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Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

12:13 AM

@hyper-neutrino Suggested edits are rate-limited to five at a time, so that limits over-bumping.

@Catija I voted it as a duplicate of a more modern one, an FAQ

hyper-neutrino

12:46 AM

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog ah, right, totally forgot about that, thanks for reminding me

Rob

1:45 AM

This question shows VTC by author instead of community as one of the closers, the FAQ says that the Community user casts the actual vote?

Journeyman Geek

2:01 AM

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Meta Andrew T.

2:13 AM

@Rob hmm? the question was normally closed by 5 users, not OP

Rob

@MetaAndrewT. Who asked and is also listed as a closer of the question, rather than one of the closers being the Community user?:

It's not two users with an identical name, which could have been a possibility.

Meta Andrew T.

2:32 AM

@Rob oh, the OP voted to close instead of pushing the shiny "Yes" button then :)

@Rob compare to this instance instead when I voted to close as dupe then confirming it.

Rob

@MetaAndrewT. I noticed that this question you linked to includes this answer (amongst the many answers) that suggests Franck could have chosen "No" and then proposed a different duplicate; but his choice was overridden by the majority on the other two reasons - so that's /dev/null for the OP's preferred answer.

@MetaAndrewT. That example lists you and the Community user as the closer. This search locates all duplicates, going in newest order, a few down, finds this question where the OP isn't named; instead the Community user is credited. --- That's the difference, my initial question ...

Rob

3:01 AM

Here the OP is not listed, but here the OP is listed as one of the Close Voters.

tripleee

5:09 AM

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard hmmm, this flies in the face of consensus over in SObotics, there are multiple problems with writing a regular post from a bot account

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard not very hard, all you need is a dictionary

@rene should I add this to the SObotics guidance?

@hyper-neutrino I have a request to thaw some roooms on Meta now too so I need to rack up enough rep on meta.chatexhchange.com too (done now, I think)

hyper-neutrino

@tripleee i keep forgetting the networks are separate by rep *sigh*

association carries over but the rep itself on another network doesn't help. oops

tripleee

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard the fix for that is to slightly overcommit and rack up enough rep that it doesn't matter if a few of those points are lost

hyper-neutrino

or get enough rep on one site so association gives you guaranteed rep on MSE :D

tripleee

@Catija I'll keep that in mind, thanks -- my current algorithm is to pick the highest-voted hits for the typo I am targetting, but I suppose it would be more respectful to target recent posts (though then who knows whether many of them will survive, and who should take care of the old posts?)

@hyper-neutrino yeah I have another project where that will be the approach which makes more sense

rene

6:02 AM

@tripleee well, if that gives us new / unique / original / non-plagiarized and high quality tag wikis and excerpts for so far pristine tags, then I prefer that yes. I admit that it might need some better language skills then just finding and fixing regular posts.

tripleee

thanks, I'll try to incorporate this into the post on SOBotics Teams

rene

when editing posts, spread it thin, specially on low traffic sites. I mean: we notice someone is on an edit-spree.

tripleee

would three per batch be more palatable? or just one at a time?

from the outside it's not always easy to discern what qualifies as "low traffic"; do you mean anything except Stack Overflow, or anything except SO+triplet, or do you have some other guidance?

rene

3 per day would be a nice number for MSE.

tripleee

(sorry for the sloppy typing)

I try to compensate by going over the suggested edits queue from my main account (-:

(obviously skipping the edits of my own sock puppet)

rene

6:08 AM

low-traffic is: looking at the /questions active tab and count how many posts were active on the last (few) day(s). Stay way below that number.

@tripleee nobody doubts about your good intentions and it is appreciated. I'm sure within a few iterations we get both better content and better process guidance for the next puppeteer that needs rep for their sock. This process is a win / win if the outcome is captured in guidance going forward.

tripleee

6:39 AM

updated old SOBotics Teams answer

rene

6:59 AM

@tripleee looks okay, left two comments there. I hate it that we don't have a proper on site canonical for stackoverflow.blog/2011/03/24/redesigned-tags-page

or at least, I haven't found one

all are "plagiarized" / citing the blog

I'm sure we have learned a thing or two since 2011 about tag wikis and excerpts

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