@Catija I feel like that would be less of an issue with SO's volume. And admittedly I don't check the queues as much cause the queues on both my main sites tend to be empty :D
@user400654 eh, that's potentially useful for some ;D
(sorry folks, just got around to catching up on the interwebs)
@Ollie there's nothing that annoys a mod more than repeated flagging of a thing. I vaguely remember there's folks who literally have been flagging the same post over years
Its been seen, we've decided what to do. Mods do talk and leave trails of what happened - and generally have long memories
Much like how a bounty is spending 'reputation' to get attention (as opposed to an answer as many assumes) - the goal of a flag, accepted or declined, is to get a mod to take a look.
@Tinkeringbell there's one thing I am confused about. Wasn't there a plan to move teams notifications to the left bar, and one of the teams we shared had it... and its missing I stink
@JourneymanGeek I'm glad I can't smell you then :P (Took me a while to figure that typo out XD). I'm not sure about that, I do know one of the Teams indeed has something where notifications at least don't turn up in the regular inbox... Maybe it will just have the red notification dot, like other teams?
@rene MO is kinda 'wierd' - they're a 'client' of SE from waaaay back
Looks like essentially they and the language SOs are the exceptions?
I think I might overtake waffles in the all time rep tables in a week or two. This... is kinda wierd considering waffles was one of the folks who built this place ._.
If a disgruntled user downvotes a bunch of questions in succession on the front page of a site, does the serial voting script detect that? I.e., they aren't serially downvoting a single user, they're downvoting anyone who happens to be on the front page.
@PM2Ring Yw. Also: meta.stackexchange.com/a/362059/369802 ... Based on that, I highly doubt any such voting as you describe will be automatically detected and reversed.
@Tinkeringbell I'd read that post, but I wasn't sure if "All of those votes that were determined to be "scripted" for the purpose of obtaining badges were invalidated." was detected by a script or manually.
@PM2Ring Definitely manually as in 'moderators had to manually get a CM to take a look'. Not sure if they eventually used a tool/script to determine that the votes were scripted ;)
I can see how a sql query over the votes table would reveal the vote rate. Still per site but internal sede makes it easier to run the same query on all databases
I sort of defaulted to using SO if I wanted a quick peek at the latest on the Charcoal Team. With it being network-wide now, I can chill on MSE and not be out of the loop. It's pretty nice :)
So even if everything else is equal, SO is the site where you have to tiptoe, management-wise, because someone is going to hate something about your management no matter what
“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.
@TeresaDietrich I don't really consider my accounts to be seperate, I have the same username and description everywhere. I do know there are people that use one SE account, with different "profile info" on different network sites.
I think it feels more like different communities due to the different vibes across sites. Which is mostly the result of the self-governing model we have, that allows sites to set their own rules and "mores"
I tend to think you need a bit more than just 'bonding' over a thing like 'computerstuff' to be a successful SE community... You need people that not only bond over a specific topic, but are also interested in generally building a site that holds the knowledge on that topic.
not only interest, but an actual belief that it's possible to actually build/maintain that knowledge... unlike SO which has become nothing more than a help desk/free code service
I don't think any normal user understands how SE accounts work (I'm quite sure I don't understand it fully either). It's seriously complex how the network and site accounts interact, and it only gets worse with Teams. Part of this is inherent complexity, but I'm quite sure there's a lot of unnecessary complexity in there that is hard to get rid of now
I so adamantly hate SO teams that i've disabled the side bar and learned to navigate entirely on keyboard shortcuts to avoid being reminded that it screwed up our nav bar
Yeah, I said this somewhere else. My work account got merged into my regular account when I signed up for SOfT. I'm pretty sure I had used a different browser, other email domain, still ended up with the accounts merged.
As I don't know how it works, just like @MadScientist, I assume I screwed up but can't rule out the SE account handling logic did some magic it wasn't supposed to do.
@rene my guess would be that there is a single piece of unique information that was associated with both accounts, that is enough for SE to merge as far as I understand
I don't understand why SE doesn't add a confirmation step for automatic account merges. I mean I understand why they probably do this, but I disagree very strongly with that
My hate for so teams is admittedly less about teams and more about the utter neglect of the curation for so long, doubling down on blunting curation tools over the years while the quantity of garbage keeps increasing
I hated jobs for the same reason
I don’t see any of the recent initiatives as an attempt to work on this issue other than the change to the number of close votes required
That imo is really just a symptom of a much larger problem in that there’s so few people curating content compared to those adding to the mess
@Luuklag and a point that should be made is - if it wasn't me (and I don't have particular need for rep - I'd lose at most 20 on that question, or rep caps)
@Luuklag I assume that handling different currencies is annoying in many different ways, so I can understand keeping it simple and only use dollars. And at least with credit cards I never had an issue with paying in dollars, conversion just happens automatically
@JourneymanGeek I know your intentions are good, but to one unfamiliar with you as a person, or your standing within the community it might come off as odd
@MadScientist I know, but supporting Eur is not that difficult. The conversion doesn't change that much, so you can simply put an EUR amount there.
