This webinar is for any academic who is struggling to manage the demands of academic work or for any academic wanting to know more about preventing burnout.
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In this webinar, Dr. Mandy Matthewson, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Tasmania will be discussing about the common causes of distress and burnou…
@Arjun The message itself is not offensive. Do not flag messages that are not offensive. You can contact the moderators at any time. You do not need a reason. However, if you repeatedly do so without a reason, the moderators might naturally get annoyed (for good reason).
@sai-kartik I do not think that you need to worry about that as long as this room is not used in any way to go against or circumvent the SE site rules.
@Arjun As I said above, chat-flags do not go to just moderators.
in fact a moderator(quid) did say something to the effect of "this room consistently generates flags, if this keeps happening we may have to freeze the room"
Also, if you flag something, and the first thing I read is "STOP OR YOU'LL ATTRACT MODS", you bring a lot more attention to yourselves than if you just act normally
Yes, of course, but... having moderators present in a chat room should not change your behavior. Don't use SE chat if you're worried about a room getting shut down. Go use any number of unmoderated chat platforms.
@Spevacus :) while you're here, can I ask if you know why i wasn't alerted to the chat flag? is there some sort of blinding because I could be biased, since I contribute here?
The discussion here is not civil and constructive. Please abstain from talking about topics such as violence and drugs. I am putting this room in timeout for an hour for things to cool down.
Anyway the main point is really that SE chat should not be controversial in any way; maybe in any way is to strong, but there should not be any pointless provocations.
There's all of two options available to us, turn on quicker notifications. Now, I'm not sure that that'll have any bearing on whether chat flags pop up quicker (IMO it shouldn't) but yeah.
@Arjun I am not a moderator. I am just expressing what seems to be clearly true about contacting them; you can do so at any time. Just make sure you have a reason to, to avoid them getting annoyed.
@Arjun Yes, anybody can say they will contact the mods, for any reason. If one bad actor is continually raising flags for no good reason, that person gets suspended. The room is not in jeopardy because one person raises bad flags.
@CalvinKhor Could also just blame caching. High chance the flag was dismissed before it notified you. All the same... You'll probably see the next one if you're around.
Alright. I think I'll let you all continue to... "talk about Physics in a friendly way"... Just keep Daniil's and quid's advice in mind before saying anything (whether in this room or other rooms), and it is unlikely you will get flags.
AFAIK there are three chat servers. chat.stackoverflow, chat.meta.stackexchange, and chat.stackexchange. Having 10k in SO lets you see chat flags on chat.SO, >10k on Meta SE lets you see chat flags on chat.meta.SE... And having >10k cumulatively lets you see them across chat.stackexchange (the main server).
@NoseBleed the above conversation revealed that this comment of Knight was flagged by Arjun, but it seems Arjun didn't know what this would do, so lets learn not to do this recklessly and move on :)
@Arjun I have a crazy idea actually
write a book, but basically every sentence or at least every definition, theorem etc could be linked to a post on MSE
