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user315433

12:11 AM

Excluding the horde of Account Executives, five employees have "Executive" in the title:
Chloe Celand, Marketing Executive
Phil Sireci, Executive Chef
Shanna Sobel, Executive Pastry Chef
Joel Spolsky, Chief Executive Officer
Cassie Stone, Executive Assistant

user315433

Easy to mix up, Executive Chef and Chief Executive...

user202362

2:59 AM

Executive janitor? Or do you call it by some other name?

user202362

coz ... cleaners need leaders too!

user202362

ambitious executive janitor with a purpose in life

hichris123

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A: Questions closed for recommending/finding an off-site resource should be deleted

Most of these are deleted. There's a close reason for it, hundreds of questions do get closed for that reason, and most closed questions do get deleted... For this specific close reason, 22 closed questions were deleted in the past day; 23788 questions in the past year, and 81455 questions fo...

user202362

Oo

user315433

That's a higher percentage than I expected. Wonder how it compares to other closing reasons.

user315433

3:12 AM

But yeah, automatic deletion should always be limited to questions where nothing or very little signals their usefulness.

user202362

A janitor's gain is garbage's pain

user315433

There is always a possibility of a rec question being really "how to do this", with answers that actually show how.

user202362

I have a fish, and a perfume, I am sure I can make two go together if I really want to

user202362

actually, this sounds better: garbage's gain is janitor's pain

user315433

One thing I'd drop from the current rules is accept preventing auto deletion. Seems illogical, seeing as accept vote is explicitly just one user's opinion. Should not be deciding the long term fate of the question..

user315433

3:21 AM

Count accept as an equivalent of +1, maybe.

Alexis King

3:33 AM

I think SO has philosophically always treated the checkmark as something very special, which I’m guessing is where that rule came from. I think I mostly agree, though. Maybe treat it as +2 as a slight compromise, but I don’t think keeping things around with a -2 score just because they’re accepted makes much sense.

user315433

4:06 AM

user315433

Mobile interface of Google Scholar. Why yes, I do delete my account more often than I change the sort order...

user315433

And who would ever mistap a menu item on a phone, anyway...

rene

7:25 AM

Holy Smokey ...

user202362

7:52 AM

@rene better than this:

user202362

rene

8:18 AM

@Telkitty that is also true ...

user335633

8:41 AM

yo

rene

Oi

user335633

a weird thing happened

Shadow Wizard

9:34 AM

@rene why?

rene

because I only saw SD reports

hichris123

2:04 PM

→ 37 messages moved to Chimney

user315433

4:12 PM

> As a representative of Careers... rebranding is hard.

user315433

Also, unclickable text in bold blue font is annoying.

user315433

> And that THAT connection is achieved through messaging and content. Product-agnostic content (TOFU), product-specific content (MOFU), and even product-usage-specific content (BOFU). stackoverflow.com/company/work-here/117996/…

user315433

Halp, acronym emergency. How does one parse TOFU etc? Is THAT in the previous sentence also an acronym?

hichris123

Mmm, tasty TOFU.

user315433

> Instead of old, slow computers, and cranky IT admins, we use top of the line gear for everyone and want to deliver a seamless experience. As a Desktop Support/Technology Conceriege, stackoverflow.com/company/work-here/482512/…

user315433

4:17 PM

The combination of "seamless" and "delivery" in the same sentence is distracting.

user315433

Could use a spell check too.

hichris123

top-of-the-line too, right?

user315433

Three of the advertised positions include a salary range. Two PMs (Digital Ads and Internal Systems) are 100,000-135,000. Incidentally, these are posted on /jobs while other positions are not (including PM of Docs position).

user315433

The Data Scientist is valued at 135,000-175,000. Do your math homework, kids.

user315433

(Never mind that by the time you enter job market, different things will be trendy.)

SmokeDetector

4:28 PM

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Chinese character in title, messaging number in body, messaging number in title: 办UOIT学历认证毕业证+成绩单）\(^Q／微627212264^)/~加拿大安大略理工大学UOIT毕业证┽文凭┽成绩单┽教育部认证┽回国人员证明 University of Ontario Insititute by xiguai211 on hinduism.stackexchange.com

user315433

I've deleted all religion site accounts, so Hinduism with their recent diploma craze is on their own.

user315433

The elections page isn't aware of Programmers -> Software Engineering renaming, @TimStone

Tim Stone

Hmm, indeed. Will fix in a bit, thanks!

user315433

Actually, I don't understand how it determines site names to display... they are not what the API would return. "WordPress" is WordPress Development, "Statistical Analysis" is Cross Validated, "Japanese Language & Usage" is Japanese Language, "Musical Practice & Performance" is Music: Practice & Theory...

user315433

... "Gaming" is Arqade, "Apple" is Ask Different, "GIS" is Geographic Information Systems.

bjb568

4:50 PM

Bart

Awww

S.L. Barth

5:46 PM

Ugh. I still can't Reject on Documentation most of the time.

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Q: Unable to reject edits in documentation reviews queue

As the title suggests, I am unable to reject edits in documentation review queues. When I click on reject button it shows an error message stating: An error occurred. Please try after sometime. I tried multiple times but I am still not able to do so. EDIT: Now I can't even Approve Changes...

^ Is there any update on this? It was asked almost two months ago and still an issue.

I couldn't even Reject this:

stackoverflow.com/documentation/review/changes/108485

rene

6:06 PM

@S.L.Barth it is rejected for me now?

S.L. Barth

@rene Yes, it got Rejected. But barely so. Three idio... I mean reviewers Approved it.

rene

Jay for badges! ... oh wait ... sure .. bad reviewers ...

S.L. Barth

@rene The one good thing about the Documentation Review Queue is that it doesn't give badges.

rene

Oh, is that why I'm never in there?

S.L. Barth

@rene How should I know the motivation of a flower? :-)

But seriously - the Docs review queue has two problems. Bad reviewers, and the fact that the Reject button doesn't work for a number of users.

These two problems reinforce each other.

Bad reviewers can't be solved easily, and can only be mitigated technically.

But the Reject button not working - that can be solved technically.

So I'd really like to know what the status is. I was hoping Shog, or Tim, or any of the SE employees who visit here, happened to know.

Jon Ericson

6:19 PM

@S.L.Barth Is there a bug report on that? (I haven't seen one, but if it was last week I wasn't looking.)

S.L. Barth

@JonEricson The question I linked above. meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/334349/…

In case it helps, I also get this with audits - which were added after that bug report was filed.

I sometimes can Reject, but most of the time it just says that an error occurred.

Jon Ericson

@S.L.Barth Ah. I had assumed the fix Kevin mentioned had solved that.

S.L. Barth

@JonEricson Maybe it's a different bug with the same symptoms. As the comments pointed out, it still occurs for a number of users.

Jon Ericson

I'll bring it up again this week. It might help if people added more data.

S.L. Barth

@JonEricson Much appreciated! I'll see what I can add. The review I linked above (stackoverflow.com/documentation/review/changes/108485) is one of those I tried to Reject, but couldn't.

And thanks for chiming in!

Jon Ericson

6:32 PM

No problem. November is for bug fixing and dogfooding. Hopefully that will help get a bunch of annoyances straightened out.

hichris123

Does that mean Joel will be forced to dogfood, too? ;)

S.L. Barth

@JonEricson That's good to hear! Isn't november also for preparing Winterbash?

Jon Ericson

@S.L.Barth Not for me. ;-)

S.L. Barth

@JonEricson Uh-oh... did I just cause you more work, instead of letting you join the fun of inventing crazy new hats? :-)

I somehow imagine that when you work for SO, working on Winterbash is one of the best assignments - the most fun.

Shadow Wizard

@JonEricson dog food? You mean that internal site using SE engine? ;)

S.L. Barth

6:48 PM

@ShadowWizard No, it's making sure that if a dog gets elected for moderator, like last year, the dog will have enough to eat :-)

Jon Ericson

@ShadowWizard That too. So much tasty, tasty dog food.

S.L. Barth

wags tail

Shadow Wizard

@S.L.Barth very clever! :D

S.L. Barth

:-)

user315433

8:09 PM

Something to wake up...

user315433

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Q: I demand resignation of a moderator who deleted my on-topic comments

I am tired of seeing my on-topic comments deleted when they are not (1) rude or offensive (2) not constructive (3) obsolete (4) too chatty (5) other... This is not the first time that I witnessed comments are unduly deleted by moderators on ELL. I expressed my opinion on why the third link i...

discussion moderators moderation

S.L. Barth

8:20 PM

Comments have always been second-class citizens. Is ELL any different in that?

user315433

I thought they were 3rd class citizens. Posts: 1st class, users: 2nd class, comments: 3rd class.

S.L. Barth

Either way....

I agree with @bjb568 though - the image should be in a quote block. At first glance, it looked as if Nathan Tuggy was writing that. And he's not like that.

Alexis King

8:39 PM

Starting your post by demanding resignation of a community volunteer without even understanding their motivation is not the most civil way of going about things.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: Is it legal to buy software license keys from "bulk" sites? by Eric Zavala on law.stackexchange.com

S.L. Barth

9:02 PM

@AlexisKing And that's one of the lesser issues our mods have to deal with.....

Frank

9:28 PM

Wow the module version still sucks 🤔😉

user202362

10:19 PM

user202362

10:39 PM

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user335633

11:43 PM

@Telkitty awesome!

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