Quick question: can anyone access lensmarket.com? Local media article claims it's blocked only for Israel but looks like it's down for everyone, lol. If so, one of the worst journalists I've ever seen. ;)
Someone reported to the newspaper that many people from Israel started to buy there recently due to low prices, so when the site went down they just assumed that's the reason. (To block the Israeli people.)
Typical for Israeli mentality, to think everything is related to us.
It's not.
Oh, and of course the "victim mentality" which is the other side of the coin: thinking that every action done, is done to hurt us personally. Thinking about it, like those who whine about downvotes...
Hate this, but meh, that's my place and I can't change it. :/
Left snarky comment on the article, doubt it will be approved. :P
@Journeyman any reason the post about bookmarks next generation isn't featured?
Same thing with the popular question badge. I'm mildly annoyed when I see a new person with 3 gold popular question badges while I had to spend hours in review queues to get the same effect
@mousetail They don't need to be good. Just pick a more subjective site, and a question that's already slightly a 'hot button' topic. Then provide just enough snarky, popular opinion in your answer and hit HNQ. Done!
@Tinkeringbell It's hard to be the first. Often by the time I notice a "trend" there are already 10 questions and the site is getting sick of the topic.
@Tinkeringbell huh! Never figured the difference between those two. :D
@mousetail yep. But you can approach it from many directions, and @Tink's point is that even after 100 questions on the topic, people would still make a feast from the 101st question.
(SO excluded, there all it'll give you is quick closure, deletion, and rain of downvotes ;))
@ShadowTheKidWizard So someone on Twitter started it, but IPS meta was checked before IPS was kicked out, and IPS meta already expressed a hatred of HNQ ;)
@mousetail both in comments and here in chat, first three letters are enough to cause a real ping. So, @Sha, @Shad, @Shadow, etc, would all ping me for example.
My proposal is to add the ability for Room Owners to create pingable groups within a chat room that people can register themselves against. This would allow the easy pinging/sharing of knowledge to groups of people who are interested in certain topics.
Example scenario
This example is taken fro...
For some or other reason, typing @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ in a chat room pings everyone who's been in that chat room for the last 7 days...
Seems to work in all chat rooms (I only tested 2 as I don't want to upset too many people...)
How should we proceed?
The worst bug I've ever seen was what appeared to be random high rep users losing all their reputation (think also badges) in instant, without trace or any reason.
This user is only displaying 56 rep. https://stackoverflow.com/users/2354107/user2638924
But surely (s)he has much more than that.
The user has also never given out any bounties.
Also, badges are missing:
This is just an FYI — the Stack Overflow Student Ambassador Program was recently announced. Today we’d like to share what this program is and how students will be participating.
What is the Student Ambassador program?
We are partnering with Major League Hacking to develop our student-ambassador c...
@ShadowTheKidWizard No strong opinions, nice for students to get some experience I guess. I've enjoyed participating in hackathons when I was studying, though doing it remove seems to defeat the purpose
While I don't think the idea is great I don't see any real potential harm. It's not that many people for such a large site and they'll be playing with the API not directly asking and answering questions much. I don't think it will significantly increase the number of low quality posts.
In essence "Instead of helping the core users improve quality, they just bring new users with potential to cause the opposite, in the name of marketing".
@mousetail BTW, love your avatar! You always had it?
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@mousetail it's just an elaborate scheme to get you interested in site-related matters
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