@RyanM Thanks for taking the time to look into that question I asked. I thought it was unusual for you to repeat so much of what I already wrote in the question, in your answer (including hyperlinks to the exact same pages), but I appreciate the time you put into it. I think what's happened, is that you understand the algorithm used to list the results.
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IF candidates >= enough THEN list all results,
ELSE IF candidates < enough THEN
> IF candidate is new, THEN list them,
ELSE do not list anything
The empirical evidence we have, suggests that this algorithm is being executed correctly by the computers. However, is it a good algorithm?
I think the algorithm can be improved in a number of ways to make things clearer, for example if there's no election then don't show anything (this would be consistent with what was already the case when appointments were made without an election). Or maybe even better, show all changes the way the Parenting.SE meta post shows.
@user1271772 Perhaps you're not realizing that pro-tem elections are a thing now - it used to be that pro-tem moderators were simply appointed by CMs, but they're now chosen in elections.
You seem to be missing the fact that two different types of elections occurred: one pro-tem election resulting in the appointment of one moderator, and one regular election resulting in the election of three moderators.
The former has one moderator listed in the results. The latter has three. This is expected.
It is not related to an algorithm based on the number of candidates. It is related to one election being retroactively changed into a pro-tem election (thus eliminating all but one candidate).
@RyanM You keep repeating the same thing over and over again as if I haven't already known that pro-tem elections have been "a thing" since 2018. We are talking past each other. Anyway, thanks (a fourth time) for the time you spent looking into this.
@RyanM I'm not looking for someone to "explain it better than" you. You have figured out the algorithm and I understand it. I just think it's not a good algorithm.
Fair enough. On that we disagree: I think it is appropriate and correct to not show candidates in the results who were neither elected nor appointed in that election.
That disagreement seems forced. There's nothing showing the first two appointees. Why? Because there was no election. But this time there was also no election (it was cancelled). So list new appointees only if an election started but got cancelled? Seems wrong.
Probably a reason why we're not seeing eye to eye on this, is because the announcement that they became pro tempore instead of full mods was put in an unusual place. Usually a new post is put up on Meta, announcing the results. This time that didn't happen. I checked what was going on, and saw only 1 user listed, when I was expecting 3 (because there was no obvious announcement that anything was cancelled .. only an answer to a much older post, which I didn't see until much later).
Again, the heading says "results", not "new appointees". You can continue saying that the meaning of "results" is crystal clear, but certainly it's not crystal clear to everyone, especially if they didn't know what happened (cancellation, etc.)
@user1271772 @RyanM, for good or bad when you post here in The Tavern someone shoulder surfs and chimes in (often without reading correctly what is being discussed). So, 🍴🍰:
I agree:
@user1271772 The results of the election were, in their entirety: C. Lange was appointed pro-tem moderator. The column reflects this accurately. — Ryan M3 hours ago
> " This election was cancelled yesterday. There weren’t enough candidates to proceed to the election phase. The following moderators were appointed: C. Lange".
That's the result.
What's in the second banner is: "the result".
You can ask for a asterisk to be placed after the word, and a complete definition of what constitutes a "result".
@user1271772 Perhaps your quibble is that the election is described as "cancelled" rather than "C. Lange won by default" (as the procedure describes it: "If there is at least one nominee but no more nominees than the number of slots, the nominee(s) will win the election by default at the end of the current nomination period (original or extended) and no more phases will take place.")
There's a few quibbles. The most recent being that I can't see what I type in chat when using firefox on mobile phone. Hipefully this message has no typos.
I currently have 3 dogs and all of them will periodically scoot their butts, slam their butts hard on the ground, and drag themselves. When it happens, I know their anal glands are bothering them and they're trying to relieve the pain and itchiness which comes with an irritated gland. We have tr...
A note for chat moderators: the team removed the most-ignored users tab, since fixing it would require refactoring the entire ignoring infrastructure. (cc @Mithical)
In October 2019, I stepped down as a moderator on this site. At the time, the environment in the network and especially in moderator spaces was extremely toxic; I stepped down because I no longer felt safe in the role of moderator.
In the year and a half plus since then, there have been many step...
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 It would be useful if the user being ignored were reminded frequently, 10x as often as they forget, and the reason for that action. At least we can be fairly certain that the function works on the CM's panel, the Dev's scripts at the very least.
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 They often figure it out easily enough... But I think the ignore feature is one of the most underused chat features anyways.
Thanks. I wonder how many down vote they see. Each and every down vote gives thanks message . There is no validation message like you already down vote / upvote some thing.............
Right now you need the Access To Moderator Tools privilege (awarded at 10k on a regular site, 2k on public beta, 1k on private beta) to access anonymous feedback on that site. I don't see why that is, and I often want to view this info on sites where I don't have the privilege. So I have to use S...
@Shree it's an aggregated table and only shows posts based on some system-defined criteria: underrated (uv > dv), overrated (dv > uv), most helpful (most uv), least helpful (most dv)
@MetaAndrewT. The question is... if I vote for the same thing 3 times on SO, and I get the 'thanks' message every time (instead of 'you already voted for this')... Does that count increase by 3 or just 1? :P
@JourneymanGeek Posted on meta feel free to edit, I am not well to express my self. / cc @ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Sorry to drag you on this @MetaAndrewT.
@Catija I would guess that clicking multiple times won't revote, at least I assumed that it worked that way. But anonymous votes are inherently not trustworthy, and there is no way from preventing people from multiple times in the end
I mean, for questions, here on MSE, anyone with the association bonus can downvote ... they can downvote one answer, too... or maybe two, since the privilege is 100 instead of 125.
OK. So I feel like I made a boo boo in meta.stackexchange.com/q/368870/497683 - at the time of posting I meant for it to be lightweight and somewhat humorous in tone, but reading it now it does just look messy. In part the entire Conspiracy theory part does not come across as intended heh. But, as I see it, it is not much I can do about it at this stage. Just leave it?
You're free to edit your question as you see fit so long as you don't change the initial meaning of the post and don't invalidate any answers by doing so. Though large, swathing changes are in general probably discouraged.
So, if you wanna clean up that "Conspiracy theory" bit, then do so! It's not central to your point, just supportive (and also, imo, not a conspiracy theory)
It suggests that the data visualization is real-time, "process" is singular, with "go" being present tense: grammarly.com/blog/… - tunnel vision on a single point.
IMO, simply making it a privilege awarded at a moderate rep level would eliminate the majority of cases where one could claim their employer (or anyone really) is using the data maliciously.
how many hr dept employees have 10k rep on SO
hmm... is it intended that the "this user is suspended" message is no longer on the profile page?
err, wait, i might be assuming this user is suspended incorrectly
It also cuts out everyone else who has less than 10K (possibly a few years work) from determining the information; SO already has an "ignore one rep questions" problem, no need to make it so that only accounts that are recognized as being active, accepting, and appreciative get answers and comments.
So, write a post requesting the hiding of anything that would provide information about a user; then you need not concern yourself that the information was used in a manner contrary to your wishes.
Randomize the text of the posts too, so artificial intelligence couldn't build a psychological profile of the poster. Hide the date and time, ...
tbh. I also do not care about the rationale behind why - only that there is a lot of various reasons, and I try not to judge as long as it is not spying. That said I also think protecting against tracking is important. I also see the point of enabling bad patterns trough enabling, - but in a compromise like way lower granularity I think it a lot of it would be eliminated anyway. A problem with the issue is that there are so many special cases that are hard to generalize.
the sticky header was introduced at a point in time where the new navbar was being designed to best funnel users to paid products. Sticky header means when a user visits the page from google directly to an answer, they can't possibly miss the "New!" badge at the top introducing them to Jobs.
I left it sticky because my screen allows the space. I also leave the left nav visible as I kind of enjoy it. Removing the ability to change that up just... feels bad, though.
@user1271772 I use a program called ShareX. It allows me to quickly make .gifs out of a captured region and automatically upload them to imgur. Then I just uploaded it to this chat with the upload button.
Highly recommend the program. It's pretty awesome.
I'm always up for good alternatives. The way I use it is PrintScr => Save entire desktop and save as picture, Shift+PrintScr => Get selection tool on mouse, save as area, Ctrl+PrintScr => Save desktop + copy to clipboard, Ctrl+Shift+PrintScr => Get selection, save as file + copy to clipboard. Alt+PrintScr => Window to saved file, Alt+Ctrl+PrintScr => Window saved as file + picture copied to clipboard.
@Luuklag Nice. Have to test it out. The "Powerful editors" is the biggest pt from what I have (though it would be simple enough to incorporate in my script as well). IIRC I found that best for met is silent save as it's only 1 in 50 times I actually edit the picture.
@Mithical yeah, you're right. But just can't wrap my head around the fact that people post that online. Especially if your reasonably high profile like Theresa
ehhhh it's often easy enough to convert a real name into an address unless you go well out of your way to hide your address (which is quite difficult)
Some people decide it's just not worth it. I recently warned someone (via private message) about accidentally exposing their home address via a postal barcode and their response was that "Realistically speaking it is not very hard for someone to find my address, so I figure if someone was going to go to that trouble they could do it other ways too"
@Luuklag You have the advantage that any page with your address is probably in Dutch, which reduces the population that would have a straightforward time searching for it ;-)
@user3342816 As you recall, @user1271772 asked @Spe: "How did you make that video?", to which the reply was "ShareX" - and the link I offered says: "ShareNix is a ShareX clone for Linux and FreeBSD." - what are you asking?