A little announcement: I've analyzed every anonymous edit made to this site since I deleted my previous account in November 2013 to the time I recreated my current account in December 2017. I've gone through each edit and determined which ones are mine and which ones aren't. Here's the chart: 1drv.ms/x/s!AqtMgKjEFIvOgcYhXA4N97y_V6hYIw (cc @Shadow)
If you look at the year before I created my account on December 10, 2017, you'll see that I've made at least 280 out of 305 edits, or 92%.
Overall, I've confirmed to have contributed at least 318 out of 419 edits, plus maybe around ~10-20 more.
I kinda doubt that anyone besides you actually cares about the data... At this point it's really giving off the impression that you're just going "HEY REMEMBER I DID THIS" for the attention.
Like, cool, great, thanks. But there's no reason to keep bringing it up again and again and again and again.
Well, I actually started this analysis in March 2017, just as everyone was reeling in from it. I burned out with around 50 more edits remaining to analyze, then I discovered this file during a drive cleanout, so I figured I'd finish it now.
@Mithrandir Point me to the last time I brought it up before this one.
A quick search reveals the last time to be one month ago (though that wasn't bragging), then the time it could remotely be considered bragging November 2018
And if bragging about it once every six months crosses the line, I'd be surprised.
There was also one mention in December 2018, though that wasn't bragging either.
Over spring break, I've been working on checking each anonymous edit made since my first one in January 2014 and my coming out in early December. After having checked all but 48 of the 413 anonymous edits made during that time period, I've counted 312 as by me, 46 as by others, and 6 as "unknown" (as in, I don't remember). While this isn't the actual count, I can definitively state that I've made 300+ anonymous edits here.
Well, I actually started this analysis in March 2017, just as everyone was reeling in from it. I burned out with around 50 more edits remaining to analyze, then I discovered this file during a drive cleanout, so I figured I'd finish it now.
@Mithrandir If they do, you just gave them attention ;) I'm going to recommend that if people are uninterested in discussing this data they just ignore it and don't have conversations about it. :)
As a Nexus 6P upgrader I find it the 90% perfect phone to upgrade to
It was a great phone, but over time it kept facing increasingly worse problems. It wasn't running the latest Android well, one of the two speakers would randomly cut out, it stopped being supported in December 2018, and eventually the fingerprint sensor failed. The last straw was a cracked screen, so I immediately upgraded to the Pixel 3a XL.
It's quite a massive upgrade from the Nexus, and being a new phone it will be supported for longer
One of the two stereo speakers is bottom-facing, so it lacks true dual front-facing stereo speakers, a feature of the Nexus model. But otherwise it's perfect...
Finally, rather than wait a while and be forced to use my cracked Nexus for possibly a month, I wanted a new phone now, from a brand that actually sells phones in the States.
My budget was $500, the same price as my Nexus, and at $480 the Pixel 3a XL came under that budget while supporting 90% of features I was accustomed to
It was technically an Android, but it had the memory of a floppy disc (B:), and anything more complex than a graphing calculator would keep crashing due to insufficient RAM
Well, not what I had back in the day.... 15-ish years ago... there was helicopter that could fire missiles or throw bombs, and he goal was to eliminate all enemy forces.
It's often said on this site that meta means murder and that this acts as a deterrent. Our site, which is supposed to act as the central clearinghouse for network-wide matters, doesn't have a great rep despite the good efforts of many people here. Using a system designed for objective(ish) Q&A,...
Hm, is this a good suggestion or a bad one? Let's check the comments... oh, it's a bad one. DV.
Also, why does it even matter? If SO-the-company likes the idea of chatty system comments, they can go ahead with it all the same, whether the proposal is at -30 or +30.
Basically: 1. Only allow 1 "required tag" because mixing them is confusing and open to "abuse" (is this tagged with [support]? but it's also tagged with [feature-request]! *dv*) 2. Abolish downvote penalty 3. Only allow downvote on [discussion]
From personal experience: "If we add an optional filter by reputation, NOBODY will see the posts by new users, and the site will collapse" does not show anything. It reiterates a wrong idea of how people use site settings. But the conversation stops there, everyone now sees the proposal is bad.
> Do you want to be a vampire,still in human,having talented brain turning to a vampire in a good posture in ten mines time to a human again, with out delaying in a good human posture
Sure. What wouldn't people do to have a good posture...
Throw in the promise of weight loss with the all-blood diet, and I'm in.
Oh yeah, about the comment, while some comments themselves might be problematic, the inbox notification to the OP is more problematic on Hot Comment Post... like getting 20+ notifications in a short time..?
I actually want to propose to automatically create a chat room for a meta post as the only comment, then disable the comment thread. But that's also too radical.
We could prevent all these complaints about people trolling or new users posting junk if we could just filter out specific users or add rep thresholds.
@NoDistractionWizard Another example: if I want to avoid the routine homework problems on Math, I need to filter for questions that remained with no answer, say, for 12 or 24 hours. Can I do that with this filter? No. It's "newest" only. Of course the newest questions have no answer, that does not mean much.
Public messaging needs a dramatic rework, even if SE discounts the reach it gets.
It'd help a ton if there was something in all that feel good welcoming messaging if it was tempered with the fact that we still need to maintain standards.
@fbueckert well, at least this user didn't do that ;) I think they're just generally annoyed that they can't get their question through IPS quality control, and went to another site where they could post to find a sympathetic ear, only to find a brick border wall of more quality control :/
It's hard, a lot of people think IPS is just about interacting, but an Interpersonal Skill is really a behavior used when interacting to achieve a goal, and their questions weren't about that :/
And if those expectations had been made clear, it may have prevented the annoyance in the first place. I'm not confident of that in this case, but it's still a non-zero possibility.
We can't force users to read, or much of this wouldn't even be an issue.
I'm starting to come around to needing to pass a test before being able to ask your first question.
@fbueckert Tests are ... Fickle. There's people that can pass tests very well then completely mess up in practice, and people that may get turned away/discouraged because they can't pass the test (e.g. language issues)... Who could've asked great questions that just needed some editing
@fbueckert Ehh, not for a movement focused on enlarging the user base of a site ;)
@Tinkeringbell Hence my flip side. I'm not unaware of the downsides of doing so.
Dealing with too much low quality content burns out your curators, though; once the ones holding back the dam break, you've got a flood you can't handle.
Where the balance is between new and curators, I don't know. But it has to be a balance. None of this welcoming new users and ignoring curators.
@fbueckert I don't really feel ignored here... Because it's basically those curators that can say 'hey, if you want me to be able to help new users better, I need X' or 'hey, I think new users would benefit from a question wizard, and it would save me work too'. Of course they can't implement all stuff at once, but I do feel they're working on stuff...
@fbueckert I tried my hand at a Titanic once. Messed up the painting, broke one of the life boats... Then decided to never finish it as it wouldn't be perfect
It's quite interesting, what goes into making all those plastic pieces; improvements in 3D printing will be the wind of change, allowing medium sized runs of both metal and plastic precision parts at a low cost.
The UX research shows: users who don't have much reputation don't care much about reputation, except they'd like to be able to comment so they can write "worked for me, thanks" comments.
@fbueckert Using Milling, grinding and 3D printing in one machine you can produce highly complicated metal molds with intricate internal cooling channels which can be used to injection mold the master grade models. Individual prototypes are easily produced and modifications easily made.
