Joined parenting.se a week or two ago (when it had a question on the hot q's list)... that site I can already see is hard to police spam effectively on
Tags have nothing to do with mods. tags are moderated the same way as questions -- by the "community". That is how 99.99999% of all of the tags got created! "By great viewers like you!" — qwertynl12 secs ago
@hichris123 That requires me to actually scroll through a bunch of pages. I wish they'd add those neat sorting buttons so we can sort all the active flags to the top. I did go through some of your flag history once before.
Usually when I'm closing really crappy recommendation questions like that, I just delete them immediately after closing them. No real point in letting them linger around.
oooh, is there a mod interview going on? :P I'll throw in a question: What is the biggest thing (in your opinion) that you can do as a mod that you couldn't do as a 20k user?
feature-request: when someone suggests an edit that adds in meaningless code formatting, show a randomly chosen letter of their username in code formatting for a week.
I'm starting to get the feeling that any programmers needing to do tasks with software tools are hosed on Stack Overflow. I just went through the huge list of deleted posts and most have to do with finding or using the right tool. Glad I don't need to figure out any tools to use right now.
@Joe, yep, it is hard to be specific enough that people won't flag it as a poll-type question. The two problems are that 1) too many would close even if it was phrased right because they're used to closing questions asking for tools and 2) tools are a huge part of what programmers use, so it doesn't make sense to cut them out of the SO equation.
They need to find a way to allow these, maybe that Area51 site that was mentioned will work.
@LanceRoberts I don't think realistically you're going to get that on SO. Tools are important, but SO is not the only site for programmers. A forum is a good place to discuss tools, SO is not really.
After a certain user came back to my site, most of the NAA flags I cast on comment answers started getting disputed.. I guess that goes to reinforce what (I think it was Bill the Lizard) said about flagging comment answers as custom..
@hichris123 someone even made a prank on him at some point by creating a fake account in a dating site with his full name and real picture, Tim mentioned it somewhere :D
Someone is either playing a joke on you, or doing this to simply rattle you. They've been using your email across a few IP's to create unregistered accounts on random sites, where they basically paste the contents of your profile into a question.
I've deleted four fictitious accounts so far, an...
> someone recently signed me up for the Over 50 version of several dating services, probably just an annoying prank
@Joe you won't get invited just like that, you need to ask for it
> If you’re an iPhone user, sign up for the iPhone alpha today! We’ll start inviting alpha testers soon, and hope to launch the iPhone app in a few short months.
There was some lottery promotion at the grocery store I worked at a long time ago. I don't remember the exact reason I created the account, but it was related to that.
The ad should call developers to give hand in developing the project or tool, not just use it. I just searched your site and couldn't find any way to submit changes to the source code. — Shadow Wizard1 min ago
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lol, my dad's cell phone just rang with a weather update from school, and then my mom's phone rang... and then the home phone... and then my dad's phone rang again because his work phone automatically called his cell phone telling him that his work phone has a voicemail! guess what it is?
oh, and as if that's not enough they sent an email too
@ShadowWizard It is, but are you sure you don't want a login?
@Random: If this solved your problem, then please accept this answer. I notice you have a 0% Accept Rate, which is generally frowned-upon round here... — Oli CharlesworthApr 17 '11 at 16:53
So you click the helpful and invalid buttons, then once you've done your ammount for the day you click Generate, then copy & paste the JS into the console on the site (SO), then press enter,
@ManofSnow It means that the comment has been deemed obsolete (no longer needed). For please-accepts, just click the dropdown and change it to too chatty.
@ManofSnow Just go to something and click flag, you see how many flags you have left.
It's different for comments & posts.
How long do you think this will take to run?
Select Id, Body, Id AS [Post Link]
From Posts
Where PostTypeId = 1 AND LEN(BODY) < 100
AND Body NOT LIKE '%what book%' AND ClosedDate IS NULL
AND Body LIKE '%what library%'
