I was working on a userscript today, which had a goal of displaying chat pings immediately at the main site. This would allow me to respond more quicker-like to chat pings.
However, I was met by this fearsome warrior:
Can we please set some decent header things? I want to be able to do this ...
It has come to my attention that Spam Review, a site that has serious potential to help Stack Exchange people and spammers worldwide improve their spam, has been closed. This seems like a serious bug to me.
First, example one:
I think it's best to hear it from a spammer who is deeply affected b...
if you mess with my head, cause me to get a headache. I'm gonna take a baseball bat and come down on you like your faggot creator should have. God or whatever your name is, I'm gonna stick a big ole aids dick in your mouth and beat you with a baseball bat while you beg for forgiveness and suck t...
@hichris123 I have to say, I'm really tired of this Spam Review proposal. It sounded like it was meant in earnest at the beginning which is why I left it open, but then there was so much near-trolling happening around it here in chat, on A51, and on meta, and I'm just tired. It's not particularly funny. It's creating work for us for what seems like a dubious purpose. Can y'all not? Or at least if you mean it seriously, then treat it that way. (cc @ColeJohnson)
@AnnaLear I'm curious what private beta would look like.
Anyway, it's kind of joking, but kind of serious. It's joking in the sense that it's probably not going to get reopened. But it's serious in the way that it's worth a try.
here's the thing. if you want it reopened, take it seriously. I didn't reopen it because by the time it got closed, it seems pretty clear that nobody was actually trying to make a go of it. "Haha Jon Spam facts!!111eleven". Meh. Whatever.
I'm not without a sense of humour, but there's a lot of peoples' time that comes into play here. So pick one - joke or serious. If it's a joke, great. We had a good laugh. Time to let it go. If it's serious, also great. But then let's actually build a good site.
Convince me. I'll reopen the proposal. Then it goes through the normal stages - gather a community, define scope, etc. It might not get launched (that depends on the scope, if nothing else), but it would have a shot.
This isn't doing it for me. ;) But tell me what you'd discuss there. Put up a post that seriously explains how the site could benefit the Internet at large.
Would it be effective to make a list of bad reviewer(s). The list would be backed up with actual review URLs.. it would be an effective way to remove bad reviewers when audits aren't doing the job.
I encounter so many when I look back at the history.
I mean.. if someone thought the code was wrong, shouldn't they have posted it as an answer? Or at least a comment? I consider it a radical change.. no?
It's not a radical change at all - the answer is the same. The only thing fixed is the symbol used in the selector. The spirit of the answer is maintained.
@JoshC Yeah, that last bit is odd. Otherwise it seems like it was an innocent enough of a mistake that correcting it makes a lot more sense than posting an answer with the correction.
The goal is always of course to have the question effectively answered and to a lesser extent also support people who are effectively answering questions (even if they sometimes make mistakes).
(Not to jump right in or anything...) One risk in allowing edits to the code is when people actually introduce a bug by doing so -- and when going through the review queue, I'm not often able to recreate each repro myself to be sure. Posting a code edit as a separate answer allows both to be compared, and a wider audience can review the substance of the code difference -- whereas making the edit directly means that only a very few reviewers will see and confirm the code change.
@DreadPirateShawn That's definitely a concern. However (and this is true for any kind of review), if you aren't sure, you should skip.
When code changes are major and change the actual core of the answer, it certainly makes more sense to post a competing answer. For a typo, though, that's just silly.
Agreed, and I do that too -- although regarding the substance of the code itself, I'm more inclined to trust (a) the user who researched the answer and (b) those who have (often) confirmed the answer as successful, rather than a 3rd party who (sometimes quite) later decided that it needed to be tweaked.
Ideally, we'd have everyone be very conscientious about reviewing edits. In practice, human nature intervenes. But I have a lot of issues with the lesson coming out of that being "never edit people's code".
It's when newer APIs are used to replace older ones (perhaps it's less backwards compatible? comment don't edit) or less verbose syntax is used to replace longer answers (perhaps introducing a bug? either comment or new answer) -- etc.
Point being -- a comment allows future users to see the original vs the new. Edits are invisible to posterity.
(Technically not invisible, sure, but functionally so.)
There's no ideal solution. This is one of those situations where it's great that we have a lot of community moderation features, but they sure aren't without drawbacks. :)
My intention is not to spoil any of the secret hats. These are ones that anyone who looks at the leaderboard can see, and I have no intention of telling you exactly how to get any of them. However, giving people a nudge in the right direction seems to be fair game.
List of Known Secret Hats:...
But generally speaking, when you onebox things, they are generally not for any purpose other than a quick announcement of, "This is what I am occupying myself with at the moment", which doesn't have much added value, and makes me a bit less tolerant of them.
It isn't about "This is always bad" or "this is okay", it is about understanding the audience, thinking about the impact of your action on the environment you're in, and making a decision based on your common sense and feel of the atmosphere
(don't worry, I wouldn't actually want you to do that -- you seem like a fine upstanding young citizen -- we wouldn't want you getting mixed up in such hare-brained schemes as re-authoring posts!)
@animuson This is where you're supposed to link the answer, all subtle-like
Yeah, I've got one from years ago re: PHP and PDO that I answered with a quick doc ref, that's up to 55 and still increases by a vote or two every few weeks.
Sorry for the vagueness. In case you don't know what I'm talking about (what with being in Japan and all), there's some controversy about a guy from a reality show called "Duck Dynasty" that people have been excessively talking about on Facebook today.
@jadarnel27 I tried to edit an answer to one of my questions, adding what I intend as clarifying information. My edit was rejected as "incorrect or an attempt to reply". I don't understand why
I'm not sure that specific of an inquiry justifies an entire question on Meta?
@culix Oh. People in the review queues probably wouldn't take the time to realize that you were also the question-asker.
So it kind of looks like you are just adding a bunch of information to an already-accepted answer. Some people have a weird thing about changing stuff in accepting answers.
@culix By the way, it's perfectly acceptable to post that type of question on Meta.
@culix I don't think you're crazy for thinking so.
=)
@culix I'll just do the edit for you =) It is an improvement to the existing answer.
The other possibility would be to add your clarification / extra details as a separate answer, but I don't really think that is necessary in this case.
incidentally, i'd like to thank and blame the winter bash for lost productivity at work... :-P come to think of it, i wonder how many work hours have been spent on hat-hunting across the user base...
Urgh, hit the wrong flag button when reviewing this post. I hit "invalid flags" rather than NOA - will this dispute all flags and cause a problem? Or will I be lost in the signal noise?
I only need 15 more upvotes for Guru. Which clearly is a noble goal for everyone who reads this message. After all, who doesn't want to know where SO users are from?
@Flyk I feel like Winterbash is promoting community by making us try to bribe favors out of each other for the sake of hats. I don't know if this makes us the Zimbabwe of the internet, but it certainly has increased the favor trade.
See? Currying favor. We could be politicians of meta. If it had an organized government that wasn't just a shadow government for the unicorn overlords.
@Bart hehe. Remember me an old error message one of my coworker putted in an internal use app. "The app crashed. Let's go eat some Cevapi in the meantime"
String htmlString ="<font color='#00ff00' size='100'> SampleText </font>"
this is a sample String where I need to change the font size from 100 to 25. I mean original font size / 4.
Is there any solution for the above problem?
The resulting string should be: "<font color='#00ff00' size='25'> ...
RFlacks case really is a sad one, he knows now he shouldn't use answers as comments and I'm sure he wouldn't do it again but because he had 100% comments all are now rightly deleted but he can't make his way back
It has come to my attention that Spam Review, a site that has serious potential to help Stack Exchange people and spammers worldwide improve their spam, has been closed. This seems like a serious bug to me.
First, example one:
I think it's best to hear it from a spammer who is deeply affected b...
My intention is not to spoil any of the secret hats. These are ones that anyone who looks at the leaderboard can see, and I have no intention of telling you exactly how to get any of them. However, giving people a nudge in the right direction seems to be fair game.
List of Known Secret Hats:...
[yourbuttonName setTitleColor:[UIColor purpleColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
String htmlString ="<font color='#00ff00' size='100'> SampleText </font>"
this is a sample String where I need to change the font size from 100 to 25. I mean original font size / 4.
Is there any solution for the above problem?
The resulting string should be: "<font color='#00ff00' size='25'> ...
