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12:04 AM
Hhh... 'clique' on SE...
I guess that term can't be avoided when someone opposing some particular users' moderation...
 
12:39 AM
@ThorstenS. it depends
There's two sides to moderation - the mechanics and the people side
I can probably handle flags on an aggregate of 30 minutes a day, split up into 5 minute chunks
People are messy. :P
I don't spend extra time than I did as a normal user. I just spend it differently
 
I just saw a helpful answer on a question in a review queue
It should've been a comment.
I thought, "This does not provide an answer to the question. Once you have sufficient reputation you will be able to comment on any post; instead, provide answers that don't require clarification from the asker. Thank you for your contribution." would be warmer
The current comment reply simply sounds cold and bureaucratic
 
feel free to ask a new question and suggest it - I'd get behind that
i agree that the current review comments aren't the most welcoming
 
good idea
Hmm, @Mithrandir, any ideas on other thank you phrases?
Odd. It seems like they're testing new delete comment descriptions!
I just got this one from the system:
> “This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique or request clarification from an author, leave a comment below their post.”
 
1:04 AM
That depends on reputation.
If you have over 50 reputation you get the second one.
 
oh I see
thanks
 
1:16 AM
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Q: Can we reword the "belongs as a comment" text to be warmer?

noɥʇʎԀʎzɐɹƆWhile I was going through the Low Quality Posts review queue, I spotted an answer to the question that was genuinely helpful as a comment. When you reccomend for deletion, you're given an option to leave a templated comment on the post to help the author learn. Here's the current text for when an...

 
 
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5:01 AM
I'm afraid of posting a question on meta because of what happened last time, can I ask it here?
 
@user1271772 you might still not like the answer.
(also, you just asked a question ;) )
 
The answer to what?
 
your question
 
The answer to what question? What are you talking about?
I asked a question, but not on the Meta Stack Exchange I asked it in the Tavern on Meta Chat
 
I mean, if you're asking questions here instead of meta cause you're afraid, you might still not like the responses you get.
And meta's not that scary, it just needs folks to, well get time to know it, and the community.
 
5:05 AM
@JourneymanGeek I don't think he means he's expecting a different answer, but nicer people.
@JourneymanGeek Although this is definitely correct
 
@ɥʇǝS ... Its kinda the same people? ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek, this is ridiculous, my question is about which stack exchange to post a certain question I have..... I don't care what the answer is, I just don't want to get a bunch of negative votes from a bunch of people that I believe to be irrational
 
Just no downvotes
OH
Go ahead
those are fine and usually alright for meta with little risk. But ya, go ahead and ask
 
I'm afraid to take the risk, I'm also scared to write an answer to the question asking for feedback about the new CoC
 
ooh. COC... erm
Might run it by folks here first
Its not you, people are just... kinda passionate about it
 
5:07 AM
most of the CoC upvotes are going to people who are saying the new CoC is asking for too much nice. People that are saying that it's not asking for enough nice, are getting dozens of -1 vote
 
ah. ya
sigh, a few of the circumstances around the COC are... messy
I actually think there's a happy middle line somewhere. We absolutely need to maintain quality, but I hate the narrative of us getting eternal septembered.
 
Ok so I can't figure out how many Bangladeshi people live in Hong Kong, I searched a lot of places. The best I could find was that in 2006, the amount was less than 7851, but it might be a LOT less than 7851 because it includes a LOT of different ethnic groups.
"The numbers of Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans were not individually broken out in the 2006 By-Census Thematic Report on Ethnic Minorities, from which the above statistics originate. The total population of "Other Asians", which may include members of those two groups, was 7,851."
 
I looked up "all sites stack exchange" and searched "geography" and "demographics"
 
that... dosen't quite fit well on SE
 
5:10 AM
There's a GIS stack exchange but it's people asking about the geography software
 
yup
There's nowhere on SE I can recommend.
 
I guess it doesn't fit well because it's something that changes every year? So I need to ask on ugly Quora ?
 
Well, and it just dosen't fit anywhere well
I'm sorry man.
 
Ok but I found it strange that in the whole area51 there is no "geography" stack exchange. There's a chemistry, and a literature, and a history, and all the other subjects we learned in school
I'm not "man"
 
Even there, questions like that arn't quite the sorta thing you can answer once and the answer stays right for a long period of time
Ok, person
 
5:13 AM
On quora there's no negative votes, but the website is uglier
And the default profile pic they gave me there is not as good
 
and is designed for a ... very different crowd
Quora seems very much "top of head, pop culturey questions"
This almost feels like an oldschool "ask a librarian for reference" question
 
Maybe I can get the answer there, but the question I wanted to ask on Meta was a bit bigger, like "why is there no geography stack exchange" or "would a geography stack exchange be well received" or something
 
Which apparently was a thing pre internet
@user1271772 that would get closed, and people would point you at A51
 
The thing is, we've had internet since the 90s and yet there still isn't a place I can ask experts for how to find the thing I'm looking for
In the question I would say "in the whole area51 there is no "geography" stack exchange. There's a chemistry, and a literature, and a history, and all the other subjects we learned in school"
 
maybe call/email these guys and ask, lol bahkg.com
@user1271772 would still get closed, most likely
 
5:16 AM
Is there a place where we can ask these sorts of questions?
 
If anyone has an interest in knowing, it would be the community association
 
About the existence of Area51 proposals, or like, where to ask a question? Without being downvoted ? I think the downvoting comes because they want to discourage newcomers from asking on Meta
I there a place where I could ask which SE would be most appropriate for asking a certain type of question? Which wouldn't be so risky in terms of downvotes? You've already answered it in this case, but if it happened again?
 
5:59 AM
Meta
and no, the downvoting is cause of a lack of research, or understanding of SE
or we want stuff gone. Most of my DVs here are actually stuff I need to delvote for being very very off topic
 
I think that "ideally the downvoting would be due to lack of research or understanding of SE" but in reality it's a lot more dangerous than that for a newcomer to ask a question.
 
So I ask, why is downvoting dangerous for newcomer?
 
@user1271772 in nearly every community I've been in, I've spent a little time getting to know the folks there.
 
@user1271772 btw, Meta SE is the place to ask for . But if you're asking why there's no site for [topic], then no one can answer and just tell you to propose that site on A51
 
Strange old men distributing swords is an odd basis for personal survival
the good news is? Sometimes people spend years on a site and don't get it. Its not about newbies
 
6:11 AM
Plot twist: the old man is Link from another dimension...
 
I was going to post the version with a kitten, but I couldn't resist the monty python reference
 
@SomewhatMemorableName: I do not know WHY they are like that, but there's people with a huge amount of reputation that make very lazy decisions which are wrong and it can hurt the newcomers asking questions badly
 
@user1271772 yanno? It annoys me when people keep blaming the "old guard" for stuff like that
Its a very dangerous narrative, almost as bad as eternal september dooming us all.
 
It annoys you that certain members of the old guard are blamed for making very lazy decisions which are wrong?
 
One thing though, and it's a common misconception from new users, that voting is not personal.
 
6:14 AM
It annoys me that folks assume that there's some kinda high rep cabal holding down newbies.
We're not "The Man"
 
@SomewhatMemorableName: I can agree with that, since the people that closed the question did not know me at all. But the fact that it's not personal doesn't help.
@JourneymanGeek Have other people also made similar accusations?
 
@user1271772 sure
 
@user1271772 We have often heard that kind of accusations on many meta
 
@JourneymanGeek But not a lot of people other than me?
 
@user1271772 well, its worth looking at things from other points of view
 
6:16 AM
But they're often wrong, or having some misunderstanding about something.
 
@SomewhatMemorableName If it happens often, and @JourneymanGeek if it's annoying, then wouldn't you be interested in how to stop it from happening in the future?
 
@user1271772 We try our best to engage them. But some folks always assume everyone else is wrong
 
Why do you use the word "assume" when it comes to something that's subjective?
 
Like, suspending the user? It's one way to stop it.
 
Inside their own brains, they are nothing but correct.
 
6:18 AM
@user1271772 we see it a lot?
@user1271772 and they have a $deity given right to have whatever they say accepted without question.
Meta's full of folks who're engaged and passionate about SE
 
@user1271772 but some people do admit being wrong or not having answers to everything. Each person has different, well, personality.
 
@SomewhatMemorableName : I do not think suspending "the user" is the best solution, because for example, I'm a newcomer that's making complaints which are annoying to you. You can suspend me now, but it's too late.
 
But that also means anything can be questioned. Even if you work for SE.
@user1271772 Its never too late.
I mean, ideally we find a state where no one's too unhappy
 
@JourneymanGeek I think you are not understanding at all. Suspending me will not stop other newcomers from making the same "annoying" complaints right?
 
@user1271772 See, we don't suspend people for complaining
We suspend people for being abusive. Newbies and experienced users alike.
We're fair like that.
 
6:21 AM
@user1271772 yeah, suspending is for the extreme case... else, take it to per-site meta and discuss the problem in a civil manner.
 
Maybe there was 1000 people that made annoying complaints before and you suspended them, but I was a newcomer that asked my first question on Meta and decided to complain about the outcome, you can then suspend me too, but do you see how you will not be improving the situation for yourselves?
 
See, if you're constantly focused on you....
meta's hard
 
@JourneymanGeek: I am not focused on me
 
Sure you are
 
Indeed.
 
6:23 AM
I also have many things that I don't really agree with some sites' policy, but if that's what the community wants, then I either follow it, or leave the site. Easy.
 
I was using "me" as an example to explain that "Like, suspending the user? It's one way to stop it." is not the solution, which you don't seem to get
 
But you're not (yet) being abusive to others, so you shouldn't be suspended. @user1271772
Ranting is fine here, letting off some steam.
 
@ShadowWizard within reason ;)
 
But if you'll keep doing it in posts by edits like "Why is this downvoted???? You're all evil!!1!" then you'll find yourself suspended.
 
(but I've so far had good experiences with my MSE rants ;) )
 
6:24 AM
@JourneymanGeek ranted about how it's annoying when people complain about the "old guard" and I am trying to explain that if it happens so much, maybe we have to think of a way to stop it from happening in the future.
 
@user1271772 I said I feel its annoying.
 
Ok, but are you interested in how to stop it from happening in the future?
 
But if a new user has a good complaint I agree with, and its unfairly unvoted, I'd happily upvote it, and use whatever ... what's the phrase...
 
@user1271772 we can't stop it.
We can't force people how to think and feel before it even happens.
 
Personal/community capital I have to help
and well, at this point, I think folks outside SO probably trust my opinion as much as any non employee ;)
So, if you have a good post, and its something I agree with, and its unfairly downvoted, I totally will be putting up a fuss about it.
 
6:27 AM
Terrier-rage
 
and that's what us high rep, high influence users can do to help newbies ;)
@Magisch maaaan
 
@ShadowWizard: "we can't stop it", I think it's possible to reduce it. There's nothing you can do about the newcomers but there's something you can do about what JourneymanGreek called the "old guard"
 
@JourneymanGeek That's terrier-ble
What would that be?
 
@user1271772 We can try to help newbies learn the ropes. but that goes both ways
Now, here's a problem with meta.
Meta is... hard.
I mean, no one really gets meta
 
Meta is a really unforgiving place
 
6:29 AM
Hell, I think I got the hang of meta, and I don't understand it.
 
compared to main, that is
 
Meta is as hard as giving a terrier cough syrup.
 
I want to state in a more direct that Meta is Murder™, but probably that's irrelevant
 
@JourneymanGeek Makes you terrier your hair out, eh?
 
There was an abuse of power that happened, in which the question was closed in error extremely quickly. That error was corrected in that the question was re-opened, but by that time there was already so many negative votes, and people here were saying that it's hopeless to get it back. They said they've never seen something come back from that many negative on Meta or Main.
 
6:31 AM
@Magisch ._.
@user1271772 errr
 
@user1271772 bring it on per-site meta.
 
Is this on one of the sites?
 
Which per-site meta?
 
@SomewhatMemorableName no per site meta for MSE
 
or MSE?
 
6:31 AM
MSE is its own meta.
 
No it is on the main Meta and that's because it's about something that applies to all SE's
 
It's weird like that.
 
ah
Other than dupehammers (and I think the gold badgers know I hate em for most part) one shot closes are uncommon on meta
 
Oh, I thought you're talking about a question on QC
 
@user1271772 why you bring it up again here and not in the room you created for this purpose?
 
6:32 AM
Apparently you're talking about your question?
 
If you come in here with the expectation to change year long engrained usage patterns of old regulars you're gonna crash and burn hard
I learned that on mso back when I joined
 
How did you recover from being crashed and burning hard? @Magisch
 
@ShadowWizard : I asked myself that too, because the chat room I made is more appropriate. But this actually started as a different question about which SE I could go to to find out something about Hong Kong
 
@ShadowWizard heh, I crashed and burned on skeptics.
 
Adapting to fit in
thinking twice before posting. Trying to gauge the reaction in advance
 
6:34 AM
You listen, you learn, and you try to do better ;)
 
The other thing is that a lot of people seemed not to want to participate in the other room. They were not answering my questions there, but they were talking about what type of sandwiches they liked here
 
See, people are free to do with their leisure time as they want to
 
ROFL
Sounds like shog
 
This isn't a job for literally anyone but Shog (of the people involved), and shog is in his weekend (eg free time) spending some time here for funsies
 
I understand that people are free to do what they want, I'm just asking Shadow's question about why I'm talking about it here instead of the room
 
tbh, kinda ironically...
I really don't want to bug/mug staffers here when I know they're hanging out to chill
 
Maybe instead of recovering @user1271772's question (which isn't possible), @Magisch can give tips to him how to "move on"?
 
I wasn't talking about Shog09, and I'm not going to say the name because they discourage using the name
 
@ShadowWizard moving on is easy.
You just let go, and move on.
 
Why you pad Shog's name? @user1271772
 
6:36 AM
Pad?
 
1. Accept that you're gonna eat the crow (invite lots of downvotes) from time to time
2. Stop worrying about it
3. Profit
 
@JourneymanGeek easy for you, but others find it really hard.
 
@ShadowWizard there's no harder way to move on ;)
You let go. You move on ;)
 
@Magisch This is not about the downvotes so much as the sequence of events that occurred.
 
e.g. see how Sonic can't move on when Shog isn't giving him replies...
 
6:37 AM
@ShadowWizard ;)
I don't want to name names ;)
 
Unfair isn't it? It's still just some votes
 
@user1271772 you're not going to summon Shog9 without the @
@Magisch and imaginary internet points
 
Votes happen, you haven't been post banned for it so it shouldn't matter too much. The couple of rep you lost on it aren't the end of the world
 
Often arbitrarily
 
I have to often have to remind myself that votes aren' supposed to be personal and that I can just choose to not care
 
6:39 AM
It is not about my rep, or the votes! I don't like how the high rep users are "getting away with it" when they abuse their power. You said that if people are abusive they will get suspended right?
 
> I don't like how the high rep users are "getting away with it" when they abuse their power.
 
@user1271772 question before that: are they abusive?
 
"There was an abuse of power that happened, in which the question was closed in error extremely quickly. That error was corrected in that the question was re-opened, but by that time there was already so many negative votes, and people here were saying that it's hopeless to get it back. They said they've never seen something come back from that many negative on Meta or Main."
 
"Abuse their power" != didn't go my way.
 
You keep saying it's an abuse of power
but it's really not. A difference in opinion, more like.
 
6:40 AM
Ok, so you do not think it's an abuse of power?
 
People are free to use their votes (even closevotes!) how they want
 
Alright
 
The "check and balance" that exists is that other users can use their votes as well
 
Hold on, some people can close things without 5 votes.
 
6:41 AM
Dupehammers and mods
 
Precisely.
 
Mods are trusted. Many mods actually WISH they didn't have a closehammer.
 
It was marked as a Dupe but it totally wasn'.
wasn't
 
I think dupehammers are useful, sparingly buuuuut....
 
This was sooooooo far from a Dupe, it's going to take a long time for people to understand
 
6:42 AM
I don't think I can judge without seeing the post in question
Cause yanno?
 
Because it's so long ago and the question already has so may downvotes and the user that did it has such a high rep, but in the end they admitted it was an error and re-opened it
 
Is this still about your question on MSE?
 
This feels like a conversational landmine
 
People with dupehammers are still normal users. They're also free to use their votes as they want. The community can invalidate their decision with 5 votes at any time
 
@user1271772 a dupehammer needs a tag gold badge. Which indicates the user is probably a subject matter expert
gold Tag badges are hard.
I have, one?
 
6:43 AM
@JourneymanGeek better this way, and @Shog09 won't ping Shog either.
 
in the most common tag here?
 
gold tag badges need a total of 200 answers in the tag with a total of at least 1000 score
 
@ShadowWizard or leave out the @ ;)
 
@user1271772 by "padding" I mean adding that "0" to Shog's name.
 
@JourneymanGeek: The first one was this: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312300/…
 
6:43 AM
Shog9 is not the same as Shog09.
 
I didn't know that there is not "0" in the name
 
@user1271772 I downvoted the original question
 
Is there two users with similar name?
 
it's like I'll call you user0001271772. @user1271772
 
That's like padding a matrix with 0's to make it the same length as a vector
 
6:44 AM
and it looks like a high rep user did a significant fixup
 
@user1271772 so you should pad all names to have 30 characters.
 
But I was talking about the user that explained to everyone what happened yesterday
"significant fixup" what are you referring to?
 
Shog9 isn't just a "user", he's SE employee who have full access to everything on all sites.
 
Look at the edit history ;)
 
@user1271772 "salvage the post"
 
6:45 AM
@JourneymanGeek: I didn't like how she took credit for that.
 
@JourneymanGeek you talk about my edit?
 
@user1271772 You don't get SE then
 
She took my own work that I wrote in the comments, and put it in the post
 
@user1271772 huh!?
 
@user1271772 and didn't benefit at all from it.
 
6:45 AM
@user1271772 you mean me? I'm not a "she". :)
 
She did it cause it was helpful, and well, helped you get out of the hole you'd dug yourself into :)
 
I'm not talking about you
 
The one in my avatar, well, doesn't even walk yet, so still got few years before she can use SE. :D
 
If you're unhappy with community editing, and downvotes and mods...
This might not be a great fit for you.
 
But @JourneymanGeek, I did not dig MYSELF into that hole, it was the moderator that closed with with the "hammer" without waiting for the votes!
@JourneymanGeek: I like the SE very much
Hold on, @ShadowWizard, you're confusing it
You have not made an edits on the question we're talking about
you made a, valuable, edit to my other post.
 
6:48 AM
@user1271772 You seem to be under the impression that being closed as a dupe caused your question to recieve downvotes. It did not.
That question was prime "get downvoted into the ground" material before the closure
 
@user1271772 Might want to look and consider the first revision.
 
@user1271772 so what question you talk about now? Thought the one which is at -19 currently.
 
I'm talking about one that is +3
 
... I really don't know what to say other than "move on and see the brighter thing after she salvaged the question"
 
@Magisch can you explain it to me?
 
Ahh you mean a different one now
 
"That question was prime "get downvoted into the ground" material before the closure" which question are you talking about?
The first or the second?
 
@user1271772 the first revision looks a lot like the one for recalling a mod.
 
No I have said 3 times in this conversation that I was talking about the first question, and I even provided links to it.
 
> What can we do if we feel it would be better for the pro tem moderators to be changed? -- 1st revision
 
6:50 AM
Which is a process we have, though usually when we need to drop a mod things have gone completely wrong
 
@JourneymanGeek: I understand that the second sentence of the first version of the first question was dangerous
 
@user1271772 it also made it a dupe
 
What can we do if we feel it would be better for the pro tem moderators to be changed?
 
Well, people tend to edit comments into the post body sometimes, it's being helpful. If the author disagree with this, they can just roll back, explain politely to the editor why they did it, and that is it. No need to make so much fuss. @user1271772
 
@JourneymanGeek: At that time, before the downvotes and closure using hammer, the question could have recovered
 
6:51 AM
This right here sounds like the "mod did a meanie" complaints of which there are 10 of a week.
 
@user1271772 see... back in the ol days...
we closed questions immediately
 
Those are usually downvoted and forgotten about quickly
 
The question is now +3 and reopened. It has recovered.
 
Now we put em on hold. Cause its softer and fuzzier. Like a kitten...
but but...
Closure isn't the end of the world
 
What happened to me was not "on hold" it was outright closed
 
6:52 AM
Its mechanically the same ;p
you fix issues, you get it reopened.
Heck, I even tell folks you can flag a question after deletion when I do it
Never happens of course :(
 
The thing is, the "what recourse do I have if I don't like a moderator's action" did NOT have the answer to the question I was asking, which is "how often do pro tem mods change" the reason is because I thought it was like a 1-year term like the editorial board for journal of mathematical physics
 
@user1271772 which was completely wrong.
 
@user1271772 The answer to the first is "They don't unless the site graduates or they retire on their own, usually"
 
@user1271772 because you actually asked 2 questions, and one of them is dupe.
 
And I gave an example of a mod who chose not to stand post graduation (Hi!)
 
6:53 AM
@Magisch That is the answer that I put, but it got negative votes
 
and others gave examples of mods who quit
I don't think any mod protems have ever been ousted.
 
"They don't unless the site graduates or they retire on their own, usually" that's literally what I put, which is the correct answer right? But higher rep users came and repeated the same thing and got way more upvotes
 
Well
their answers are better ;)
 
But anyway, I had already read "what recourse do I have if I don't like a moderator's action" before
 
Anyway
 
6:55 AM
@JourneymanGeek: Glorfindel's answer was not better
 
I think we should move on?
 
It started with an attack and a defamatory comment against me
 
This deceased equine is well and truely flagellated.
 
I want to move on
 
Excellent
 
6:56 AM
^ That
 
But the moderator that made the mistake in closing it walks away scott free
 
But is the wrong word then
 
no punishment, no need to give an apology, nothing.... they don't even realize the impact of what they did, and they will do it again
 
@user1271772 this isn't moving on.
 
6:57 AM
I know that it is not
 
Lets move on.
 
Do you want me to move on or not?
 
Do you want you to move on?
 
I do
 
Good! Done!
 
6:58 AM
It's not that simple @JourneymanGeek
 
Yes it is.
 
I wish it was
It is not in this case
 
Do you agree that it was a mistake to hammer it closed so quickly without waiting for votes?
 
I saw a standard snauzer today ;p
 
6:59 AM
Ok, wait. Your 1st question wasn't closed. So I assume you're talking about your 2nd question now?
 
@user1271772 closing what??? This question of yours was never closed.
You're making a real mess now.
 
Ironically, they're not common here
 

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