Hello! I was experimenting with the Stack Exchange Data Explorer. I made a query that gets all the comments that are just saying thanks to someone. Assuming I go through each one and decide if I think it is still important (as opposed to automatically), is it OK if I go and flag a bunch of them?
I assume it is fine (assuming I check that each one is actually no longer needed), but I don't want to get flag banned because I found them via SEDE, as opposed to naturally. Can someone confirm that it would be fine (or that it wouldn't be)
I made a SEDE query to find all the comments that contained thank, the @ character, weren't saying yes/no to something, and were less than 20 characters. The query is here. It returned over 1400 results. That's quite a few supposedly-unneeded thanks comments. I'd like to go through each one (manu...
@cocomac I missed that these were Stack Overflow comments rather than MSE comments. Yeah, that's fine, with one caveat: you should make sure that the surrounding conversation makes sense afterward and that you're trying to flag all the NLN comments in the converation. For instance, it would be bad to flag a "Thanks @person" and leave a "You're quite welcome!" responding to it.
Also, for Stack Overflow moderation advice more generally, the folks over in SOCVR can be quite helpful.
@Fmbalbuena Please don't ping random people. The people selected by the blame command are chosen randomly, and don't necessarily need to be pinged about it.
(If you don't get the reference youtube.com/watch?v=oDRnVPlRzag ... Ming Na Wen's acting has gotten better. Raul Julia... Well his last role aged amazingly well, even if the movie did not)
I won't argue nor I will nitpick on the grammar there, not my first language... Yet I would notice that they also had that "and while" in the second part to double down the "you did it wrong" felling. Anyway, gone now, so no need to further think about it.
When you read a book or a novel and when you come across a unfamiliar words. How do you learn the meaning of the words? Do you underline it and search for meaning that moment or you write down and the end of the day you find the meaning for it. How does that work?
@Mithical I remember seeing this awhile ago and I wasn't exactly sure how to pronounce it. I googled around but the video I found that pronounced it still seems to do it in two syllables ("Yah-Kohv") - Is there a second step in the "Ya" part that I'm missing?
@Tinkeringbell I might be misremembering, but I thought this userscript worked to allow more types of comment undeletions. It would be nicer if this worked without a userscript, but I thought I had previously restored some of those comments.
Philippe's mentioned that he wanted to try and get some mod tool fixes on the menu for the engineering team in comments across the network, I'm curious what the big items are.
When you read a book or a novel and when you come across a unfamiliar words. How do you learn the meaning of the words? Do you underline it and search for meaning that moment or you write down and the end of the day you find the meaning for it. How does that work?
