@ShadowWizard FYI it's CW, so they won't be earning any rep from that upvote. But a positive score will block low-quality deletion, raising a mod flag instead.
@ShadowWizard Now that the answer is deleted, I think I should disclose that I cast the upvote. I knew what they were up to: they intentionally put their answer up as CW so that they wouldn't lose rep from downvotes, so in order to troll them I cast an upvote after the grace period ended.
I cast an NAA flag too, and I knew that others would downvote it. I also figured that user would know that if downvotes aren't in a 5:1 ratio or higher, they'd be gaining rep, so they'd feel bad their post that they could have gained rep for was deleted.
And then the management came up with a new policy. All employees had to wait "completly distraction free" at their workplaces instead of being allowed to read a book or play games while waiting for literally hours
I would actually, he's an adult who can make his own decisions as to who to ignore
@ShadowWizard It's actually worse then that. It's a credit score type thing with the additional catch that you lose points for "unsocial behavior" like playing too much video games or political dissidency or littering and stuff. And they want to tie your eligibility to work certain jobs or to travel or to leave the country to it.
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog either you are, or he has other reasons to not respond... assuming it's only here, you can try starting new room with him if you got anything important to discuss.
You don't even know what could get you penalized. The end goal is to make people walk on eggshells and cease the many inventive forms of protest against the communist party that have surfaced.
It works on the same behavior guiding principle as the question ban on SO. The exact metrics are unknown to prevent people from "gaming" it (i.E maintaining their anti-government stance without losing points)
@ShadowWizard We had a little bit of a fight a few days ago, in which he said he's going to ignore me. I was just wondering if that position still stands even after I apologize to him (which of course he can't hear).
@JourneymanGeek I very much agree. Re question ban, I saw a meta post saying that he was an 8-year old member on SO, then got Q-banned on another site, and they just didn't understand why.
and tbh, there's a few people who can/do guess the thresholds. Most people who are impulsive enough to do destructive things or try to upvote themselves are not very bright
There was a time when SE didn't disclose the review ban algorithm, and a user did a lot of testing to reverse-engineer it, and released it publicly. SE kept the same algorithm, and disclosed it publicly.
Also, me thinks that when you're spending this much effort and obviously not low intelligence gaming the q ban it ought to be easier to just ask well recieved questions instead
@Magisch The script is easy enough to guess when you look at enough things. The other things besides the script are what really help, but those are even more secret ;)
The first time - basically the single most useful thing that came out of it was we had a library skills course which basically taught you how to google effectively.
Well, it seem pretty obvious to me that, if a profession pays well, there is a reason for that, likely a shortage of people who have the training, experience and natural ability to actually do the work effectively. If anyone could do it, it would not pay well.
@MartinJames on the other hand a lot of IT is cost centric, and a lot of it is aimed at numbers rathert than... well training, experience and natural ability.
and if you go into something simply cause "it pays well" ... well...
a few folks will find they love it, quite a lot will not.
I haven't cooked anything for three days - can't cope with hot food ATM. This may be longest I've ever gone without pizza. Still, it's proof that I'm not physically addicted:)
@MartinJames I think I've gone years without pizza now. I didn't have hot food either, it's just too hot for hot food. We're mostly eating salads and sandwiches and ice cream and fruit
@MartinJames 'tubs'... how big is a tub :P Because I don't know any other tubs than bathtubs, and if you picked three full bathtubs of ice cream that's hoarding :P
It seems to me that whenever I post a new question it has 2 views from the start. Even on one of the (if not the) least busy sites. What does that mean?
The other one is probably smokey, or something else scraping the live question feed on SE.com (though, I think Smokey does and API call and I don't know if that counts as a view)
