yeah, right .... moderators complaining about deleting upvoted answers, and shitload of highly upvoted answers got deleted here: stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/…
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You're welcome. You did of course add an explanation, right? Wouldn't want him to complain about random downvotes cast by users specifically targeting him.
The whole C++ book thread does not make any sense to me despite the upvotes because it is a tagwiki material and it is already there. It should be handled by a bulldozer. — Laszlo Papp6 secs ago
The whole C++ book thread does not make any sense to me despite the upvotes because it is tagwiki material and it is already there. It should be handled by a bulldozer. Also, I feel it unfair to collect others' highly upvoted answers into your own post in there without any external reference. — Laszlo Papp2 mins ago
@Bart: also, the community discussion is pretty pointless... the community discussed and agreed to burn the link-only upvoted answers in hell without the moderator team taking it into consideration.
I just do not see the point of community discussions anymore... they will do whatever they want anyway.
Then again, we're pretty good at calling an X number of upvotes "the community has spoken" when it's something we like, and dismiss it as "just a couple of users" when we don't.
I lost my faith in them after the community willing to burn crap answers in hell, and moderators not changing. I have not much to discuss with them afterwards. I will raise my opinion like above, but that is pretty much all.
he is missing external attribute to the people actually having written that post, period. No book omits the people helping to make it happen, etc. I do not like this, hence my -1 partially.
I have the sincere question for the next moderator election: will you do what we are telling you to do, i.e. will you represent us, or you just want power?
in my world view, a moderator is an employee of the community, i.e. the community is the boss and employer and with that, you can quit or do what your boss tells you.
I have a feeling that the old Meta SO accounts just haven't been cleared out of the cache. So now it's just not updating Meta SO even though the site no longer "exists" in that sense, and updating Meta SE instead.
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Now, that's all interesting for a couple of reasons... #1, it's great that a reasonable number of the folks involved on SO are contributing to MSO. Not just distantly aware of it, not just passively reading it, but actively posting or voting on other's posts
#2, that's a lot of people on meta, but it's still nowhere near a majority of users, even high-rep users. Think about that next time you're about to make some sort of statement about meta reflecting the SO community's decision on something: it's a small, biased sample - useful information, but useless as a binding vote.
I heard a story a while back about a group of folks who were upset about some government policy. They camped out in a local park. When informed of the "no camping" ordinance, they proclaimed "It's a public park - we're the public, therefore it's our park!" And proceeded to trample the bushes, piss on the grass, and generally leave a mess all over everything, all the while harassing the rest of the public who just wanted to walk through or by the park. They eventually had to be dragged out.
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I heard a different story about a different group of folks who were likewise upset about some government policy. They camped out in the state capitol building. "It's a public building", they said "and we're the public!" - so they grabbed some mops and buckets and started cleaning the building.
When folks asked them what they were doing, they explained why they were there and why they felt it was important that folks who want to see change - no matter how large or small - take an active role in making it happen. Amazingly, folks listened to them.
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