I see a "review" link on the top of the page, which takes me to a few "review queues".
What is a "review queue"?
What are the various queues for?
What can I do in each queue?
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I guess the downside of requiring more flags is that old questions are likely to never be closed through flagging - since the liklihood of X people flagging an old question is minimal.
Quick fix! Looks like HTML is not being escaped at all in the drop-down for achievements and reputation. Might want to check other places too, just to be sure...
As you can see, the <input type="tel"/> got turned into an actual input.
One of the DBAs at my work reported a problem to me, where a stored proc was getting cancelled after 15 seconds, but only when called from my web page.
He then followed that up by, apparently, Googling the error message plus "web page." Because he sent me an email with copy/pasted C# code saying "I think this will fix your problem."
Which I would find kind of insulting, if I didn't know from talking to the guy that he's super nice, and just really, really excited about solving problems.
I know this question is going to make me unpopular here – but I feel I have no other options.
I have been concerned by the size of the close votes review queue for quite a while.
When I started reviewing (less than a year ago) this queue already had ~30K questions pending review. Time passes an...
@TimStone This was the first time. I can definitely see how it would...wear on you after a while.
I really was like "How DARE you blah blah blah" when I first got the email.
I was on the phone with my wife when I got the email. She said, "Josh...maybe you should let me proofread your response to that email before you send it. Just to be safe =)"
Usually what happens is that someone reports a bug to me, which I identify the cause of within a few minutes, and then they try to do their own independent investigation that involves asking me a lot of questions that distract me while I'm just trying to fix the problem.
@Oded You did it wrong... Now my badge notification is being double escaped: You&#39;ve earned the &quot;Nice Answer&quot; badge for Select from list of reasons when performing downvotes. See your profile.
I feel great after expanding a cwiki answer by a lot, he just had one example and he didn't realize or comprehend the power of what he was doing, after some hours of studying it I was able to come with a lot more
and I noticed I commented there 1 year ago, I didn't really understand what was going on, but the important thing is that I do now
I just went down the page, and opened all the links in new tabs. Did all the flagging, and then came back to Charcoal and did the all valid / invalid selections.
(there were very few invalids, so it was easy to remember what was what)
@jadarnel27 No - sometimes you'll click on one that directs you to just a question page (doesn't give you a highlighted comment), in which case you just dismiss as valid.
@jadarnel27 Not really.... but the problem is the API rate limit. I have around 150,000 comments, and going through them all, making a network request for each one, would be expensive.
Depends on what you're flagging. If you flag a comment with "accept rate" in it or one which contains a common cuss word (for various definitions of 'common'), it'll disappear with a single flag.
I hate when sites pop things up like "Would you like to add the following item to your order?" and then provide you with a "No, thanks." button assuming you actually want to be nice and say thanks. I want a "No, stop bothering me with stupid irrelevant offers, please." button...
@Bart I believe your vote for me had something to do with information I had gathered while I 'accidentally' gained control of your webcam. Or something like that! ;)
When logged in we sometimes see this in the right side of a page on Stack Exchange site: (Meta also)
Clicking the "example newsletter" opens it in a pop over window aka dialog: (taken with Chrome)
That weird character is actually just NULL (ASCII/HEX value 0) so the browser is repla...
@Undo I already keep a screen cleaning cloth over my PS Eye, and my PC webcam remains disassembled when not in use (which is pretty much always - I don't know why I even bought it).
@Undo This particular webcam had an extendable stand. You can take the camera part off the top to add or remove the extension. So I just take the camera off the top and leave it on the desk next to it.
Must be terrible when planning: I need to be there by 9:00, but it takes me half an hour to reassemble the radiator. Not to mention my door, which I nail shut when I'm not using it.
@Undo Funny you mentioned that... Our stairs are actually disassembled right now. The cleaning company tore them apart because they had to remove all the bloody carpet.
@AndrewBarber Quick question, why does our dear usernametroll have 1 rep on SO? A suspension that's not displayed? Because the rep history doesn't seem to add up there and I don't see a suspension notice.
@Bart heheh.. casperOne told me when I first started that I wasn't official until I had a Meta post complaining about something I did. Didn't take long, as I recall. ;)
I have a David vs Goliath case here involving a teen moderator on Stack Overflow. His display name is BoltClock.
I'm a low reputation SO user (less than 150 points) who was recently suspended for Voting Irregularities by BoltClock. Eventually the mistake was corrected by another non-teen moderat...
Oh, we already had a programming question! That's a sign of a site growing up, right?
(well, it was about the compression algorithm used in exchange or something like that, but it's far enough off-toppic as to be indistuinguishable from programming.)
TLDR version: Too many people can vote to close. People are overzealous when it comes to voting to close. Questions that get closed will very likely remain so because they attract little attention. This needs to be fixed.
As of last month, there are 6,279 users who can cast close votes, and t...
@Undo That sounds disturbingly like effort. Though it would be an awesome project. Using google's word-trends or whatever to see the rise of unicorns, or brown.