Am I banned? I was able to ask qstn today on main SO, but when going to META, I am getting an error "Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account. See the Help Center to learn more." If I am banned, then for what???
Let me predicts the answer: we can't say you WHY you are banned and we can't say IF you are banned, all because this could help cheaters...
@Pekka웃 We get the occasional gifted troll - the limits are much much higher on meta. It's exceedingly rare, but some people do ask back to back 'bombs' that trigger it.
@TimPost yeah, but is that not happening rarely enough that it could be made a manual process?
It does happen that people with stupid / controversial but non-malicious suggestions get banned and as long as the automatic process is in place, they can always cry foul with some justification.
@Pekka웃 We can fix it in truly undeserved cases. But it's better to be automatic because no person 'did this to you' when you're the troll wondering why you can't post questions or answers any longer. But seriously, it doesn't trip people that it shouldn't often at all.
@TimPost ok, fair enough. It's just that in almost every "META SUX!!!" discussion, the argument comes up that people are afraid to ask controversial questions because there's the q-ban looming. Hence, Meta is a place where group-think is encouraged and thinking out of the box is discouraged, etc. etc. it's BS but they kinda have a theoretical point as long as the auto-ban exists. That annoys me.
@bummi do you want to talk about the use of the flag in general, or the fact that it is in the review queue?
As far as I can see moderators have all informations to decide how to handle these cases, as I started using the tools I was of the opinion voting would be helpful, meanwhile I'm not shure if it's only anoing
@Pekka웃 You could post META SUCKS questions back to back 10 times not hit it. The trigger is really hard to pull. The only time it's come down on someone where it probably shouldn't have been when new users arrive very angry and post that way back to back.
I *think* voting in the review queue (or disagreeing) helps the moderators because it pre-filters the stuff they have to look at. But to be honest I know too little about the review queue to answer that authoritatively. Anyway, that sounds like a fair Meta question in itself - unless of course it has a duplicate somewhere...
@TimPost yeah, I see. What I meant above was something else, though - I meant that the theoretical possibility of someone running into a question ban is being used as an argument by those claiming that Meta is somehow broken, and an echo chamber for us elitist SO Nazis. On the other hand - if that argument were to go away, another would surely take its place....
@bummi so the duplicate doesn't answer your question fully?
Do you have a link? I could post a bounty on it if you want
The questions has many answers and is highly voted, but does not cover all my doubts, a questions as comment on an answer could cover it, but this would not be OK as far I know
@bummi a comment is always OK but it's hardly going to be seen by many people. You could ask a question pointing to that question and asking about the aspects you feel haven't been covered by the answers to it. Meta is more lenient about stuff like that. No guarantee but there's nothing you can lose, so....
@Pekka웃 See I got the idea when your rep mining company was in full operation, and the plan to simply skim your profits became obvious. All I had to do is get hired here and wait for you to bounty questions. Flawless execution, I must say!
Yes, I'd totally have done that just to get meta rep and Yes, I ... have a problem.
@TimPost a perfect plan. And I can do nothing to prevent it, for to keep my shady business out of the press (and away from the authorities' scrutiny), I have to appear like a philantropist who throws reputation points around.
That's like riding on the coattails of Monsanto. Or Nestle.
@Shog9 Added a quick installation file which should work...I meant to add some logging and such to help if anything goes horribly wrong...Should work reasonably well regardless, but I will make a note to do so.
Can someone with over 3K rep tell me how the closevotes are going on stackoverflow.com/questions/17706542/…? I don't want to start writing an answer if it gets closed later.
I forgive them because they sell 18" SATA III cables for 61 cents each. Less if you buy more than one. (Compare to Best Buy, where a 24" SATA II cable was going for over $20 yesterday.)
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@PopularDemand You have to pay for the limousine that transports them from the warehouse to the showroom, and for the employees in blue shirts that can't tell you how to use them.
Is it possible, using a touchscreen in Windows 8, to just write notes on the screen at any time? I don't care if it's supported natively or by some third-party app/program.
@RobertHarvey I figured it was one of those "it's cheap to start, but then they really get you on the last six inches" sorts of deals.
Basically I'm envisioning a program that acts like an overhead projector transparency (remember those?) and markers.
I would Google for it, but I have no idea what search terms to use. The few things I've tried have given me results that aren't related to what I'm looking for.
How to do a snake loop in PHP or How to reverse PHP array after each time it loops
I'm not sure what this method or technique is called so I'm just going to call it a snake loop.
Basically what I'm trying to do is loop through an array and then reverse the order of that array the next time it lo...
I wasn't asking in the whole sense of the word, I was just posting this as a material of making fun of the way of thinking of 99% of the ppl who answered there :)
I've been frustrated trying to keep track of all my hours and pay rates via a calendar, and I don't trust my employer to always get my pay stubs correct. So I though "oh a simple Excel table will solve this." So then my mind started flooding with ideas like "oh we could subtotal this at each pay period, and I'd also need to subtotal each week so I can determine number of overtime hours." And well, I'm lost on where to go with this.
I'm a security officer, which requires me to go to a lot of different locations at a lot of different times, and certain jobs pay more than usual. As you can imagine, it's quite difficult keeping track of it all.
Generally they just round to whatever times you're scheduled to be out there. The only time they really change your hours is if you leave really early or stay really late (like more than 15 minutes). I'm just tired of always recalculating things. It'd be nice to have a spreadsheet where I can just type in my start and end time and the rate and have it always calculated there for me.
I'm not so worried about it automatically handling overtime.
I just need something simple that will let me keep track of what I'm working on a week-by-week basis, so I can easily see how many hours I've worked and how much I've earned from it, without having to go through my calendar with my calculator all the time.
I only started this project after my company sent that global message "A lot of people are reporting that their latest pay stubs are missing hours, please check yourself and get back to us with any discrepancies."
The Allnetic thingy sits in your task bar and can be activated from there using a right click. It can do different projects (with different hourly rates). It detects when you're away from your machine (say talking on the phone, or taking a leak) and offers you to subtract the time away from your time sheet when you return. As said, I'm just not sure whether it'll work, but you could try it out.
There seem to be a number of web based solutions but I don't know them so I can't recommend any
woo @animuson you really became a mod, I voted for you :O, I think somehow without my specific vote you wouldn't have made it (or at least I prefer to think it that way)
@ajax333221 that's probably a reasonable way to look at it. we just went down the list of people who would've been elected if we had picked more open slots.
My friend told me that he doesn't bother voting any more in elections, because "it's not like one vote ever made a difference." I will vote when I can and I think it is important, and although I share his sentiment about politicians... it got me thinking.
Has there ever been any major election ...
