Just now when I went to Stack Overflow I noticed that my avatar icon has changed. But only the little one at the top of the page, next to my reputation. When I open my profile, or even my Network Profile, all shows up fine.
On further inspection, the URLs for the icon seem different. On SO it's:
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I was just browsing CGCC, and I went over to the meta, and noticed something strange: That's not the indenticon I've come to recognize. Somehow, my identicon changed sometime in the last day or two, and only on Meta. Across the entire network, my identicon on meta sites is different from my ident...
He said it will be fixed on Monday, but forgot to say which Monday.
So can be in 6-8 days, weeks, months, or years.
Personally doubt it will be fixed as it starts to look like a bug that simply requires too much dev time, which isn't worth spending on something minor.
@Rob I don't think this edit should have been approved. It injected more problems into the post than fixing actual errors. Other editors had to waste time fixing those new errors.
But meh what's done is done, maybe better lock this as "official post" to prevent further messing around with it?
You'll remember how busy I am? Well, naturally, the ideal flat/apartment for me has just come on the market. So I'm selling/buying/moving (hopefully) in the next few months -- and I have 19 years-worth of accumulated stuff in this house that won't all fit in the smaller next place. :(
@ColeValleyGirl fine, thanks! COVID slowly rising in Israel but vaccine keeps it at bay, to some extent. So many new cases, but very few fatal (about 6 deaths in a month or so). Personally not much news, kids are the only dynamic thing, but guess it will bore everyone here if I talk about them too much. :D
@ColeValleyGirl oh wow, that's a big change.
You have kids/family/friends to help you? (Not only physically, morally as well. :))
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Everyone (or the sane ones) here (UK) are worried about the Government effectively declaring a free-for-all on Covid precautions when numbers are going up rapidly especially in the young.
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Yep. I will give a lot of stuff to charities, and sell a few things where the effort is worth it, but for example I gave away two paint-covered step ladders yesterday (no charity would take them) and a pet ramp (for elderly cats and small dogs (too niche for a charity).
Re Boris, I suspect he'll resign before he's kicked and go back to earning more money as a newspaper columnist (I won't say journalist because real journalists have real principles, whereas he has principles like Groucho Marx). But before he goes, he'll change enough laws to make it impossible to sue/prosecute him.
@Susana I've never been bitten, I can confirm. I have occasionally disappeared into a time void and emerged blinking asome hours later wondering where my day has gone.
My sister has consulted a cat psychologist (yes really) to help her understand how to stop her ex-feral pet cat biting her when he's bored. The answer: spend much more of her own time entertaining him. (There is a reason dogs have owners but cats have staff).
hmm.... maybe Susana can't post in chat, despite the employee bit? @Catija any idea if employee with less than 20 rep ever took active part in chat (i.e. posted) without getting explicit write access?
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 See the part about skipping, if you don't know what to do, if you did that more frequently you'd be wrong less often:
The rules for reviewing Suggested Edits have lightened up so it's possible to let stuff like that barely slide by.
As you can see I do reject when I can, and that user has a record number of rejections for a couple of days work, surprised that they are not banned yet, must be on the line.
There's no a bunch more errors, there are fewer.
Approve and Edit, would probably have been the actual best choice.
@Rob ban only if there are like 5 rejections in a row.
I tried to fight bad suggested edits by rejecting them, it was totally futile, I gave up.
Dozens of such edits to highlight random words as code.
Those drove me crazy and when seeing they're being approved anyway I packed my things and stopped reviewing suggested edits, it's pointless.
Sadly it's not robo reviewers who are the problem, that I can live with. It's people who actually believe that using inline code formatting is legit way to highlight words in a post, instead of bold or italics.
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 5 in a row is a lot, I think that's how they squoze through. --- Yes, thanks for leaving us the work, I think some of what I got were audits; but it was certainly a busy day. š - Lucky we don't have to review and fix MathJax on MSE.
Unfortunately, my story for "how'd you find the site?" involves too many personal details, so I won't be posting it. But reading some of others' are interesting/
(If you're looking for a next question to ask, I'm a fan of "What's your pet peeve?". As in, something that isn't urgent or a major problem, but something that you personally would love to see changed.)
i've got a pretty good list of questions, and it's roughly following Moore's law, only weekly.... so who knows when i'll get through them all.
I think it's interesting, though, that this one has more answers than the last. Maybe because it's easier to talk about origin stories than community theory?
@Philippe Objectively, the longer it takes to get through them the better, actually. Continued engagement in the community in this manner will help build trust, show activity, and help show that the previous culture of not engaging is changing. So... the more questions the better, I say.
The Peter Principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "maximum level of incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.The concept was explained in the 1969 book The Peter Principle (William Morrow and Company) by Dr. Peter and Raymond Hull. (Hull wrote the text, based on Peter's research.) Peter and Hull intended the book to be satire, but it became popular...
I love that ref.. "Tim got demoted into management"
I love how the text of that answer hasn't really changed in ten years.
(Although given how things have changed - such as A51 basically being killed off, or the pro-tem system changing - it probably does deserve an update.)
I get that. When I was at Wikipedia, one of the best admins I had was 13. And, like, nobody knew it until he "came out" during a discussion similar to this one.
he was so helpful to me that I tried to give him a trip to our conference in Poland. he told me he would have to ask his mom. And that he'd have to tell her what he was doing for wikipedia. I was flabbergasted that she didn't know. I asked what she thought he was doing on the computer all the time. "I dunno, porn?"
he's amazing. I think of him often, though our paths don't cross much anymore. Anytime the "under 18" debate comes up, I get sad because I remember how much it hurt him.
@Ollie you can add the bounty you wanted to here now (at least Iām pretty sure it was you who wanted to add the bounty, I hope Iām not getting confused here :)
There are 3 answers in particular that are top-notch in my eye (hint: Shog isn't on the list, for once :D), but I'll keep the authors' names to myself for now.