Silver and gold badges are always considered veteran-worthy, so you'll always be notified of those.
On real child metas (that excludes Meta Stack Exchange), you're always considered a veteran; on all other sites, you're considered a veteran if you have received the association bonus, i.e. you ha...
Jokes aside, don't push it @Quill. You could've said the same thing if it were three mods, because a single person can handle two flags in a week. That's not the point.
The site's not gonna stay like this.
What you should be very wary of, I, as someone with some experience on a language sites think, is being flooded with ELL questions.
It might not even take as long as graduation, and happen in the beta days.
I haven't checked Linguistics closely, but I think they're fine-ish with such questions, since, you know, this is language and stupid sentences can bear some interesting linguistic discussions to themselves.
bluefeet brought this up on a call earlier today, and we got to talking about the various problems we're still facing with suggested edits:
Scores of tiny edits take time away from reviewers and fill the queue
From a reputation-earning perspective, making comprehensive edits is counter-product...
Thing is, for quieter sites you do want to allow for the possibility that an editor might come in, make a bunch of edits over the course of an hour lunch, and then leave... And reviewers aren't gonna show up for another 8 hours because of timezones or whatever.
Sites that are only getting a couple questions per day often have this sort of pattern among users
Usually even in betas close to graduation, you get some random people come to review and review fastness is determined by how often they click that queue.
I think we wanna reserve the ability to tweak this limit per-site, just because there are always weird exceptions... But first, I'm looking for sane defaults.
20 also has the advantage of being the normal limit for reviews per day, so 2 reviewers can clear the queue on a small site with only one editor (which is not uncommon either)
Been playing with the query. I see a lot of users whose editing work needed some guidance. I've often rejected things with a custom reason, hoping their next edit would be something I could Approve. Implementing this form of throttling would help a lot. — S.L. Barth2 days ago
I sometimes see the user in a spree, and the edits are substantial but leave bad problems with the post.
I wanna make sure that if I reject, they'll get the memo.
Usually, when I reject, they don't even check, and continue with their behavior, which is annoying and once even made me ping a mod in chat.
yeah... Thing is, this is a tiny % of editors doing this. And some of them are doing it well... I just wanna smooth out the process for everyone, since right now it's too easy for folks to shoot themselves in the foot and annoy everyone, which then reflects badly on the majority of editors who aren't doing this.
I guess not much in SO's cases, because more users and the urban city law thingy, and also there aren't many editing guidelines and tweaks and finer points and stuff.
This whole meta question is a shame. Because the C++ community don't want their little snowflake to be closed they are imposing to the rest of the community their views, because if consensus is reached that those kind of questions are to be closed, they will not get away with it. — Braiam3 hours ago
But in a site like Chem, with such heavy citation, tagging and mathjax uses and all, it's next to impossible to get a perfect edit done in a medium or long post.
@Shog9 Usually the posts this occurs on are either complete trash or need some love though. The former shouldn't be touched, the latter need someone to care for the post.
Your argument about "too broad" does not make any sense. You quoted the portion that reads "good answers would be too long for this format", implying that this rule is being violated. But the existing answer puts the lie to that implication. It fits within the character limit and works well with "this format". So this is just another case where someone wants Stack Overflow to become a "debug my code" site, rather than a world-class resource for programmers, a body of expert knowledge about practical programming problems. Use your brain as something other than a pattern matcher. — Cody Gray10 hours ago
@Quill so is breathing, but breathing alone doesn't qualify you to determine what is on/off topic on SO.
@hichris123 let's go with, "An unstoppable juggernaut, rolling over everything in its path as it marches, Sherman-like, toward the ocean of knowledge leaving naught but a trail of burned southerners in its wake".
bluefeet brought this up on a call earlier today, and we got to talking about the various problems we're still facing with suggested edits:
Scores of tiny edits take time away from reviewers and fill the queue
From a reputation-earning perspective, making comprehensive edits is counter-product...
