I actually came close to committing to that, but I couldn't think of any on-topic questions other than "I think the rules say I can do X; my friend says I'm interpreting wrong. Settle this."
I was wondering why nobody was posting questions, so I tried posting one. Turns out it launched with the normal rep requirements, which means nobody has sufficient rep to create tags, and there are no default tags
@radp I have some funny ideas about betas. For example: if you can't post a question that will attract experts, don't post a question at all. I'm not a UNIX/Linux expert.
Badges are meant to encourage good behaviour. The only exception to this is the Tumbleweed badge which is a consolation prize.
The most common close reason is probably duplicate, having these badges would just discourage people from checking before posting.
"It doesn't matter if it's a duplicat...
@ChrisF At nearly a 1:100 Q:A ratio, I don't think you're in any position to be claiming that anything you do on SO is stupid. Certainly not relative to... certain other users.
@TheUnhandledException Thanks :) It wasn't really a serious suggestion. There's a few badges that I know I'm not going to get - Populist, Reversal and Necromancer - to name but three. All attempts to provide suitable answers back fire
I only realized that strategy when I used it unwittingly on MSO.
MSO is also relatively easy Reversal ground, since dumb feature requests are easy to beat down.
As for Populist, you need only align your sense of humor with the average MSO user's*.
* may be hazardous to your mental health
Whoops, got Pundit and Populist confused.
Populist isn't particularly hard either, just focus your votes on questions. Much easier to rationalize, now that we have the poor-quality question script to feed.
Not entirely answering your question, but we did decide to relax the requirements for these badge:
Announcer - Shared a link to a question that was visited by 50 25 unique IP addresses in 2 3 days
Booster - Shared a link to a question that was visited by 400 300 unique IP addresses in 3 4 days
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Leading off with "Not entirely answering your question"? Someone should flag this "Jeff Atwood" character.
I don't think moderators should be able to view deleted posts... I've had to delete one of my questions before because I accidentally posted a tidbit of code that was confidential. I wouldn't want that getting out to the public... what possible reason could moderators have for needing to view del...
Wow, nothing like working an hour on a SO answer, fix it to help with the additional clarifications, and not even get an upvote from the OP. At least I know where to go next time I need to use the code.
By the way, I was reading y'alls comments about fanatic badges and the like...can't you just write a little script that will auto-visit a list of given IPs?
@MarkC, there was a big mystery about what the beta password was for the SO chat before its launch. Somehow, people decided I knew the password. It became a joke, the team went along with it (grumble grumble)
@LanceRoberts, the idea is that it is like questions. you can't vote on questions without going to the question itself rather than the question listing
It hit me when you said "seriously different" that I think this may be just what you are looking for:
That's right--Ol' Rummy uses a standing desk. The Wiki article has a few references and opinion articles you may want to examine.
The standing desk, in the words of users, makes you feel more...
Neat question! Off the top of my head, what about a flowchart? Those are extremely important in programming as well as engineering.
Well! I have dug up a veritable treasure trove! And here they are:
New addition: Periodic Table of the Operators (Perl 6) -- I was reminded of it by this answer...
I went and added a wiki for worksheet-function and then tried to add the synonym excel-formula, but because there are more instances of excel-formula it wouldn't allow it.
We should be using worksheet-function because of other spreadsheet apps, instead of using the more specific excel-formula (a...
Badges are meant to encourage good behaviour. The only exception to this is the Tumbleweed badge which is a consolation prize.
The most common close reason is probably duplicate, having these badges would just discourage people from checking before posting.
"It doesn't matter if it's a duplicat...
Visual Studio Express is available for free from MS and is perfect for getting started.
Not entirely answering your question, but we did decide to relax the requirements for these badge:
Announcer - Shared a link to a question that was visited by 50 25 unique IP addresses in 2 3 days
Booster - Shared a link to a question that was visited by 400 300 unique IP addresses in 3 4 days
...
