I have post several bug reports of my own (admittedly some better than others). So far only one as gotten a [status-complete], and to be perfectly honest that particular bug was not fixed at all — the momentary "fix" became obsolete latter that week.
@ElementsinSpace I think the inquestion bug is huge. i remember one of the mods said they use it with large question's that have many answers and you need to weed them out and go one by one
@BigJoe If you feel it has sufficient support (the score looks good), then you can flag your question with an "in need of moderator intervention" flag and ask for a mod to tag with [status-review]. I would only flag personally if it's functionality that very recently broke, because that helps developers narrow down when potential changes may have introduced the problem.
Otherwise... Unfortunately, it's just another bug report to add to the backlog.
I don't think good answers always need to be complicated
@OlegValteriswithUkraine in the days when I was a bright eyed and bushy tailed newbie I used to have the new question feed in my rss reader and tried to do one or two a day. It adds up
@mousetail that's assuming people both accept and upvote. In my experience on SO (your mileage will vary), it's common for a variety of reasons for that to happen less than 25 of the time.
half of my answers have nothing. And when I look at other peoples' profiles, I see a similar pattern.
granted- I know you said "good answers", but even then I don't think that's a generally accurate statement. I've written several answers that I'm very proud of because they demonstrate deeper domain knowledge, and they get less views precisely because the question was more niche.
and I've written answers that I knew very little about the subject matter and got tons of upvotes because it was useful to many people.
@MetaAndrewT. actually it's abusing the system, same as upvoting spam just to make non striking mods life harder. This is off topic and mods have to close it. I strongly oppose such actions.
My initial reaction is that not super against it (this meta discussion happening on main), but my main lasting thought is just... "hm. why?". They already have a meta post, and it's in the hot meta posts sidebar.
@ShadowWizardStrikesBack yeah, but I don't think that was the original point of the person who posted the question on their main site.
if anything, it sounds like the question post on their main site was done in reaction to the meta post being un-featured: "Normally this type of key information about AC.SE would be posted in meta and featured on the main site."
which, again, leads me to question why not just leave it to hot meta posts.
@starball well, only case that justify such action is if the hot meta questions widget is really removed and won't come back. But it's back.
@starball on second thought, it might have been done when there was no hot meta questions showing, and they couldn't know if and when it will be back. Still, now that it's back, should close or migrate that.
@M.A.R. there is precedent of negligence and there is precedent of a sort (forgive me for lacking a better term) "young male" attitude that makes fun of what is considered girly or just non manly enough.
Furthermore, since they were just mentioned above, it is worth noticing that someone in the company has a quite twisted idea of what a joke is imho.
See the "hairboat hat" that required every single user on the network to ping hairboat.
subtle is the difference between laughing with somebody and at somebody
@PM2Ring technically, there are some differences since the picture upload is very very bad. Just know that some part of the site enforce a size limit on SE side, some apparently don't.
@SPArcheon Meh. You're applying your own preferences to an interaction/'relationship' you're not a part of. That's easy to do to generate a nice bit of outrage on the web these days, but very often just wrong. Stay out of it.
Unless you see very clear signals of someone in distress, it's not your job to go and cry wolf.
And at all times, you first make sure someone is okay with something, before getting outraged on their behalf.
@Glorfindel Quick question before I post a bug report: you're not using some script when it comes to post locking, right? The announcement you locked appears to have been "frozen" in the same way as historical locks or obsolete locks in that the answers are locked as well and the vote buttons are removed, rather than the expected way where the answers don't get locked.
Given that you've muddled with scripting in the past resulting in absurd results (such as a time when you submitted a "Close" review on an answer using a script that submitted a valid review task result type ID for that queue but not for the type of the post), I'd like to know if this is the result of you submitting a "freeze" request instead of "lock" using a script. If it isn't the result of a script, I'm going to post a bug report.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog You can go post a bug report. I've just unlocked it (for science) and re-locked, and it does indeed lock answers too. Do you need to take screenshots before I unlock it again?
Developers love automating solutions to their problems, and with the rise of generative AI, this concept is likely to be applied to both the creation, maintenance, and the improvement of code at an entirely new level.
@Tinkeringbell It's now morning. I'm writing a bug report and I'd like one more thing to test: does the bug also happen for the "wiki answer" lock? That's (currently) the only other type of lock reason that's supposed to impose a "traditional" lock on a question (rather than policy, comment-only, or freezing).
@PeterKolosov users need some time to get accustomed to the community they're participating in, and make mistakes while they do that. Please don't hold those against them, whether they're current moderators or not :)
@ShadowWizardStrikesBack Unlikely to get an answer there as there's really not surprise about how to say or spell "1600". I'm leaning toward it started as a joke as the Gregorian calendar was pretty new at the time.
@ShadowWizardStrikesBack That reminds me of the books series, The Craft Sequence. Deceased deities and the accounting mess that ensues. Pretty good read.
@ElementsinSpace Oh hey. Found the post you edited. They probably should have led with that post and followed up with a collaboration of how do we "find the ChatGPT posts?". I got fewer than 10 questions down on the bounty board before I found one.