and help, I am leaving :)
@Harry Glad I could help, just remember, SO is supposed to be fun -- don't get too worried about failing a review audit (if good intentioned), even if you do get banned from reviewing. Just focus on enjoying yourself, and long-term improvement of the site.
@Harry Yeah, I get that, but it may be a good time to take a review break for a week and answer some questions or make some edits instead! Always good to be done, don't get hung up over a certain type of help.
Just noticed a weird anomaly / duplicate account when reviewing edits. Original user GCooper posted this question and then LCooper edited it, (this edit was rejected). LCooper attempted to add exactly the info that ultimately appeard courtesy of GCooper in [this edit]...? (stackoverflow.com/posts/19806219/revisions)
@michaelb958 I can't find the page. I think when the edit was later rejected by someone else, it disappeared and was replaced by the same edit in the revision history? No idea if there is a way to reveal edit history of users, but it is not showing up in my search history. I was thinking it could also be innocent: logged on with wife's account or something, but seemed odd.
@jmac: you can also use a user script to run through each page of a particular review queue, I've done that to check when I previously got review banned.
@Harry: I think it's a minimum of three failed review audits, unless you're going at complete robo-speeds.
That's in a month.
(to be more precise, a running total of the last 30 days).
Try look at http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/vwait.htm
Maybe can help.
I dont know whole code and i didnt understand point, but has i read, vwait can help you a lot.
"I don't understand the question, but I'll throw in a link to an outdated manual that doesn't help you to solve the problem"
When I wrote this yesterday there were 89.9k close votes in the review queue. Now there are 90.3k. By my calculations we should reach 0.1M close votes in the review queue around November 25th. Maybe we should have a party?
I'm under the impression that people are more grumpy and prone to downvote when the weather is cold.
Is there any way of verifying this hypothesis? I mean, is the daily total of upvotes and downvotes available somewhere for mere mortals like me?
[update]
This link is very interesting, I would...
Try look at http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/vwait.htm
Maybe can help.
I dont know whole code and i didnt understand point, but has i read, vwait can help you a lot.
Fantastic -- I posted this as a blog entry, with a little bonus, here:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/workin-on-ur-problemz/
