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@Undo Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

SPArchaeologist

4:07 PM

Will have to go for now...

but at last we have Connect4

@Bart Thanks. It must be a problem on my end then.

@Bart Your filter bar looks like this, right?

Ah no, old style

So you may be on to something

Which is strange, because it should get the new navigation ...

I'm sitting on the page now, we'll see if I get anything

Ah no, I should learn to read

@Bart Eh. It's overrated.

4:12 PM

Listen to @Undo. He know what he's talking about. I am on a severe lack of coffee, so will make even less sense than I normally do.

@Bart You're not making any sense. Better hand over that smiting stick.

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user259867

There is a technical-debt tag. Only spammers would know.

@SmokeDetector tpu

@Undo Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

4:21 PM

still alive

@SmokeDetector gone

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/28373224/1849664

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I should make an userscript that allows me to spam flag without opening a tab.....

jadarnel27

That's not fair I'm suspended, you've implemented it too early :D — user293399 2 hours ago

Did nicael have an account nuked in addition to getting suspended?

user259867

4:33 PM

Yeah. There's little point in leaving the comment while nuking the user; flagged obsolete.

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user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu

@Yes Blacklisted user.

user259867

The earlier iteration of recommended tab had options to ignore questions under review and questions by low rep users, as described here Are they gone now?

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4:43 PM

Hey @TimPost, I'm looking for a platform for managing discussions in a large group and apparently you are some kind of manager, or something (so they tell you). How do you guys do things at SE? Do you have any thoughts on that?

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I found this thing, Asana, that I just started evaluating now. It looks promising although I haven't worked my way through its features yet.

@JasonC I think they use Campfire

@Undo Anything?

Though, I already posted a bug on MSE, so it's really just confirmation that it's not just me at this point

@Braiam Oh this looks cool, too.

4:47 PM

and/or trello too

Working well with others is a whole new concept to me.

I have to think hard; we've tried tons of different bad approaches in the past and all fail because the group is extremely sensitive to usage ease. I'm doing a lot of research to try to avoid imposing some clunky solution on the group that nobody will want to use.

user259867

Working well with others is a whole new concept to me. Says an erstwhile mod candidate.

user259867

That should have been in your nomination. :)

TIG: erstwhile meaning

@Yes → 1 comment moved to Trash Can.

4:54 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Terraforming a gas giant into an habitable planet? by awser to life on worldbuilding.stackexchange.com

being truthful @Yes, I think that "working well" means "working while fulfilling the expectations"

@JasonC We use hangouts for informal stuff, but Vidyo for major teleconferences that need to be able to be replayed later. Hangouts are limited to 15 people even when you pay for them.

@Braiam Pretty much. Also, for reasons way too complicated to explain, the leader-type members of this group tend to fall into this unintentional downward spiral of doing everything "internally", spreading ourselves too thin and slowly alienating group members.

It's not free, however. I don't know of anything like it that is.

I'm not concerned about it being free, as long as its free for participants.

adds Vidyo to the list

4:58 PM

@JasonC That it is. They just have to download a client

@Andy oh, I closed it :P

yay for tab control

Pros: Great on bandwidth, crystal clear, screen shares, etc. Drawbacks? Frequent updates, a kinda wonky installer, and many people find the UI confusing to some extent.

A major problem is, every time we try to patch systems together, e.g. a forum + a conferencing tool, participation stagnates. It's been years of failed attempts. One step = OK. Two steps = falls apart.

With Vidyo you visit a link, which launches the desktop / mobile app, telling it what conference to join.

Up to you to have something recording it

Ah that's awesome. Single click URL = major plus.

5:00 PM

The pros definitely outweigh the cons.

My only gripe is the update mechanism and 'installer' it uses to do that, kinda error prone especially if you skip a version, but that's sort of minor. What it actually does, it does really well.

And, it's pretty strong on mobile (Android / IOS) - I like the mobile versions better than the desktop one.

Do you have to explicitly install it ahead of time or is there a good flow from "want to join conference" to "software is installed"?

@JasonC Pretty good flow if I remember correctly

I know we've looked extensively into it, and it keeps coming up as the best overall option for us.

Sweet, I'll check it out. Thanks. This is going to be a fun week of evaluating team and conference software, which I should really have done a long time ago.

For 15 people or less? Go with Google hangouts (just sign up for a paid google apps account)

Pros: It's frigging magic. Cons: 15 or fewer, having multiple Google accounts can sometimes lead to major confusion.

My problem with Hangouts, and a few of the things I've looked at in general, though, is they don't seem to have a great ability to build up to said meeting. Things like, allowing people who may not participate in the actual live meeting to post talking points and such ahead of time.

My goal is to encourage group participation in any way possible, excluding thoughts from folks who can't make the meeting itself is a big issue in this particular group. Any chance to participate is a huge plus.

We're also struggling with some bigger picture group dynamics problems that have been slowly evolving over time, primarily boiling down to people wanting to participate in planning but not knowing how, and also the general effect this has: High participation = a feeling that the group belongs to you and that you have responsibility, lack of ability to participate = the opposite, with plenty of side effects. It's... complicated.

Even if 99% of group input is bad ideas, it doesn't matter, as long as people feel like they have an outlet, we're good.

5:10 PM

repro? meta.stackexchange.com/q/256853/213575

@JasonC You mean commitment?

@Unihedron Sort of.

@JasonC You mean you want them to feel welcomed? :P

@Unihedron Empowered would be more accurate.

And the sense of ownership that comes with being empowered is necessary for this particular group to thrive.

@JasonC "My goal is to encourage group participation in any way possible" give them a clear enemy they have to fight against, that works wonders

5:12 PM

@Braiam As long as the managers aren't the clear enemy, of course.

user259867

@JasonC Looks like a question for Project Management

@Yes SE has all the answers!!!

@Yes That is a potential next step. My goal right now is to find some software platforms that I can use as concrete suggestions, then initiate this conversation among the group (if group discussion fails then pm.se is a backup plan).

Right now I have this conversation a lot with individual group members, and it stays isolated to those frequent but casual conversations. Which is really indicative of the problem.

I don't want to initiate a public discussion unless I also have some concrete suggestions for possible solutions. At the bare minimum they'll give good initial talking points.

> how can i turn this answer: unix.stackexchange.com/a/… to a python script?

the answer is in python...

Lol

Mooseman

5:22 PM

> Obama Admin: NSA Spying Will Begin Shutting Down This Week

Prove it.

begin shutting down?

No, I want it to shut down

Yeah this month is going to be party time for Facebook conspiracy theorists and armchair political analysts.

Mooseman

Uh-oh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

@Mooseman yo leap millisecond

@Mooseman That just means they'll turn off that one machine from the 90s that keeps getting overlooked for upgrades, but can barely run minesweeper.

Mooseman

5:36 PM

@Andy Hey I still run Win95

*in a VM