@ShadowTheKidWizard I wanted to vote in the workplace moderator election but I cant cast my vote because it does not work. I can't drag the names in the list and also nothing happens when I click on them
it feels like they dont want all users being able to vote?
@ShadowTheKidWizard I'm at work and using my work computer. Its a client served from a Windows Server 2003 SP2 and I'm using the latest FireFox available for this OS. Its FireFox ESL 52.9.0
@undefined yeah, personally I find it less comfortable, fat fingers and all, but it should work. They greatly improved the responsive design over the last few years.
(i.e. the user experience should be the same on any device.)
they better should have improved backward compatibility. I dont understand why they dont care about that when they update/upgrade the code. But I guess thats an other, mostly irrelevant discussion. thank you for your help :)
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@ShadowTheKidWizard that or the fact that they didn't include fallback options. I had a similar issue on the firefox/mozilla doc/help pages. Reached out to them, they apologized and implemented a backward compatibility / fallback option for older browsers
IMO, the basic things like posting and voting on posts should be kept working even in old browsers. All the rest, I'm fine with having it working only in supported browsers.
@JourneymanGeek no there should not. The web should be accessible and usable even with older browsers. but I feels like this discussing is going nowhere. We just see things in a different way. And thats fine
@JourneymanGeek 'every' is a far stretch. but the 52.9. version is the latest version for many older Windows Versions. So in my opinion its an important version to support at least in a kinda working way
Well you can still browse the site while at work. You have no business voting in elections while at work, that's something you can do in your private time on your private machine.
If you don't want a discussion, you probably shouldn't start by sharing your own points of view in a chatroom. It's not like these are places where you can dump your thoughts then tell everyone else not to interact with them because you don't want to discuss.
@ShadowTheKidWizard I have a SEDE query to find "thanks I edited" reply-to-feedback comments. Right now I'm going through the highest scored posts which have such comments and flagging the feedback comments as NLN. Since the reply comments qualify for auto-delete, I don't flag those until I see the feedback comment has been deleted (to keep that context for others who help flag the feedback comment first)
@starball to some extent - I'd much rather people flag stuff they come across. Some people go too far and basically fill up the queues, and there's a risk we may miss more important things
Oh my gosh. I had the volume on my laptop at maximum. It's early, I've barely turned the lights on, I'm sipping my coffee... That ping almost gave me a heart attack.
Are flags visible to people with mod tool privileges? Or only to diamond moderators?
Do the mods get something like a flag review queue UI where they can filter flag types? If so, couldn't they just filter out my NLN flags to focus on those more important things?
@JourneymanGeek I'm interested hear what you'd think on this: What if there were just enough users doing coordinated tool-assisted flagging that the flags don't have to bother the mods? I anticipate you'd be wary of whether those users are doing the right thing, but what if they were users you know and trust to generally do the right thing?
right- but what if there were three users correctly flagging the exact same non-auto-delete comments? In that case, unless the comments have upvotes, they'd never go into the diamond mod queues, right?
to be clear, I mean three separate people- no sock puppets
ok. That's a good point. I'll probably spend some more time in the near future experimenting with ways to search for those kinds of comments / reading up on some prior art.
the other thing is - flagging is a 'side' activity to the usual work of Q&A - if you're doing a SEDE query things to flag, you're taking it too seriously ._.
@JourneymanGeek I disagree. Choosing to spend your time on flagging instead of posting is fine, assuming the flags are valid of course. It's important to keep the site clean, and many people avoid the "headache" involved in flagging.
@ShadowTheKidWizard in a practical sense - you're not using the site or practically contributing. You're treating it as basically one of those clicker games
@JourneymanGeek again, I disagree. People who take flagging seriously don't see this as a game, and it's as helpful to the site, overall, as posting and reviewing.
I'm not one of those, but I do have respect for those who are and can see their point of view.
@JourneymanGeek I see. Well, so you can decline such flags on the sites you moderate, sure, but I believe other mods/sites will accept such flags and handle them.
@JourneymanGeek pity, but it's fine to disagree, and I do believe flagging is important to keep sites clean. By discouraging people from flagging, you keep crap/trash live on the site, in the long run.
@JourneymanGeek why should we care how people find what to flag? Some might use Google, some might just browse tons of posts/comments looking for bad stuff. End result is they flag bad things.
@ShadowTheKidWizard A thing being flagged isn't 'an end result'. The flag being (in)correctly handled is.
So e.g. someone flags comments that can be auto-deleted, but it leaves a broken comment thread: That's an unwanted end result, the flag is incorrectly handled in that case.
Someone only flags one comment without looking at the rest? A mod needs to step in to judge all the comments. The flag is not the 'end' result.
Meh. Usually, it suffices to tell someone doing that 'you're being annoying and with the amount of flags you're raising, we're missing out on handling more important stuff, cut it out'.
Or tell them to at least flag everything in a comment thread, not just the auto-deletable/detectable stuff.
But if you mean 'is it okay/topical to ask it here' well, realize the users here aren't likely to be subject matter experts that can answer your question, but (some exceptions aside, probably) it won't get you banned.
Like one or two people I'm dabbling in Mastodon, and it has a feature that lets you embed a link in external sites that you link to from your profile to "verify" that you own those externals.
I've linked to my SO profile, and I wondered if there was a way to get the link into my SO profile so Mastodon will be able to verify - I think it's not possible.
@ShadowTheKidWizard I think there's a lot of birds flying south for the winter
Twitter isn't going anywhere any time soon, but there has been quite an exodus and Mastodon is quickly growing as a popular alternative.
This may be a bit early (Mastodon could still prove to be a flash in the pan), but I wanted to bring it up for consideration. A little healthy competition would...
@ShadowTheKidWizard I could ask on Mastodon, but it will need SO expertise on here I suspect. The question is: Can I embed functioning link like <a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.world/@foximax">Mastodon</a> in my SE profile?
Twitter isn't going anywhere any time soon, but there has been quite an exodus and Mastodon is quickly growing as a popular alternative.
This may be a bit early (Mastodon could still prove to be a flash in the pan), but I wanted to bring it up for consideration. A little healthy competition would...
Heh. You may ask but it's unlikely I will use the clothing feature much. I didn't in Arceus, only used it once or twice to make something that looked less uniformed. I think I'm wearing a hoodie and some pants, with sneakers, that's good enough for me :P
@SPArcheon o/ Have you attempted training models with SD? I've been watching some videos and I would really enjoy having a lot of free time to mess with that stuff :)
but I've been occationally venturing further down the route, and route goes from rubberised path to gravel to... what looks like compacted construction debris
@curious not this bad
and I did maybe 30-40 min extra?
quite funny tho, there was a bunch of school girls. One group was HELLO! so I HELLOed back. Another group was like "We're supposed to be bonding, we need to bond more than the rest of them" ._. and dogs. And monkeys. and a baby squirrel :D