Apologies if this is a duplicate or belongs elsewhere. I love the "action" command /me in IRC, and think it would be fun to have in the chat. So a message like:
/me loves the new chat system
Would show up as:
Josh loves the new chat system
Rather than:
Josh: loves the new chat sys...
The problem with getting rid of meta tags, is that they didn't come up with good alternatives. How do you differentiate newbie posts from more advanced posts?
Live chat is, by nature, a less formal discussion environment.
The /me syntax is ubiquitous and extends far beyond IRC. It is more commonly referred to as an "emote."
Emote (v) - to show or pretend emotion
Discussions, whether serious or informal, frequently involve emotions. There is a dif...
The point is that meta tags have information in them. If you remove them all then you're just removing information without providing an alternative. Like by removing the subjective tag, now those questions can't be filtered by people (and yes I think those questions don't belong).
@Shog9 We should then edit them for accuracy. As far as the tag being relative, the community could decide on each post, if it got too crazy you could have a vote on whether the tag should be there.
Meta Stack Overflow seems to have different rules and user behavior than the "regular" Stack Exchange sites. How is it different?
Individual questions answered below:
What do votes mean on Meta? Why was my well-written post downvoted?
When should posts on Meta be set to community wiki?
Why ...
@Fosco Sure thing. By the way, I'm only half kidding about the freehand circles -- I really do believe that's part of why I have +9 on that question :-)
@GeorgeEdison is at 3k pending one upvote; party at his place tonight.
Hm, I want to retag [socialnetworking] to [social-networking]; should I flood the front page with 13 questions, wait until night to flood the front page with 13 questions or -- hint, hint -- sit back and watch as a mod does it automatically?
Do you guys think that people with not technical background or people who have been into technical organizations but have not passed through technical ranks should be promoted and made heads of the technical project or teams. For example a person who has never been a software developer or a senio...
seriously though, it's less of a cut-and-dried thing than with salutations. Sometimes, you have to do a bit of additional editing to make the question readable without that phrase. But it's still probably worthwhile to do so: questions stated as questions are nice to have.
Google just released "Google Friend Connect," a tool that allows sites to offer real-time discussion to people currently visiting the site. Google Friend Connect is based on the same OpenID authentication that SO already uses, so it wouldn't be bringing in facebook or MySpace to SO.
I think Stac...
Right now 10k users on any given site can see flags from chat. The idea here, is that the 10k'ers will see the flags and then add their own to make the offensive content go away.
However, if a user views the flags and decides that they are not flag worthy, the notification stays in the chat win...
I want to send an email to more than 10000 mail address. This mail has no attachments, but mail server (Mdaemon) going to stop service. My code is:
string mailBody = txtBody.Text;
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(Application.StartupPath + "\\log.txt", false);
sw.AutoFlush = true;
try
{
St...
@jjnguy Dearest jjnguy, I truly and sincerely hope you weren't offended by my callous and insensitive comments regarding your character and general intelligence behind your back. If I'd known that you were listening, i would never have said them out loud. Please accept this "apology".
And know that I will always "respect" you. and consider "you" a "dear dear" friend.
@PopularDemand Likewise. I return from a 6 week hiatus from SOFU which I took in order to get more work done, and now I find these chats more addictive than the sites were before, lol!
A little while ago, I noticed that the name on my Gaming SE account, Lord Torgamus, didn't match the name on my Gaming Meta account, Popular Demand. I wanted both to read Lord Torgamus, so I tried clearing my associations.
Steps in painful detail: I went to my profile, selected the Accounts tab...
Users with >200 rep on any SE site automatically get a +100 bonus when associating with another SE site. The association process is handled automatically for existing SE users who open accounts on SE sites they haven't used before.
How does the system decide which existing account to associate ...
@Shog9 I have my own version of that trick. I bought the domain gitlin.name. My openID is josh.gitlin.name and when people ask for my email, I give them [email protected] which all forwards to my "real" email address.
@MichaelMrozek Yeah that's why I set it up that way :-)
It's funny to talk to a company on the phone. "What's your email address, sir?" / "[email protected]" / "Uhhh... please repeat that? Did you say 'CompUSA'?"
I got bored a couple weeks ago and switched to using my domain as an OpenID provider; instead of asking for a password it pops up a libnotify box on my computer when an authorization request comes in. It's quite efficient
Looking at the tag-synonym list (please go vote for the vba ones) I noticed that someone has synonymed the versions to the main, like C#4.0 to C#. Was concensus arrived at on meta to do this?
Some bad synonyms like phpX → php repeatedly get proposed again and even upvoted and active.
As long as the users are not sufficiently aware of the meaning of synonyms, a black list would help. This would ideally be pattern-based to allow for blocking of [phpN]→[php] or [javaN]→[java], [javaN.N]...
@rchern I closed the tab I had open but yeah, I think that was pretty close :-)
We had a 45 minute period of scheduled maintainence which is excluded from our guarantee (of course) but that was included in our monitoring server's reports because I didn't schedule it with the monitoring server, so it took some math to be sure we dropped below 99.9
Apologies if this is a duplicate or belongs elsewhere. I love the "action" command /me in IRC, and think it would be fun to have in the chat. So a message like:
/me loves the new chat system
Would show up as:
Josh loves the new chat system
Rather than:
Josh: loves the new chat sys...
I used to be a sock puppet, but I have become independent now. I don't need the hand.
Live chat is, by nature, a less formal discussion environment.
The /me syntax is ubiquitous and extends far beyond IRC. It is more commonly referred to as an "emote."
Emote (v) - to show or pretend emotion
Discussions, whether serious or informal, frequently involve emotions. There is a dif...
Meta Stack Overflow seems to have different rules and user behavior than the "regular" Stack Exchange sites. How is it different?
Individual questions answered below:
What do votes mean on Meta? Why was my well-written post downvoted?
When should posts on Meta be set to community wiki?
Why ...
If this happens I will punch myself in the head repeatedly and never come back to Stack Overflow.
Right now 10k users on any given site can see flags from chat. The idea here, is that the 10k'ers will see the flags and then add their own to make the offensive content go away.
However, if a user views the flags and decides that they are not flag worthy, the notification stays in the chat win...
I want to send an email to more than 10000 mail address. This mail has no attachments, but mail server (Mdaemon) going to stop service. My code is:
string mailBody = txtBody.Text;
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(Application.StartupPath + "\\log.txt", false);
sw.AutoFlush = true;
try
{
St...
