Also, it's a really odd thing to say people of a country have any sort of real feelings toward the plans of a president of another country, even if that other country is 'murica
The leader of a foreign nation leaves at best a vague impression of fear (or respect) in people.
I dunno what someone blogging from the comfort of their home abroad thinks, but people did oppose America's assassination of the General.
And either way, emotions can be swayed pretty easily if their foundations are vague, so it means . . . not much.
I guess if the US stops shooting itself in the foot in the Middle East, then sure, people would be more inclined to show some understanding of US policies, if that's what "support" means
But, despite everything, it has been a usual case of leaders bantering and ranting, and people being caught up in the middle.
well at first I thought it would be useful to filter out complete randos by seeing if you are logged in to StackExchange network in general, not to the specific site you're flagging on, but idk how that would work in reality and if it would be legal to do so
It's an interesting idea to allow flagging perhaps based on network-wide reputation: Chat kinda works that way for handling flags...
But you'd somehow need to tie the flags to the network account to allow for flag bans, and need to finetune that logic. I'm also not sure how much can be tried to a network account, that might need more work than it sounds like...
@Rubiksmoose I mean... if you're a moderator you can also make an account on each site and have the reputation to flag, technically. What's making you not want that?
Also... I've definitely seen mods argue over what an answer is, so ... :P
@Tinkeringbell Eh, just having all the random accounts on there seems lame and unnecessary? But it's another good point. (that's 3!) It's not really costing me anything.
I guess I was also coming from the position that the list of sites I've joined reasonably represents my interests and or interest in participating in said site.
@Rubiksmoose Ah yes, that's why I stop at the ones that are on 101 if looking at a profile ;)
I have heard people would like to avoid joining because you're giving another set of mods access at your PII... but I don't think those other mods ever really notice ;)
It's information that can help while moderating, but... I understand. It also comes with a certain amount of danger.
FWIW, if we do access PII, it's logged somewhere apparently, and the largest part of the moderator agreement is about promising not to abuse the information.
someone recently asked me "do you really think the world has become this much more dangerous lately?" - to which I can say we're simply becoming more aware of new dangers we've been exposed to this entire time, and it's a good thing because now we can protect ourselves against those dangers, unlike before when we didn't even know about them :p
I'll be talking to a couple professional info security folks who know how to run a site without having to even accidentally log anything we wouldn't want to log from our users
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it's like... everything that could have been said, has been said already, and now it's time to move on
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Great
Sad that it was the last thing Shog9 did then they fired him though
Shog's last feature (cf. Fermat's last theorem). But I don't think so, I bet he did a few more things that they havent published yet. It'll be good ammo to throw at the community at times of crisis.
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What would you think had happened if say... 4 years ago, moderators would've started using their powers to feature a bunch of posts that were written like the recent resignation notices?
The problem is simple: basically the people running the company, at many levels, know absolutely nothing of it or of us. They are just random robomanagers without any particular "stack overflow" skill.
OK... they want to ditch the community because they have plenty of backlog to answers to provide despite ... but then is there any truth in them saying they want to keep cooperating with the community?
@AndrasDeak No, that's one of the alternative ways of gathering feedback being worked on. The other one is a moderator council and yet another one is better bug reporting/tracking.
@AndrasDeak We don't. I have many complaints about Jobs. My options are to either post on meta and get in an argument about how that's not the way we built it, or complain to a sales person. In either case, my problem still exists and nothing is done.
@JohnDvorak I've seen that question. If they are stuffing that survey in the faces of new users, I think it's a great sneaky way to get some information on how many people actually know those sites exist, what those sites do, and what you're supposed to ask about on SO.
@JohnDvorak Basically, that makes sense with Yaakov's answer ;) If you don't suggest an interpretation, based on the answers you get, you can probably decide what people think the question meant ;)
@JohnDvorak I say we arrange a mutiny. We throw SO and the company that earns money from it overboard and keep the rest ourselves :P Then we sail the seven seas and plunder whatever we encounter.
@JohnDvorak I was thinking of that one time the server the store's POS software ran on also had a russian porn site running on it ;) We could do something similar?
Just hijack whatever server isn't well-protected ;)
@Magisch I would. But then I'd put some CM that's unlucky enough to have to uphold this farce into a position where they'd have to either warn me or worse... That goes a bit against Shog's last request ;)
There's a whole lot of knowledge drained. But yeah, if people on my team were to leave and there'd be new ones... I'd do my best to teach them and make them the best they can be...
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