@GraceNote I've put some thought into this. It's a tricky thing to avoid a swarm on a question. The main thing to look for, in my view, are controversial but not immediately off topic questions that are likely to get a spike in views from people unfamiliar with site scope or just "me to!" answers. It's a tricky problem and one that may not be solved without some machine learning or other technical tweaks.
Having trouble not asking "How do you feel about people making minor edits to bad posts (such as correcting 'me to' to 'me too!')
@SE Devs - FYI, the formatting for code blocks in IE8 is all jacked up. This should be rectified immediately. Note that I am too lazy to take the time to tell the right people about this serious problem.
Sigh. Spend 30 minutes trying to make an ideal "is this appropriate" question on meta. Instantly downvoted to -6. I remember why I've stopped coming here now heh
@Earlz just remember that downvotes on meta are not a sign of your worth, but just a signal that the community doesn't think your question has appropriate merit. Don't take the downvotes personally. I realize how tricky that is vs how easy it sounds.
@jcolebrand I know that. I just don't see a point in even trying to contribute to meta at all because upvotes won't mean you have a good question. it means you have a popular question. and downvotes doesn't mean it's a bad question, just means it's an unpopular one
The big problem is that this isn't feature requests or bug reports or anything, but questions like "should this behavior be allowed". Depending on how you word your question, you'll either get downvoted into oblivion, or you'll hit the popular side and get a lot of upvotes
It's basically impossible though to ask "is behavior X covered by the stance indicated by this meta post on Y" without getting downvotes
meh. Thinking I'll just not contribute to meta anymore unless I have a true problem. Seems like every time I ask a question here it literally ruins my day
Careers 2.0 will help me transform my stack of quarters into a somewhat larger stack of pennies. Through some strange method involving the laundering of arcade tokens.
Why is it that in the image of the Stack Overflow Careers banner, the colors go from dark blue to red and the money goes from low to high?
To me (I live in Europe) this seems like the small blue money stack is gold looking and the big red money stack is bronze looking. In the Euro coins, the bro...
as most of you, or even all of you are familiar with "Yahoo! answers", it's a great place to find almost any question about any topic that one might have, you can ask and answer questions about health, beauty, politics, and etc, and there's an easy access to the site. Access to the FAQ of the fac...
@balpha there must be a link somewhere on FB's support pages pointing to Meta. Is it the link on the developer support page that these people stumble upon? Has anyone tried to find out by looking at the referrers?
I recently saw a comment by Shog9 saying that he disagrees that downvotes are different on meta
This surprised me, as I find almost everything Shog writes to be well thought out and correct, however this statement goes against what I thought was true about meta voting.
The meta FAQ says:
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How can I contact a moderator? The specific-user tag says I should better use the report feature, but I have a question regarding how the report has been handled.
@jcolebrand I downvoted a post and explained what I didn't like, and soon after, I got two downvotes on some random posts of mine. I wasn't too sure what to do so I reported the user and asked in the report message whether it was an "act of retaliation". I got a "helpful" on the report, but I have no idea what to do next time and whether or not it was in fact the result of my downvote.
@jcolebrand It's just that I hardly ever get downvotes, and thus statistically unlikely that the two events are not connected :)
Some people in life are assholes (just ask @jadarnel27 about me sometime ;-) )
You just have to shrug those guys off and go on about your business.
Let's pretend it's the real world, and you choose not to work on a project with somebody because you point out that javascript is a terrible language to write SQL in.
Now, in his world, that's a perfectly cromulent thing to do, but not in yours.
So he goes around and says "that guy knows nothing about writing SQL, don't work with him. And he doesn't know javascript either!"
So you keep your nose down, you continue writing good code, and others see that you know what you're doing.
Eventually those remarks from him "go away" and nobody but you and he remembers them anymore.
Rep is a lot like that. He's gotten upset, and he's said something mean. It'll "clear itself out" as you continue to "do the right thing".
@jcolebrand I see what you mean. But I just thought if there was no action to be taken from the moderator's side, I'd expect the ticked to be marked as "not helpful", because I reported something that doesn't need moderating. So if it was indeed helpful, what changed? I'm not annoyed by the other guy, don't worry ;)
If someone downvotes you like 15 times, the system will revert that.
(there's a threshold under 15, but never you mind what it is)
As for "helpful" vs "not helpful" it goes like this
I'm a moderator on Database Administrators. I want to know when people are being abusive. So when you flag and tell me he's being downvote abusive, that's helpful, even tho I can't do anything about those downvotes.
Now I go to his profile and make the tiniest mark for other moderators to see, when they take out their inspection loupes. Nobody else even knows it's there.
Ah no, just two times ;) I'm only slightly annoyed because one's on a post that was pretty late to the party and was sitting there with a score of 0, and I put in quite some time writing it
With three or four of those, we send him a message and say "look, we get it, but stop with the "revenge downvoting" because you're making the site worse, not better"
That this works is not trivial at all! It's a property of the IEEE floating point representation that int∘floor = ⌊⋅⌋ if the magnitude of the numbers in question is small enough, but different representations are possible where int(floor(2.3)) might be 1.
This post explains why it works in t...
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@phant0m Hrrmmm I've never actually tested my typing speed before. It says I have 93 WPM with 90 correct and 2 wrong. I bet I could get it better now that I know what I'm doing :)
Does anyone remember where I might've posted this comment? stackoverflow.com/election/4#post-15076009 - Second to last comment, second "example comment" - I'm a bit baffled here
@jcolebrand Ya, I already searched through like 5 pages, not finding it. Of course, he did say they were from this morning, so theoretically it shouldn't even be that far back.
Heh, I'd look up if there's special HTML like Facebook's image_src meta definition to make that work, but I can't seem to find any help links anywhere on that site. So I'm just gonna mark it a fail and move on. — animusonSep 19 '12 at 17:06
@animuson His comments on your election post make me think of the saying "Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience."
Not trying to say he's an idiot, but you can't make everyone happy and attempting to often ends up negatively for yourself :)
I recently saw a comment by Shog9 saying that he disagrees that downvotes are different on meta
This surprised me, as I find almost everything Shog writes to be well thought out and correct, however this statement goes against what I thought was true about meta voting.
The meta FAQ says:
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