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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
8:04 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: Opening sequence with a girl shooting up some kind of crystal in almost no clothing by MindGem on movies.stackexchange.com (@Unihedron)
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Norm welcome back! No idea how you can chat here without a parent user on MSE, but doesn't really matter ;)
 
nicael
nicael
Hahaha lol, hacker :D
Possibly got the cookies.
But that's actually interesting, how did you do it, @NormalHuman?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@nicael more likely the team forgot to delete his chat profile when deleting the MSE account :)
It's like an orphan child now...
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
8:22 PM
 
user259867
Generally, chat profiles remain after site profile deletion. Separate things. @nicael should try to repro this.
 
bjb568
bjb568
@NormalHuman :D all because of one question
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Q: How can I make an svg scale with its parent container?

bjb568I want to have an inline svg element's contents scale when size is non-native. Of course I could have it as a separate file and scale it like that. index.html: <img src="foo.svg" style="width: 100%;" /> foo.svg: <svg width="123" height="456"></svg> However, I want to add additional styles to t...

html css html5 svg scaling
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
 
nicael
nicael
@NormalHuman I know it and have already tried that months ago. The main thing, I got logged out from chat once deleted the account.
(the chat profile wasn't deleted and still there)
 
hichris123
hichris123
8:45 PM
New moderator candidates... hmm...
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
And just this morning people were wondering that we had so few candidates this time, haha!
 
user259867
Scraping the bottom.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
I expect some more people will nominate themselves in the coming days. And there are a few already that I like.
 
Undo
Undo
@S.L.Barth We're still way below the number we usually have by now, though
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Do you think there's a reason for that? Or is it just coincidence?
 
Undo
Undo
8:50 PM
@S.L.Barth I'm not entirely sure. It definitely feels strange.
 
rene
rene
In this mod election I have to decide if I rather be bitten by a cat or a dog ...
 
Undo
Undo
Dogs are more likely to just mouth you.
Which hurts less
Also, dogs eat mice less often.
 
rene
rene
You make a strong case ;)
 
Undo
Undo
Dogs also apparently have better logic abilities, then
 
user259867
The pool does look shallow. Vinod "comments with downvotes" Madyalkar is not viable. Neither is Wooble Great Again. Neither is rekire with their 47 downvotes.
 
Undo
Undo
8:57 PM
Wooble could be a good moderator
If he hadn't gone the troll route this time
 
user259867
Mureinik isn't active on meta. Thomas Owens does little but answering. Present company is excluded...
 
Undo
Undo
I'm a dog, that should be enough to disqualify me.
 
bjb568
bjb568
:p
yaaas
 
Undo
Undo
Dogs and cats cancel eachother out
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
@NormalHuman Thomas Owens is an elected moderator on Programmers.SE . AFAIK he's doing well there.
 
Undo
Undo
9:01 PM
Not necessarily a good indication, though
I like to think I'm doing well on S/HR, but I'd be pretty terrible on SciFi.
Or Gardening, or Beer, or GameDev
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
In theory, a mod doesn't need to address the subject matter of a site - but in practice they do.
Looking at it from that angle, it is a big plus if a mod candidate is a good answerer.
 
Undo
Undo
@S.L.Barth Although anyone with >5k has shown that they can do that.
At least to some extent
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
(Humbly hides his 4.5K ) :-)
 
Undo
Undo
lol
If you know enough to be able to tell if an answer is a legitimate attempt to answer the question, that's really all you need
 
user259867
T.O: 193 posts edited, 117 helpful flags; does not edit the questions he answers (no Refiner badge).
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
9:08 PM
He does have the Explainer badge. So he's edited 1 question he answered within 24 hours of answering... but hasn't done this 50 times yet.
It would seem that he's spent more time on Programmers than on SO. My main concern would be, if that is the case, would he be able to make the time to moderate SO well?
 
nicael
nicael
-25
A: how to resolve the C:\fakepath?

Nime CloudA quick workaround (if it's not your pc): Just create C:\fakepath folder and move the source file here.

LOL it's actually so easy. It has my upvote.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
It reminds me of something about the LQ queue - don't delete bad answers. The negative score indicates that this is the advice that one should not follow.
I think there's a moderator election question in that.
 
Undo
Undo
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Q: You're doing it wrong: A plea for sanity in the Low Quality Posts queue

UndoIf you're reviewing low quality posts, I'd like you to read this. All of it. Not skim it, not just vote up/down with everyone else. In exchange, I'll keep it short. Or if you are too busy, here you go: TL;DR: Review carefully. Don't delete everything. Deletion is for things that actually aren...

discussion review low-quality-posts
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
@Undo Yes, that's the one! Funny, I thought it was Shog9 or Jeff Atwood who had written that.
I guess having your posts being mistaken for official SE positions is a sign that you'd make a good moderator!
 
Undo
Undo
@S.L.Barth Shog9 wrote another related thing
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Q: Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?

Shog9I think we can all agree, this sucks: If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer" by well-meaning1 forum admins looking to close a thread. We could try to enumerate the commonly-obse...

discussion link-only-answers not-an-answer faq-proposed
 
user259867
9:15 PM
@S.L.Barth There was a similar title:
 
user259867
110
Q: Community-led deletionism: a protocol for sanity

Shog9A couple of events in the past few days have caused me to reflect - yet again - on the direction we're headed with regard to deletion on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange. First, a moderator on one of our larger Stack Exchange sites resigned. This parting was not acrimonious - he just decided he...

discussion deleted-questions
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
@Undo That one I know well!
 
user259867
but that one was about questions.
 
Undo
Undo
@S.L.Barth Thank you ;)
sd fpu-
 
bjb568
bjb568
> My thingies are sticky, like the key typers.
- windows user
> Deletion is for things that actually aren't answers, not for low-quality answers
How about… very low quality answers with severe content or formatting problems? ugh
everything is inconsistent
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
9:29 PM
@SmokeDetector fp- The link is to a pastebin.
@bjb568 that cannot be salvaged through editing.
 
bjb568
bjb568
@S.L.Barth That means nothing. Anything, including spam and abuse can be salvaged thru editing.
Just replace the crap post body with a good post body.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Spam and abuse/offensive are separate categories.
 
bjb568
bjb568
everything can be salvaged thru editing
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
@bjb568 If you're willing to replace a bad post with a good one... but that usually "clearly conflicts with the author's intent".
 
bjb568
bjb568
The only way to interpret that that makes sense is editing by a 3rd party (not OP) with no additional info. This can only correct small formatting problems.
@S.L.Barth But OP can approve the edit or edit themselves.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
9:33 PM
....which is a mixed blessing... I've seen terrible edits get approved by an OP even as I was hammering them in shape....
 
bjb568
bjb568
But OP actioning is irrelevant. We care about the current quality of the content.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Then again, I've also had to reject an edit to one of my posts, that did little more than adding a grammatical error.
@bjb568 Not sure if I agree there. If a post can be salvaged by editing, by a third party, then that is what should be done.
 
bjb568
bjb568
@S.L.Barth Yes. But then it's nowhere near VLQ.
And it has no severe content problems.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Sounds like a workable definition - if it can be edited into shape, then the content problems are not severe.
Excluding spam for the moment, assuming the post was a serious attempt at a question or answer.
 
bjb568
bjb568
@S.L.Barth if it's not, it's NAA
whoops, responded to wrong message, wanted to respond to second
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
9:49 PM
@bjb568 No problem, I understood which one you were referring to.
 
user259867
10:30 PM
@SmokeDetector fp-
 
rene
rene
Is the use of the word bleeding edge a little bit ... awkward?
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Can I change how my Gmail account is displayed in the Android Gmail app? by a deleted user on android.stackexchange.com
 
bjb568
bjb568
@rene meh, it's all right
kinda buzzwordy
 
rene
rene
OK
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
10:53 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Centering a div to the middle of the web page? by Dean the cheeky kunt on stackoverflow.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: The relationship between the energy and amplitude of a wave? Derivation? by serio on physics.stackexchange.com (@Unihedron)
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
11:14 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: MASTER-DETAIL PAGE IN DW by Leo on stackoverflow.com
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
11:26 PM
 
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