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There are... a lot... of duplicates... — Shog9 ♦ 19 mins ago

@Shog9 Now that, per your recent answer, the system has been changed to no longer reject old migrations such as this case, can my request to have the migration history on this recently rejected migration cleared be reconsidered?

I had requested this a long time ago on a different question, and it was declined at that time, but you recently went ahead and did so. Thanks!

Journeyman Geek

3:39 AM

@SonictheBracketedHedgehog we have these amazing things called flags

they let anyone with moderator powers see a request

and sometimes decline them

Pinging people directly with requests, not cool.

Granted, without a good reason to why a clearing of history does some measurable good, I'd decline it.

But I have 5 minutes. Convince me, and I'll clear the history.

Stormblessed

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Q: Sandbox ad on right side of screen doesn't use HTTPS

I recently saw this ad on Worldbuilding: I hovered over it and saw that this is the link it goes to: http://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/ct/7073?url=https%3a%2f%2fworldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f7183%2fsandbox-for-proposed-questions&s=180e2f25810f79c41228e12f54d...

A nice, pedantic bug report (thought Main Meta people might care more)

Meta Andrew T.

Yeah, it's network-wide issue

I think the newer one about "SO for Teams" are using HTTPS, but the rest (including community ads) aren't

Stormblessed

4:00 AM

@MetaAndrewT. I don't get why the network would use Google ads for something that's just between their different sites, seems like a weird waste of time rather than just linking to a webpage from an image to me

Meta Andrew T.

(sorry, not Google Ads, but DoubleClick for Publishers, which is renamed to Google Ad Manager)

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A: Does Stack Overflow use Google Adsense again?

I'm a dev on the Ad Server Team here, and AFAIK we don't use AdSense. We do use DFP (DoubleClick for Publishers) which is an AdServer. So we use that to serve up our own ads. And I believe that we route links through DFP for click-tracking. Also, they just renamed DFP to Google Ad Manager

Sonic the Bracketed Hedgehog

@JourneymanGeek Is "the system no longer marks migrations as 'rejected' in this case"?

Journeyman Geek

That's not measurable good

that's "eh, it dosen't fit how things work now"

Sonic the Bracketed Hedgehog

I once flagged one of my posts from my old account that was automatically deleted as negatively scored upon deletion for undeletion on the grounds that the system no longer automatically deletes them, and it was completed

Journeyman Geek

It might have been a useful post

who knows

But you're missing the point

Sonic the Bracketed Hedgehog

4:08 AM

@JourneymanGeek Shog was the one who answered the relevant FR. He also just now went ahead and carried out the exact same request on another question where I had requested the exact same thing but was declined at that time

Journeyman Geek

@SonictheBracketedHedgehog so points of order.

I believe shog asked not to be pinged in the past

It's something a mod can do

You're completely missing even telling me why clearing migration history even helps, bringing up many past incidents of dubious relevance

Let's try again.

Sonic the Bracketed Hedgehog

Now that I've read the question, you're right, it doesn't really help.

Journeyman Geek

'Why?'

Sonic the Bracketed Hedgehog

Not too many views, which means it isn't receiving a lot of traffic

Plus the fact that it's opinion-based and off-topic

Journeyman Geek

Yup. So you essentially pinged Shog for no reason ;p

Sonic the Bracketed Hedgehog

4:15 AM

Shog likes to make certain moves that don't serve much of a purpose other than for pure symbolism on occasion, so I figured I'd turn his attention to this one with a higher score which he might as well process along with the other one.

Journeyman Geek

I'd even dare say maybe you could bring these sorta items up here, listen to the discussion and decide on appropriate actions without needing particular people to handle it

@SonictheBracketedHedgehog Shog works in mysterious ways.

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That said let's not disturb our CMs unless no one else can handle it

Even as a mod I often discuss decisions with other mods first. We only ask for help on the most fun decisions

'fun'