@Somewhat Maybe if on pro-tem elections we set a minimum candidate score requirement in case a user would become moderator due to a non-competitive election?
We finally found an "post image of code" offender that talks back: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/374741/578411 One of the SE UX researchers might want to interview them to see if there are more valuable insights.
@rene Hey nice! And it makes sense too... if you don't know about code-formatting, you might just post a picture because that has the right formatting, and copy-paste might've just messed everything up!
@Tinkeringbell When I first read the help page on how to post code, it said I have to indent code by four spaces. This seemed like a very daunting and extremely time-consuming task. But luckily I happened to notice the button to format the code and add in the required spacing.
@Magisch A simple criterion would be to only appoint candidates with a minimum 10/40 candidate score should the pro-tem election become non-competitive.
Summary: Parenting will begin the nomination stage for a special election on April 30, 2018 to bring in one more moderator.
Last year (has it really been a year?) I broached the idea of beta elections. As a pilot project, we're going to attempt running an election here on Parenting. This commun...
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog good to know, yet it seems too much work for too little gain.
I was just suggesting that the message in the rep tab probably shouldn't be just an "one line" thing in the first place
I mean, they clearly have the data on server side - I don't know why it was deemed simpler to generate one single "summary" message instead of just generating a separate message for every affected post
Seems once again a "try to make it so they won't notice => won't rant" approach.
Hide stuff to make moderation simpler? Yeeeks, we must be really horrible if the staff had to come to that
@Somewhat There'd surely be people with lots of meta experience but little site experience willing, but the mod elections aren't targeted at them. SE wants people with both
@Somewhat to be fair, it's my fault. I should have read the sign of a cursed question and just skip to the next one, but it seemed so easy to answer...
I was tricked by the Dark Side's promises of easy reps points
@Magisch be careful with that word. I obviously won't care since it is pretty evident that you just meant "silly". But some "smart guy" could flag it since sadly "Derpy" has an offensive connotation too - that's one of the reasons Hasbro almost never uses that name (to the point of labeling Derpy toys as "Muffin")
by which I obviously don't mean that it was a mistake to say that - it's a good joke. Just that lately there is an abundance of "out of context message flagging"
.... I need some CCG card generator, preferably super hero themed. I know and used some Magic/Yu-gi-oh card generators in the past, sadly they don't fit the call
Visual Studio Code has recently moved from a system-wide installation model (ended up in c:\\Program Files) to a by-user one (C:\Users\name\AppData\...)
so... It is really a smart idea to have the installer add the executable to the PATH variable by default? ^_^
kudos to the happy day two different devs install Code on the same machine and one of them finds out his PATH now points out to the User folder of the other one, which obviously is inaccessible....
Are year-old questions with no votes on either the question or any answer useful? I don't really see the benefit of keeping those 3 million questions around.
@rene If nothing else, it might help the existing users focus more on moderating and answering the more useful questions. It might make a dent in the close vote queue. Even if most of that is mostly focused on the endless and overwhelming stream of new questions.
Meh, I don't have much faith that the request will be received well, never mind that it will get implemented. I prefer to just throw my ideas into the void that is chat.
You can't ask for a site to be cleaned from junk without users giving some signal to indicate something is junk
And I get pretty pissed-off if I have users demanding that we do something about site quality and clean-up while their own record show they didn't contribute much in that direction
I've been demotivated from flagging because I don't like the new flagging UI (and it also seems pointless). I've been demotivated from answering due to the low quality of questions.
Am I just looking for excuses, or is everything terrible?
I have a hard time finding posts that I find useful and that meet my standards, so I rarely upvote. And having a very high percentage of downvotes probably won't look good to anyone looking at my profile, and may create a false impression of what I'm like in real life.
Question on voting reversal scripts. If a user posts a bad question with several bad self answers would a down vote on the question/answers possibly trigger the script?
Possibly (probably not?), but I'd say you shouldn't worry about it in that case. Reversals are more about the user receiving them than you, unless you're not doing what you're supposed to, which doesn't apply here.
be interesting to know if for the scripts it looks at votes overall or on the number of questions/answers where they happened. if they treat self questions/answers like a single answer/question elsehwere
I imagine they care a lot about how you get to the posts you downvote. Visit someone's profile and the script is much more likely to kick in. Just browse random question lists and vote according to quality and it should trigger very rarely (unless you're specifically looking for someone's posts when doing this).
