@Flyk It's not that you're not appreciated, it's that the mod team there is really currently maxed out. Elections alone generate quite a bit of work. I left an answer.
@TimPost why not have obsolete flags and the like on an auto-nuke as well with sufficient flags? Is there anything particularly problematic about that?
@TimPost thanks for the answer, if I had actually been told to hold off in words that were not cryptic with multiple possible meanings I would have held off
I'm not trying to create enemies, however for this mod to jump at me making accusations and for the team in general to just reject everything truly stinks.
Okay @TimPost. I was wondering, given that we don't put too much value into comments, and plenty of them would be easy to judge with enough votes. But I'm sure that has been thought off at some point.
@Flyk Perhaps just let it go for a bit. People under pressure/workload don't always use the best ways to phrase certain things. Just let it cool down a bit on both sides.
@TimPost Well I offered them a solution to that when I nominated myself but I was rejected by the community
which is sad, since based on the numbers I'm being given for mods handling flags, I handle as many flags as two of the mods on Arqade on a monthly basis
The take away here is .. you should in no way feel bad, or be made to feel bad for just trying to do what we encourage users to do. On the flip side, it is a working relationship, they're stretched too thin, so let the new mods come in later today, give the team some time to gel, and then we're probably looking at a whole new situation.
not on Arqade anyway, I am actively looking for another site on the network to dedicate my time to, preferably one with the mods and community aren't biased against me
I have had ZERO communication from Arqade's mod team, the cryptic comment was from Grace
I do not view myself at fault in any way here
I'm sure many will disagree with me
especially once all of the mod candidates wake up in a few hours
while the answers on this positively voted question are currently negative, once the sheep wake up they'll blindly vote without reading any of what has gone on
and then some random like jmfsg will turn up and say "looks like community consensus disagrees with you", like normal
It's things like this that led up to my account deletion last time
@Manishearth I wasn't asked to wait, and I did clearly state "well I'm going to do some more" and nobody said ANYTHING to indicate it would be a problem
Thinking back, your account actually uncovered a bug in the tool that helps us put them back together. It hadn't been run on one that had so many posts before.
I'm not completely sure on what the general opinion of my presence is here on SE, but I like to think I'm helpful and my time spent here is actually useful overall
@Flyk I think you've found a generally good reception on sites where you've participated, and your contributions are obviously valued. Don't read too much into what has turned out to be a big ball of frustration for all.
I'm sorry for lumbering you with it, but I'm going AFK because I don't see that as acceptable behaviour from anybody, let alone a mod, and it has genuinely upset me
@Flyk It's perhaps not a satisfying resolution, but reading through the post, the best thing at the moment would be to simply walk away from that post and the situation.
The irony of this does not escape me, but I just removed a bunch of comments that are now obsolete :/ - Thanks for keeping it civil folks. — Tim Post25 secs ago
I'm trying to get into Objective-C for app development, and listening to all manner of iOS podcasts, which is interesting. You pick up stuff that will probably come in handy later
Then there's some American Studies related stuff but so far, everything I've listened to is excruciatingly boring. Unfortunately! Because the topics are interesting
Podcast recommendations in both fields are always welcome!
I generally hesitate to do that for questions like those though @rene, since we end up saying "Hey, ask that over there" and then generally they still get voted to a crisp on Meta.
I just replied to a post which was migrated from Stack Overflow:
There is no user info on the question. This might be because the user does not have an account linked on Meta.
So, if a question is migrated and the user does not have an account on that particular site, does the user get th...
I thought I was more than clear in this room with all of you listening as to how this should be handled. But you didn't listen, and now folks are saying we failed to communicate. So let me be clear:
I support better comment moderation. I welcome all efforts to define and develop better tooling for this purpose. But it must be a collaborative effort, done with respect for the community and those entrusted with the task of moderating it. Y'all shot yourself in the foot yesterday by not doing that, and that stinks - so you're gonna learn from it, or at least serve as a useful example for the next person to try.
You know, after the personal attacks from moderators today, I'm not convinced that deleting my account just to remove a meta post from it is outside of my list of options
especially since once again nothing seems to have been done about them
@Flyk Then don't. If you see a personal/attacking comment, flag it - a number of these have already been handled/removed, and I see no reason why any that remain can't be dealt with in this fashion as well.
I would like to nominate Chet A, a long-time Stack Overflow user and possibly our glorious leader's secret evil twin. He's far too modest to nominate himself, however I managed to obtain tacit approval:
Reasons Chet would be a good choice
He's a serious workaholic
His avatar pic looks like a...
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@Shog9 I'm a little hesitant to bring this up, but aren't you being a little rough with us? I respect you and everything you've done for SE. Quite frankly, you're awesome. But we're trying to help. We messed up. Saying that "you're gonna learn from it, or at least serve as a useful example for the next person to try" is kinda discouraging to us and the next person to try, which isn't what you want. Right?
@Undo I don't want to discourage you. But I absolutely do want you to listen. I've offered my assistance in the past, and I'm sure others would be happy to do so as well - but you gotta be willing to work with them. If you're doing something that creates a problem for others and they tell you this, stop!
@Shog9 It's not a case of playing ignorant, you lose a lot of language by chatting in text and if something needs to stop then say "stop" not "I think it would be better if you didn't do 100 at once"
My advice for now is: find someone on a mod team who is willing to help you, and get them to help sanity-check your tooling when you have something you think is workable. Solicit feedback, and react to it. When you have something you think is generally useful, announce it publicly - and respond to feedback there as well.
but what actually happened was I got a cryptic thing from Grace, I got a "I'm too busy to talk about this" from badp, and then I got 50+ declines and raised a meta post, which caused explosions
@Shog9 Just a quick thing, you're post isn't quite accurate. The tool is designed with the idea in mind of people consciously looking at context (heck, we have a context button). We're not quite relying on simple pattern matching.
Lest you think this is paranoia, there's a rather long history of folks doing simple keyword searches and flagging the results blindly. It is a GIGANTIC waste of time, and the meta post makes it sound like that's what is being proposed.
@Shog9 feel free to say "none of your business" but am I missing something with the OP of this question? Are there deleted comments/questions that ended up being not constructive?
I just replied to a post which was migrated from Stack Overflow:
There is no user info on the question. This might be because the user does not have an account linked on Meta.
So, if a question is migrated and the user does not have an account on that particular site, does the user get th...
I would like to nominate Chet A, a long-time Stack Overflow user and possibly our glorious leader's secret evil twin. He's far too modest to nominate himself, however I managed to obtain tacit approval:
Reasons Chet would be a good choice
He's a serious workaholic
His avatar pic looks like a...
