A question without an accepted answer is like an Agatha Christie novel with the last chapter missing. You have lots of suspects but you still don't know who committed the crime. And it was the less likely one that did it, difficult problems have unusual resolutions. It also gums-up the system, the question periodically gets re-activated to try to get it resolved. Wastes a lot of time having SO users look at again. — Hans Passant3 hours ago
@Braiam I'm kinda doing that atm. It'll mark each term with a score (starting at 0). For every false positive the score is decremented by 1, for every true positive the score is incremented. If a term hits -3 it'll be auto removed and blacklisted from the filter.
my point is that OP often writes "thanks it works" then walks away, instead of waiting for 5 more minutes to accept..
read: Within the journey of ~300 thanks comments I flagged in the past week, about ~60 were left on posts without an accepted answer, and so I leave them mercy..
@Braiam Ok. So, each term will have a score determined by it's true/false positive rate, the higher the rate the higher the term's "weight" will be. A post is then scanned for each term and for every existing term the term's score will be added to the post's score, finally if the post has a score of > X then the bot will post.
@Unihedron This is how a democratic system works. We can't expect anyone to wait five more minutes to accept the answer. It isn't fair in isolation, but this freedom helps maintain fairness across the system. If they give any incentive or encourage users to accept useful answers, people will accept incorrect answers and break the system.
@Unihedron That's why I'm making these bot commands, so if it screws up one of us can undo the damage. For example, if a score is too high for a certain term, you or I, can tell the bot to remove that term/lower its score.
Just to formally document the exact policies we have in place to remove old abandoned / dead questions, the Community user will delete questions in the following circumstances:
If the question is more than 30 days old, and ...
has −1 or lower score
has no answers
is not locked
...or...
it ...
@Braiam I'm so confused -- yes, it'll go through the LQP queue, but no, it won't get auto-deleted. It raises a mod flag for someone to delete it since it's accepted.
An official API for customizing the Django admin interface is in development (source). However, the info on the linked page may be useful for customizing the admin in older (pre 1.0) Django versions.
Update: Fixed link.
Further update: fixed link again. However, there are newer approaches to cu...
While this answer may theoretically answer the question, it is better to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. Please add the relevant content directly to your answer, as it'll prevent further link rot. — hichris1238 secs ago
> I see that comments have been made about including parts of the answer in this post to mitigate linkrot. I would agree in general, but this is unfortunately not a question which can be answered succinctly. Perhaps you would prefer it if I just deleted the answer? It was useful for a time, but no longer, it seems.
Why not spend a little time on improving the whole thing?
You're a developer / programmer too. We all know how hard it is to have the best system.
I would like to break down the main blockers for improving "the whole thing" (the review system) into... some smaller things:
Planning (Researc...
@Unihedron are you positive it took 15 minutes to do that query? The longest query I've ever run successfully without timing out has probably been right under 2 minutes. Anyone else care to share their experience?
@Unihedron I tried running the query of yours where you added and Score < 2 , and it was still running for like 5 minutes, but I manually exited out.. some weird stuff , how do you do that?
First and foremost it has the benefit of having relatively dedicated hardware, sharing its space exclusively with the chat platform. I don't have any figures on how much traffic the Data Explorer sees, but it seems to be reasonable enough that current demand doesn't appear to have any negative im...
There is a claim by a German philosopher, named Max Scheler.
Ein Affe, dem man eine Banane halb geschält in die Hand gibt, flieht vor ihr, während er sie ganz geschält frißt, ungeschält aber selber schält und dann frißt.
Translation by me:
A monkey/ape who is given a half peeled banana...
I think Cary meant a cake/bread/pastry/... made with rice flour (which is often not baked but steamed). Because he seems to come from the Phillipines it think there is a eqivalent to the Vietnamese "bánh" which does not differentiates between cake, bread, noodles, pastries, other boiled or deep-fried or .. stuff made with flour. — Ching Chongyesterday
Wow, that sounds like a silly question, but really! My wife froze bananas in the freezer with the peel still on. You can't peel them frozen. I put it in the microwave for one minute at 50% power. After 30 seconds the thin end of the peel (where a bunch connect to each other) was on fire, with a v...
My chocolate chips cookies are always too crisp. How can I get chewy cookies, like those of Starbucks?
Thank you to everyone who has answered. So far the tip that had the biggest impact was to chill and rest the dough, however I also increased the brown sugar ratio and increased a bit the butt...
This one comes from my 7-year-old. So, do all monkeys go bananas for bananas? Some types of monkeys? Do all monkeys like bananas somehow?
...or is it just a cartoon convention with no basis in reality?
I suspect the bananas were, like many of the fruits you find in grocery stores, coated with some sort of food-grade wax. The dry woody end of the banana would have allowed this wax to heat to its flash point and ignite, catching the stem itself. — Shog9 ♦Oct 1 '10 at 17:41
@hhh: I think your best question here is "how can I know whether a potato is too old?" If you focus on that, keeping in mind existingquestions on the topic, you should have better luck avoiding OT answers... — Shog9 ♦Mar 23 '11 at 19:42
I historically locked one very highly voted and visited question, but this term seems to be a pretty surefire way of indicating the question is utter crap.
waits for someone to complain about my mass deletion spree
Just to formally document the exact policies we have in place to remove old abandoned / dead questions, the Community user will delete questions in the following circumstances:
If the question is more than 30 days old, and ...
has −1 or lower score
has no answers
is not locked
...or...
it ...
Why not spend a little time on improving the whole thing?
You're a developer / programmer too. We all know how hard it is to have the best system.
I would like to break down the main blockers for improving "the whole thing" (the review system) into... some smaller things:
Planning (Researc...
There is a claim by a German philosopher, named Max Scheler.
Ein Affe, dem man eine Banane halb geschält in die Hand gibt, flieht vor ihr, während er sie ganz geschält frißt, ungeschält aber selber schält und dann frißt.
Translation by me:
A monkey/ape who is given a half peeled banana...
My chocolate chips cookies are always too crisp. How can I get chewy cookies, like those of Starbucks?
Thank you to everyone who has answered. So far the tip that had the biggest impact was to chill and rest the dough, however I also increased the brown sugar ratio and increased a bit the butt...
This one comes from my 7-year-old. So, do all monkeys go bananas for bananas? Some types of monkeys? Do all monkeys like bananas somehow?
...or is it just a cartoon convention with no basis in reality?
