Room for Random Person and Glorfindel

Random Person

17:54

Hey Glorfindel!

Glorfindel

@RandomPerson hi, what's up?

Random Person

Hello

I am sorry for bothering..

I actually wanted to talk about adding the featured tag to meta.stackexchange.com/q/375749

I have already made multiple forms of requests and I suppose you must be knowing all of them

the issue is time is running out..

Now there's just 2 days (approx.) left for 23:59:59 UTC Feb 4th timeanddate.com/date/…;

featuring the post at the end of Feb 4th would be meaningless as the last date for feedback is Feb 4th.

Glorfindel

I have seen some of them, yes. But we Meta mods cannot do anything about it ... and you've asked about that already:

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Q: Rules which Meta Stack Exchange moderators need to follow regarding the [featured] tag

I am curious to know about the rules which Meta Stack Exchange moderators need to follow before featuring a post or removing the featured tag from a post. For example, let's say that some maintenance post is posted by a Stack Exchange employee but they forgot to feature it. So can Meta Stack Exch...

Not all feature changes on Stack Exchange get featured, I expect this one to not have any negative effects.

Random Person

yeah.. I know. Especially the quote that you have used "SE appointed us as moderators of this site. They didn't appoint us as arbiters over network-wide advertising."

Glorfindel

(But I might be wrong, I misjudged the changes here meta.stackexchange.com/q/375081/295232 ...)

I saw that change on the Greatest Hits page, never knew that would have such an impact on the homepage ...

Random Person

18:08

So, who will be handling my flag regarding featuring the post? Will it be handled by staff or MSE mods?

@Glorfindel Yeah.. we never really know things until we see them

Glorfindel

@RandomPerson Community Managers handle quite a lot of flags like that on Meta.SE, also flags to get things status-completed.

But if you fear that won't happen until February 4th, you're probably right.

Random Person

yeah.. that is my fear.

Glorfindel

But if you ask me: this is not a 'critical' change that needs networkwide scrutiny by users.

I have learned my lessons after the question summary change, but again I don't think this change will break things.

Trust me, some of the staff has read your comments/answers/questions to feature this question.

Random Person

I might be crossing my limits, but, if it is possible for you to talk to a CM (through private chatrooms) to handle the flag, it would be nice. I am not pressurising you. It's up to you to do it.

@Glorfindel oh.. thanks for that info!

Glorfindel

I don't know they read it, I assume it based on their general activity on the site.

When you post a comment or answer, they get pinged.

Random Person

18:13

So, I suppose that they are ignoring my request. Fine... I guess "ignorance is bliss".

Thanks for the help Glorfindel!

I hope I didn't kill your time and sorry for too many forms of persuasion.

@Glorfindel ok..

Glorfindel

@RandomPerson or if their train of thought is the same as mine, deem it just not important enough to feature it.

Random Person

@Glorfindel Is there any post in MSE which talks about how regular users can request a post to be featured? I read some post about how regular users can request for adding status-review tag but nothing about featured tag.

@Glorfindel ok..

If the train of the thought is same, they could have declined the request..

Glorfindel

@RandomPerson Not that I know of. As a moderator, I would ping a friendly CM in the Teachers' Lounge; as a regular user, I would just post a comment with a concise but convincing reason.

@RandomPerson they visit Meta frequently, but not the flag dashboard

Random Person

@Glorfindel Wouldn't it be nice if there's a post about this in MSE?

@Glorfindel ok..

Glorfindel

@RandomPerson certainly, but it might already be asked?

Please check the featured-tag

Random Person

18:18

Wow.. the post is featured!!!

I didn't expect that to happen. Did you talk to someone?

Glorfindel

no I didn't

You see: patience is a virtue :)

Random Person

I certainly accept that "patience is a virtue".. but in this case, there was a limited amount of time.. So, I was kinda excessively concerned.

Glorfindel

I understand, but I'd advise you to limit excessive concern to posts that really need to be featured like meta.stackexchange.com/q/370707/295232

I mean, some changes don't even get announced upfront...

Random Person

Sure. Thanks for your advice!

@Glorfindel I went through all the posts.. It looks like it isn't already asked.

Glorfindel

@RandomPerson that would explain why I don't know about such a post :) You might want to ask it, but: perhaps wait a week or so, to avoid coming over as too pushy?

Random Person

18:29

I didn't expect my post to be deleted 😅

@Glorfindel 😅 ok.. I wish there was an option to schedule posts.. it would make life easier for me..

Glorfindel

@RandomPerson that just takes a little programming on your side. The API can do a lot of magic ...

or, store the content elsewhere and set a reminder ...

Random Person

@Glorfindel wait.. what? Is that possible? How?

@Glorfindel yeah.. that is kinda the manual way to do it.

Glorfindel

@RandomPerson api.stackexchange.com/docs/create-question

I've never used that one, but I (read: my scripts) do a lot of editing through the API

Random Person

I am not a programmer 😅

Anyway, thanks a lot for the help. You give me hope whenever I talk to you..

It was nice talking to you.

Keep up the good work!

Glorfindel

@RandomPerson sorry, didn't realize that. Most SE users are - hence my assumption

@RandomPerson same here, thank you as well!

Random Person

18:35

:)

Bye!

Glorfindel

See you later!

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