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Shog9

11:01 PM

yeeeaaah.

Shadow Wizard

VB... GW-BASIC...
10 PRINT "Hello world"
20 GOTO 10

Rebecca Chernoff

@animuson mwuahaha (:

Shog9

@ShadowWizard I liked GW-BASIC. It had a POKE instruction. This is, I think we can agree, the proper way to treat one's computer.

Shadow Wizard

@Shog9 POKE and PEEK. I still miss them!

Reading directly from memory was so easy back then...

jmac

11:49 PM

@Pops What is the Teacher's Lounge? I don't see it anywhere. (If not pops, feel free to answer too)

hichris123

@jmac It's the room for mods.

jmac

Well that isn't useful.

Cole Johnson

Huh? Wha?

math.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/153622

jmac

Presumably I can't get in. @Pops has made a dramatic miscalculation.

Cole Johnson

1 person approved it, but then community rejected it

I know what community rejecting an edit means, but no one edited?

Jeroen Vannevel

11:53 PM

The community dislikes you!

Cole Johnson

Does that just mean the OP edited it while the suggested edit was in queue?

@JeroenVannevel Is that supposed to be a pun?

Shog9

@jmac I think @Pops is subtly hinting that you should nominator yourself.

Jeroen Vannevel

:( yes

hichris123

@ColeJohnson Yeah.

Cole Johnson

@hichris123 That should be documented somewhere

jmac

11:54 PM

@Shog9 I think that the only site I participate in regularly enough doesn't hold elections.

Cole Johnson

Should I feature-request it?

@Shog9 when's the next SO election?

hichris123

Q: Why does the Community ♦ user approve and reject edits?

Why does the Community ♦ user sometimes approve or reject edits? How does a machine know if my edit is valid? What does it mean if my edit was rejected by Community ♦? See also: Who is the Community user? How do suggested edits work? Return to FAQ Index

Pops

@jmac Ah. Since you were asking, I just assumed you were a mod on some site I didn't know about.

Shog9

@ColeJohnson shortly after we schedule it

Cole Johnson

@Shog9 so, 6-8 weeks?

@hichris123 I meant that it should say something

Shog9

11:55 PM

@jmac Just change your name to @GnomeSlice and nominate on Aqade. Instant mod.

jmac

@Pops Community moderation is supposed to work without the mods around. Popular questions are a corner case that absolutely destroys the ability to effectively community moderate without them.

@Shog9 I believe that the governments of several countries would put me on a watch list if I did that.

Shog9

@jmac give me a specific example where you'd need more than mod support.

Cole Johnson

@hichris123 Say something like, "OP overwrote your suggestion" or something

Shog9

@jmac hey, no one said being a mod was easy

Cole Johnson

"being a mod was easy" -Shog9◆

Shog9

11:57 PM

That's it. Time for beer and pizza.

jmac

@Shog9 Not more than mod support, I mean there are times when, in the absence of a mod (because they are sleeping), the community cannot moderate effectively

Shog9

@jmac ok; example?

jmac

See last Friday on The Workplace where our traffic doubled in a single day.

Shog9

(and... you know we sleep too. Well, some of us. Sometimes.)

hichris123

Q: Add a reject reason when the Community user rejects an edit

When the Community user rejects an edit during the grace period there is no obvious reason visible (example). Community♦ reviewed this 1 hour ago: Reject This causes some confusion for the user who suggested the edit. See also: Why does the Community User reject / approve edits? What cau...

feature-request review community-user rejected-edits rejection-reasons

jmac

11:58 PM

We had double the visitors, a huge bump in posts (I will have to wait for the Data Explorer to confirm that), and I desperately wanted the ability to handle as I was the only one up and watching community moderation crumble

Cole Johnson

@hichris123 Well then

jmac

we had questions with 4 close votes on the hot list because of the hot question, and the community voting was pretty-much useless in the face of new users with their association bonus.

And we didn't have enough manpower to handle the flood of new visitors who we would like to kindly invite and point to the rules through comments rather than mercilessly downvoting.