This is StackExchange. Things that are a bad idea are accepted, things that are a good idea are declined, amongst bad declined and (very rarely) good accepted.
Given that the Stack Overflow trilogy is to be a resource for googlers, I usually try to go back over my questions/answers and improve them in whatever way that I can; however, I feel this may be inappropriate if there is already an accepted answer. Because edits bump the (already answered) quest...
It would be nice to allow users to mark a change in an answer (or question) as minor (e.g. for a simple spelling or grammar correction). A change marked as minor wouldn't push the question on top of the list of questions on the home page or in the feeds. It wouldn't trigger any notification. This...
(Semi-related to http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/46205/too-much-retagging)
I have been going through a bunch of single-use tags on SuperUser (misspellings, tag synonyms etc.) and retagging them with proper, commonly-used tags. However, this causes a lot of unnecessary bumping:
Even acc...
How are most of those mod tools even actual power? They're just utility, and everything that a typical user would do with them (afaik) is subject to review (by bumping) anyways
Implementing any sort of "don't bump" functionality would also delay accountability and transparency for those edits.
Notifying users of edits in the system allows them to take a look at the content and make sure there isn't something fishy going on. Imagine if people could make changes to the s...
Even if you're the world's greatest and largest expert in videogames, if you don't care about how to run the site... people should consider that when voting
After all, if you're the world's greatest and largest expert in whatever, you likely have greater and grander things you can do than moderating a site on teh internets.
So the person who is the largest expert at videogames you'll give access to /tools and /suggested-edits so they can approve all sorts of [*-rec] edits or whatever?
A red zone level 4 adds +1 infestation to each uncleaned neighbor area each turn, if you are not getting ready from your first turn you end up with completely red map by 10th turn.
So I choose the next area to clean based on:
How many uncleaned neighbor areas it has
How well it cuts the map, e...
The experience is geared towards experts who have little time on their hands, and you want this little time to be spent looking at questions rather than doing housekeeping
If you can find the time to do housekeeping too, all the power to you :)
When a user is elected moderator, he is granted the power through application of a few yottawatts of energy from our lazers. In addition to granting powers, you become a diamond. Literally. Moderators get some swag to go back to their human appearance when in public; otherwise our fingers would sparkle on whatnot. That'd kill the atmosphere in the bridge of this wonderful ship.
If you unfamiliar with the cavalcade of fun that is The Gaming Promotional Grant, please follow the link.
Voting for the current round ended Wednesday, so you should have checked out this post if you wished to get in on that batch of games. Now, to keep the grant going weekly, I present to you.....
(Semi-related to http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/46205/too-much-retagging)
I have been going through a bunch of single-use tags on SuperUser (misspellings, tag synonyms etc.) and retagging them with proper, commonly-used tags. However, this causes a lot of unnecessary bumping:
Even acc...
I recently saw this on Reddit and would like to use the same texture pack, but I don't know what it is called:
Any ideas?
