@Feeds How an average onebox became Chat’s meme

LOL got exactly 151 rep here just enough to vote for mod. One downvote on my single answer there, and I can't vote. :P

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar What happens if you vote, and get downvoted afterwards? Is your vote counted or discarded?

I think voting is for time of vote

@nobody I'm 99% sure the vote stays, same as any other vote anywhere on SE, but can't know for sure. Don't think it ever happened. ;)

Only thing that is "discarded" is tag badges, which are based on current score of posts.

Want to find out? :P

@JourneymanGeek I think so too:

Also, how do you decide who to vote for given you aren't active on the site?

@Glorfindel you ruined our fun :D

you can be active and not have much rep

@nobody Mr. Glorfindel already tested it, duh.

@JourneymanGeek Sounds pretty tough...

@nobody based on what they write in the nomination message, and quickly going over their posts and public site activity, including on the meta site.

@nobody I don't have much rep on say pets, but I'm active

> 2,456

0_0

really?

Not much rep, yeah sure

Security I guess?

well only chat-active so I guess it dosen't count

@JourneymanGeek lol, I was about to give you a little pop quiz :D

@nobody umm, by rolling the dice? ;)

o/

\o

@nobody one of the top voters on...a large number of SE sites doesn't post on the vast majority of them, just reads and votes.

@RyanM and when that kind of behaviour is rightfully corrected, people start to complain about it on Meta ...

@RyanM Not sure who you're talking about, but that user must be an exception. I believe it's somewhat difficult to consistently read lots of posts on a site and have enough domain knowledge to vote on them, but not learn enough to eventually start usefully contributing to the site in at least some small way.

@nobody people sometimes so obsessed with the meta-game of SE they forget the actual use of it :D

@JourneymanGeek oh, so there is actual use?? Good to know. :D

@Glorfindel As far as I know, the user I'm referring to just spends a lot of time on SE and isn't doing anything wrong. You can pick them out by checking a few sites' top voter charts.

@RyanM he's fine, yes.

@JourneymanGeek Wait, what's the actual use?

I've been playing the meta-game since day 1

@nobody To kill time during boring work meetings :)

@Tinkeringbell Oh, I thought that and farming imaginary internet points was the meta-game...

@nobody Hmm. The imaginary internet points are definitely not it, given how Geek defined the meta-game as something other than 'contributing in some small way'... and you need to contribute to get those imaginary points! :P

@Tinkeringbell yup

In theory finding answers to questions 😅

Sure, as long as it's 'finding' and not 'getting' I guess we're good :D

@JNat cross site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/24934335/agapetoseduard?tab=accounts

flag-pls spam diy.stackexchange.com/a/250214

hm

Apparently if you have a modernish browser, the SE responsive layout works on...240x430 :D

huh?

Well that's the biggest fp I've seen in long while.

@SmokeDetector f

!!/rmblu meta.stackexchange.com/users/849160/eccentricorange

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar User is not blacklisted.

oh the "f" actually removes from bl? Nice.

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breathing smoke free air

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar Ah, the reason they were blacklisted is because their previous non-answer was manually reported. Manually reporting someone's post adds them to the blacklist. That report later got NAA feedback, which unlike FP feedback, doesn't remove them from the blacklist.

@Spevacus yeah, pity, but figured as much.

NAA should not be reported via Smokey, IMO.

and now they get downvoted for just having a crap Q, instead of a spammy one

@Luuklag not crap actually, there is potential, but yeah, it's not something that's going to happen.

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in order to better understand some accessibility issues I'd like to try some free screen readers. I found this usabilitygeek.com/… but I wonder if there are "canonical" (free) screen readers that are used for testing or discussion purposes?

Bah

You guys have too much time on your hands.

When I want to be heroic, I simply go and sympathy-upvote a few posts and I immediately feel better.

@uhoh both Android and iOS have canonical free screen readers that ship with the devices (TalkBack and VoiceOver, respectively)

(disclosure: I work for the company that develops and occasionally work with the team that develops TalkBack)