@JourneymanGeek To be fair, we get very little of the stuff that some sites deal with daily. In the grand scheme of things, this is a very cushy job. :)
Not sure how mods would handle that, but flagging is definitely ideal. Especially if they're impersonating them for the sake of trolling/tarnishing their name.
It's a really good idea to spell out exactly what is the issues you have and how it's affecting your quality of life of using the site. 'I hate it' isn't useful feedback
Quality and being nice are not in opposition. It's a fallacy to put them on the same spectrum. You can be firm and close and delete content that's bad without treating the people who created the bad content like they are trash.
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Also... like... if you take the time to explain why something is "nonsense" we can actually do something about it. If you're going to fall back on just complaining, all we know is that you don't like it - not how we can fix it. It seems clear that "going back to where it was" isn't an option, so help us make the experience better by offering alternatives.
> I'm really struggling to read this because the font weight is so light that I can't actually read the content on my Windows machine. It seems like increasing the size might make this easier for me.
1000000% better than "nonsense".
And... if you can't put into words why something is bad, look around and find people who have already explained why they're struggling in good terms and upvote. You don't have to add your own words to the pile of words people have already written if you're just saying the same thing.
@ymb1 User sees that they created a tag which they don't remember creating in the past. They see that it has fewer than 50 questions. They then add it to random questions to get it to 50.
In the current model, this can still be gamed if the user keeps track externally or remembers the tags they created, but it can't be gamed for tags the user doesn't remember creating. (Jeff's thought was that people wouldn't remember enough for it to continue being a big problem.)
@Catija I agree with that. But one thing I've run into is that there are too many others who don't do that, such that when I do, the responding user (mod/staff) isn't listening anymore, as they just think it's yet another one of the same things. What to do in that case?
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog There's only so much that we have the bandwidth for. So at some point we have to move on. But I really can't give a "what to do" answer because it depends on what has already happened.
Sometimes it's as simple as "I missed a ping or forgot to check back."... sometimes it's "there's not going to be any change and you just need to move on"... sometimes it's "I'm blocked by something else that you're not aware of"... or "this is something we're going to work on in six months but we have nothing we can update about now". Sometimes it's "this just isn't impacting enough people negatively to take the time for"...
that was a response to what's his name saying just wait 5 minutes
This is our plan going forward. I would recommend sitting with these changes for more than 5 minutes, but I hear ya. If you're comfortable writing your own CSS, you can override the --ff-sans variable to have our old font stack which is Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif. — Aaron Shekey ♦2 days ago
As I mentioned last month, the next step in the Outdated Answers initiative is an exercise for flagging outdated answers. Starting today, you may see temporary prompts on Stack Overflow that ask if an answer is outdated.
The prompts have a chance to appear when the accepted answer is at least 60 ...
i've never really understood the whole... "problem" surrounding outdated answers. fix them. if fixing them will lose useful information, then they weren't all that outdated to begin with.
Well, I don't know for programming languages because most of them are usually backward compatible, but I might see the possibility of being useful for software updates that remove/change the location of the settings.
@MetaAndrewT. For programming languages, it's generally a case of "it used to be that this convoluted construct was the best way of doing things, but now it's a single function call".
@M.A.R. I will admit, I've had this question for a while - something that looks good in a UI - is it necessarily going to look good in long essay format.
@KevinB The problem with fixing outdated answers is that it generally would require a user unilaterally changing the meaning of another person's answer, which is generally frowned upon. One reason that it's frowned upon is that often the user doing the unilateral changing is wrong, and actually the original answer was correct, but now there's an answer that was upvoted for one piece of content that's now been swapped out for another.
I wonder if this is because of my account merge, but I can't view posts that I starred prior to the merge. When I look at "starred by me" or "posted by me", they don't go far back at all.
Is there an MSE post about this or should I open a bug report?
@Catija Would you happen to know (something you might have seen when you did the merge)?
A few months ago, I got my accounts merged. However it seems like my chat account (ID 323957) was overwritten by the chat account of my old user (ID 207492). This has resulted in me no longer being able to access posts in chat which I've starred or which have been starred, or my own chat history.
Hopefully succinct enough.
Since I have a feeling I'll get ignored if I put too much detail in.
