I know that if there's several links suggested as dupes before closure, they all go in the dupe box. What about after closure? Is there any way to add to the dupe box once it is closed? Specifically, a gold badger hammer-closed with a link, and I believe another link is a better dupe - what would be an appropriate procedure?
@KevinB yup, it was added by Oded, think one of his last (visible) contributions to SE as a developer.... wonder what he's up to these days. :)
@AndrasDeak only with many followers.... like I keep saying, if just ordinary tweeter user (like everyone here) will try, result will be the same as posting it on MSE.
@balpha hey, there appears to be a new cross network bug which the dev team might have missed, so since it's kind of urgent (I guess) pinging you. Can you please take a look?
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@JourneymanGeek sorry, no need for public shaming here. I just noticed an user with a small link in its avatar to what I think is an online manga scans repository. Nothing really to act on since it is very small (to the point that unless you look at the bigger version of the avatar you wouldn't probably notice it), but made me wonder what should be done if the link was more prominent
Morning everyone, how do we handle suggested edits on spam? The edit in question removes the spam link, I have flagged the post as spam but do I approve/reject the edit also?
MyBB has a merge system, but it currently doesn't support UBB.
You can try to learn how to develop a merge module by yourself and get helped by the community while you develop it.
It isn't easy but MyBB worth that :)
If don't have the time / knowledge to develop a module, you may contact SkinC...
@WhatsThePoint if you can prove that user (Sapir) works for the site they linked to (Skin City Designs) then it might be spam indeed. Otherwise.... it's just an answer stating there is a paid service doing something. This is legit.
and if male/female connectors are too rare, we could always dig up that case where someone tried to fork a GIT repository onto a USB dongle and got fired for it.
I would like to hear from you experts what I should do as a programmer in the following case.
Person is a class that has properties like name, birthday, etc, and one of which is gender that takes either "m" for male or "f" for female. Person class has instance method #male? and #female? to test ...
All that said though, it doesn't mean we should never have a second look when issues are raised. If titles are awkwardly phrased leading to possibly inappropriate interpretations, by all means edit them. Or have a good talk with a community about their content, or what not.
I don't think tweeting the pictures was appropriate, personally, but do you tell a total stranger "You're a terrible person" or "Hi! I overheard that or it wasn't appreciated" or.....
@JohnDvorak That would mean SO needs to act as a company with a social media outreach, and have its employees hold back on individual opinions and actions through their social media accounts. No more "employee here, I'll take care of it"
This all also is a result of growth. We were all happy in the days where we knew "the family". There's Jeff and Joel and Jay and Abby and Adam and ... And of course Adam can say X because Adam's cool ... those days are gone really.
I wouldn't hold my breath @Magisch. The last big issue also just had Tim come forward in the end with a "We hear you, but we might do this again" response.
@Magisch We've had three CM's apologizing at IPS Meta for different things. I've apologized for not telling you what I knew immediately... Sure, the whole thing blew up. But if I want to look at every side of this issue, I'm going to need to write a book, not chat messages. And there's a lot to be looked at, from all sorts of angles.
Someone accused us mods of letting this happened. Turned out it was a disgruntled former mod. And well. Every time something like this happens, we tend to try to talk to folks.
And right now... I get that everyone is upset/angry/unhappy... but it seems like everyone is just going over and over and over on a single aspect of this, just saying how mad they are... which isn't going to fix a thing.
pretty sure this is gonna come up every week or multiple times a week somewhere for the next couple of months, regardless of what they end up doing about it
Problem is @Tinkeringbell that a lot of issues raised, fixes suggested, etc. are not listened to, ignored, or dismissed with a hand-wavy post. So all they have left is being mad.
one component of a proper apology for a mistake is outlining what you have done and will do to ensure it doesn't happen again. That's what my boss always tells me anyways
Ragequitting is pointless as well. Your bloody entrails will not last a second and nobody will remember your face tomorrow - not because of brain washing. It's just what human natural attention span is.
@Magisch no. This will only lead to permanent network wide suspension for the users responsible for the revolt (not all the 30 mods) and SE will appoint new mods.
@JohnDvorak I'm not even mad about that. Perhaps disappointed that no-one warned me about the implications of those titles out of context, and just took us out of HNQ, yes. But I'm not going to argue that out of context, those titles were perfect.
And tbh, If I really think I can't affect change, I won't quit as protest. I'll quit cause I'm sad a place I care about got ruined. We're not there yet, thankfully
@AndrasDeak I think I somewhere sometime long ago read a story about some guy that set up a Pi or something to tweet every minute? at their ISP if the speeds that Pi measured weren't compliant with what they were paying for XD
Questions all around the network do not get Related Questions anymore, for several hours.
Examples from around the network:
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Can this please be fixed?
MyBB has a merge system, but it currently doesn't support UBB.
You can try to learn how to develop a merge module by yourself and get helped by the community while you develop it.
It isn't easy but MyBB worth that :)
If don't have the time / knowledge to develop a module, you may contact SkinC...
