For those questions around security (and legal stuff as well), I really can recommend the book I mentioned there. I know it almost by heart, as I translated it (German edition is just out for a month now ;)
Exactly. That's what was made quite clear by the EUGH recently (European Law Court).
@OliverSalzburg As you were in a similar situation then: Does it really make so much difference having 10k+ or bein mod? What does count to you in this regard?
@PierreEspenan now you missed the part further up in the discussion: I'm not running for the diamond. To put it in "flowery words": I'm checking what's best for the community, and if I can cope with that (live up to that expetation).
@OliverSalzburg I guess there are two parts I'd rather skip: that "finality part", and the "from above" (don't know how to explain that... I'm not that "authority person", if you know what I mean).
And, depending on how strongly you feel about your site/community, all the work you put into the mod work can be quite rewarding if you believe that it actually achieves something. You'll finally get the chance to really work on the site and the community itself.
I see my answers help people. I see I can help to keep the site clean. My flags are (mostly) found "helpful". My tagging helps find things (and "tag cleanup" as well -- see Meta)
@Izzy I really like being a mod. But when I was elected, I was shocked. It somehow felt like a whole different site and the way I contributed to the site changed drastically.
Well, I can imagine it's important. But maybe you need to say to yourself that's not critically important. You are not running for Merkel replacement :D And if you fail, some german guy told me 2 hours ago "there's always a tomorrow" ^^
So it's a quite interesting assignment. If I hadn't to work for money, I might even like it...
Yeah, I can imagine :) Even though I'm rarely at SU, that name is known to me :)
Maybe @ce4 was reading along here a bit (or wants to scroll through it later), as he's also "thinking it over". Good points you gave us, Oliver -- thanks a lot!
Hm -- you do not just say this to get me? ;) And as for your quote -- isn't that a repetition of the first sentence: > If we told you, we'd have to kill you.
By the way (I know I am off topic, and I'm sorry to disturb your discussion), I am a student in computing sciences (currently in my 5th year of studies), and I am looking for a 6-months internship. It has been a while since I am attracted to Germany (and that's why I am taking the opportunity to have a word with you about that). Maybe would you have any advice or tips to give me, or even maybe the companies you are working for are looking for interns ? :)
We're doing some spring cleaning on Super User, which involves disambiguating tags, merging them, creating synonyms etc.
However, one of the most troublesome things is removing a tag.
Often, it's easy enough to agree that a tag should be burninated completely, possibly even blacklisted. But the...
Oh... That would have been one point, an important one, to me. IMHO existing tags (even empty ones) tend to "intrigue" some people to use them -- the very same people would be hesistant to create them.
@Izzy Empty tags get auto-deleted after 24hrs though. So we usually call for mass-edits on meta. Then people are asked to double-check the questions, improve quality, then remove the problematic tag
So an average user can simply create... Oh, better not name it, for the sake of Google search -- don't want to wake sleeping dogs (hm, somebody said that already today...)
@PierreEspenan Heheh, yeah, well we work 300km apart and at home :D I also can't really recommend any companies... Do you have a specific area in mind where you would like to work?
> Any tags not currently in use, or that happen to get orphaned through unusual means (rollback, merge, etc), are removed every 24 hours by a background process.
I don't know -- can anyone make a case for these single use tags existing for more than a month?
edit: I am convinced this is a useful cleanup task, to remove these orphaned tags from the system automatically. I've implemented a routine that removes tags created more than 6 months ago which have...
Haha @OliverSalzburg Yes I have a specific area in mind. It's Germany :D More seriously, if I had to move to Germany I would have to take an appartement, so I don't care where it could be @Izzy For an internship, I'm just looking for something allowing me to pay flat, food, life and providing me another great abroad experience ;) Anyway, thanks for the answers ;)
> Oh and there's a champagne room full of rainbows and strippers. But we don't get to use that unless we're flag-free for more than 20 minutes... We'll get to go in there... one day :(
My last employment was for a medium-sized company. They kicked me off because they found out they can find someone to do the work for free. Though he needed to be replaced all 3 months or so...
@ce4 : What a belief :O Do you want some more ? :D Paris is a city full of pretentious c*nts, and Nice a city full of old retired who fought against germans, where people from Paris spend their holidays :D
I'm located in Ulm, BTW. EADS is huge here, DT has an office and there is a carrier. We have a Mercedes research center, Nokia was here (closed their office this summer/fall) and Intel is around (doing intel compilers here)
That's something I tap on quite often: I'd recommend to migrate, and the user agrees. So what to do then: a) wait until 4 more votes are cast, b) flag...
Btw: Skip Frankfurt/Main. Just banks, finance, and all the "rich" stuff -- expensive place -- and they don't like to pay anything. Got the most "funny" offers from there (which sounded like "work double-time for half-pay"...)
@PierreEspenan Thanks -- I was just browsing my old mail. It would take some time to find that specific one again...
And as for the place: You find me in a conflict. I was born in Berlin, and currently live in München...
Both are decent places. But München is more expensive. Both places have their pros and cons. In my business, I couldn't make a living in BErlin -- that's why I'm in München...
@Izzy Yes, but only the preset selection. Mods can migrate to any site, but it's expected to ask the mods of the target site first. Migrations are supposed to be the exception rather than the rule.
People get real mad of you migrate a "bad" question to their site ;D
@PierreEspenan I'm usually always logged-in here. But I'm not permanently sitting in front of my screen -- so a message might take some time to register :)
@OliverSalzburg Preset is fine -- in 90% of the cases it's SO (dev questions). So that's fine with me.
Btw, from the link you posted:
> apart from the ability to actually affirm or invalidate moderator flags, plus some small things like the ability to email users directly, 10K users can do pretty much the same things.
"email directly" (or rather some kind of PM) is something I miss around here from time to time...
And agreed: You don't empty your waste bin just "over the fence" :)
Nevermind. I also learned better from you meanwhile. From his point of view (i.e. the things he is concerned about), the statement might be true, though.
The site has special features for moderators.
Can I see how the site looks like to the average moderator(tools and stuff)
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