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damryfbfnetsi

Jul 10, 2014 16:05

@JourneymanGeek Why did Aibobot post an answer? superuser.com/a/661755

Robotnik

Jul 10, 2014 12:40

In the spirit of the tag cleanup, what's the best way to draw attention to an old meta question with a cleanup request?
I started typing up a question about the adobe flash tags and got suggested this https://meta.superuser.com/questions/6040/flash-adobe-flash-and-flash-player which has been unloved for about a year and a half

damryfbfnetsi

Jul 9, 2014 18:53

Seems like another near-600 rep user misused his 300-rep privilege to create two new tags...

slhck

Jul 8, 2014 18:49

@damryfbfnetsi I don't go to MSE to have a tag on SU burned

damryfbfnetsi

Jul 8, 2014 18:34

@CanadianLuke Yes, I know, but you're the moderator's apprentice

slhck

Jul 8, 2014 18:31

No need to ping every single mod that comes in here.

Mokubai

Jul 8, 2014 18:30

@Sathya I saw a 1900 rep user create the emoji the other day, 1500 isn't high enough...

Mokubai

Jul 7, 2014 18:43

@damryfbfnetsi Just because it is recommending a product does not make it spam, actual spam is someone with a vested interest in pushing a product on people, i.e. they will be financially compensated for advertising. A person who just happens to know that one product, in of a group of many similar products, can fix a problem is not spamming. Feel free to comment that other products may be available though.

A-friend

Jun 28, 2014 15:56

Is there a native speaker in this room? ;)

Oliver Salzburg

Jun 24, 2014 19:03

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Q: When cleaning up tags, please use one post per tag so that real community input can be given

Please Don't Let This Happen To Your Site A recent problem surfaced on Meta Super User, where they have one question that they use for tag burnination/cleanup, and they just edit the question every month to a new burn order. This has led to a large amount of upvotes on the post, that are usuall...

slhck

Jun 12, 2014 07:13

@damryfbfnetsi If you have a proposal, please open a question on Meta. It's just that we've previously agreed on what to do. Even if you strongly disagree with that, that's not a reason to delete the tag or encourage others to do so.

Journeyman Geek

Feb 6, 2014 00:17

I like "Welcome to $site. We're not a forum, we're a Q&A site, and things work a little differently here. You can find out more by reading [help]...."

slhck

Feb 5, 2014 20:36

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Q: AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE

No more re-typing the same comments over and over! This script adds a little 'auto' link next to all comments boxes. When you click the link, you see a popup with 6 configurable auto-comments (canned responses), which you can easily click to insert. This script was inspired by answers to thi...

script

slhck

Jan 20, 2014 14:46

@cb0gus No prob. Note that you can edit your previous message if you press ↑ in the text box :)

slhck

Oct 23, 2013 08:30

When in doubt, please just flag one of the posts. What you often cannot see is the number of similar deleted answers on these questions. The spammers often take a shot multiple times, create dozens of different accounts etc.

slhck

Oct 23, 2013 08:29

@pabouk Short answers with a link to a commercial product are not necessarily spam. They may be genuine recommendations, relevant, and factually correct. We do, however, get massive spam for certain topics, including but not limited to: PST/OST conversion, password recovery and video conversion. A new user posting answers to these topics, with links to shady websites or tutorials and no other participation is undoubtedly a spammer.

Journeyman Geek

Aug 11, 2013 00:18

superuser.com/users/78753/jacob-wyke could a mod have a word with this guy, please?

slhck

Mar 8, 2013 18:48

Given the number of minor edits I'd say having it community wiki is fine. That's the whole point of automatically converting it.

slhck

Feb 2, 2013 23:21

@RTOSkit No, should be fine, as long as you fix other stuff in the posts as well (if needed) :)

slhck

Jan 29, 2013 11:26

@Diogo I'm sorry to see that you think so. The Stack Exchange team and the Super User moderators do think that reviewing is something that should be done with care, and in your case there were some problems in how your reviews didn't catch some posts that – in essence – should have been deleted.

slhck

Dec 30, 2012 14:46

@HackToHell Haha, alright. I believe it takes 4 votes to leave something open so it'll leave the queue, which IMHO is too much.

slhck

Nov 21, 2012 15:50

@wonea Please keep edits substantial. Just adding kbd tags to a two year old post is too minor and pure aesthetics. Same for changing > to →. If there's nothing else to do, leave the post.

Indrek

Nov 6, 2012 20:43

The review tools don't really show much context, so potentially important details (like whether the person whose contribution is being reviewed was the OP) tend to be easy to miss.

Sathya

Oct 12, 2012 20:01

@JaredTritsch pertains to licensing, licensing questions aren't meant to be asked here, they're off topic

KronoS

Oct 11, 2012 21:45

@JaredTritsch I was that way once.... and now I hardly get any rep

slhck

Jul 30, 2012 15:01

@diogo - if you flag for a broken link, try looking if you could replace the link with a working one, or if the link is not essential to the answer, just remove it. Then there's no need to flag, because we can't do anything else :)

slhck

Jul 27, 2012 21:09

@KronoS But if you feel something should be a comment add that to the flag reason, it's easier to digest for us. Extra bonus points for adding the ID of the post it should be migrated to ;)

KronoS

Jul 23, 2012 19:41

Lord Farquaad

Lord Farquaad is the main antagonist from the 2001 animated feature film Shrek. He is voiced by John Lithgow. Lord Farquaad in the Shrek films Shrek Lord Farquaad is the comically short-in-stature, ruthless ruler of Duloc. Several times in the film it is commented that, in his capital city Duloc's towering height, Farquaad may be compensating for something. His birthday is April 15th. In his pursuit of perfection, Farquaad attempts to rid his Kingdom of Fairy Tale creatures, offering a bounty for their capture and then exiling imprisoned creatures to Shrek's swamp. However, because Farq...

Luke

Jun 30, 2012 19:53

Welcome to Super User. Questions here should try to follow the FAQ (link), and be able to be answered in a clear, concise manner. In order to do so, you should post questions that can be answered by experts, show research effort, and have as much detail as possible

Ivo Flipse

Jun 20, 2012 13:23

4 hours ago, by Ivo Flipse

I have a Windows 7 desktop, Windows 8 laptop, Android phone, iPad tablet, hurray for diversity!

jokerdino

Jun 20, 2012 12:24

All the questions that are supposed to go to bug tracker end up in AU.

HaydnWVN

Jun 20, 2012 12:00

wait, closing tablet questions where we actually know the answer should be welcome?

HaydnWVN

Jun 20, 2012 10:39

Isn't it better to include those questions than leaving them to moderators though? It's better that questions are Off Topic and Answered, than commenting in "you shouldn't be answering that here, so i'm not bothing to answer it even though i can help"

jokerdino

Jun 20, 2012 10:27

ALLOW ALL THE GADGETS!!!

Ivo Flipse

Jun 20, 2012 10:11

You're allowed to ask questions about no matter how obscure piece of software, but you can't ask something about an obscure piece of hardware? That's just silly

slhck

Jun 20, 2012 09:53

@nhinkle … can has the latter please?

KronoS

Jun 19, 2012 21:01

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studiohack

Jun 16, 2012 07:45

we're not wikipedia, SE is better than Wikipedia :)

Diogo

Jun 4, 2012 20:04

@Luke meta.superuser.com/q/4936/79358

nhinkle

Mar 5, 2012 08:05

FYI folks, there is a new room for moderator discussion and community interaction. People who are in this room a lot might appreciate it.

slhck

Feb 26, 2012 15:25

It seems that the community agrees that he's taking it too far, so he'd just need to accept that and move on. The retags are fine if they're in order and in accordance with what we established on Meta. The low quality answers are another issue, and if ZaB got suspended for them, at least kino should know that he should invest more time there.

random

Dec 31, 2011 15:52

room topic changed to Ask a Super User Moderator: For moderation, spam, troublesome users and related issues you need diamond input on (no tags)

Simon Sheehan

Dec 22, 2011 02:00

In the end, I say we all edit to our hearts content, and if it really is that bad, just hit reject or improve! This isn't rocket science, its a few capital letters here and there, some wording here, and a link or two.

nhinkle

Nov 14, 2011 04:32

@Gareth I figured that was probably it, but regardless, if it's already old, closed, and has few views, there's no reason to dig it up. Just flag for removal.

DMA57361

Aug 26, 2011 16:01

if the question was more explicit about the fact the connections and data were to be performed from a Java program the asker was making it would be 100% SO, at the moment it is a little ambiguous, but at first glance doesn't seem to be SU material (I suspect you don't, generally, open connections manually unless you're programming)

nhinkle

Aug 1, 2011 19:42

@bubble please do not post a new question though. Edit your existing question, and it may be re-opened. If you post a new question, it will just be closed as a duplicate of your first question.

DMA57361

May 31, 2011 17:01

indeed @RandolfRichardson, and that is basically what seems to have been the action taken originally

Moab

Apr 8, 2011 21:16

@DMA57361 Thanks but does not answer my question, since community wiki is not a tag, I have tried search, that is why I came here. There should be a centralized place for wiki's imho.

BloodPhilia

Mar 17, 2011 23:42

I always say there's an OS for everything... And at the moment, linux is not for general consumers...

random

Jan 3, 2011 21:28

@JitendraVyas Not today, but ask your question and them blammo, it will be duly answered/seen to