In the sidebar, under FAQ/"Frequently Asked" (and not the "Featured on Meta" section), the link to the featured post What criteria should we use to determine which review queue indicator a site will have? is showing up wrong:
The mouse pointer is not visible, but it's on the "What criteria sho...
When magic-linking to Area 51 Discussions using [discuss.area51.se] or [area51.meta.se], the link shows up as:
Area 51
That should be fixed to say "Area 51 Discussions" instead, because the actual link is to the discussions site.
Proof: https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/messag...
I mean, there was a Wikipedia user who did a lot of good edits, became an administrator, administrated for a while, and then out of the blue started damaging the site and doing really bad things. He used his administrator privileges to unblock himself whenever he got blocked. A check subsequently revealed his account was not compromised, that he did these things on his own, and that he was actually an undiscovered sockpuppet of a long-term-banned user.
There was another admin who was one of the most vocal voices of the Wikipedia community, who made cogent arguments for good policies and helped train new users. At the same time, they secretly worked to insert promotional material to an article for a business, and undermined another article for a competitor. It was later revealed that they were in fact a paid editor, and the business in question was engaging in fraud.
@rene Thanks! Please approve my edit to remove the old duplicate link.
This was an older dupe where Community would edit in the link
@rene I think I might write an improved version of that post, and get this one closed as a duplicate of that. I would like to improve that question further, but it would involve having to completely discard that text.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I'm not comfortable with vetting on a action in a chatroom that has more impact then just a re-open. I'm not going to say it is a good idea as I don't know yet how you are going to screw up. Post on meta first so the broader community can chime in on what the best way forward is, assuming the problem needs fixing.
@rene Or, I could just post the question and self-answer, and if the community doesn't like it, they'll close my post as a dupe of the older one, instead of the other way around.
I posted a question here on Meta Stack Exchange, or on a per-site meta, regarding a bug I found in the system. I got no comments, or a few comments stating that this is a legitimate bug (and not by design). However, it's been quite a long time, and no official response was ever posted there.
Or,...
@iDebug probably would go for another mainstream core i7, but I'm probably budgeting for a threadripper when its the time, and try to reuse my GPU and some other components
@Magisch yes it is. Pretty easy going on every event so far except the butterfly one. You can live without paying and do everything pretty easily.
Basically, the only reason to pay is to get "commodity" items like increased storage and such
NONE of the paid items will help in the butterfly/bat catching.
the only -paid- option you have to help is a way to raise the catch rate of a single bat to 100%. That won't do any difference (excluding whale consumer that will cash out on each single bat)
Basically, even with a money grab aptitude in mind, the even is flawed. And mind you, this is Nintendo, not Gameloft/King... so they are not exactly the money-hungry type.
In Lyman Stone's fantastic blog post about George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, Stone mentions that the seasonal cycle of Westeros is very unrealistic.
Here’s the truth: Medieval societies probably could not survive 6 winters in a row. Even modern societies would be hard-press...
One of the colleagues I work with fixes CSS bugs on Friday night with a cigar and a bottle of Whiskey. He either fixes the CSS or gets really drunk, whatever happens first.
Currently running search out of our backup datacenter. Search will be a little bit slower while we figure out what happened in our primary datacenter and fix it.
When magic-linking to Area 51 Discussions using [discuss.area51.se] or [area51.meta.se], the link shows up as:
Area 51
That should be fixed to say "Area 51 Discussions" instead, because the actual link is to the discussions site.
Proof: https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/messag...
Fun story about this specific issue - I know what's causing it but I don't know if the fix would have unexpected side-effects and I don't have time to chase it down right now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm not status-tagging anything that's not actively being worked on.
@Bart Just a quote from my answer. I knew that other question existed, so I was careful not to say guarantee or ensure there.
Given my rather...uncanny knowledge of the SE network, I would argue that this request should be implemented for me on Meta. But that same knowledge tells me that it's a bad idea in nature. — Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog24 secs ago
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog as far as I know, it means that official reply is expected, from SE staff. I use it on bug reports and feature requests I want to see fixed/implemented.
Wording might be off, never really looked into it. :)
@rene interesting question! Leaving bounties aside, I had personal success rate of one bug report or feature request I submitted of once every 19 days.
(taking into account I'm member for 2645 days)
Finding which of those had bounty that led to the completion is tricky though.