@Undo We have plans in place to field the comment classification task to groups from the community (for example, moderators) and are hammering out a data sharing policy, given the constraints we want to be sensitive to. We don't have a set date for the first cohorts (we'll be doing this in batches so we can measure response rates and put the correct number of comments into batches for each cohort to get to statistical significance, etc) but absolutely are working on concrete plans for it.
Thanks for your patience on my response here! I am at a conference right now and now responding as quickly to messages.
also, in person, people from india use sir a lot if they assume you're in authority
In one case one of my students used about 20 Sirs asking me for directions to the next building. I nearly told her "Sorry miss, I work for a living!"
(also I had this odd thing where our younger primary and secondary school kids were like "HI MR GEEK" and our 20something year old diploma students... were afraid of me.)
(I wasn't a teacher. Worked IT in a private educational institution)
@NogShine This is not a proper use of the close reason "can no longer be reproduced". That reason is only for ephemeral or user-specific issues that were resolved in a manner unlikely to help others. The bug was fixed; the status-completed tag was enough.
@SomewhatMemorableName government here has gone full war on sugar.
I can't buy a drink without artificial sweeteners or watered down at work. The only things that don't taste terrible are the bottled honey lemon or lemon barley ._.
which is actually a mild misnomer because the sparkling part of it is not due to the small amount of carbonic acid that intermittently forms when you introduce CO2 into water.
> After many years of experience of many sites, my stone hard opinion is that a large part of the most active voters are motivated by an irrational urge to cause so many harm for others, as it is only possible.
Am I out of line for considering this borderline flaggable?
@ShadowWizard I agree. Just because a post makes an irrational claim, that's no a good reason to delete it. If all the opposing views and 'claims' are removed, future visitors will conclude that there are no crazies on SE. I prefer it if the unsupported and irrational POV stayed right were they can be seen, considered, and rejected.
I mean 'stone hard opinion is that a large part of the most active voters are motivated by an irrational urge to cause so many harm for others' - troll. Most users would be able to discern that.
@Magisch the sad part is a lot of the back half... is actually potentially helpful
> Build probability models for that, try to model the behaviors and the feelings of the users with them! Use massively soft models, use AI, use probability networks and Markov-models, and then predict the behavior of the induvidual users and their net effect to the site, depending on the events what happen to them.
Sounds like a potential timesink but a cool CS experiment/people dig AI :)
I looked up a way to search in my favourites, found it, and then spent a few minutes wondering why infavourites:mine wasn't working. Took me an annoyingly long time to work it out.
I'm looking at full.js, specially section 07_TagMenu.js. The comment says If an argument is given,... but in that actual code I don't see how that init function accepts arguments at all, let alone how it will use them. Am I missing something or is the comment a lie?
If anybody enjoys metal, apparently these guys made an extremely accurate Maori warrior music video (and the song is great too) youtube.com/watch?v=5kwIkF6LFDc
I'm not a moderator on StackOverflow (at least not that I'm aware of), but I received an invite to participate in this survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZWWXB5H
The questions look to be aimed at moderators specifically, and not the SO community at large.
Are others getting this email as w...