@JonEricson It just speaks to you doing a really good job of choosing pro tem moderators.

I just use the template to avoid having to type user IDs twice

@Shog9 that might be a record.

@durron597 My bug is fixed! I can finally quit this job.

nuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

@Shog9 I just came across that sometimes things are marked as addressed except they're really not and the different discussions about it are all over the place.

@durron597 Huh, sorry, when I started writing that novel your answer wasn't posted yet.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M 'sokay, I was just bantering anyway

@NormalHuman Is there more to it (except Shog9's resistance) then just twiddle with that number in the configuration file?

Nah, lemme edit.

@rene No. After thinking about this for a few years, I've come to the conclusion that it probably makes sense to make close votes/day scale with reputation, in a manner similar to flags.

(which is also where I started, but ignore that)

@Shog9 It could also scale with helpful flags (or both)

@durron597 that gets hairy

I always thought the reason that it didn't scale is to prevent high rep users from forming voting cabals

@Shog9 wow, will you make that change effective before you quit this job? ;)

@Shog9 Indeed. No perfect solution. It's a tough one, surely.

@durron597 I suspect that in practice, this is less of a concern than a system where the folks who have contributed the most useful answers have a disproportionately low influence in terms of what is on-topic, etc.

@Shog9 That makes sense

Are you thinking that it's more likely that people close to 3k would LOSE close votes, or that this would just extra votes on top of the 3k base?

Could someone do something about that?! The two answers are rendered obsolete.

@Shog9 Although flags do scale by helpful flags...

So should we down vote those answers?

Burn Tim and Pythonmaster for that?

Go on a rampage?

Sleep?

and that's why I prefer to be nitpicky

@durron597 I think 24 votes/day is reasonably generous as a baseline. Rather than artificially spiking this on sites like SO, that limit should scale with rep - so at 10K you'd have 38, 20K you'd have 58, 800K you'd have 1618...

...maybe there should be a cap somewhere

We need Jon Skeet in the SOVCR room....

@NormalHuman that's not the right way to handle it; more investment does not = more expertise on a matter. I'd much rather have more votes

(though I have proposed a multi-vote CV privilege in the past for other things, like gold badges)

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@Shog9 so I'd go from 50 CVs to 38 CVs with this change... that's pretty depressing

@NormalHuman Depends on the subject matter

Except for good ol' Roombatron... whatever his name is now.

You can have 50k rep from C++, doesn't mean you're an expert in Swift. Or, dare I bring it up, the Haskell SO community's questions

Figured it would've changed while I was away.

@rene Jon Skeet doesn't vote to close stuff, he reopens duplicates

Out of all of the SE sites, I think I have the most offensive flags on Arquade

@TylerH I was under the impression that by code of honor people stays clear of stuff they know nothing about

obviously, that's the impression of what people should do... what they do on the other hand...

@KevinBrown Stop ragequitting games, then!

@Braiam It is fairly common to see questions in tags you don't know that are still more or less obviously CV-worthy

at least in the queue

@NormalHuman I know I became a lot more careful with dupe CVs post gold badge.

there are lots of skips when we coordinate burnination efforts, but still plenty of questions where it's obviously a "gimme teh codez" or "resource recommendation", or less obviously "too broad"

@NormalHuman But, but... UNCLE BEN!

@TylerH It's also much easier to VTC stuff if you're doing a terrible tag than if you're working on a good tag you're not familiar with

For example, I should never try to filter the review queue on, say, r

But I've been discussed down the wrong alley here. I should reiterate what I'm saying: I'm not advocating against additional weight for CVs in general.

I'm merely advocating for more CVs first, if it's a choice between that and more weight.

well, the problem is that for those users to use more CVs they need to invest more time moderating, and that doesn't actually influence the scope... if what you desire in the end isn't accomplished anyways...

I'm the vocal minority

@TylerH More non-binding CVs are just more work for everyone.

But I think it's also a "safer" step insofar as the trust factor of more experienced users go

@tchrist well if we wanna talk about more work we can always bring up vote aging

that's a much better deal than stickers

stickers are gross

I heard that stickers are The Thing™

Another advantage of having the number of close-votes scale with reputation the way delete-votes do is that it would likely be easier to code up than double- and treble-strengthed close-votes.

It all depends which issue you're tackling. If you're attacking the issue that there are too many pending lovelorn close-votes on SO, that's one thing, but if what you're aiming for is that people run out of close-votes when they could continue to be helpful, that's another.

I think that the topic was giving more decision power to the people that runs the show

good simile

Makes sense.

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@SmokeDetector I... don't know

Dang!

@NormalHuman status-completed

@NormalHuman I was thinking on a variant of that, like for each closevote calculate the weight of previous closevoters until it reach threshold

@NormalHuman Wasn’t that the one that the crackers from Issyk-Kulistan broke into? :)

AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH

@NormalHuman Just so long as it's rational.

I got a famous question badge for that idiotic question about ANTS in my KEYBOARD!!!

burn the keyboard

this is irritating

@U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶ Sounds like it might be a common issue

@U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶ at least they are not bugs, and they are not in your code

"Origin unreachable" just as I go to post my first answer on UX D:

@KevinBrown heed by the universe call, don't answer that question, search for the origin!

@Braiam yeah I've had enough of those

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cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=aa7c3195f220

I love my weather alert

> TAKE COVER NOW!

> MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

@Andy funny

@Braiam It would be, but it's a real alert from the NWS

At least it's not ambiguous.

@Andy they can be wrong in the most strange ways, trough