meta.stackexchange.com/questions/371559/… I marked this as off topic but the more I look at it, the more it seems like spam seed. Is it worth spam flagging? The user's bio claims they are a graphics design company with 10 years experience and specialising in photo editing. Not sure such a company needs to ask this question.
@Luuklag Not really. The phones that cost less than a thousand, or the USB attachment that costs a few hundred dollars, have a resolution of 80x60 - that's like the size of your smallest avatar (on the left). When you look at something less than 20 feet away it's represented by one pixel, some of the time.
My first bet though would be that there's something a little different in the data between the two files, so you might need to run your intersect differently?
@Luuklag A flash has a distance limit of maybe 30 feet, though you could use a bigger flash or throw flares. For a few million you can get a great image from 60,000 feet away, you are so far away they can't see you:
This is not a duplicate to Why isn't providing feedback mandatory on downvotes, and why are ideas suggesting such negatively received? because the accepted answer does not touch on my specific suggestion.
There are a lot of reasons to down-vote a post, but often times the person who made the post...
@Luuklag Reminder: the official approved beNice(tm) policy about downvotes is that you are allowed to vote as you wish, even just for pleasure to inflict pain but you shouldn't .
There is no rule on votes outside abuse and /or gaming the system.
you are tecnically allowed to vote out of spite, to express annoyance with the user MLP themed avatar, to hunt for hats during summer, to see if downvoting still works, to meet the quota required to join the secret Meta's dome and so on.
Furthermore, shalt thou express any annoyance/rant/constructive suggestion that others shouldn't be entitled to do as such, thou shalt be punished by listening once again to the "How Tim lost their keys" parable.
@JourneymanGeek Can I be honest? I find it quite funny that there was an official post to retire the "Help Vampire" designation (and its uncouth equivalent) but that story... is fine. Isn't that basically a "don't be a crybaby, grow up and stop ranting about fake internet points" thing?
Because IMHO that is a little rigged towards the laughing at you instead of the laughing with you...
@SPArcheon Idk, I've always read it as "This site is very big, and random downvotes happen all the time. We don't like them, but its something we have to accept"
which, idk, maybe is saying the same as "don't be a crybaby, grow up", but in nicer terms, but they don't feel the same to me
@cairdcoinheringaahing Oh, that is the reason I decided to ignore the thing, wish to assume it is in good faith. Yet, I can't say it doesn't partially fail the giant robot test.
@cairdcoinheringaahing I was going to suggest that we stop using the number "4" that sounds like "death" in Japanese, so 8 will become the seventh number but your idea works too.
Though my grandfather's grave was found open... twice.
(well, not fully open, just a crack, but still...)
My sister thinks it's a sign that his spirit has unfinished business...
Officially those who investigated claim it's from people driving around inside the graveyard with such vehicle, but 1) it happened twice, and 2) No other grave was opened in this manner. So... kind of scary.
@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 Google Earth has a better resolution image of that area. It's very crowded due to the workcrews digging to install a pipeline, might not be teenagers:
As a former moderator people should realize how these decisions are made. I've had decisions go against me, such as the recent one, discussed them where necessary, and continued.
We only have space for one thing and we opted to go with the oldest record so that it's clear that moderators that were recently reinstated aren't necessarily "new" to being a moderator - up until recently, we only showed the most recent event, not the older one. We're in a tough spot because of that - it's not a bug, it's intentional - but we're a bit stuck on having it be a perfect representation. — Catija ♦10 mins ago
That changed behavior creates a weird situation here on Meta.SE: ChrisF was originally appointed as a mod here on March 23, 2013, back when they were elected as a Stack Overflow moderator and mods of Trilogy sites would also get mod rights here. One year later, the MSO-MSE split happened, and mod rights here for Trilogy mods were revoked. They were subsequently appointed as a mod here again in November 2018.
The text on the moderators tab of the users page now misleadingly implies that they've continued to serve since 2013 - which is incorrect.
I specifically requested that my appointment date be placed back to 2017 instead of 2021, since that was the original date of appointment. You can't expect too much detail in one line.
Also, another thing I just thought of: if a staff member with global mod rights later ceased employment and then got elected as a community mod, they will show as "appointed" the day they were hired, not "elected" when they were so.
The ideal way to fix the problem would be to allow a system where it queries all eligible things to fill in that field and staff can choose whichever is most applicable.
@Spevacus It's possibly due to the policy that votes are removed if "the user is or was involved in voting fraud" - and they considered the fact that the suspension was due to that.
The direction of the votes was "asking for" not "giving away" - short suspension offers no long term reputation penalty, deletion repairs the "asking for" - there must be more involved that we don't know about in order to fully redact the account, removing votes made in addition to ones recieved.
Maybe they came back, and were unhappy; which affected their behaviour and voting patterns - triggering a "light on the board" which says that something's not right; and upon investigation this is the solution that was determined to be best. --- That they took away (and probably have back some) votes from everyone else shows that there's more than meets the eye, and that won't be made public.
