I wonder, how is "spend an hour at least" defined?
How long I take to evaluate comments (the # of comments evaluated) is heavily dependant on the lenght and complexity of the comments the bot shows me, which I presume is random
I don't like knowing my actions are not supported by the community, because then I know that a whole bunch of people is wrong and I can't do anything about it.
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog We don't have infinite staff... I'll take the Ask a Question wizard and saved searches over being able to use markup in multi-line messages in chat any day.
@Catija I know; that's part of why I put the "addendum" in my answer on how to get attention for unhandled bugs and FRs (regarding features not receiving much attention from the team).
@Somewhat It sounds a little exasperated, but after a chain of unsuccessful attempts to help, that can be expected. It's not exactly actively nice (it could be friendlier, for sure), but I think it's fine, at least as a solitary comment. If you regularly leave such comments, that would be a little more concerning, unwelcoming-wise.
In photo.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5786/14253 , a user apparently posted an answer on a protected meta question when he only has 2 points over the assoc bonus, despite that the notice on the question says “To answer it, you must have earned at least 10 reputation on this site (the association bonus does not count)”. It's a good answer, so this is good, but I wonder if the text of the protected notice is incorrect, and whether this happens on main sites too or only on metas.
@b_jonas I'm going to guess (but not in any sort of educated way) that meta sites are different... I'm not even sure that protecting actually does anything on meta sites.
There are actually several submissions on that post from 101 rep users.
It looks like per-site metas have their own internal meta rep. For instance, I earned the Mortarboard badge on MSO for having a very highly voted question there.
Perhaps the check for 10 earned rep checks said internal meta rep.
@b_jonas If the per-site meta had its own rep, would that user have earned 10 there, based on their posts?
A user on Photography has only 103 rep, and has the association bonus rights. So their rep without the association bonus is 3.
Yet they were able to post this answer to a protected question on the per-site meta. Reputation on per-site metas is shared with that on the main site.
At first I thoug...
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog @Catija I thought that site metas use the main site rep of users for determining privilages, even though the specific rules are different meta.stackexchange.com/a/160292/222298 from the main site . (There are separate meta badges, but that's irrelevant.)
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog I don't think there's such a thing as "internal meta rep". There are meta badges, which you can earn from participation and votes on meta, though some badges behave differently on main sites, meta. (And Area51 works differently from any other site.)
@Catija I'm not saying that it's a bug that the user could post that answer, I'm just saying that the protection note that shows up on the question page seems to specifically contradict that.
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog In particular, photo.stackexchange.com/help/privileges and meta.stackexchange.com/a/160292/222298 both say that on most sites, you need 5 rep to be able to post on the site meta. That must be rep you can collect from the main site, it would make much less sense if you needed meta rep to post there.
@SonictheInclusiveWerehog I think some badges are just linked, you get them on meta and the main site at the same time. I think Yearling is linked that way, but I'm not sure.
There are definitely two badges awarded on the main site specifically for site meta participation.
@b_jonas No, I got the Mortarboard badge on MSO specifically because I made a post there that received a ton of upvotes. I didn't earn it at the same time on SO.
@b_jonas True. But per-site metas have their own badges too
@b_jonas Probably because the two badges use different mechanisms for measuring rep, which works fine on a main site but differently on meta sites with linked rep.
Some badges, such as Critic, are definitely separate on meta and main site. And I know that only main site badges, not site meta badges, show up in the reputation notification accessible from the top bar.
Wow. The new design really hides the link to the master list of badges scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges , which was previously on the "questions, tags, users, badges, unanswered, ask question" top bar.
Anyway, site metas work in strange ways and those ways are hardly documented.
A user on Photography has only 103 rep, and has the association bonus rights. So their rep without the association bonus is 3.
Yet they were able to post this answer to a protected question on the per-site meta. Reputation on per-site metas is shared with that on the main site.
At first I thoug...
