and honestly - if mods didn't know what we could do, we got ways to check.
@YvetteColomb eh - its something we have been trying to get across to sonic for ages. Knock yourself out.
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@SonictheAnonymousWizHog I'm asking you to think. It's honourable to want to curate things and keep things good. But honestly, it is annoying. Can you understand that?
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@JourneymanGeek ah cool, then we're on the same page :)
The point of that comment was, I didn't see any meta post or feature request about it, so I wasn't aware of any such change.
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I'm sitting here working on a canonical post on MSO on deleting comments, scouring the network and in that find an update needed in the faq on MSE then get asked "are you sure" @JourneymanGeek I'm sure you can understand - it's annoying
And oftentimes, whenever I see such edits, it's because the editor didn't adequately test something and there is in fact something else at play.
To be honest, this is the first time I've been told that that type of comment is annoying. I've left it a few times before, and in most cases, the editor responded to me with either a meta link or that they didn't test correctly.
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@SonictheAnonymousWizHog trust me, it's annoying and other people do get annoyed. It's the end of ny chat here. I have to go - non-virutal life is calling :)
@TravisJ Those are frankly pretty strong accusations. I'm of course not blaming you for stating them out, but at least discuss it somewhere SOCVR can defend themselves?
@Marshmallow there is not much to defend against. I'm totally aware we're just tolerated and our FAQ reflects where the current tolerance level is. With enough pressure on Meta or anywhere else I'm sure we will adapt until the point where we're of no use anymore. My hope is that at that time natural moderation has become common practice. We might claim we paved the way to that goal but I'm sure others will make that same claim.
I'm not totally sold on the whole "Stack Overflow is a mean site" thing. But yesterday a new user posted a frustrated question to Meta asking why every question is either closed or ignored, and they were promptly piled-on, tone-policed, and had that question closed and deleted.
I'll totally admi...
It really depends on the channel. There are channels where you ask a question and can literally expect days before someone comes on and sees your question, or you may join a channel and ask a question in the middle of four simultaneous lines of conversation.
For certain questions (especially ones that require more expertise than Stack Exchange can offer), IRC is where you'll find experts willing to answer, sometimes in detail, sometimes not.
No Stack Exchange site can hold up a candle to #osdev. :P
It is quite frustrating to see the message "You can only post once every 90 minutes.". Atleast there should be a message to let us know when we can post our next question.
In the August 2019 photo competition: 'Seen through a train window.', there is the following text in the rules:
All votes count as upvotes, (to decide the winner.)
I asked Willeke, the moderator responsible for writing the photo contest post, for clarification, and she stated that she meant...
So here's part of the problem - someone's using the site vaguely off label. The rules are for the contest
and for someone who claims to be very literal - you seem to have trouble taking this as being literal
If you have a contest, and people don't read the rules, tbh its on them
If the intent here is to avoid people downvoting things - lets consider...
Its run on meta, and downvotes are poor sportsmanship
meta votes don't really count for much - so it pretty much removes any incentive to downvote
Which is clearly the intent here
I feel the options here are broadly between respecting the contest organiser's intent, or not - in which case well, she might be less inclined to run said contest.
It is quite frustrating to see the message "You can only post once every 90 minutes.". Atleast there should be a message to let us know when we can post our next question.
In the August 2019 photo competition: 'Seen through a train window.', there is the following text in the rules:
All votes count as upvotes, (to decide the winner.)
I asked Willeke, the moderator responsible for writing the photo contest post, for clarification, and she stated that she meant...
