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1:30 AM

Supposedly mods can see who voted for what posts at /admin/show-user-votes/{user-id}; this was edited into the FAQ on mods but was rolled back. Is this the "voting trends", is this an intentionally hidden tool, or is it a staff-only tool that due to a security bug is being exposed to mods when it shouldn't?

Shog9

1:41 AM

@SonictheWizardWerehog the tool exists and is available to moderators, but it doesn't do anything like that. It shows patterns of voting between users, when those patterns cross some threshold. It doesn't show what was voted for, nor does it include all votes or all users.

Sonic the Wizard Werehog

So it's the "voting trends" screen. That's already mentioned in that answer.

Shog9

1:59 AM

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Q: Should moderators use their abilities for personal reasons?

Moderators on S[OFU] have a number of privileges above and beyond those of normal users. These are necessary in order for them to perform their duties as moderators: keeping the peace, identifying and mitigating abuse, etc. However, most moderators also participate on these sites in a fashion si...

Journeyman Geek

@SonictheWizardWerehog erm. Who edited it in? We can't see who voted for who or (usually) what in almost all cases....

People shouldn't edit in things they don't know about ;)

@Shog9 I am going to assume that post is pre-CM-ness... ;p

Otherwise... DANGEROUS MISINFORMATION (BOO!)

Shog9

Aug 26 '10 at 18:14, by Shog9

Mods can also come into your house at night and leave your milk out. Some mod abilities aren't talked about much.

Journeyman Geek

Ok... that was fun for certain values of fun. I bought a tablet off aliexpress. It was cheap (about 50 usd), runs windows 8.1 ... and won't boot off USB. And my backup software would/could run off the windows bootloader but I had to pick a older version of the recovery environment to recover - which is important cause I upgraded it to 10 and needed to roll back.... since the touchscreen wouldn't work. And it only has one USB port so I had to do a few things with a hub....

@Shog9 true. But that's just us encouraging healthy gut bacteria.

Shog9

2:15 AM

gotta keep your gut bacteria healthy. Never know when you'll need their help fighting off a hostile gut

Journeyman Geek

Yup!

also, I have a genetic predisposition for liking yogurt.

Shog9

or, at least your gut bacteria do

Journeyman Geek

Gotta keep em happy. Or at least mad at the the less nice gut bacteria.

user302202

3:00 AM

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A: How does Stack Exchange attempt to prevent low-quality questions and answers?

I love your answer, I want to test the heuristic method works or not.

Journeyman Geek

4:55 AM

→ 28 messages moved to Chimney

Sonic the Wizard Werehog

5:27 AM

@JNat Cross-site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/15541193/med-hos

Journeyman Geek

6:23 AM

@SonictheWizardWerehog Whacked the MSE and SU user

I can't do anything about MO :)

Bookends

Photo.SE is trying to allow critique as a contest question

Bookends

8:01 AM

> I spent an hour of my time to do research to answer this question, so I even missed the lecture I had that morning, because I wanted to sort this out and give a thorough answer (considering all the alternatives).