What is the etiquette for unprotecting questions that were automatically protected via HNQ?
It's strange to see a 10 year old question that hasn't had a single reply in 5 years protected with a big banner saying that it's highly active. On sites I have privileges to do so, should I just unprotect?
When you reply that quickly we know that you didn't read through the text. See the first link's answers and the second link, section: "When should I protect or unprotect a question?"
Oh, I didn't see that you linked to the FAQ. I just read the answers in the first link.
Reading FAQ now.
> Do unprotect questions that aren't currently attracting a lot of attention and don’t have a long history of unproductive answers.
OK, so I should just unprotect them as I come across them if they're still protected despite being on HNQ many years ago and are no longer actually active?
It would be great if the FAQ had a longer answer, and specific examples with suggested courses of action; but it doesn't, just a single sentence.
Look to see why it was protected, was it shared? Does it exist as a "Further Reading" link on an old but popular blog? Is the concern (as stated in Monica's answer) a bunch of looky Lous (armchair quarterbacks, backseat drivers) will descend on the Q&A and post poorly written answers ...
Why was it protected (without a specific example link we are guessing your answer), and should that remain, or was the automatic mechanism unhelpful and it needs human intervention?
@TheforestofReinstateMonica Yeah, that's pretty much the case.
Several years ago, normal users could only unprotect a question if they themselves protected it (i.e. it could only be used to undo your own action). However, this was changed in order to better promote community moderation.
@Theforest I'm guessing the site, you can see if there's a bunch of deleted and unhelpful answers over the years; if that's the case (and they're all rep 1) then the protection is doing it's job. If it's clean and in need of an answer perhaps it should be unprotected.
Sorting by "Deleted Answers" is useful, but once you click on the question's link the helpfulness ends - some aren't "protected" from answers but are comment locked, while others are unprotected (ATM) and exactly why they were protected long ago isn't spelled out you'd have to guess; but since it was unprotected (and it doesn't say when that happened) it's gained enough answers to requalify (yet remains unprotected, but on the protected list in the Tools):
That Tool could use a FR on MSE to ask for some features to improve its usefulness, but alas that's a common theme for the 10K tools and their weaksauce.
So, I made the mistake of updating Visual Studio minor version. Minor version: 2.5 GB (!!!), about hour to download and install, and of course it requires to restart the whole computer. Never Again.
I thought Microsoft got better over years and versions, but they only get worse.
Luckily I switched to node.js which is heaven, on this regard. :-D
We got a new server to do our development on. I've been waiting 1,5 hours this morning to just get access. I now need to sit through a two hour meeting before I need to go and correct a bunch of environment variables before I can continue working.
@ShadowWizardisVaccinating Oh, I had access to the server itself with the company name/pw. Once there though, I couldn't access the 'disk' the data was on XD
My phone gets monthly updates, they're often a few hundred MB (sometimes a GB), and involve a reboot; they're important even if they chew up half an hour loading optimizing and booting.
@Rob well, I didn't use the auto update for years. Installed new Studio since then, several times, so figured "They might have been got better now, let's try" when VS said there's version 16.8 available and I have 16.3 - and then I stared in horror when seeing the numbers.
@Rob that's same as updating Windows itself, not some minor version of IDE.
Still, not a major version. No need to download whole VS from scratch, which is obviously what it's doing.
That's the easy path, I get it: just download everything, install from scratch, whenever there is any minor change. Microsoft saves money this way on developing actual update packages, and they can use this money to buy more coffee. ;)
@Rob I have my phone to auto install them at the middle of the night. It just reboots itself again, even alarms continue to go off in the morning. Only thing is that it needs the password then, instead of using biometrics
That's how I deliver updates to one of our old projects: client need to download it all and install from scratch every time. But it's about 10 MB, not 3 GB.
@Tinkeringbell Not really relevant. It is more about how the COC might conflict with a scholary discussion on for examply the ban of gay behaviour within a religion
@Luuklag Well you could argue things go both ways...
> We don’t tolerate any language likely to offend or alienate people based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion
"Your religion is homophobic"
"You're a sinner"
Both are not really useful. But if I had to pick, I think hinduism.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2101/13465 is the "most right": If you're on a site about a religion, you need to be able to discuss what guidance that religion gives with regards to controversial matters.
(heh, I got pinged about an answer I posted years ago, about I think that question and I'm unsure of the best option to take :D )
@Tinkeringbell on the gripping hand, one of the 'talking points' of some almost 'evangelical' atheists is to pick up on some piece of scripture, often out of context, and kinda bring it to its logical extreme
and a lot of modern/historic hinduism is very much folkloric and based on more recent scripture
I bet the major conflicts lie in different sub-sets of any religion basically. In NL I think there are at least 5 different christianities, all having different truths. In the Islam there are at least 2 major ones, which even wage wars with each other for being hetathens. So it cant be different for hinduism
(as opposed to the 'vedic' era, which we don't actually know much about outside folklore and unfortunately is often seen through a western-judeochristian historic lens)
@Luuklag imagine if you took all of them, but shoved them in the same church :D
@Luuklag oh, our differences are slightly less fundamental
or more precisely, its the ones who take things waaaaaay too seriously that argue
I'm from one sect, I'd quite happily go to a temple from another sect (AND THEY HAVE THIS LOVELY TRADITION OF TELLING YOU THE STORY OF THE PLACE! IN NORMAL LANGUAGE!)
@JourneymanGeek It always felt weird to me to visit a church of a different denomination, but it's not like you'd be unwelcome there. It's just that the rituals are all wrong then XD :P
(though, in theory, they're our folks. Some of us converted, though which way... no one's sure. Since my specific clan has one of their deities as our 'family' deity and depending on who you ask, people converted one way or the other)
That does sound lovely. And yeah, I've had such a tour from a "priest" once, and it was lovely to see how much of the history of the place he knew, and how he would point out all the religious things you wouldn't necessarily notice (I mean a statue of the Virgin Mary is kinda obvious but there were also so many nice 'easter eggs')
I think in the time I was in church, it split thrice. Every time there was a bit of 'converting' to a more strict or less strict 'new' denomination involved.
@Mithical Yeah, was just about to say that depends on your point of view. It's unfortunate if you're trying to get out of a bad habit, it's fortunate if you believe it's important to you.
@Luuklag Now if you can ask or answer 5 questions on those sites, scoring 10 each, you can add 1K to your Flair easily; rather than tossing out the 500 credit.
@JourneymanGeek I mean, I've definitely also picked up bad habits while modding that I should take some serious efforts to get rid of again, and there's good things I learned too, like that I should be much, much more conscious of the habits I pick up :P I'm not sure if I would accept a moderating role on any other site, at least not while I still have such a role here, but never say never. I hope to live longer than this network :P
@user102532 use the Contact form: meta.stackexchange.com/contact use other; explain why you think your account got suspended incorrectly. There is nothing we can do.
By the way, on the off chance that the reason you want to delete your posts is because you were suspended and don't want to participate anymore as a result...that's not going to happen. Though you could request that they be disassociated from your account if that's the case.
@user102532 You are better off trying to improve its quality. Having deleted questions counts against you when it comes to your ability to ask questions
@user102532 I didn't do anything; the link explains the process for automatic deletion (I just have a script that tells me how many days it will be until deletion)
You can if there's a way to provide free text like that (working it into the essay somehow?), but I doubt it would help unless it were really impressive.
@user102532 Well that usually happens when you get suspended for voting irregularities with multiple accounts involved. They suspend all accounts, and sometimes even nuke some out of the database.
There are plenty of definitions for voting irregularities, there is no way for us to know on what basis the moderators of physics decided to suspend you
@RyanM Most boring illness I've ever had. Lost my smell, no other symptoms, sat in one room for 10 days. Still can't smell a thing, but that'll come back at some point
I was kinda expecting to get it at some point - going into work on public transport, then working in the same place as paramedics who go to covid+ patients all day every day... yeah, it was going to happen
@rene yeah, Israel has awesome health care system, but we're in the peak of the third COVID-19 wave, with over 10k new infected people every day out of population of 9M, so it's really bad. Death rate also peaked, and the funny part? All of this happens during a full lockdown. Which nobody obeys.
All celebs post in their social media accounts pics and vids of themselves in parties, or beach, while it's strictly forbidden.
And nobody is there to stop them, so people see this and do anything they want as well.
