I've always thought that anonymous edits were a bad idea. Sure, they have to be accepted to become permanent, but still... Why trust someone to edit when we don't trust them to comment, or even chat?
hmm... also, aren't suggested edits blocking each other? you can't suggest a new one if there's already one in place? can registered users overwrite pending suggested edits?
@user1306322 anyone can see the history of chat message though... but room owners don't have an ability to see deleted comments because they're not mods :/
I ask about inserting images, because I clearly remember some trolling images, posted in Questions or answers (not inline iirc). - @JourneymanGeek can likely rememeber too
@Shadow That sounds right, the privileges page isn't specific, though. meta.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/new-user And if the question looks good, someone may edit an image URL into an inline image, so it doesn't exactly depend on the OP's rep.
fun fact, posting any kind of address on many subreddits will get you banned due to anti-harassment rules, even if it's obiously a fake one like Firstname Lastname 000 Street Name, City 00000
they don't even want to think about having to do anything about it
maybe ISPs bought the big IP chunks early on and registered it in one country and then subdivided and sub-sold to others
I remember there was a popular meme to do on livejournal where you could post an embedded image link like livejournal dot com \avatar\current.jpg and it would display you your own avatar.
@ReinstateMonica Don't worry, it confuses or alarms most people the first time they see one of those signs. ;) But whenever I post them I quickly explain that there's nothing to worry about. Well, not much to worry about. :) It should be obvious that any site you visit has to know your IP otherwise it couldn't serve stuff to you.
@ReinstateMonica yea but it's a bit difficult to reply to specific users in comments. Unlike chat where you can reply to messageIDs there's no such thing on main site comments
@user1306322 yeah, I didn't care much about the practicalities when I set the username, as much as I cared about the message. Once my month is up, I'll append my actual username
@PM2Ring in chat you could use this to figure out the IP of someone with some effort. This is different from SE having that information, as anyone in the room could collect it
@MadScientist I suppose it could be used as part of a social engineering ploy to trick someone into posting the info they see on the sign. But in my experience, people mostly just spontaneously mention the ISP name, and maybe the browser, never the IP.
@PM2Ring I mean you could add an image from your own server in a chat room and collect all that data and then try to correlate it to the users in the room at that time. If there aren't too many users, and you can do this several times with different users present, you can likely assign IPs to specific users
some users have facebook avatars and they don't load for me
normally user avatars slide into the avatar compound on the top right of the chat room page, but those users have their entire username slide in like a king and just stay there as text
@MadScientist once upon a time, SE made a "small error" and leaked the mail of a set of users that took part in a swag context. What fewer remember is that then someone who apparently though he was funny sent a fake spam mail to all those addresses.
actually this should be a default email client feature, not the user's assumed responsibility, like reminding about attachments if you types "attached" but didn't actually attach any files
@GeorgeStocker Unimportant, but, I think you've misread/misunderstood that - the point of fact is about whether the student blocked the other guy from leaving, not whether the student was blocked from leaving.
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Shouldn't my Meta Stack Overflow and Stack Overflow reputations be the same?
I have a rep of 139 (at the time of writing) on SO. Reading the blog, it says that
These sites will have a shared reputation system, so you “inherit” your reputation entirely from the p...
many Q/As such as the above are marked as the duplicate of the following question:
> Shouldn't my Meta Stack Overflow and Stack Overflow reputations be the same? > https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66939/shouldnt-my-meta-stack-overflow-and-stack-overflow-reputations-be-the-same
and... at the top of that 404'd page... there's a section that says you have X rep... which presumably isn't the same amount of rep you have anywhere else
Meta Stack Exchange seems to have different rules and user behavior than the "regular" Stack Exchange sites. How is it different?
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What do votes mean on Meta? Why was my well-written post downvoted?
When should posts on Meta be set to community wiki?
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I’d guess that they get deleted a lot because they tend to attract tons of downvoting from people who like things the way they are. MSE rep is supposed to represent expertise in how the network works. If we just pooled all the rep from around the network that’d be lost. It’d be impossible to allocate privileges based on MSE expertise. Heck, some people have more MSE rep than anything else.
this is seemingly weird topic due to the MSO>MSE split, as well as discussions that predated siteMeta having the same reputation as Site. Lots of Dupes are duping the wrong nuance of the question being asked.
Meta Stack Exchange seems to have different rules and user behavior than the "regular" Stack Exchange sites. How is it different?
Individual questions answered below:
What do votes mean on Meta? Why was my well-written post downvoted?
When should posts on Meta be set to community wiki?
Why ...
It's not great IMO that high-rep SO and SOmeta users can't see, for example, Deleted posts on MetaSE. Seems like network-wide Meta might be a good place to "give you the rep of your highest-rep site" or something.
(I don't want to complain about this in chat, I want to read about it in Q/A. But I can't find anything due to the mentioned closing/deleting.)
REALLY wish there was an "association bonus" for high rep users. To do things like see deleted posts, etc. Remove whatever privileges you really think should be single-site, I guess.
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+1000 rep on meta.stackexhange.com
Users who have 30k+ reputation on a particular site surely know enough about the stackoverflow system to fully participate on meta.stackexhange.com, why not carry over some of their rep, say, 1k over to meta.stackexchange.com?...
@rene I do think it's a bad thing when taken to extremes. I've seen at least one account that essentially only has rep on MSE. That, to me, suggests someone who isn't actually active on the network and yet has enough weight on meta regardless. Nothing wrong with MSE being your top site if you also use the "real" SE sites.
Yes there is an IP level block in place as well. The logic is exactly the same as it is for registered users, except that the key is the IP Address.
Possible Duplicate:
Shouldn't my Meta Stack Overflow and Stack Overflow reputations be the same?
I have a rep of 139 (at the time of writing) on SO. Reading the blog, it says that
These sites will have a shared reputation system, so you “inherit” your reputation entirely from the p...
Meta Stack Exchange seems to have different rules and user behavior than the "regular" Stack Exchange sites. How is it different?
Individual questions answered below:
What do votes mean on Meta? Why was my well-written post downvoted?
When should posts on Meta be set to community wiki?
Why ...
