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Is there any documented list of things that are secret (eg. Vote reversal bot specifics, what tools moderators have to see voting), or is that also a secret?
@Catija I mean, that's probably a good thing too :)
I keep it a secret at work that I can do some stuff with hacky workarounds, just because I know that once I tell people, I will be spending hours just on those hacky workarounds :P
@JourneymanGeek but what if I went youtube.com/watch?v=O9k9PKN0YMY and saw it anyways (just assume for a second that I don’t suck at coding as much as I actually do)
@EkadhSingh Maybe put up a sign saying... "This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here."
What do we think of this deleted Q&A? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/363751/… I don't think it should be deleted, it has a good answer by Animuson, that is far more to the point then the dupe it was closed against
You might have noticed that we posted a VP of Community job description on our “Careers at Stack Overflow” page. It’s a big role, and important here at the company. As we move forward in the process of becoming a product-led company, we’re putting a lot of thought into our original product - our...
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For the past few months, every one of my questions (total of eight) have been downvoted almost immediately after posting. If they are poorly written questions or even if asking a question for something that shouldn't be attempted, I deserve and welcome the downvote.
I am not paranoid or a cons...
It'd take walking through each user's rep at n second intervals, and discarding those who could not possibly have downvoted you, right? But if it's serial downvoting, it should be pretty easy to finally figure out who it is because they'd be the one user who always loses 1 rep at the time you get a downvote, even if at any given check of all users, multiple people may be candidates.
This just gets me thinking about how practical it would be to create a service with an API where a user ID can be input, and candidate downvoters would be output, narrowed down over time. It would be pretty easy for smaller sites, but I'm having trouble thinking of a way to get it to scale to sites as large as SO without hammering the website and running afoul of the ToS with DoS-like behavior.
There's a huge delay. Go to a site that's unused by you. Vote up a good answer. Look how long it takes your profile to report that you voted, and then even longer for the Supportive badge - it may be visible on the post almost immediately but it's delayed for everyone, even your own votes.
So even if last seen doesn't update rapidly, it'd be enough to exclude users who haven't been on in the past, say, several weeks. The instantly-updating rep change would be sufficient from there.
On the post it changes the "score" but them getting rep takes a fraction of a second and you losing one for a downvote takes longer - try it on that site where you are unvoted.
The information SE makes available that is relevant is 1) changes to post scores, 2) changes to users' rep, 3) last activity (at very low granularity). Is there any other useful information?
@KevinB But imagine you are being downvoted. Such a service could return after a week that user 123, 456, 666, 420, and 69 are the only ones who couldn't be ruled out. At week two, it could return users 123, 666, and 420. Week three, it could return only 666 (of course assuming only one person is serial downvoting, not multiple). And s/week/day/ for small sites.
I've been hit by a lot of revenge votes on my questions, but i have so few questions that it wouldn't take long for someone to downvote them all, even at 2 a day
@forestdistrustsStackExchange Thats what I remember about my forst few posts. They pointed me in the right direction. Tought me the lingo. And got downvoted and deleted pretty soon I think
I have an extremely simple program that does nothing more than call recvfrom() in a loop. According to its manpage, one of the arguments is a pointer to the length of the address. This address is initialized in the .data section to the integer value 16. I noticed some strange behavior when I atta...
I've always wondered, does filling the description of images -- [![enter image description here][2]][2] -- do anything? Like for search indexing perhaps?
@ymb1 For users who do not have images rendering in their browser, or visually impaired users who use screen-readers, it helps for them to understand what was supposed to be there. While not required (obviously) it's nice to fill them in with something descriptive.