@JourneymanGeek I think if you have a more front-facing role, that interacts with the community... it's pretty hard to take a sabbatical but still be active in e.g. chat.
That would be like walking around in an office, drinking coffee with everyone, but no one is allowed to ask you anything about work, or mention work when you're there.
I am going to try to make some 9 hours days at the start of this week, so I can hopefully stop working a bit earlier on Friday. That's when my parents will be gone again, so I'm hoping to get in some gaming on the TV before the covidiot starts throwing parties again.
Why do we need this feature?
Sometimes community leaders (community members who care their community and its meta issues) decide to make some minor edits on a certain set of posts (which may include numerous posts) to help community visitors to find their needs more easily, for example, by removi...
Please don't use edits to respond to / invalidate an answer. Also it was great this edit bumped your question so I could do the right thing and undo it. — Luuklag9 secs ago
If they're so obviously different from this post, perhaps you'd have done better to edit your post (and bump it) to include reasoning as to why yours is so different, instead of just repeating that it is obviously different. Because apparently, it's not obvious. — Tinkeringbell ♦10 secs ago
@JourneymanGeek Would you mind rolling back one more time and locking, to prevent a rollback war here? Luuklag already tried but Later is being a pita again :)
I mean, if my community wants to edit hundreds of posts, fine. I don't care all that much about the front page... on sites like IPS bumping good old posts with good edits is probably better than having the mediocre or closed ones on there anyways.
I like that old post that's the first duplicate target there, having these edits reviewed. But then again, there's been so many mentions of the suggested edit queue being full on SO, that I doubt that adding minor edits to a queue would actually solve a problem.
When I respond an answer in comments, I am suspended and told that I should not argue in comments. When I add my response in my post, my post becomes locked.
@Later Well - one of the skills needed for effective meta is winning over people. If you're moving from arguing in comments, to arguing in edits.... after closure (which had naught to do with us), maybe its time to cool down and consider exactly how you want to come across now and in the future.
As much as the current idea - its useful to consider options used in the past, and what potential flaws in your own ideas are . Appointing people with special privileges for example isn't the way SE does things. There's no reference to previous posts along those lines, or how sites have managed this previously.
@JohnDvorak At that point, the person you're defending the answer against should probably write their own answer, or you should edit the answer you're defending.
@Later appointing people with special powers (as opposed to by reputation), and not really making it clear why its better than just 'accepting' a certain degree of bumpage. If you read up, we also discussed how there was a mechanism to do so and it was abused
"why its better than just 'accepting' a certain degree of bumpage". Why should organizing edits, which add no new information, bump posts? As I said in my post, it bothers many community members.
"appointing people with special powers (as opposed to by reputation)". Why is it bad? Who complains of giving some special powers to do janitorial tasks?
Excluding people is in the definition of the word clique. What you call 'not bothering' is actively excluding people, by making it more difficult for them to join.
Then you'll have too many people volunteering to "do janitorial work" in the form of reopening their own questions and then bailing out of responsibilities
@Later Yeah, just like anyone can walk into a building. But if the door doesn't open easily enough, some people might think the building is closed and go away.
Not to mention the people that need wheelchair ramps.
@JohnDvorak I meant that seriously, it's not something everyone can do. In which case, it's probably best to not frustrate both parties (1 by making them try, the other by continuing to be unable to get the point).
This isn't the first time Later has said they're unable to understand, so at this point I'm going to advice... just stop.
@JohnDvorak I've edited the message a bit, but yes. It mostly works for that of others in the chat, at least.
Not everyone can see that they are being saved a huge bunch of frustration, and the reputation of being one that's frustrating, as a positive thing, I agree.
@Tinkeringbell I like your new avatar. It's also colorful, slightly less assertive, certainly less flamboyant, the arara changed for a cartoonish peacock.
@JourneymanGeek @John @Luuklag True. I will probably end up fiddling a bit more with it tonight, perhaps I can get something that follows the color scheme but is a bit more parrot-ish ;)
@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard I've had lenses before, so perhaps this is just a childhood picture? :P
@Tinkeringbell The arara was more elaborate, indeed. In perspective, the listener from a side profile compared to the full frontal glass wearing intellectual. Going from a scrutinizing look to onlooked. Perhaps the change in avatar towards the contemplative also reflects the author's changes...
@bad_coder I change all the time. Probably more than I change avatars. But 'more contemplative' probably isn't one of the directions I'd ever change in ;)
Ugh. I want to keep basically everything but change the headshape and tail (also tail color preferably more blue than green). Can't find the right letter/case combination XD
Is that better? It still isn't very much a parrot....
It seems to me like that was one that was moved from Meta SO to Meta SE, but I don't know when that move happened. I think it's old enough, but I'm not sure.
Update 2014-04-17 04:47 UTC: Stable, with some odds and ends to clean up
The main MSO/MSE sites are stable, but there are plenty of corners left to sweep. For details, see: The Status Of The Split
Not all of them mind you, just Meta Stack Overflow into Meta Stack Exchange.
I'll have yo...
Today when I saw that the post notice for a migrated post looks like this:
Now what struck me as odd was that the word "Migrated" is used as an hyperlink twice. The first occurrence links to the FAQ post that explains what migrations is. The second links to the questions timeline.
The placement ...
Different solution, or perhaps an extra but very related request: Make the order of links in the notices similar. Currently, the notice for posts that were migrated away looks like this:
With the first link linking to the question on Meta Stack Overflow, and the second link linking to the help ...
:P
I'm getting used to this avatar. It looks nice on posts, at least.
I will take notice... apparently Catija did indeed notice that the griffon had hooves. This knowledge shall be looked into. Have we got an undercover MLP expert? :P
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