I suppose I'd run, but I always feel inadequate because I'm usually clueless about what the latest weird esoteric little rule changes there have been that are concealed deep in a meta somewhere. And usually not a meta Q, but a Meta A that is continually updated... for the last four years. Sometimes.
It seems like StackExchange's governance is just total chaos.
In essence I'd almost view a diamond as just a 20K++ upgrade where I could one-punch shit questions, hopefully with some pre-made comments and links to canonical answers.
@Wesley I think I'm supposed to adhere to the "If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all - in public" about other Moderators.... So, seems like a nice person. =]
@BigHomie - man I'm so close on the Crystal Report. I've got it by month now thanks to your link and another I found....but now I've got to figure out how to summarize records that have the same PO#...grr stupid Crystal
@Iain I'm not sure how much I'm supposed to say, but we have 8 moderators, and if you're on the site enough you'll notice not all of them are very active. Also, if you raise a flag in a certain time of the day it will go unhandled for hours, until a certain set of mods jump on in the morning, and one of that set tends to be first and so gets the brunt of the flag queue.
@ChrisS It is noticeable that some mods from all intakes are less active than you would hope. Some almost never get out of chat and see the front page.
@Iain Yeah, that's fine. But it's an interesting topic to enterprise folk as well... But that's not how it got closed either Scratch that, 4/5 closed and self-deleted.
@ChrisS I only saw the initial revision and voted accordingly but yeah if he'd been acting as a sysadmin deploying them to lots of workstations it may have been received better
I’m not certain what the issue is. The mlocate script updates the locate database via a daily cron job:
#!/bin/sh
nodevs=$(< /proc/filesystems awk '$1 == "nodev" { print $2 }')
renice +19 -p $$ >/dev/null 2>&1
ionice -c2 -n7 -p $$ >/dev/null 2>&1
/usr/bin/updatedb -f "$nodevs”
This runs around 3:15am each morning…
# grep mlocate /var/log/cron
Oct 12 03:09:34 Progressive_Management run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[1561]: starting mlocate.cron
Oct 12 03:09:36 Progressive_Management run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[30879]: finished mlocate.cron
I tried to downvote the developer, but it didn't work.
Holy crap @BigHomie I got it...! Yeah...Crystal Report done...talk about a PITA though when you have a table with multiple records for each PO's line item and all you want is to get a summary of each PO and the total $ for the PO instead. It involved some fancy grouping and then hiding various detail sections and moving fields around in places you really shouldn't in Crystal...but screw it...it works!
@ewwhite which was? We're still in trial phases...we're looking for something like you would use...a consultant style that says "I worked x hours on x project for y vendor/customer"
I don't think moderators have to be active participants on the site (asking/answering on main)...but they should be active "moderators" on the site (cleanup, meta, flags, etc.).
@Iain you mean being an active participant? I guess I mean it in a "forums" sort of way...I would be fine with someone like @Ward being a moderator here...even though he isn't crazy active on the main site answering questions.
Sometime in the near future, I will achieve the (dubious) distinction of being "the person who has cast the most votes on questions and answers on StackExchange." I want to add a short statement about this to my SE profile.
But the way I phrased it in the last paragraph seems awkward and somewh...
@TheCleaner But what gets people voted to mod is visible activity == rep. Remember, most people who vote aren't from SF they are from everywhere else on SE so they see rep and ... we have a winner
Alright, hear me out on this one.
I have a Linux VPS (with very fast internet speed and bandwidth), an Android phone, and a Windows computer (I also have access to Linux/BSD computers, etc). On my phone I have 4G LTE service, which I can tether over WiFi. On my computer, I have a wired NIC that ...
But the folks that really make site work, feel like it should be one way and SE/SO feels like it should be another. Until that conflict is resolved, things are just going to keep going the way they are unfortunately.
I have some ideas but you are not going to like them...
Please see my bit of amateur anthropology to get an idea of the framework I'm going to construct this around. I really believe that many of this site's issues discussed on Meta are really the byproduct of the lack of consensus between the S...
1.Anonymous users can't ask questions 2.StackOverflow users don't automatically get 100 rep points when cross-joining sites. 30% of our review queue is composed of SO users that don't bother to read our About/Help. 3.Users need at least 100 rep to ask questions
It would be cool to make an auto-expenditure web app that takes your available daily down votes and close votes and just sprays them across all the questions in the queue appropriately. Logic shouldn't be too hard. Just need a few core users to get the ball rolling with a few down votes and close votes and then let the app take over with a pool of willing users' votes
But look at the facts: We have established that the site's quality is going down, that we cannot retain our audience and that there is a huge disagreement between SE/SO and SF about who our audience is.
@MichaelHampton Because as far as I can tell the StackExchange community is essentially StackOverflow.
So back to my draconian suggestion. To pull the site out of this nose dive we need to make some changes. Lets look at what kind of questions, again and again, end up in the review queue.
The crap questions in the review queue are overwhelming a) SO users asking tech support question here, b) anonymous users, c) low rep (under 100) users that still haven't "got it"
@MichaelHampton I admit they are in the minority but I recall seeing plenty of 1000+ rep SO users asking about very basic "non-professional capacity" things.
Maybe my napkin data is bad but SF keeps having the same conversation over and over again about the quality of the site. Keep doing the same thing and we'll keep getting the same results.
those numbers hold up over pretty much any timescale you choose too - even weekends which suggests that almost no real sysadmins use the site, except to answer questions
A new user who tries to ask a question here first has to go through this page. While it tries to divert people who shouldn't be here, it obviously doesn't do a good enough job of it. Can this be improved? I can edit it...
@MichaelHampton Not if they don't read it. I think we need to ban new users from asking questions. If they can answer 10 questions and get one up vote each then they can ask a question.
@kce my idea was you can ask one question for free, your second requires that you contribute back by providing an answer that is well received because I believe any real sysadmin should be able to do that easily
I only skimmed the earlier comments... I think it was Iain who pointed out that it's the non-SF'ers who vote who'd determine the outcome, and for that audience Rep is the key factor, not other participation.