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hichris123

00:46

Is there any canonical list of the privileges in Docs? e.g. what does it take for me to propose a change, what does it take for me to review a change, and how much rep do actions give me?

user315433

I don't think there's anything canonical about Docs, it's all expanded universe.

hichris123

Yeah, that's what it seems like... closest I can find is the privileges page but I still can't find out how much rep every action gives/takes away.

Ah, so it's kinda sorta in stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation. But that doesn't show any negatives for Docs, is that the case?

Wait... what happened with your SO account, @ᴡᴏʀᴅs?

user315433

Deleted. Re-created for flagging purposes.

hichris123

Ah.

user315433

Jul 26 at 18:37, by Serious Human

This room was placed in timeout for 10 seconds; Folks need to calm down and treat each other like normal humans (delete their accounts periodically)

bjb568

01:02

@Magisch wow

Quill

02:26

@hichris123 stackoverflow.com/help/privileges?tab=documentation

and then of course insta-edit, insta-single-review-needed, insta-delete(?) for mods

user202362

hichris123

2 hours ago, by hichris123

Yeah, that's what it seems like... closest I can find is the privileges page but I still can't find out how much rep every action gives/takes away.

2 hours ago, by hichris123

Ah, so it's kinda sorta in http://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation. But that doesn't show any negatives for Docs, is that the case?

Quill

02:54

Oh, lol

+2 for edit, +2 for topic proposal success, +5 for anyone (but you) upvoting anything you've 'substantively edited' and -10 for any downvote to one of your substantive edits

I'm not 100% on the downvote one though

Shog9

No rep for downvotes

user202362

not everything is about reps

Quill

@Telkitty That's what he asked for

user202362

sometimes you just want to slap the person a little - the internet way >_<

user202362

@Quill I was talking about downvotes ... especially serial downvoting ....

Quill

03:05

you got serial downvoted?

user202362

kangaroo infestation ...

user202362

hichris123

@Shog9 So there's no negative rep with Docs? Wow. That seems like a strange change.

user315433

Up, up and away

Quill

03:23

haha, are you the old guy from Up?

user315433

03:34

It's the soundtrack of docs editing...

user315433

Up Up and Away

►

Quill

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Shog9

03:58

@hichris123 only from deletions and vote retractions

Quill

Ah, that must be what I was thinking of

hichris123

@Shog9 So... downvoting = zero rep change? Why? Seems like it rewards... contributions. Quality wouldn't matter anymore.

Quill

Quality earns upvotes

Shog9

@hichris123 delete privilege is currently... 1 rep. Takes 2 approvals. Removes all rep.

user202362

04:15

user202362

04:26

A CM in the tavern to entertained bored regulars on a Sat night. I am touched. SE definitely is very good with customer relations. Don't you agree @Quill?

Quill

I think you're misunderstanding the role

The CMs aren't the ones doing karaoke

They're the ones begrudgingly working the bar

user202362

Quill

04:52

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hichris123

@Shog9 Huh. But doesn't that remove the possibility for improvement? Why even downvote then?

Actually, why even vote?

Your two options are give no rep and give rep. Why have the former?

Also:

2 days ago, by hichris123

Ugh, I didn't realize that voting determined the order of examples on Docs. While that may work out eventually, it's not Q&A where there's a "best" answer. There should be some logical progression there...

user202362

 Bureau of Mars Land Management

user202362

One day ...

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Quill

sd rude

there's two other NAAs on that question btw

Shadow Wizard

06:29

@Quill heh, why not sd k?

(think it's useful even after post is deleted, no?)

Quill

something something, human-understandable feedback

Shadow Wizard

@SmokeDetector tpu rude

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard Blacklisted user.

Shadow Wizard

Done. ;)

rene

06:59

@Quill OK, hammered it re-open

Shadow Wizard

@rene only one hammer on MSO? tsk tsk. ;)

rene

I'm working on Support ... but Documentation came up, and I want a gold badge for c# ... so I have to quit my day job to get more time ....

afk travelling to the north ...

Shadow Wizard

@rene this north?

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Quill

07:19

This is so totally off-topic, can we close it or something

Shadow Wizard

@Quill no. It is on topic. I totally disagree with the OP's attitude and name throwing and downvoted, but those things are valid discussions. People have full right to ask why they were suspended, and ask to lift it.

If we'll close any question we don't like, SO would have 99% of its questons closed.

(probably more, just rounding down.)

Quill

meh, it's not that a dislike it, it's just a blatant place for the OP to ask for new contendents to step up into the ring

Shadow Wizard

@Quill well, he has the right to. It's a silly move, but it's a valid one.

(in my opinion)

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07:39

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Quill

08:19

what's up with this twitter account:

Real Joel Spolsky

@realjoelspolsky, New York, NY

Founder of Fog Creek Software, Stack Exchange, and Trello. Author of Joel on Software. I have three passports bitch.

6 tweets, 48 followers, following 71 users

Shadow Wizard

whoa, weird

joelspolsky

@joelspolsky

1 tweets, 32 followers, following 0 users

Quill

It screams parody account, and it's even being followed by Joel

Shadow Wizard

hmm.... maybe it's really Joel, using sock puppets?

user202362

3 passports bitch, wot kind of b!tch is that?

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user202362

08:34

patents ... parents ...

Quill

I just got a spam email in spanish asking if I'd solved a 'browser sync' problem

user202362

Do you know spanish or did you use some sort of translation service?

Quill

Google Translate

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Quill

10:01

sd 2k

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Quill

sd 2k

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rene

11:04

@ShadowWizard Nah, this north ... on the west side of the country I can't get much more north without needing a boat...

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Quill

sd k

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Portal

12:09

> I'm having the same problem .. I have almost Ark MAP You do not know how he used with Q-GES

user202362

12:20

user202362

I find barbie cakes disturbing - eating one is like undressing a really hot woman

user202362

like ... you cut down her dress

user202362

for breakfast tomorrow ...

Quill

13:12

jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes

bjb568

14:38

Quill

I swear Duolingo has a scary hidden political agenda....

Quill

14:55

I finally ordered the parts for my new rig, and PayPal have locked my account due to "weird spending habits"

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

15:20

yeah... that academia thing was quite a mess. but objectively, starting on the premise that attack really is a verb used to describe a way to solve a difficult problem, I really can't understand why this question (google cache) warrants a deletion.

It seem to have been the first one, presents as much of a link to reality as black nodes thing, is not inflamatory.

Quill

That's the first version, there's was two much worse edits after that

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

yeah, the other google cached versions?

they were posted the day after, possibly because the first one was deleted

my concern is, if really that first question was deleted in the state we can read in the google cached version, it's not exactly legitimate

and I would totally understand a user losing their shit about the moderation

StrongBad

15:47

@FélixGagnon-Grenier as a disclosure I am a mod on academia.se. That question was not deleted by moderators, but rather by users who felt it was absuvie. Presumably, they felt it followed a pattern of a persistent troll that we have. As the OP deleted his account immediately after asking the question and there were no flags raised to undelete the question, there did not seem to be an issue.

TIPS

Oh no, I see @StrongBad people here.

Tavern seems to be doing as usual.

Except @BJB is playing with . . . @rene's family?

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

@StrongBad Thanks for the clarification! I effectively thought it had been deleted by said moderator. This changes the score and settles the matter in my head. Of course users with deletion powers should not vote based on who is asking but that is starting to be far fetched, and I won't pursue that further.

Jefromi

16:06

@FélixGagnon-Grenier "who is asking" isn't off limits, though. Someone had an opinion about what should and shouldn't be allowed, and instead of discussing on meta and mentioning hypothetical questions there to try to make their point, they posted them on the main site asking for them to be taken seriously.

Seems like pretty clear misuse of the site to me. The fact that someone else might've someday legitimately asked a similar question doesn't change the fact that the OP was asking it to provoke a reaction and continue a meta debate.

Another way to look at it: they shouldn't delete purely based on who asked (personal vendettas aren't cool), but they should delete based on the intent and validity of the question, and it's fair to use all the available knowledge to determine that.

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

Hmmm. sensible

I must say I normally would prefer if there was no influence whatsoever of who is asking, but indeed repeating offenders must be taken into consideration.

Jefromi

It's not even necessarily repetition, just... asking a question you know is fake, based on who asked it.

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

I'm struggling with that. It sounds perfectly right, but I can't help but remember that whole "vote on content, not users" thing.

I'm not sure how to reconcile those two ideas.

> they should delete based on the intent and validity of the question

seems helpful

yeah, an obviously fake question is indeed not the same as a legitimate one, even if both seem to be equivalent on other regards

Jefromi

I think "vote on content, not users" might be best seen as an overarching philosophy, not a hard and fast rule?

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

indeed. otherwise I get cognitive dissonance ;)

Jefromi

16:20

It also probably makes a little more sense on up/down votes.

Retaliatory downvoting is relatively common; retaliatory close-voting less so.

But I can imagine even skewing up/down votes based on knowledge of a user - if someone with clearly established expertise on a topic says something surprising without citing sources, I might ask for clarification but not downvote, but if someone with a history of just being blatantly wrong about the topic does it, I might be less forgiving.

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

Well, we're also humans after all. I don't think it's even possible to not let our psyche infer with our decisions

TIPS

@FélixGagnon-Grenier The problem is these rules are taken as generalizations when they're not.

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How exactly?

Jefromi

@FélixGagnon-Grenier True enough - as with a lot of kinds of potential bias, the important thing is to be aware of it and do your best to make fair decisions anyway.

TIPS

Since when was it even established outside SO and a bunch of other big nasty sites?

Once again, @Quill didn't tell me the whole story.

Although maybe that doesn't count as drama-ic in his dictionary.

Hullo @Hic \o

hichris123

Hi!

hichris123

18:55

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rene

thanks for the ping on the PR @hichris123

hichris123

:) Sorry it was merged before you could see it though.

rene

19:11

Yeah, nvm. I trust gunr

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

with a name like that, how not to trust them

hichris123

23:14

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Quill

23:28

@TIPS I didn't tell you any of the story

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