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> People no longer go out to buy CDs on their own, but they do go out to buy chicken. And now buying a CD has become part of that experience. We even do concerts at KFC with some of our artists. So music and chicken have become intertwined. -- nytimes.com/2017/04/03/arts/music/…

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rene

6:32 AM

@SmokeDetector still there :/

Journeyman Geek

6:47 AM

lol

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DroidDev

7:33 AM

@DroidDev but 30 mins back he was on -4 downvotes coz he was muslim & now they upvoted him. — maveň 17 secs ago

what can we do here?

rene

@DroidDev if you suspect voting based soley on the user and not on the content/merit of the post you can flag for a mod and explain which evidence you have to support your point. When mods suspect the same they will escalate to the CM team.

DroidDev

@rene umm...its not me suspecting such behavior. Someone else is pointing this out, but without any evidence. I am worried that they are sending wrong message to OP.

rene

@DroidDev in regard to suspicious voting involve a mod, don't engage in sending messages to anyone. You don't have the tools, mods do have some tools.

afk

DroidDev

ok thanks

M.A.R.

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A: Listener doesn't work when connected to my company network

Please check following link it might help you. https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28510744/Cannot-access-oracle-APEX-when-turn-on-Cisco-VPN.html#a40303656

Answer linking EE . . .

Derpy

7:48 AM

Ignore the where and focus on the what

that is a link only answer, and should be regarded as such - the specific site does not need to be considered.

should be deleted or edited, and that should happen regardless the link pointing to EE or Skett blog of wisdom

M.A.R.

@Derpy Aye aye captain

Derpy

@M.A.R. Wasn't Pirate's Day on Friday?

yer ar' s bit late (or a bit too soon), mate

but ye're right. The answer must walk the plank. To Davy Jones's locker!

Elephant

8:09 AM

@DroidDev I guess... Joel was right that we have to take a stand...

IMO, that comment is borderline rude, though I flagged it as "not constructive".

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M.A.R.

8:30 AM

@JamesENL Have you watched Split? CC @Jason

JamesENL

I have not, I'm not a fan of that type of movie

Bart

@Elephant seems that the user is "warning" him that he may be downvoted because he's a Muslim.

JamesENL

I read the plot synopsis though, it seemed interesting

Elephant

@Bart fair point

Bart

Still ridiculous imho, but somehow less offensive?

user202362

8:38 AM

split's a bit fake though - a man kidnapped 3 girls and did nothing evil to them

user202362

other than confine them

Derpy

@Bart The advice doesn't seem "offensive", at least by the common definition. The rude line maybe is the other message "why you don't understand my words", which is still somehow "acceptable" in the context since it doesn't seem to be aimed at being rude but more a "please, don't make me spell it out because others will start ranting"

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Bart

@Derpy myeah, it seems to be a mix between language barrier and well meant advice, although overall I disagree with what he's saying and the need to say it.

Derpy

if any, the message can be problematic since it suggest a "racist behavior" and as such it will cause discussion, rants and similar issues (proof: it started an argument with Droid)

so, it probably need to go - not because rude but because even if there was some good-intent in it it will surely backfire.

Bart

8:43 AM

I flagged the comment thread for removal by a mod

Derpy

That said, while there is no proof that the OP in the referenced question was indeed target of "bad voting", try to not exclude the the possibility such kind of behavior could happen.

I have seen multiple cases of users that where insulted because of gender, race, religion and the such, and I had to resort to call for Comunity Managers support in a few cases, so please try to not dismiss the problem as "won't never happen here"

Journeyman Geek

If the voting is happening someone should look at it. If it isn't, its causing excessive drama ;p

No reason not to flag

DroidDev

@Bart I exchanged few messages with commentor. He told that issue was last name, and when OP removed it, downvotes were gone. Not sure though, but I agree with flag for comment thread removal

@Elephant umm....sorry, don't follow podcasts much these days

Bart

@DroidDev I find it hard to believe users go "He's a muslim, let's downvote", and then after a name change go "Oh gosh golly gosh darnit, he wasn't one of them muslims after all, let us undo the damage we have done". But well, flagged anyway and we'll see.

DroidDev

@Bart yeah, lets see what happens with flags

rene

9:03 AM

Vlaggetjesdag

M.A.R.

9:15 AM

Flagging @rene's non-English message

Please note that Stack Overflow is an English-only website. See tour.

rene

Tour? Isn't that French?

M.A.R.

@rene It's also English ಠ_ಠ

rene

Vlaggetjesdag is also English. It just didn't make it yet into a dictionary. Let's make Dutch words great again.

M.A.R.

Dutch second?

Can Persian be third?

rene

Yes, that too

Derpy

9:29 AM

@ShadowWizard @M.A.R. May be better to remove this

Bart

Dutch has great words. Many of which are used in English already. Such as Apartheid ... no wait, bad example.

rene

I didn't want to bring that one up :)

M.A.R.

@Derpy Why?

I didn't say anything racist

But it's indeed true that some users are racist

Mar 29 at 8:24, by Sklivvz

@Oded ^

@Derpy ^

Bart

@M.A.R. ^

M.A.R.

@Bart ^

rene

9:32 AM

@ShadowWizard ^

Derpy

@M.A.R. Well, seems to imply that "Indian names" are more common when analyzing users who post bad content. Even if you had objective data about this, it may be a claim you don't want to make when the discussion is already "heating"

anyway, just an advice, didn't flag or anything similar.

M.A.R.

I guess everyone could just move on if it's not in the spotlight

aims spotlight

burns rene

I'm not a tag

9:38 AM

@Derpy "fun" story: for a journal I worked for years ago, we handled the review process and publishing for the conference proceedings. For some reason the conference got so many submissions (far more than any conference in our field). Most of them came from China and were just dreadful. To a point where we almost wondered if it was worth checking any submissions from that region.

In the end we slogged through hundreds of them, getting reviews for all (note that we work with volunteers there), but it was tempting to just say "nuke them all, we won't get rid of much of value"

M.A.R.

@rene prove it

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rene

@M.A.R. look at my picture. It is out of focus but clearly not a tag.

M.A.R.

@rene It pretty much looks like status-byground to me.

rene

@Bart sounds like the selection process for a job opening that gets 1000 letters: the stamp is up-side down, that will be a No

Bart

9:54 AM

Haha, pretty much. It's so tempting to do. Especially when you realize you're asking busy researchers to fully evaluate papers that won't make it.

In the end I think I passed all of them through a sniff test and was able to reject a ton of them before handing them out, but it still was a ridiculous amount of work.

Derpy

may be true. But what I meant was different.
First, try to avoid to give fuel to an already thorny argument.

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