The Water Cooler

Q: Add a reject reason when the Community user rejects an edit

8:27 AM

When the Community user rejects an edit during the grace period there is no obvious reason visible (example). Community♦ reviewed this 1 hour ago: Reject This causes some confusion for the user who suggested the edit. See also: Why does the Community User reject / approve edits? What cau...

feature-request status-completed review rejected-edits rejection-reasons

8:54 AM

Have we accused @enderland of being an evil nazi yet?

It's been 2 days since the results came out, I'm sure he's already drunk with power...

9:11 AM

@YannisRizos How does this work? Do we need to ask that question on workplace.stackexchange.com ? I am new here and I have not figured out the best way to insult moderators yet.

9:33 AM

@DavidSegonds Meta. enderland is bound to make his first mistake soon, and when that happens we should destroy him on Meta. That first Meta rant accusing you for... everything that's wrong in the world today is quite important for new moderators; it's a rite of passage, it signals the transition to full modhood.

@YannisRizos I guess I will keep that in mind and follow your lead on this important topic.

On a more serious note, The Workplace had more than its fair share of (unjustified imho) Meta drama against moderators in its early days. We've long outgrown that, and there's absolutely no reason to go back.

@YannisRizos Yes, accusing moderators of an online community is rarely a good idea. I don't remember the case when it was ever justified.

I am very grateful for the moderators on stack exchange and in other online communities.

Well, all of us diamonds are ready to be accused of anything, at any given time. It's part of the job, really. And it's not that rare that we are actually guilty as charged. What is rare, however, is that whatever we did to make someone mad was anything more than a silly mistake. Constructive complaints against moderators are more than welcome, even if they turn out to be unjustified.

10:05 AM

@YannisRizos I have been a moderator of a Usenet newsgroup back in the days so I can relate fully. The technology is different but the moderator job is roughly the same.

5 hours later…

enderland

3:15 PM

@YannisRizos I've gotten plenty of those before being a moderator, not sure anything will change honestly

wow oded was on a roll this morning

6 hours later…

A: What advice do the veteran moderators have for the newly elected?

9:27 PM

> If there is a rite of passage for being a moderator, it doesn't come from tenured moderators, it comes from the community: getting your first callout on meta.

I figure this question is useful for moderators of other sites, as well, so I'll give my experience as a moderator of 4 different Stack Exchange sites, none of them with nearly as much traffic as Stack Overflow. Do you feel that you've gotten a lot more upvotes on your answers since you recei...

@gnat ugh, burned all my MSE votes already :(

@enderland The difference is that you now have the ability to suspend your accuser's account. Enjoy!

@gnat I haven't seen anything that remotely reminds me of a Goma clone in about a year. Although I never thought we'd see the day, I think we've won this one.

@YannisRizos I hope so. programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/62070/…

^^^ your diamond allows to see delete voters and my flag :)

it's no fun trolling anymore, when questions are deleted

9:46 PM

@YannisRizos goma? any undeleted references? Or just the standard troll

Q: How did this user amass more than 2k worth of reputation?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/users/26782/goma Two Questions: How did this user amass more than 2k worth of reputation? Does their history of asking non-constructive questions put them at risk of getting banned? UPDATE This user is suspended again for their activity.

support user-accounts bad-questions

thanks

A: User who asks many low quality questions

The history of Goma is long and tortuous. Suffice to say that he has been suspended in the past for poor quality questions, sock puppetry and trying to evade previous suspensions. His latest activity comes immediately after the lifting of his latest suspension (for a year), so clearly the normal...

@MattGiltaji He was creating multiple accounts (5-10/week in his prime), to ask the same (or extremely similar) off topic questions again and again. He started on SO, and after a few months migrated on Programmers, where - at the time - the community was much more tolerant to his antics (hence his initial reputation gains).

He's currently suspended for 1825 days. I won't deny I enjoyed pulling the trigger on this one.

@YannisRizos wow, that's a long ban

10:01 PM

@MattGiltaji The length of the ban was more for my own enjoyment really, at that time he was constantly evading suspensions by creating new accounts. I merged several of his clones into the main suspended account long after I had suspended it. Then, he either got bored, or he realized we had gotten really good at discovering his clones (typically in a day or two) and moved on.

10:25 PM

@jmac have you by chance seen that little case study in your Hot Questions Goal discussion today? :)

this is an excellent example of the kind of content studied in Answers quality in hot questions. It only lacks a senseless sympathy upvote obscuring a downvote cast by some of the site regulars to perfectly simulate how things usually go... oh wait I can do that upvote myself, strictly for the demo purposes! :) — gnat 11 hours ago

...another interesting issue demonstrated by above is how upvote to low quality content (typically cast by inexperienced asker, for they are naturally grateful for anything that looks like attempt to help) breaks community auto-protection that is supposed to prevent piling on answers like that. Note how user got 11 on-site reputation and as a result, their answer is not eligible for triggering protection anymore (those interested in real life example can find it discussed here) — gnat 11 hours ago

... and so on. Have to admit I enjoyed that demo quite thoroughly