@Moshe Ok, I sent you a message on G+. I have a friend who is considering a mobile app for psychology project. I figured I'd try to put her in touch with someone that has experience in the are to give her some perspective.
She mentioned something about providing feedback to the user about their answers. So, it may not even be about collecting info, like a survey app would work.
@Moshe I figured I'd see if I can get the two of you in touch, so you could give her more definite answers than I can.
threads is a synonym to multithreading.
In my point of view "threads" are a more general name than "multithreading" and should be used as the primary name for the tag.
I feel that "multithreading" is a subset of the subject where multiple "threads" are used. Sometimes the questions are only abo...
Two weeks ago, I received a Facebook message from a stronger, thanking me for a post I wrote. He said it saved him 2 hours. I just found the message this week, and replied. I think it's nice of the guy to find me on FB and say thank you. It just goes to show the power of StackOverflow.
The strange thing about Google doodles nowadays is that when I click through the link, I see news article about the fact that Google has created a doodle to commemorate an event rather than the event itself...
So if you VtR, that ages away, you can't re-VtR unless it gets R and then C again?
Also @robjb you'll have to forgive my shorthand, these guys have been around me long enough they just ignore my blathering and make up answers that appease me. ;-) So I'll shut up or whatever. Altho they probably aren't that hard to figure out. Probably Q or A are the harder ones ;-)
You're prevented from making the same vote twice, even if it ages away, I think is what it comes down to. There's a very related Meta post though, finding now..
We have two confirmed cases on the U&L site where the sliding vote expiration system is mistakenly blocking the ability to vote even after votes have expired.
As a current example this question has one outstanding vote-to-close but both Gilles and I are seeing the "You have already voted" me...
When a close vote expires, it can no longer be re-cast.
This didn't use to be the case: back when close votes always expired in 4 days, you could re-cast your close vote after it had expired. This behavior was unintended, and now you only get a single chance at voting to close.
This is no good ...
The behavior did change - once upon a time, expired close votes were actually deleted (see also frustratingly-denied feature-requests for stats on a "success rate" for close votes).
@jcolebrand I'm too lazy to dig these up, but the idea is if you're spending most of your votes on things that don't get closed you may want to re-think your tactics. Sort of like a batting average for closers.
@Shog9 no, not wouldn't you know. Wouldn't you know? If you're that anal about if your close votes have efffect, you'll follow up on them. IDK, I'm not a stats-oriented person. I just try to make the site better as I come across stuff.
@jcolebrand This probably goes back to my frustration with voting in general - I don't vote to share my opinion, I vote because I think the question is unsuitable. So if it doesn't get closed, I'm failing to make the site better - I should be editing, or commenting, or notifying others in some fashion in addition to / instead of simply casting a vote.
Users in the past have asked about a way to display close/reopen vote activity within their profile.
I think it's handy to be able to see this information at a glance, rather than having to backtrack through the questions to find out the final outcome of the vote. This would also come in hand...
Related to this recent question where the suggestion is that users should see why people are voting to have their question closed - I wonder whether users are even aware of it happening.
Admittedly it often happens very quickly, not leaving a lot of time for the question to be "mended" but it mi...
Often when I vote to close, I want to go back and check the comments on the question, to see if it's been improved, to comment further, or to answer the question.
It would be helpful to add a bit of a trail so I can find those questions again. I'm suggesting adding an event to the Activity page ...
There are others as well, but these are good examples of requests for the sort of data that was unavailable back when close votes were actually deleted
@Shog9: Even if a close vote is "unsuccessful" I would still argue that it's helping the community. Think of it like voting in an election. Just because your guy didn't win that doesn't mean you wasted your vote. The process itself was important. You used your voice and spoke in some manner.
@Shog9: But I do agree that a trail would definitely be useful. I'd like to be notified if a question I voted to close has been updated and be provided with the ability to cancel the vote.
@David In most elections, there are stats. You vote for the "Issue #C" candidate, and he gets 3% of the popular vote, and even though he doesn't win the candidate who does knows that 3% of voters care strongly about that issue.
If you vote to close, and that vote expires, it's gone without a trace - if you didn't leave a comment, you wasted your time (and vote).
@Shog9: True. Commenting along with a vote would be good. I'd hate to see it be compulsory, but it's certainly encouraged. I've seen a lot that say "voting to close because ___" and they're very helpful to the owner of the question.
I don't always comment, because sometimes it's pretty obvious, sometimes someone already left a good comment, and sometimes I... kinda want to discourage the author from coming back... Cold-shoulder, y'know? But I'm actually a much bigger fan of comments + close votes than I am re: comments + normal votes.
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When the election phase starts are the votes counted/displayed immediately (as for the primaries) or are they revealed only at the end?
@Shog9: Haha, alright. Is it also correct that the detailed results aren't displayed anywhere official, and folks will have to download the voting data to see how badly someone has lost? (I can't see it anywhere on the election page, but I might be missing something obvious, and I didn't vote in the last election.)
Correct - you'll see the winners, but if you want gritty details you'll have to crunch the numbers yourself (or wait 'till @jco spams every message board with them)
I wish I could figure out a way to do that breathless southern damsel "I would never" via text ... intent and intonation have so much to add to expression
Also, it would be funny to see me doing a lady's part, but whatever
@jcolebrand If you're closing and want a bump, do your best to edit it such that it doesn't need to be closed - you'll either succeed, or fail and still see it closed, or see it rolled back and then closed.
If you're trying to re-open, address whatever stupidity got it closed in the first place.
I wonder how much the average voter cares about the nomination blurbs and town hall chat results. I vote almost exclusively based on my personal experience with the candidate, or the endorsement of other users whom I respect. May not be 100% equitable for candidates I've never interacted with, but the three people I voted for are more than capable.
@Fosco Perhaps. There's one person there who I downvoted in the primary. But that happened last election too, and that guy got elected, and he hasn't singlehandedly caused the downfall of SO yet, so... what do I know?
Town-hall kinda soured me on some folks... If your impulse response to, "I don't see anything that needs to be done here" is "Better talk it over with the other mods", you're gonna waste a lot of time...
Is it just me or does the total number of bounties offered peak around the end of the day on Fridays? As in "Dangit, I still haven't figured this out. Hopefully The Internet will solve this problem for me over the weekend so I can get a fresh start on Monday."
Looks like some data about bounties are available in SEDE, so it might be possible to figure this out. I'm not volunteering right at the moment, though.
threads is a synonym to multithreading.
In my point of view "threads" are a more general name than "multithreading" and should be used as the primary name for the tag.
I feel that "multithreading" is a subset of the subject where multiple "threads" are used. Sometimes the questions are only abo...
