Zat should be documented... somewhere. But if they can normally with help, they should be able to unilaterally vote to close as dupe too.
Also, I think the mechanics of mse is the same as a regular site
Unrelatedly...
My team has been busy designing and building projects supporting the rest of the Stack Overflow for a long time now: StackMail, Developer Story, Teams, GDPR, etc. But now we’re caught up and looking ahead. We had some planning meetings the past few days.
@rene Yes, the system does allow duplicate closures from normal users if the questions were posted by the same user. The three exceptions are in the FAQ.
@Magisch it's more than just privacy, it's kind of re-writing/nuking their whole history. Which is a lot of data that can otherwise be useful for others.
@Magisch ....... yep, soooooo well implemented. I was able to determine the new associated account and search for his posts in about.... 10 second flat?
At least until manages to prove that the current implementation violates some GDPR / Privacy requirement ( that is, assuming it does. I don't actually know)
If data is stored in human memory, is the GDPR applicable?
Say, an employee of a company remembers an email address of a client, their date of birth, or even what their face looks like, does the client have a right of access to this data, or even a right for this to be erased?
Memory is one thing. Still linking the messages to the same account record with a different display name after" anonymization" is another. Providing the ability to search by ID for the messages posted by an "anonymized account" is yet another.
Memory is one thing. Still linking the messages to the same account record with a different display name after" anonymization" is another. Providing the ability to search by ID for the messages posted by an "anonymized account" is yet another.
I just saw a post on the site by a user with the username "gmail.com". There is also an active user "yahoo.com". Is this not a potential security threat for some cross-site scripting scenario?
Hi! I had requested the Stack Exchange team to anonymize my previous chat messages since I had shared a few contact details there (which I don't want to be traced back to me). They have done that today morning, which I'm extremely thankful for. But it seems my chat profile got removed from the room owner position of these rooms:
It would be really helpful if one of the mods here re-adds the chat profile to the RO position on those two rooms. Here's the link to my chat profile. I know I could have mailed the SE team again, but that would be a bit time-consuming and also I don't want to unnecessarily disturb them.
@rene Still would increase the difficulty of tracing it back to me :P Anyhow, it's not that big a deal. Just a few users had been trying to message me over Facebook, which was a bit annoying
Considering their rep, they probably think the site is like a forum where you can add posts instead of editing... a helpful comment to explain how answers are meant to be used and a recommendation for what to do with the new content they posted as an answer would also be helpful.
@AdamLear Can you look at this bug. Though it is obsolete since the proposal is deleted. Actually we have similar problem for Indian Languages proposal.
@HolaJacquie @aprilwensel @SvenPam @JesseRWeigel @Syknapse @qucode @PeteCapeCod @mrjaypeasmith @YaYev @WebDevBev @OniwaBansho @piq9117 @paulienuh @PPinceloup @rachsmithtweets @reignincode @ScottDevTweets @MilesSebesta @shuff_co @sherrrylst @soniagupta504 @TheWhriteRabbit @Elena_in_code @BatsouElef @sarah_edo @travelDev @traversymedia @stolinski @james_priest1 @jjprevite @PizzaPokerGuy @techsith1 @wesbos @hswolff @kentcdodds @ryanflorence @peggyrayzis @freeCodeCamp @ossia @ThePracticalDev @StackOverflow Maybe I am a bit off from that, because I've always been a self taught person and rarely relied to the help from others to get things done.
Anyways, the @stackoverflow site is a great resource, and there are some simple rules set up how you should use it.
Meh - it's mostly the same old, tired crap from those who think that professional engineers should wast.. .spend their free, volunteered time teaching 'Computers 101' to legions of deadbeats on a continual, streaming basis because 'we were all learners once'.
@Martin That seems to be some essential thing that can't be taught in a friendly way. If ever you try to do so people will start to complain being "belittled" or offended.
It's not a nice day if you had a session with your psychologist! You'll just need a(nother) drink :-P
@MartinJames Woah... can we step back a bit here? I don't think anyone is expecting that... I don't spend a huge amount of time on SO but I had an experience the other day on ELL that I'd like to mention that might help.
@JoeFriend If I remember correctly, the MathOverflow site was a former Stack Exchange 1.0 site which transitioned to modern SE 2.0 under a special agreement. Their agreement allowed them to keep certain elements of the Stack Exchange 1.0 engine, which includes among other things the original Trebuchet font for titles (used on Trilogy sites until 2016 or so), and the green highlighting for accepted answers. How will the global design changes affect MathOverflow?
Someone asked a question about the use of "uncle" and "aunt" in English... question hit the HNQ list and all that... lots of visibility. Shortly after the question was posted someone commented on it and said that they'd downvoted the question because it was too simple and something that you learn in middle school.
Suppose that you read about someone's uncle in a certain text and the writer doesn't mention if the uncle is:
his father's brother
or his mother's brother
or his father's sister's husband
or his mother's sister's husband
Could you please tell me how you can recognize which one is the "uncle"...
The comments are deleted now... but when I saw that comment I had to respond because we do not limit questions on that site based on the difficulty of the question.
Someone learning something in 7th grade doesn't make it off topic or a bad question. Everyone is at a different point in their learning and those people may already speak five other languages and they're in their 40s and just decided to give English a whirl... so we're there to help them.
If someone chooses to answer a question, that's their choice! And as long as the question meets the guidelines for the site, that's fine. But pestering users about their questions being too simple or basic is not really OK. The network was designed for users of all ability levels, not only for master programmers with esoteric problems. If someone doesn't want to answer an easy question, fine. Move along to something more your style...
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I knew that MathOverflow was a special snowflake. I haven't dug into that one yet. Trying to get something that is workable for the other 170+ sites and then will deal with those trouble makers. ;)
@JoeFriend The current design changes as written would definitely end up violating the agreement. Is the current tentative plan to exclude MathOverflow, just like how Area 51 is excluded?
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Not sure yet. Need to dig into the agreement which I'm currently trying to locate. Area 51 isn't a snowflake. It's an red headed step child. Totally a code base issue.
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Yep. That's on my list too. That was already mentioned in the first post on the plans. Turns out that the top bars are inconsistent across Ubuntu sites, so current plans are to pull it but I need to look at the agreement and possibly talk to a real human on their side.
There's a lot of complaint recently, about the culture of Stack Exchange sites, and how newcomers feel welcome, or just feel being minorized when asking questions.
One source of these complaints are snarky and unnecessary comments placed on posts (no matter which quality they actually are):
...
It also penalizes users for commenting in very helpful ways - first. There's no way to interpret whether a comment is mean or helpful, so you penalize them both, which I don't understand. It just means that super high rep users won't care about the rep loss and low rep users will not help because they do.
@KevinB I'm still waiting for any kind of list of those mean comments to appear on SO meta. AFAIK, I'm the only one who has provided any list of offensive comments, and they are all from OP's who got their questions downvoted/closed.
Well, a colleague told us today in an official meeting that they found out that 64bit compiled DLLs don't work well together with 32bit compiled Delphi programs. I just thought: "What a great insight, should I clap now, or does he waste my precious time?". I just took a deep breath, and encouraged them to take on further.
I'm in need of some of his factual knowledge though :-/
I need to know how they are using the underlying database system with accomplishing their business logic, not how the basic stuff works. At school that would have been an F.
They're in the team to contribute about their business logic concerns, not about the blunt technical stuff. Thus I am feeling a bit of annoyed, especially when I have to suffer from a heavy tinnitus experience as I had today.
I am trying to soften my soft and social skills as much as possible. Even though I meet team members, who have their views of the world being cast in concrete.