@rene the disagreement stuff is being hugely misunderstood, though. It only relates to FRs and definitely shouldn't relate to support questions at all.
I use them for "this is a bad question". Bad questions, for me, include off-topic stuff, stuff that's been asked hundreds of times before and could be found with any sort of search at all, horrible suggestions, questions asked to stir things up...
Meta is an imperfect system for support. Shoehorning feature requests, support requests, bug reports, and community discussions into a Q&A platform is going to wind up with a system that doesn't perfectly work for all of those.
Downvotes on questions that people don't like - including legitimate support questions - is a part of that.
eh, the way i see it... if you see a post you don't think should be downvoted, the only action you can take that isn't claiming everyone who disagrees with you is abusing the system is to simply cast an upvote on it. If you don't think it deserves upvotes... then there's nothing to fix, an upvote at that point has no more meaning than someone downvoting everything just because.
@Catija It's a great danger. A sock goes around upvoting various people it doesn't like, and some random people, and it's other accounts (to combine with other methods to avoid suspicion); then years later (if and when) you catch them thousands of reputation are lost with the "user was deleted" message.
@Catija Just checked the answers: lowest answer has a net score of 0 !!! I appreciate there may be both + and - adding up to give 0, but nothing with negative net score!
@rene it is going really well, it's fun to get back on some sites and post in some new ones, also it has been fun to see some more posts from staff members on other teams that don't get to engage on the SE sites as much
My future father-in-law is originally from Ischia. When he answers the telephone he says, "Pronto" vs saying "Ciao" or "Hello". He told me that growing up that is how everyone answered the phone. I was curious if that was unique to Ischia/Naples or if it is customary across most of Italy to answe...
@Catija Do you think that your experience from the question from October 2019 with score -788, makes you able to relate to new users like the one you showed us today, whose first Meta question had a score of -7 at the time?
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 all around the company really, as Yakkov pointed out in the Meta post we've had an even higher number of employees signed up before the event started compared to last year which is nice to see
true, to phones going away, I was actually fascinated by the answer and how caller ID impacts the greeting one picks up with which I wouldn't have guessed
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 I was going to make a "I'll call you to test" joke, but then realized you probably have me saved in so it won't be an unknown number ;)
@user1271772 my second (deleted) question ever was downvoted... but it's not really a competition... I can be sympathetic. I frequently leave comments or messages in here like I did earlier when I come across stuff that I don't feel should be downvoted. I understand it pretty well. What I'm saying is that I don't think it's always the response questions get. Many do just fine.
@Mithical I mean, if I have to write a polite WhatsApp... I wouldn't really know where to start. Making a polite phone call though, I've done that enough times to have a habit.
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Yaakov is overseeing the whole points thing but we don't get bonus points for HNQ. We also don't get points for the activity we do on Meta sites
Also... it's too easy for people on the other side to dismiss a WhatsApp I guess. Some things in life I only got arranged by phoning just because the poor call center worker on the other side isn't allowed to hang up on me.
@Tinkeringbell no such thing here, so my number is exposed to all kinds of spam calls... luckily by now I blocked most numbers and also set it so it's not even showing calls from blocked number. The silence is beautiful. :D
@Tinkeringbell I messaged my commanding officer yesterday like "hi <name>, mind if I leave base today?". (Officer officer, not NCO.) WhatsApp is great for being not too formal :p
@Catija For what it's worth, I appreciated you posting that one-box here today, and I was one of the people that upvoted it after you brought it to our attention here :)
@Mithical Oh sure. I was mostly thinking of the times I do use my phone to call, which would mean I'm either calling to make a formal complaint or get something done quickly :P
Like I said, especially with the formal complaints it's easier because the person on the other side can't hang up on you, that's bad customer service ;)
@Tinkeringbell I wish I could hop on the phone to resolve rebooking a flight credit. I was disconnected so many times that they pushed me to Twitter and I've been in and I've been in a week and a half long DM with bots and agents. I want to cry
@Rosie I once had to change my name on a reservation we made, and because my brother made the reservation with my dad's credit card, and I didn't have the card around at the time I called.... the customer service person just called me back in the evening after I had time to get home, and everything was sorted out within 10 minutes.
You know.... think the only time I spoke English before the meeting with Yaakov and Mithical was like 20 years ago when I worked freelance for someone in England.
yeah @Tinkeringbell I feel really bad because I have so much empathy for phone support staff and it isn't their fault but the company has been really terrible about the system they are using for rebooking. I would just do it myself but they don't give me access to do that. It's really frustrating. I'm trying not to pay double what we booked these tickets for originally but we'll see
@Mithical I tried learning Hebrew as an adult and it is so hard. When I speak I would start the sentence in Hebrew and end in French. I love languages, I just wish I was better at picking them up.
I'm a bit curious what the waitress thought when we asked her to take that photo, though... looked like she gave us a bit of a weird look before agreeing :p
@Mithical it is. I'm starting to learn a little Italian now and so far this is the easiest time I've had trying to learn a language. I'm also not doing it as part of a course where I'm being graded so that probably is why I'm less anxious about it.
Today I encountered problem that causes difficulty for me to solve it.
In application I want to display records in aphabetical order thus in SQL statement I'am using ORDER BY, But it looks like CAPITAL letters are before lowercase letters so record starting with Z is before a.
This is example o...
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 I drop in from time to time. We're doing SO Teams at my company now and I find myself needing meta links a lot more frequently that normal
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what user has 7 downvotes on meta with first question?
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 It used to be really terrible a couple of years ago, but it's generally really dry land in general. My parts are pretty good though
Because it's featured. And that's how the FAQ list works on Meta: it includes faq entries, and featured posts.
This behavior predates the introduction of the Community Bulletin board, and no one has been bothered enough to change it.
If you’re building a new app today, it might be worth taking a closer look at making it cloud-native and using Kubernetes from the jump. The effort to set up Kubernetes is less than you think. Certainly, it’s less than the effort it would take to refactor your app later on to support containerization.
@Spevacus Much of my rep was gained through questions, which don't count for tag badges, and a high number of votes on fewer answers (I have 2.5 times the number of votes required, but not enough answers in the discussion tag).