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Sep 5, 2012 19:43
@Rachel Migrated and rejected a day later.
Sep 5, 2012 14:34
(Which I realize goes against the earlier "don't lock things" point, but life ain't perfect.)
Sep 5, 2012 14:33
@YannisRizos There is a historical lock... which more or less exists for this purpose. Old, highly voted, controversial questions.
Sep 5, 2012 14:19
And SE does do best with questions that receive a few answers. Not pages and pages. Our whole point is to eliminate the forum experience where you have to sit through pages of information. Once you hit more than (usually) 10 or 15 responses, you start seeing a lot of duplication. Late good answers don't bubble to the top anymore cause they're on page 3 and noone cares.
Sep 5, 2012 14:06
I can't re-open, I can't lock, I'm only left with one option.
Sep 3, 2012 10:36
I usually get annoyed when someone asks a question with so many easy to find dupes and near-dupes, but this is turning into a handy little list of questions that could go in the tag wiki...
Aug 31, 2012 19:48
A delete review queue would be awesome
Aug 31, 2012 19:30
Aug 30, 2012 07:37
The original version of this ^^^ didn't really make sense and was rightly closed as NARQ. It's a lot better after the edit, but I'm not 100% sure it's not "overly broad" and (as always) I'm hesitant in reversing a community closure... Review please ;)
Aug 28, 2012 22:23
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Q: What can we do about extremely low quality questions from unregistered users?

Yannis RizosThe problem Tons of extremely low quality questions from unregistered accounts. A few recent examples: Question on PL/SQL - Evaluate the PL/SQL block given above and determine the data type and value of each of the following variables Help me make a choice between comp science and software en...

Aug 19, 2012 16:04
@Rachel The problem with help vampires is that they suck the life out of our regular contributors. None of us wants to be rude, it's mostly fatigue from having to deal with the same crap every day. Granted that's not an excuse for being rude, but it's an explanation, and I honestly believe that if we find some (magical) way of getting rid of the help vampires, we'll all revert to our usual nice & constructive selfs. Please note that I'm not implying noob == help vampire, I'm talking about the actual vampires... — Yannis Rizos Aug 9 at 1:20
Aug 16, 2012 12:48
Guys, We need one more vote for our Blog ad ... meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/2635/…
Aug 14, 2012 03:50
New review system implemented here: programmers.stackexchange.com/review
user20683
Aug 11, 2012 06:58
@gnat Congrats on the pure gold!
Aug 10, 2012 20:25
@Dynamic I was more meaning to point to the constructive tone of the question. When Tobias asked he was question banned and was receiving down votes almost everywhere on his SO posts... An ugly situation, but he didn't rant, he didn't complain, he just brought it up on Meta in a friendly way and got unbanned in a matter of minutes - people rushed to edit his posts and improve them, etc (I don't mean my edits, those are purely educational and came after his ban was reversed)
Aug 10, 2012 11:19
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Q: Having a bad start. Is that normal?

Tobias ReichI'm sorry to bother you with my thoughts but since I'm quite new here, I am not familiar with this. Stack Overflow was my first choice for help for a long time. I decided, now that I'm a bit better in my programming skills, to "join" the Q&A. But I somehow had a bad start and after writing 6 ...

user20683
Aug 10, 2012 02:03
Audio Programming: Where-in Mr. Fourier says "OMG Hai!!!!!"
Aug 9, 2012 18:17
Aaaa! Someone downvoted one of my answers! I think I'll write a 1000 word Meta essay on how people should be required to comment when they down vote, how down votes are not "nice", how the evil mods don't do enough to protect us from anonymous down voters, etc... ;P
Aug 8, 2012 03:30
20000 question!
Jul 27, 2012 14:30
@YannisRizos You are my favorite moderator though... I CH-CH-CHOOSE you ;-)
user2334
Jul 27, 2012 14:03
>95% of career advice questions are bad for this site and should be closed. But closing good content (to be fair, it's arguable the questions Jeff cited are actually good) just because of the FAQ is cutting our nose off to spite our face
Jul 27, 2012 13:35
Don't give him special treatment just because he's the founder :)
Jul 27, 2012 12:21
An SE moderator is little more than a janitor
Jul 27, 2012 12:12
@BenBrocka No... a few members voted to close and flag... a moderator closed it .... Jeff reopened it on specious reasoning and emotional argument (coincidentally the question was specifically related to his blog, Hmmm how convenient) ... community goes into an uproar .... moderators get into a tizzy .... I protect the question and start deleting inappropriate comments .... Anna closes it because of the stir ... Jeff gets pissed and starts ranting on Meta
Jul 27, 2012 12:06
programmers.stackexchange.com - A Q&A place for getting expert opinions about ponies for Bronies, by Bronies
Jul 27, 2012 12:04
... but at the same time SE was Jeff's vision and the SE employees are the final say. The community doesn't own this place
user2334
Jul 26, 2012 21:18
@maple_shaft I agree with @Rachel and @psr. I feel icky now (I kid, I kid!).
Jul 22, 2012 10:42
The activity level question I would reject since there's no problem there. It's just a request for information, something more suitable to a search engine rather than asking a room full of people.
Jul 22, 2012 10:39
@Gilles I wouldn't have any problem taking questions like those, but not those two questions. The first problem is that both are asking for resources instead of asking a question that would be answered by a combination of resources and specific quotes.
Jul 21, 2012 10:56
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Q: Open Source Politics: How is it produced? Decisions, power and gender

mmbI hope this is the right forum to ask that question! I think that computer skills and programming knowledge will be THE decisive factor for the generations to come. I think each and every child everywhere in the world should learn how to code and master a computer. As I am very interested in th...

Jul 21, 2012 10:56
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Q: Survey on activity level of opensource project

RaiyanI'm looking for articles, reports, scientific literature etc. written on activity level of different open source projects. What I mean by activity level is how frequently a project is maintained and up to what level of detail, size of developer and user community associated with it and other rele...

Jul 21, 2012 10:55
Does Programmers accept questions about the sociology of open source programming projects?
Jul 20, 2012 16:22
However, if it gets closed again I won't reopen it.
Jul 19, 2012 21:57
@gnat @Rachel - I didn't realise the question was locked - I've now unlocked it.
Jul 13, 2012 05:43
"contact us" in the footer was changed recently to something more useful, check it out!
Jul 12, 2012 23:09
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Q: accomodations for visually impaired

kmoteI am (marginally) color-blind and have great difficulty distinguishing between hyperlinks and normal text on the SE-Programmers site. I can barely tell when the text is actually a link. To my eyes, there just isn't enough visual contrast. (Unlike on StackOverflow, for instance, where the blue lin...

Jul 5, 2012 14:34
@Flexo Yes, although the "specific to programmers" should probably be emphasised more. If the question could possibly apply to other careers, it will probably get closed as off-topic
Jul 4, 2012 06:51
Seems to mostly answer vaguely related questions with very similar blurbs of text and links to the same site. Seems spammy. Already flagged 2 of his answers, and had left him a comment to tell him reviving a lot of old questions for little added value may not be well received.
Jul 4, 2012 06:50
Someone might want to "investigate" user programmers.stackexchange.com/users/57397/raymond-gutierrezz and possibly have a chat with him or even kick him out the curb.
Jul 3, 2012 18:30
headdesk, headdesk, headdesk
Jun 20, 2012 22:30
@gnat [status-completed]
Jun 14, 2012 17:04
Reminder: Polling and Not (a) Real Questions on Programmers are still close-worthy on Workplace, please don't suggest polling/ect questions "would be better" on Workplace
Jun 7, 2012 18:32
Dynamic on June 07, 2012

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Jun 7, 2012 17:46
^^^ WE LAUNCHED! WE LAUNCHED! ^^^
Jun 7, 2012 07:42
It doesn't look like anything is on-topic for P.SE anymore.
Jun 5, 2012 18:55
Good news everyone! We are no longer a SO migration target! Finally!
May 31, 2012 14:13
Anything that blatant just flag as spam. It'll show up in the mod flag queue and we can take it from there.
May 31, 2012 14:08
@gnat You're right. It's an unregistered account too. I think I'll just zap if from on high.
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