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The EE mods are actually pretty active but there's no "close vote review" or similar chat there.

@ShadowWizard Ok thanks, I'll just flag such the next time.

(The whole Q&A is arguably off-topic on the site but anyway...)

Should we flag this as spam even though the answer as such isn't really spam? electronics.stackexchange.com/a/722439/6102 The account is an obvious spam account.

So moderation is about 50+ people doing some monumental effort into getting rid of some tag, while at the same time someone is creating the stuff tag elsewhere, passing under the radar until it has been added to thousands of posts. Never ending busy-work.

Just be glad you aren't moderating SO and have to carry out "tag burninations" of thousands of tags... like every week.

@ResistanceIsFutile Yeah I don't understand why everyone dragged GDPR into this, there's no personal information shared (I hope). Plus... if you don't want someone else to get access to thing x, then maybe not post thing x on the Internet.

I for one hope that the new doomsday AI is trained on SO. It means that the AI's plan for obtaining the nuclear launch codes will be to poke the POTUS online and ask them "gimme teh codez plz".

I mean this "partnership with OpenAI" post alone is like dropping nuclear waste on the mods...

@Tinkeringbell Wasn't that the deal with the moderator agreement from last summer? That at least the mod teams should be given a head's up of the latest misguided changes?

But lately it seems the incompetence is also pouring out from everywhere within the company, not just from upper management. I really do get the impression that they fired the wrong people with those layoffs. Likely they picked those with highest salaries (those who actually were competent).

I mean... all US companies always come across as incompetent to those living in other countries, because it's such a strict top-down hierarchy and manager decisions are always rolled out even though everyone in the organization can tell the idea is stupid. This was historically how SO worked as well.

Zero communication from staff, they just put a lid on the feedback post. I'm done trying to communicate with this company. Although I'm astonished by the sheer incompetence in every single thing they do these days. It's as if it isn't actually a commercial company and therefore nothing they do matters.

Maybe locking a post requires two mods twisting two keys at the same time while chanting the secret password? :)

@JourneymanGeek And yeah wth is up with that edit history? Charlotte made some 10 locks unlocks at the same time?

@ResistanceIsFutile Yeah. I literally saw tags still after closing my eyes. I'm using a pretty high resolution monitor so tags stand out like beacons.

The only thing that has happened with the first post was that I added an admittedly late answer to it and that a few people left comments suggesting that the changes were poor.

Similarly, all posts below All tag labels suddenly appear in bold font seems almost ridiculously unison in agreement that this was a bad change. Seriously, this is the first time ever that I see 100% consensus about anything on any meta.

Anyone know why staff locked this post? Seeking feedback on tag colors update I posted an answer yesterday requesting to undo the tag changes, didn't really advertise it or anything. Today I come back and my answer sits at +31 without a single down vote in disagreement, which is extreme consensus as meta goes. So... is this about censorship of uncomfortable truths or what?

In general: how do deal with self-answered Q&A that is a product recommendation (possibly spam in disguise)? Example from Electrical Engineering where they link to a product on Amazon: How do I charge my UE Hyperbom speaker via USB-C? The post is off-topic there but I wonder if I should also report it as spam.

Maybe he went on strike after getting demoted from a pretty unicorn to a mundane fire alarm. I would.

Uh well nevermind, the spam I was to report has been deleted...

I never remember: is reporting spam etc done in the same way here as in SOCVR chat? As in using tags etc.

Should stuff like this get flagged as spam or for mod attention? meta.stackexchange.com/a/393386/170024

I guess the servers are on strike too. Oh well, maybe I should go outside and enjoy the nice weather...

Well it also says error 500. Which is one more than 499. I think... internal server error? Ddos or beavers in the server room etc.

@Mithical Hmm yeah not until in 1 hour I guess? Assuming they use EST

stackstatus.net actually claims it might be due to planned maintenance

Umm yeah. Some sort of ddos crap again?

I had a lag spike too

@JourneymanGeek Yeah that could be the name of a Japanese IoT toilet. Or an anime with 55 seasons.

Sorry if I derailed the important dogs with pants discussion btw.

As for IoT toilets, I bet the Japanese have that. Probably a toilet which can walk on two legs as well. They like to focus their R&D on important stuff like robots and more robots.

@ShadowWizardStrikesBack More like the local axe craftsman drawing their mammoth hunt drawing with people wielding axes instead of spears.

Moderation Q&A was much easier for cavemen too. You'd have the public wall where you could draw all your mammoth-related questions and moderators would be the folks with clubs.

@SPArcheon Yeah well, I could like some pics of plastic surgery humans and they don't look too different from that poor fish.

@ShadowWizardStrikesBack And well yeah, google "IoT toilet". Because why not.

@ShadowWizardStrikesBack Yeah if unlucky you got run over by a woolly rhino while crossing the street.

Maybe there was an original caveman from which various humans were corrupted too. Cavemen didn't have Twitter or ChatGPT or had their toilets connected to the Internet... They lived happily until they died of old age at 32.

Norwegian cow: media.tenor.com/8T8V6X10zf0AAAAC/cow-snowboarding.gif

I'd link a gif, but I'm not sure if fun is allowed in this chat.

@ShadowTheSpringWizard It is just as normal cows but they are excellent at skiing.

@ShadowTheSpringWizard Never accept all offered cookies.

@Andreasdetestscensorship Umm.... cooking.codidact.com ?

Come to Codidact, we have cookies (cookie pop-ups?).

@ShadowTheSpringWizard The fire in the sky.

@ShadowTheSpringWizard There's this little piece called Smoke on the Water, as spotted by SmokeDetector.

@ShadowTheSpringWizard Not into rock music much are you? :)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Smoke rising from casino, a fire in the sky, potentially caused by a flare gun at Lake Geneva, Montreux.

Poor smokey... people used to respect him more back in the days when he was just a harmless unicorn.