Hi, can somebody rise a delete vote for this question of mine? It needs only one more delete vote and because it has an answer posted to it; I can not delete it myself.
Everybody has his own method of teaching in the TA class. One may only go and solve problems of a book. The other may be into teaching and then solving some problems and the other may be interested in giving tests and homeworks besides to the restrict approach in assessing the students work.
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@EnthusiasticStudent In response to your flags about obsolete comments...
when I evaluate a comment flag, I typically check whether the comment adds anything to the conversation
sometimes, even though a comment is standing on it's own (i.e., other related comments have been deleted), it still adds value and clarifies something about the question
most of the comments you flagged, even though they are in response to now-deleted comments of yours, still add clarity to the question or answer
I honestly don't know what the term means, I assume it means you put in a flag that a moderator didn't agree with. @ff524 @aeismail @StrongBad, can you clarify?
@EnthusiasticStudent are you the one flagging a lot of old comments? If so, please make sure to distinguish between "not constructive" and "obsolete". I'm declining a lot of "not constructive" flags (and deleting the comment anyways) because they're inappropriately flagged. The system is intelligent, using the wrong flag may cause permissions issues.
Am I under the false impression that studying 12 hours a day for higher education for a significant part of the year is a lot of studying? I'd probably burn out before the 8 hour mark on my first day.
TL;DR: Young male student soon to receive an Engineering Degree in Computer Science and who likes Mathematics unsure about the next steps to follow. Undecided whether to go for a PhD directly or do a Master studies first (if he goes for the Master, he will first have to do a thesis work anyway). ...
@EnthusiasticStudent I would go as "too chatty" for thanks and +1 type comments. Not constructive has a negative meaning to me. Things like "did you check google".
As for obsolete, to me that is for tags where edits have been made, or a question has been closed/reopened which then make the comments unneeded.
Also be aware that with the holidays mods may handle flags less quickly. Please make sure you do not fill up the queues.
As for disputed. I think when a flag is declined, one option we have is "no evidence to support the flag". I think that might lead to a declined status.
@EnthusiasticStudent I am on an ipad, so cannot easily chat. I don't have time to check right now. Will look into it later.
I am pursuing computer science engineering and just got into second year. I want to know what all should I do to increase my chances to achieve so.
I know that some similar questions exist here but they are more oriented about SOP and recommendations. What I have different is that I have lot of ...
@EnthusiasticStudent the disputed flag happened when you flagged a post as "not an answer." Besides for raising a moderator flag, this also causes the post to go into the "low quality post" review queue for community review
If the review gets some "delete" votes and some "looks OK" (from the community), it is marked disputed
A comment that is written to clarify the content of a post is never "not constructive."
Clarifying a post is very constructive; it's what comments are for
In my flagging summary under the statistics, there is 1 flag listed as "disputed".
This is the first time I've ever seen a disputed flag in my summary, so I'm just curious, what is a disputed flag? How would you even dispute a flag? Is this the same as voting a flag as invalid?
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A "thanks" comment that doesn't provide any specific praise about the answer is usually not constructive, and almost always qualifies as "too chatty" as well. However, when the comment says something substantive, even if general (like "Great post! This explains a difficult concept in a very clear...
simple thank you comments are not constructive
@StrongBad you say thank you comments are too chatty but the above answer says it is not constructive....
@EnthusiasticStudent I was referring to the declined flags on "How should an undergrad student prepare to get into top college for PhD?" with what I said about "not constructive"
all of those comments were for purposes of clarifying the post, so they were not "not constructive." They may have been obsolete
as for "Thank you" comments, as it also says in the post you link, different communities have different opinions on "Thank you" comments. Perhaps you can ask in Academia meta
Since you have some declined comment flags, you might be interested in this post:
When should I flag a comment?
When it will be shown to future readers but offers them nothing of value.
There are many different sorts of comments that qualify here, roughly categorized by the flagging dialogue itself:
rude or offensive comments should always be flagged. What you consider ...
For example, it is not considered useful to flag comments that aren't shown by default
Also, comments having to do with closing/reopening only become obsolete if the question is edited so they are no longer relevant. If the issue that is being discussed still exists, it's not obsolete.
And, a comment that is meant purely to alert someone about an edit to a post might be "too chatty" after a long time, or after the person it's addressing writes a response indicating that they've seen it. But a recent comment like that still serves a purpose
because the person it's addressed to may not have seen ityet
@EnthusiasticStudent: When a page first loads, by default only the five or so highest-rated comments are shown, along with a link "Show X more comments."
@EnthusiasticStudent It does. You can't know, for instance, if the target user had read the comment by the time of raising the flag, and you can assume that he is interested in knowing the text rather than just having a lonely notification in his inbox.
@ff524 I decided to edit rmathematics into mathematics since it really looks like a missed keypress during the tag edit to me. If I'm wrong, then I apologise...
And, a comment that is meant purely to alert someone about an edit to a post might be "too chatty" after a long time, or after the person it's addressing writes a response indicating that they've seen it. But a recent comment like that still serves a purpose
@ff524 @EnthusiasticStudent and IMHO, it serves another purpose: It shows that the OP cares about the posts, responds readily etc., that's an important thing, too
@EnthusiasticStudent in my profile, you'll see that it's a recent thing, and I may go back to my previous username one day. My real name can be obtained from the profile as well, and you'll see that it contains no y at all, for instance ;)
@ff524 but it's not as apparent, especially if someone else makes another edit afterwards.
@EnthusiasticStudent You don't need to go looking for comments to flag. If you happen to be reading a post, and come across comments that are distracting and not helpful, you can flag them
Everybody has his own method of teaching in the TA class. One may only go and solve problems of a book. The other may be into teaching and then solving some problems and the other may be interested in giving tests and homeworks besides to the restrict approach in assessing the students work.
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When should I flag a comment?
When it will be shown to future readers but offers them nothing of value.
There are many different sorts of comments that qualify here, roughly categorized by the flagging dialogue itself:
rude or offensive comments should always be flagged. What you consider ...
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