poetry of flagging

Conversation started Feb 28, 2014 at 16:55.

user55340

Feb 28, 2014 16:55

So yea, the mortals might be able to kill it.

user41796

With 43 answers on it, we can move the total required down pretty easily, afaik

user41796

bam. out of up | down votes

user41796

I'll wait a moment for others to hammer it with down votes too

enderland

@GlenH7 it's been a while since I've done that

user41796

@enderland See above; there's your chance to use up all of today's.

user55340

Feb 28, 2014 16:57

Btw, there's a badge for it if anyone hasn't done it yet.

enderland

I have on workplace a few times

user55340

( suffrage badge )

user41796

@MichaelT Too bad you only get it once

user55340

@GlenH7 Yep.

gnat

@MichaelT I just invoked a spirit of immortal, let's see the magic they can do

user55340

Feb 28, 2014 17:04

@gnat For a moment, I was wondering if that was a Magic the gathering card...

gnat

@MichaelT with esoteric text I wrote in my spell, it pretty much can be it :)

once you or Glen get elected, you'll get a chance to enjoy my flagging poetry

user55340

Tap one keg (pale) and target the spell at the offending question.

user55340

@gnat I'll decline all your flags unless they are haikus or limericks.

user55340

(ok.. now I've gotta find a post to flag...)

gnat

@MichaelT I adapted to so many mods that haiku-ing the messages would be just yet another minor spell to learn

user55340

Feb 28, 2014 17:08

I'm poking at old SO rejected migrations to see if I can do a plausible poem in there.

Jimmy Hoffa

@gnat flagging poetry? Is that "Bleh!" or

Nov 21 '13 at 20:08, by Jimmy Hoffa

gnat

@JimmyHoffa @MichaelT said haiku...

please delete this or
at least lock
this is crappy old mess

user55340

> An old question sits / it was rejected from stats / locked, but still here. // Please delete this post

Jimmy Hoffa

@gnat Alright, that is actually a spectacular haiku.

user41796

Garbage. Burn it now.
Offensive malodorous.
Off-topic. Delete.

user55340

Feb 28, 2014 17:16

> There once was a question from Stack Overflow / But it was only so-so / and sent to sharepoint / but yet dissapoints / and was sent back here a long time ago. // Please delete this question.

gnat

@MichaelT (going away to search for questions that would match this, to have fun using it in real flag message)

Jimmy Hoffa

I hate this question / VLQ STFU / Please make this dead now.

user55340

@gnat stackoverflow.com/…

user55340

That particular flag was on

user55340

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Q: Duplicates in XML

How do I merge two XML files by removing the duplicates in C#? I am using the DataSet by it is resulting with the duplicates. As I am using in SharePoint application page, I need a clean XML file. public static void Merge(string fileName, XmlDocument originalSource, XmlElement ele,string Targ...

c# xml

user41796

Feb 28, 2014 17:20

And people accuse us of not being friendly enough. But here we are trying to come up with creative haiku to explain why crap messages must go.

user55340

My favorite haiku is from Kingdom of Loathing: hippopotamus / anti-hippopotamus / annihilation

gnat

@GlenH7 add that we're doing it so that moderator using our flag could quote it to asker to ease their pain of deletion

user41796

"Look! See! Your question was so atrocious that they flagged it with poetry in order to get it nuked. See, we really do care."

gnat

Blog - Stack Exchange: Kicking off the Summer of Love

Joel Spolsky on July 20, 2012

It’s summer here at StackHQ. Have a flower!

You’re welcome. Now on to some serious work. Can we talk about cultural anthropology for a minute? I’d like to talk about what happens when a community (online or off) gets to be about… oh, three or four years old.

Every community starts out needing to recruit members, so they tend to be very friendly to newcomers.

After a few years, an insider group of old-timers forms. They get to know each other. They know the rules. They know the history and the legends of the community. And it’s only natural to get little bit irritated when newbies show up who don’t know the rules. …

user41796

And we'll know it's a great piece if the mod does quote the poetry in a comment just prior to closing or deleting.

gnat

Feb 28, 2014 17:22

we should also include URL of that flower into flag messages

user55340

@GlenH7 But lacking 10k on SO, I won't see it.

Jimmy Hoffa

@gnat whoa whoa whoa... we do not need to be bringing topics like this back.

gnat

so that moderator could put it into deleted question!

@JimmyHoffa what do you have against bringing beautiful flowers into deleted questions?