Speaking of dogs, I have seen this dog, one of the cutest dogs I have ever seen. But never seemed to be wagging tail or looked happy. Now sure whether it's this short leash problem ...
@PrincessLuna The edit at first contained a typo, which I later fixed. Since users with 5k-20k rep can't "Improve" tag wiki edits, they have to skip them. Later on, since this edit was the only one in the queue, and since the top bar isn't lit up with just one pending edit, no one bothered to get to it.
@PrincessLuna It doesn't specifically have to do with tag reviews. If there aren't enough pending edits to light up the top bar, it will remain stuck unless 1. someone else suggests another edit, lighting up the top bar, 2. someone prods another user to review, or 3. someone just randomly decides to open the review queue.
@PrincessLuna Again, users between 5k and 20k cannot "Improve Edit" or "Reject and Edit"; so if an edit contains a typo, they usually Skip it and wait for the 20k+ users to come around.
@PrincessLuna Back as the Anonymous Editor, just after the top bar was revised, my edits all of a sudden took longer to be reviewed. They went from being reviewed in minutes to being reviewed in hours. That was one factor that turned me away from anonymous editing and towards recreating my account
With one pending edit I can only suggest edits to two other tag wikis and excerpts. Whereas with zero pending edits I can suggest edits to three other tag wikis and excerpts.
With one pending edit I can only suggest edits to two other tag wikis and excerpts. Whereas with zero pending edits I can suggest edits to three other tag wikis and excerpts.
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Wikipedia has hundreds of active administrators. It's wrong to compare them to mods here, they're more like high-rep users. See Wikipedia:Glossary#Super_Mario_Problem
@hey "If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make these edits, consider creating an account for yourself to avoid further irrelevant notices."
(Catija, you don't have Chaos Emeralds, but you commented on the question; I know the exact error the user is getting. Read the answer to the proposed target.)
I came across yet another instance of "We are not a code-writing service" in the comments (which is something I've always found imprecise and annoying) and decided to Google site:stackoverflow.com "code writing service" to get an idea of how prevalent that comment was. As it turns out, the author of the first result disagreed with the premise: stackoverflow.com/a/31593703/1709587
@MarkAmery I really liked it when we had a separate off-topic close reason for questions that lack code - see meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/180032/7 for how the close reasons used to look back when the new closing system was introduced in 2013.
@MarkAmery It's the third reason: "Questions asking for code must demonstrate a minimal understanding of the problem being solved. Include attempted solutions, why they didn't work, and the expected results."
@MarkAmery SSCCE is the precursor to MCVE
(I don't really like the wording of that close reason, but I definitely like the gist.)
ah, right - the minimal understanding reason. I'm glad that one's gone, tbh; while I think lots of questions need more detail in their definition of the problem to solve, I think showing failed attempts usually always makes questions worse and pretty much never makes them better
"How do I do X?" tends to be a sufficiently well-defined question to answer on its own and many of our top-voted questions take that form
@MarkAmery Today, questions that just ask for code without attempts usually get closed as "too broad", which doesn't really provide the proper guidance. I do agree that the wording used at the time isn't really good, but I do believe there should be a separate off-topic close reason for that.
However, the only thing I can think of that would cause this on my end would be malware on my machine that knows my (web) email password, as the access logs of the web-mail show no device but my own. Any advice?
So, I've been suddenly logged out and had my current password is rejected while trying to login again. Reset password via email. Second time this happened, although I wasn't sure whether this was what happened the first time. My password for SE isn't particularly insecure (generated with an appropriate tool). I'm not even sure if this could be an issue on SE or on my personal end, so I'm not sure if and what I should even ask on meta or something.
"How do I do X? Here is my broken attempt: [code dump]" is longer and is now implicitly asking two questions (one of which is "how do I do X?" and the second of which is "why doesn't my code dump work?"), which means that there's twice as much content for readers to wade through (and an accepted answer might not even address the subquestion they care about)
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog yeah questions asking for code are certainly often too broad - but that's because of a lack of question-defining work
adding attempts basically never ever solves that
it makes the question strictly broader, because an answerer doesn't know whether to come up with their own solution to the (still not-precisely-specced) problem, or to debug the provided code
@Discretelizard afraid I've got not much advice. With respect, the most obvious guess at the cause is PEBKAC; are you sure you didn't just misremember your password / have different versions in password managers on different computers / accidentally type an extra character into your personal passwords file / etc? If you're able to be certain that that's not what happened, then perhaps asking on Meta for a history of your password changes is a thing you could do.
@Discretelizard check your login accounts first, then perhaps try "contact us" link on the footer of main site, or meta if it's more convenient for you
@hey I have one login there. I'm afraid that 1) 'sudden logout' rules out PEBKAC, but not 'device is being compromised' and 2) Given that I've had this problem before, I made sure to login (after reset) with the credentials of my password manager the last time this happened to verify that there were no problems (After saving it). I cannot rule out that I somehow messed up again, but it seems unlikely. Perhaps I should ask SE staff what could cause (1).
@rene I do hope so, about half of my country uses this ISP. Although I do have the suspicious issue that when on my personal network (and nowhere else), I often have to perform a request twice. It probably is just my network being shitty, but perhaps it could indicate a (attempt at a) man in the middle attack? No idea, I don't know a lot of infosec.
@rene Firefox, 61.0b2. My browser claims to be on the 'aurora' channel, but I think it is actually Nightly.
@rene Hmm, I do often use my university VPN. I'm not sure if that rules out attempts at interference. What could I actually do to test this? Inspecting packets?
@rene I do. only acct is marked 'secure'. prov has expiry in over 50 years. acct expires in 6 to 8 months.
After thinking a bit, it isn't impossible that my logout event was unrelated to my password. And that I somehow messed up again in resetting my password, which would be a case of systemic PEBKAC. But the staff should (probably?) be able to tell me how many times my password has been reset today, which would answer the question whether the events are related.
Oh and why do they have such a tiny textbox when I can enter 5000 chars? I didn't even enter that many words and it was already hard to find my specific text by scrolling.
That is, asking for email requires them to mention where they're going to use the email for and likely a checkbox in which the user will have to accept. (in case they don't already have it, I think...)
You might argue that the reason for providing an email address on a contact form is obvious, but I think they at least have to mention that they don't use it except to reply to your message.
@rene I don't think EU citizens lose their rights when they are either 1) abroad or 2) use a VPN. I wouldn't push your luck either, those fines are pretty high...
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog because negative bot is slow with learning, but keep it up, eventually tensorflow will work and you shall get your replies, be patient
