Question for the community: I've noticed there is very good use of the chat here in workplace.SE. That isn't the case will all sites, even those with similar sizes and traffic.
Is this mostly mod-driven (moving lots of comment threads), is it simply the way the community developed?
Do you think it has to do with giving USERS the ability to move threads to chat? (Just got that prompt the other day, I hadn't seen that on other SE sites, is that unique to workplace.SE? Or is it a system-wide feature?)
@MaskedMan I think they get moved "often enough", I guess. I'm sure there are some users who think its too much and others think its too few, but that can't be helped.
But once the threads are here, they seem well used, as well. On some other SE sites the chat is where comment threads go to die,
Also still curious about the user-available "would you like to move this thread to chat" feature. I've only seen this on workplace.SE, but maybe its based on user rep or something. I don't see that prompt on skeptics.SE, for example.
I really despise the workplace due to the amount of comments moved to chat even when the comments are on topic. This of all the SE sites is probably the most notorious for moving very relevant comments to the chat. I had some comments on this question:
Fired because your skills are too far abo...
Moderator load can be greatly reduced by rate limiting comments which encourages self-moderation. 1. A user can make only one comment per post. The OP can be given some leeway to be able to respond to multiple commenters. 2. Total comments across the site are restricted per user, say to a generous upper limit of 1000.
This automatically cuts down the back and forth discussion between users on a third party's post, because it is not really a discussion if you have to keep deleting your previous comment to post the next one.
Users would also use their comments judiciously because if they keep commenting everywhere, the would eventually have to go back to that many posts clean it up so as to continue commenting elsewhere.
I am totally ok with the idea that comments won't stick around forever, and that they can ultimately be moved to chat, but strongly disagree with those ideas, @MaskedMan. So I can point out a problem with an answer, and he can respond, but I can't rebut, without editing (if within limit) or deleting the old? Seems artificial and frustrating.
I know comments aren't for extended back and forth, but if they can't be used for any back-and-forth, then that radically reduces their practical usefulness
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I refer you to Hans Moleman's exceptionally exciting life!
Jan 17: Gets fired by an intoxicated boss, but just went back to
work anyway to find out he has a new manager
Jan 26: Wasted a lot of time at work making an inappropriate
video about themselves as a "joke" for their new manag...
I believe we have a user posting questions based on the plots of soap operas that are not broadcast in the US or Europe. Several of the questions have been popular though not really believable. Is there anything we can/should do?
Is this a green light for me to post questions as though I were ...
The site theme appears to put the content area on a stack of paper with paperclips on it.
However, the paper clips are on the top right:
Assuming a left-to-right language (the site is in English), unless we are looking at the back of the stack of paper, the paperclips are on the wrong (or, at...
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