Hi. I have noticed some user avatars that are imported via google are broken due to google changing the image url. (see e.g. cs.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1581/…) While I doubt SE can do something about this directly, it might be a good idea to put some guidance for users on how to fix this somewhere. Is this already discussed somewhere? Or should I put a new question up?
@JourneymanGeek I hate to say this... but I have yet to see applications that aren't benchmarks actually use that much ram... maybe workstation level stuff.
I remember going onto some of the vendor websites to see just how insane a professional grade system you could put together and seeing systems with quad sockets and 3TB of ram
@ShadowWizard - I am guessing that once the program has been written it's all about support and bug finding/fixing, and someone else got the fixing part - no soup for you.
Well that's fun, Google+ deprecation seems to be removing the endpoints for all the profile image URLs they sent us the past half decade, resulting in a ton of 404s for users.
@Martin I'd say the rate limiting guide, as it's more recent? meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/164900/100 @SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog what's your source on that edit, do you still remember?
I'm not sure. Perhaps wait a moment, the person that made the edit is in here quite often. If they remember where they saw the information that it should be 40 reviews if the queue is over 150, that might help
If they don't.... I think the rate-limiting guide may be false and it's not a bug.
According to this answer, as of August 4th:
We've updated the settings a bit:
When the queue size is greater than 150, you will have 40 reviews a day
When the queue size is less than 150, you will have 20 reviews a day
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I try to keep an eye out for the tiny message that appears on the opposite side of the screen while you're looking at what you are typing with a magnifying glass. It's like looking through a gun sight and trying to maintain a 180° field of view at the same time; all while looking at everything with one eye, thus processing everything with half your brain. 🤪
Thus the magnifying glass. The mobile site is probably OK for some, and if you don't have a magnifying glass, but you lose too much information and some of the menus are missing. Reporting on Meta might get it put in the job jar but it doesn't get it fixed.
I'm more just curious why we need different thresholds at all for that. like, if there's 1000 review tasks available, then you'd give all active reviewers twice as many reviews they can perform... I can't help but think that should be going in the opposite direction
Why aren't there any statistics shown in the State of the Stack where it claims minority parties have "too often people feel unwelcome, unheard, and unable to help or to find help"?
It's true that Welcome Wagon to date has been completely focused on brand new users, and that's excluded things that the folks here need in order to function and feel like a valued part of the community. David's describing a plan to address that exclusion this year. I know "just you wait" is something these communities have heard too many times already, but I hope some of the changes are working their way out into daylight. Like David said, change is in the air! (But you're forgiven if you don't want to take a deep sniff... it hasn't smelled so good in recent years.) — hairboat ♦4 hours ago
If new users are feeling unwelcome, lets talk about that... rather than some unrelated movement on twitter. I'd rather we scrap the whole "welcoming wagon" and move forward with something that is completely separate from that whole debacle.
i'll never see the welcoming wagon initiative as nothing more than a movement based on an outspoken twitter user who never has and never will use SO anyway
@KevinB Nah, that's not true. Even when I started programming a few years ago, SO already had the name of being a school of hard knocks. Which is why our teacher told us to ALWAYS look first, instead of straight out asking.
@SterlingArcher I guess this is where we start to agree to disagree then. But feel free to ask for numbers to back up the blog post on main.
I understand SE has tried to move it from people are being discriminated against to new users aren't being treated well... but that doesn't change the undertones of what started this whole mess
The people whom feel unwelcome might not feel that the new welcome wagon is welcoming enough - thus their initial complaint, and no redemption. Much like a bus driver will never mess with a little old lady, but is quick to pick on youths. Skewed by what we presume to be the fact that the young person is wrong and what we know to be the truth; the little old lady is retired and has time to write a letter to the bus company. The youth will simply kick the bus after being kicked off.
The initial Markov chain bio.SE question was entertaining, but not its two follow-ups here
Scrolling up Bah, that wagon discussion again?
I wonder why people are so eager on having it when it usually doesn't end up making anyone feel better
We're at a state where SE promised some things, and until we can reasonably assert whether or not they committed to them any discussion is going to be a rehash of how vocal SO HATERZ LTD is.
That was my impression too The Wanderer. Did you ever know a guy by the name of Wiseacre? Hey, what's up? I LOVE live and breath facts, so investing time to investigate this site is prudent for me. Thank you all. — Doug Thompson3 mins ago
In this answer on the merits of the -100 reputation penalty for spamming, Journeyman Geek ♦ comments,
Its worth remembering there's two (and half) types of spammers.
There's the big commercial operations....These are beyond redemption. We nuke em from orbit....100 rep penalty? Foo.
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According to this answer, as of August 4th:
We've updated the settings a bit:
When the queue size is greater than 150, you will have 40 reviews a day
When the queue size is less than 150, you will have 20 reviews a day
This is only applicable to Stack Overflow, though, not the ...
Truth/facts have always been painful/hurtful, what is causing so many to call truth/facts mean and edited right out of q and a sites?
In this answer on the merits of the -100 reputation penalty for spamming, Journeyman Geek ♦ comments,
Its worth remembering there's two (and half) types of spammers.
There's the big commercial operations....These are beyond redemption. We nuke em from orbit....100 rep penalty? Foo.
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