> I am a fan of tezos and have made some clearly worded questions. I have used stackoverflow regularly for several years and would be happy to facilitate monitoring.
Candidate score 0/40.
All around, a model candidate for modern-day beta-site elections.
Bonus points for being named Rob. No relation to another mod Rob and that other mod Rob, as far as I can tell.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Actually - something that could be made a point for on meta. And something I kinda feel is a potential weakness on younger meta sites
Well, appointing moderators by default isn't a hard, fast rule; technically they are still appointed in the same manner as they used to be before pro-tem elections, so SE could refuse to appoint them. I'll have to wait and see how this goes before I have enough info for a meta post.
barring the ability for folks to get a reasonable candidate score in an election (pets had one of those situations where you had 4-5 great candidates with low candidate scores) - what makes someone pro-tem mod material?
@JourneymanGeek The bar should be low, but high enough that they should have either earned a couple thousand reputation or earned a couple of the candidate badges.
A single post with a score of 2 on the per-site meta - Quorum. That's also a candidate badge.
Basically, they should show at least some effort actually engaging in moderation. (which will in turn easily earn them some lower-level candidate badges)
I can count around four candidate badges that are super easy to earn with a little bit of moderation.
So I'd say it's no issue to require pro-tem mods being appointed by default to have at least a candidate score of 2.
@404 eh. I'm sure there's perfectly folks who's be perfectly good mods via ouija board.
In theory - least in the current scheme of things, a new site should already have a reasonable critical mass of users to survive, those blockchain sites aside.
and a natural concequence of that is there ought to be folks who actually have at least a little leadership potential.
@ShadowTheDragonWizard The real issue is, my previous title of the post was so similar to Catija's that I ended up confusing the posts and copying the link to the wrong one in the duplicate dialog. I was kinda tired looking for the post since I remembered only much later that the duplicate dialog search feature (incorrectly) excludes unanswered questions.
In fact, they were the exact same URL slug, so the selection dialog in Chrome for Android did essentially nothing to help me differentiate easily (without having memorized the post IDs).
If I am suspended by Shog for daring to assuming he should be held to the same standards as everyone else, are there any mods here that I could appeal to?
So here I am, seeing a rude/abusive and threatening comment from a moderator, and I'm unsure as to whether or not I am allowed to flag it without being punished.
Can I say "if he suspends me, then Stack Exchange is going to have a big problem?". Or are threats and rude replies only permitted by mods which are supposedly held to high standards?
I was recently suspended in chat here on Meta.SE. I would like to know how I could have handled this situation better and avoided a suspension.
Link to transcript:
https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/89/conversation/suspended-due-to-a-flag
I was in the Tavern on the Meta chatroom here on...
@forest Speaking of this comment, it's unnecessary and only serves to dramatize the situation. If it is to come up on meta, please let me be the one to make the post.
@forest CM is not a moderator. They handle much more crap, and IMO we can give them slack even if it means they're not always friendly and sending love to everyone. All good.
Well I was going to use RA for the veiled threat, but I wanted to ensure that my reasoning was written down to reduce the chance of getting suspended over raising it.
It'd be nice if all flag reasons allowed you to add a custom message.
(All flag reasons handled by moderators, that is, so not things like VLQ)
You were the one that started with 'reduce the chance of getting suspended over raising it'. I told you that no longer needed would've sufficed for that comment, and that if you kept flagging stuff with messages like you did, someone else might not just delete the comments but tell you to stop it too...
What part of the convo is unclear?
@M.A.R. Same here. I just want to get back to crochet.
An actually new proposal would be feedback mandatory on upvotes. At least, I'm not aware of a previous one. But somehow, people do not seem to have much problems with upvotes to their posts...
Seriously, all the arguments in favor of "make comments on downvotes mandatory" apply to upvotes as well. I mean, an unexplained upvote - how do you know which part of your post was helpful?
Oh, this would be an awesome April 1st joke: switch up/down votes and score calculation for a day. So Jon Skeet will be at the bottom, probably q-banned ....
@AnneDaunted being realistic I consider every upvote on my posts to be an accident ...
I was once on a Zorro team part of the Zorro project. When the real name was revealed shortly before go-live no one with the customer was impressed. When I returned 6 years later to that customer the employees asked me if I was going to work on (the) Zorro (team) again. The real name never caught on ....
It's now doubly amusing because Microsoft Teams is a Slack competitor. So if we made an integration for Microsoft Teams, the announcement could be "The Teams Team is working on a Teams integration for Teams."
@rene A couple of the films I worked on used code names and now have different Titles... and there's a chunk of them I can't remember the actual name of now.
Complete list of Softwarerecs users with at least 1 CV review in the last 30 days: RockPaperLizard last active Aug 22 (1 review) Journeyman Geek last active Aug 15 (48 reviews) Mawg last active July 31 (2 reviews)
Granted, there is little need for CV queue when the homepage works just as well.
Hey everyone. So a recent... thing on MathOverflow makes me wonder something.
I think sexually suggestive jokes on SE are harmful. (They're against the Code of Conduct, even.) But... how and why?
I brought up the topic of sexually suggestive jokes on the MO meta, and I was surprised by the number of responses essentially saying "I think they're not harmful; we should keep them."
Just to provide some context: MathOverflow used to be a separate site from Stack Exchange (search up "Stack Exchange 1.0") and used to actively resist attempts to merge with the modern Stack Exchange "2.0" network. In 2013, it was merged into the network, but granted considerable autonomy into the way it's run and moderated.
So I've often seen community members there try and resist what they see as attempts by Stack Exchange to rule over their site
@rene What I'm trying to say is, there is a CoC, but some community members may be loath to uphold it since it was technically enacted by SE without the MO members explicitly agreeing to it
@TannerSwett It is awful if your arguments seem to be neglected. I'm probably not the right person to give you the best advice but I still feel that you should be able to make at least the moderators there aware of your concern, despite the context Sonic painted. If you feel that even the moderators can't be trusted on this, I can only see that CM's chime in, either in private chat or by using the Contact us form.
For now let me ping @Tinkeringbell as I trust her in guiding you better (she is a moderator here).
@rene Well, my arguments certainly weren't neglected. My post reached dozens of people on MO and led to the deletion of the entire question under consideration, as well as two additional meta posts discussing the situation.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog FWIW: I marked it as a duplicate because the side-effect is that it cleared your vote. Next time you misclick, retract the vote.
Anyway, I'm certainly aware that suggestive jokes aren't appropriate for a professional context... but I'd like to come to a better understanding of why.
@Shog9 I never ended up noticing the mistake until you had already commented; I had put my phone in my pocket and proceeded to resume whatever it is that I was doing outside.
By the way, it may seem to an outsider that you closed my question just to get around the normal consensus against clearing close votes by immediately closing and reopening the question with the close vote.
The precedent is meaningless; the reason behind the precedent is useful. Jokes on SO were also a huge, mostly-unfunny distraction. One that it took us far too long to get rid of.
My only fear is that the deletion of the joke will trigger fears within the MO community that SE is over-encroaching into the autonomy of the site. (e.g. Wikipedia Fram, 2019 Hong Kong protests, etc.)
Buuuut what I'm trying to ask is what the harm is.
What is objectifying, anyway?
I guess I should read about that myself.
Anyway...
I've noticed that out of the dozens of people who commented on my MO post, I didn't notice a single woman. Maybe there was at least one woman who commented, but out of the ones whose names seemed to indicate their gender, they all seemed to be men.
If MO is set up in a way that drives away women, that's a major problem.
I was recently suspended in chat here on Meta.SE. I would like to know how I could have handled this situation better and avoided a suspension.
Link to transcript:
https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/89/conversation/suspended-due-to-a-flag
I was in the Tavern on the Meta chatroom here on...
