On our way to a fully responsive Stack Overflow, we just shipped some changes to the user profile. We won’t be enabling responsiveness just yet, but the top portion will be ready to be squishy.
I hope these changes are low impact on our way to a fully responsive profile. Think of this as more a r...
Just brilliant. I'm migrating my Stack Exchange toolbox (assorted scripts, like the broken image repairer) to a new laptop, and running all unit tests for the first time in a while. One of them is basically 'handle edit failures because of a locked post correctly'. Unfortunately, I had chosen this post as target ...
@Glorfindel I call mod abuse! So we can use random posts on MSE to unit test our scripts? That is good to know. I was afraid we had to accept that kind of annoyance on Stack Apps ...
On Meta.SE? Mostly announcements from the company, posts posted by employees. Moderators don't touch that tag on Meta.SE, usually. On other meta's, it can be anything that is deemed important enough for the entire community, it can be topic challenges, faq's, proposals/discussions that you want to reach as many users as possible... a lot of things, basically.
Yes, congratulations. I've been slow to respond because I was watching Rythmic Gymnastics, obviously.
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Someone was saying that the person whose area of responsibility it is, is the one who gets to make the post, if the post is popular they reap the benefits, unpopular and they should prepare for the result. We (well, most of us; particularly those that read the comments there) understand that the poster doesn't get to choose their work, or limits / methodology of what is to be implemented; there's simply an assignment and associated announcement - then comes the result.
Who's funny idea was it to put i besides o anyway.
Stack Overflow is not a group. Or a forum. Or a discussion site. Or a help desk. Or a bag of popcorn or what ever else you may think it is. It is a question and answer site. — JK.Jul 27 at 1:00
Debatable. Why am I searching the downvoted meta.SO posts but for popcorn purposes smart guy
@user how much they're downvoted, how often they are commented, what the attitude of the commenters was, whether there are any answers, the tone of the answers, bonus points if there are downvoted posts from high-rep users.
The level of the answerers, even. For example, are there a few high school students lurking and taking on the lowest hanging fruit, or do people maintain a professional attitude and respond to it like it's a question they've been training for years for.
@M.A.R. I solved the problem by simply not answering on SO :P
I think there should be some sort of quiz for new users, honestly
A retakable one where you see which of your answers were wrong and what the right answers were, so you're less likely to have low-quality posts when you join. It'd probably also stop some spammers
@user Well the average attention span of new users is worse than a fruit fly
So the ones that might stick around are sacrificed for all the other mindless zombies which might be socks or spammers for all we know. Can't do much but let unnatural selection run its course there.
@user well yeah, if you start caring about answer quality early on, crossing that bar to make a satisfying answer becomes almost impossible.
@M.A.R. I guess they'd be driven away by a quiz when they sign up, but maybe it could pop up right before they post an answer/question (and preferably, it'd only be 3-5 questions to show what that site values/how it operates)
It's even worse than signing up, probably. Because signing up is obviously so people can dump post their question, so by then the patience is at an end
I suppose so, but they'd be even more annoyed when their question gets downvoted and closed
And that's the kind of thing that makes people go on Reddit to make memes about how the only thing SO is good for is getting yelled at, without realizing that it's not a forum like they want it to be
@user well there was this statistic that said like more than half don't even return to be annoyed
But yeah, you have a point. Still, a quiz needs a lot of justification and a lot of brain should go into making a point towards a new user in just a couple of questions.
You open a page, you expect to see the crux of it right at the beginning, but instead you have to scroll down to see some distracting animations and some weird thing about ponies.
@user I'm thinking it's not probably customized anywhere
Say, that asking wizard was an age-old idea that came from the community I think, which is why it was received so well. That and the fact that it came at a time when people were looking for any reason to stop hating the company anymore or something like that
