But they started that fashion about having (from the start) holes in your jeans. That was always a bit of betraying for me, since every hole in my jeans was righteously gathered by wearing, not by buying.
... along with pre-faded jeans. I know I don't ever do any real "work" in my jeans but the tops of my thighs never fade that much more than everywhere else.
I figured out an interesting tactic: whenever suggesting an edit, make an obvious typo in any added text. Thus, it's likely to be approved faster because it's reviewed by just one user who Improves it and fixes the typo, as opposed to by two users. If it's not noticed and just approved, just suggest another edit to fix the typo, and then you earn double rep.
And yes, the speed of the review does sort of matter - if you hit the cap of 5 pending edits, a faster approval means you can suggest more edits in less time
The problem of sub 50 rep users being unable to comment is well documented
Many sub 50 rep users have complained about the problem of not being able to comment under the limit. I am one of them. A small sample of these complaints can be found here, here, and here.
The rationale for the 50 rep ...
Well, there is an implicit feature request: allow comments, but charge some small rep for posting them. OK, another posssible solution is presented, but that is the 'high development cost, no chance of implementation' solution that makes the cost of the'charge for commments' feature sound reasonable by comparison.
I don't really see it as that big of a problem. it is a problem, sure... but aren't there other problems that new users often have to deal with that are of a bigger magnitude?
@πάνταῥεῖ The proposer rebuts that, but I'm not convinced by their arguments. SE already 'discriminates' against English-as-second-language posters by its design as an English language site.
Stack Exchange is a great system, it would be very effective if most people using it were on the autism spectrum. Put it in the hands of neurotypicals, and it starts to go awry.
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Oh, I can agree with that, sure. It's the assertion that less-than-optimal English skills are an argument for removing the comment limit that I have a problem with.
To be frank, I haven't seen any data showing that <50 rep users tend to post bad comments, or graphs showing rep of a commenter vs. whether or not the comment is deleted.
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog It requires access to the internal SEDE and I'm guessing that it's been so long since they were allowed, there's no value to what data there is.
That said, I can tell you that I'm pretty darn sure I delete more comments from 101 rep users on IPS than anything else.
Anyhow...both me and the kickstarter of the inclusion project happen to hail from the same city, so I hope we can meet together. We have a lot of things to talk about and a lot of ideas to come up with. Someday, we can go public, and talk about our concerns publicly, and people will listen to us without shooting us down. But that last part's just a fantasy.
in this context its really being to engage with folks around you, constructively and being mindful of their needs too. Which lets you work out what and how to ask questions or suggest improvements to the system.
or disagree with current initiatives without annoying folks too much XD
@Catija Well, my neurotypical "emulator" is currently in beta, and does have some bugs, but it's much more stable than the early alpha builds. Unfortunately, it suffers from a critical bug where it sometimes crashes in areas of interests (such as this site); I'm currently trying to fix it.
Interesting... apparently using Gmail to create an account gives you a new default avatar... just a color block box with an initial.... that is new, right?
Heads up: we're about to send an email out to about 120,000 users who *only* have an OpenID to login to Stack Exchange. We'll be removing OpenID support from our code entirely in 30 days. This is for .NET Core, testability, and our sanity.
So at MSO, the participation tab orders users by "Users most active on this site in the last 60 days (combined number of posts, votes, comments and edits)." Shouldn't votes in that context be, you know, upvotes, rather than the number of times you vote? If someone votes 10 times in one day, versus someone who posts a single +100 post in that day, the former user has "participated" more. I feel like whoever implemented this misread the "votes" context. There is already a tab for who is voting.
It seems kind of backwards at present.
@JourneymanGeek Never liked openID anyway. It was a fad.
@TravisJ How does someone getting a +100 post in a day mean that they're more active than someone who uses 40 votes in a day... it takes more work to review and vote on 40 posts than to ask/answer one
To the Controversial Post post notice, maybe it's better if we added another sentence: "You may use votes ONLY to indicate the quality of this post."
> You may use comments ONLY to suggest improvements. You may use answers ONLY to provide a solution to the specific question asked above. Moderators will remove debates, arguments or opinions without notice.
The problem of sub 50 rep users being unable to comment is well documented
Many sub 50 rep users have complained about the problem of not being able to comment under the limit. I am one of them. A small sample of these complaints can be found here, here, and here.
The rationale for the 50 rep ...
