> On Thursday, October 10, the update to the Code of Conduct will be announced publicly
Well, it's Thursday, October 10 now.
@dim it's been like that forever, reason is still mostly unknown. People just land on MSE somehow, thinking it's the site where they wanted to post. Or in some cases, question banned users try their luck on Meta.
I suspect people click a Featured question in the right side bar on the site where they actually wanted to ask their question, reach MSE, read the post, then going on to ask, never noticing they're in the wrong place.
The new design where all sites now look the same made it much worse.
Now one is fired, one stepped down, one in a long vacation (?) and one was never active as mod. (For what I could have seen... never saw a single OT question he closed.)
> moderators can't use a small number of privileges, such as answering protected questions, voting in moderator elections, and not being prompted to comment when downvoting, which only check for the required reputation
What special privileges do diamond moderators have?
Diamond moderators are human exception handlers. The main function of diamond moderators is to follow up on flagged posts but they also have some special abilities necessary to handle rare exceptional conditions:
They have access to all the ...
Speaking of diamonds, that ◊ open diamond glyph used on the dearstackexchange letters gave me an idea. When diamond mods post to sites where they aren't actually mods, the open diamond glyph could be appended to their name. That would be useful info for readers who don't know them, especially on MSE.
@Shadow Sometimes it's not easy to spot, if they're active on many sites, but only mod on 1. At least, it's not immediately obvious on a phone, in either mobile or desktop mode.
And they are mods, who know mod stuff. They just don't have mod powers on that particular site.
@Shadow Ah, right. A grey diamond. The open diamond might be easier for some colour-blind people.
@JourneymanGeek That would be good too. And it probably has higher priority. Often, I identify staff by their low rep, but that only works for some of them.
I cannot see reputation of any questioner or answerer on their user cards, but editors' rep & badges are still shown.
It appears to be a network-wide issue.
There's another bug where usernames and avatars are still visible. That just opens the door to all sorts of abuse. Everyone should be shown with a blank avatar and "person" as the username.
Previously, I asked about a feature request for adding a batting average, as a tool for giving more info on the person supplying the answer. From the answers given, it seems like I've been putting too much importance on the rep score - it shouldn't be taken seriously, it's just a number, judge a...
@M.A.R. well you need that to express yourself in the multitude of your person. User profiles are necessary and important. But tying that to questions and answers is a huge mistake
But I think anything from now on would enforce my point that we absolutely, positively needed to discuss this.
Like, even a "hey, we're gonna do this, deal with it" post would have been better than the sheer panic and confusion
Not to mention it's honestly so rash a fix it looks like an Iranian censor trying to hide something, and the empty space is so jarring you just automatically stare at that position wondering what's not there.
Yep, cheap TV censorship. New contributor is there, I guess wildcards are there, everything is there except the numbers.
I think someone's paying big bucks to SO Inc. for a social experiment. They are amping it up day by day until it all falls apart, and then publish the results.
Are we all really going to do the permanently pissed off knee-jerk mode for good now? Calm down people. Not everything is evil, motivated by hostile intentions or what not.
No need for user scripts, this was an unintentional slip-up. We were fixing some Google crawler errors for deleted user cards on questions/answers and a set of brackets got missed in the code path that renders schema.org attributes. That meant that this:
RenderSchema ? @"<span class=""d-none"" i...
On the other hand, giving any for-now-disengaged person some sort of 'impersonating' (that's a bit strong but you know what I mean) a higher rep user can cause lots of trouble.
@canon small mistake made rep disappear from the cards. Even though most of the html was still there, some threw a hissy fit about evil SO/SE making sweeping changes without consulting us.
Previously, I asked about a feature request for adding a batting average, as a tool for giving more info on the person supplying the answer. From the answers given, it seems like I've been putting too much importance on the rep score - it shouldn't be taken seriously, it's just a number, judge a...
Hanlon's razor is an aphorism expressed in various ways, including:
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."An eponymous law, probably named after a Robert J. Hanlon, it is a philosophical razor which suggests a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for human behavior.
== Origin ==
Inspired by Occam's razor, the aphorism became known in this form and under this name by the Jargon File, a glossary of computer programmer slang.
Later that same year, the Jargon File editors noted lack of knowledge about the term's derivation and the existence of a sim...
@AndrasDeak Yeah I'm concerned we're getting into a point in society that even well intentioned actions become extremely problematic unless the actions are perfect for all of history. Thus we judge by a set of standards that doesn't really make sense historically. That doesn't excuse any less than perfect actions it just means we need to be more understanding and forgiving of time, place, and context.
@Bart My next Medium post will probably be an import of the "what SO Inc. says versus what they do" post from my blog. Needs a graphic, because Medium works better with graphics. I have ideas, but they're provocative so I've held off.
@MonicaCellio FWIW, I personally feel like the TL is probably going to come out less toxic as a result of that (call me optimistic or naive if you wish) I think this whole ordeal (though certainly toxic at times in chat) has actually resulted in a lot of shared understanding, learning and respect even among people that have disagreed. Of course, if you get reinstated only you will be able to judge for yourself if it has changed enough.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were stalling because they feared that sorting out Monica's case would make them seem like opposing LGBTQ+ users, which is a stronger wind looking at their PR strategies.
@AndrasDeak Precisely this. They've come out and gone on record in the press that they fired her over multiple sustained coc violations against LGBT people. Even if it's not true thats what they told the press
I fear someone in their high horsedness stopped to think for a moment to consider that their universal sense of right and omniscience might be a bit less effective than expected
it takes a lot of wisdom to judge the rightness of your actions when you're angry, and not only people with a lot of wisdom are allowed to make decisions
Too often "diversity" means "promote one view over others", when what it should mean is that we have a bunch of people with different cultures, religions, backgrounds, and identities, and of course you're going to agree with some things and disagree with others.
@MonicaCellio Me too. I really do. I respect a lot of people around here, even if we disagree on certain points and it's important that everyone gets treated as a human with respect.
Being wrong is fine if you weighed the options and ramifications, and miscalculated. Making a wrong choice due to a lack of thinking is what leads to regret.
@ShadowWizard Long ago, in a far far away land, there was a private UO shard. It was a small server, with little resources, but the people that created it were friends. And so that little server grew and prosper for a while, slowly getting bigger and famous as more and more people started to play there.
It was posted on Caps Lock day, which, coincidentally is coming up again very soon.
@SPArchaeologist-様 are you kidding me? We grew up on BBC and German TV. We didn't have many channels back in my day. So BBC is still a regular staple until this day.
What special privileges do diamond moderators have?
Diamond moderators are human exception handlers. The main function of diamond moderators is to follow up on flagged posts but they also have some special abilities necessary to handle rare exceptional conditions:
They have access to all the ...
I cannot see reputation of any questioner or answerer on their user cards, but editors' rep & badges are still shown.
It appears to be a network-wide issue.
