I kind of like flagging obsolete comments. I have infrastructure I've built around flagging obsolete comments. Like, 50,000 row MySQL db's and queues and things. I flag so much that I was the main reason behind this feature request.
It all is very, very good at finding the obsolete comments - bu...
That's cool! You should post it on StackApps once you have an account creation system set up. I'd have fun with the flagging, though I probably wouldn't have enough time to do as many as you do, hehe
haha okay! I was about to say "I'd rather not post it here and it seems you don't have an ELL account where I could email you", but that works :) So just erwaysoftware.com/emailhere?
@WendiKidd It's actually a bunch of links to the comments themselves, it doesn't do any flagging. So mods can just go straight to them and whack them :D
@Undo Yeeeah I'm being kind of slow tonight. (And so is my internet, so that doesn't help ;)). The obvious step I missed there was check my email. Duh. Just got logged in now! :D
Wellll. In the mod queue there's a button that insta-deletes the comment xD So I keep wanting to just click valid and have the comment obliterate! And my internet is apparently too slow for the "show context" thing to load, so shame on internet.
But there is a way to delete them through the API... but it would mean you would have to OAuth with the app, and then I would have to store your credentials... and then I could potentially... use them :P
It's almost getting to where I step into a chatroom and all the mods leave - I have a reputation of picking a mod and demanding to know where they moderate. I then leave them with some work.
Aww. I think I voted for you in the space election. Or maybe I couldn't vote yet but just upvoted your nomination? I forget. But I did something pro-you xD
@WendiKidd Yeah... At that time, I really wanted a diamond - primarily for having a diamond (i.e. for the wrong reasons). I've kind of rethinked that now, though, and I really wouldn't want one anywhere else than Space. And it turns out the 4k/20k tools are quite powerful
@Undo I've been busy researching if I made an oops or not! Apparently I didn't, it's all ok to talk about. But I can't undelete chat messages. Oh well. Basically on each user's profile, mods can see how many flags have been cast on their questions and answers. So it doesn't count against you in any measurable way, but that number is a piece of data we have to use in situations where it could help.
He came galloping up and halted.
Does "he came galloping up" mean the person was riding a horse? Was the person coming towards the speaker?
I just wonder if the man was riding a horse, and if he was coming near the speaker?
@Undo Naw, I upvoed it! Didn't agree with some of the obsolete comment flags, though. Sometimes there are comments that have been partially incorporated into the post, but are still useful to have around IMO. So I killed off some of the comments but not all :)
@ManishEarth I have this idea for a script, and I need a starting point: I want something that would be a button on each post, that when clicked would put a little checkbox thingies next to each comment. Another click and it would flag each checked comment, putting the 5 sec gap between them.
@Undo To me, it makes more sense to do this: Load the comment context via the API, let the user use select comments to delete, and then use the fkey and iframes to delete them
@Undo Ideally it should work like the normal mod queue itself. Shows a snippet of the post, the flagged comments themselves with a delete|edit|dismiss toolbar for each comment, and the post is expandable
This is in the works, so hopefully beta sites will have their data become available in SEDE within the next few weeks.
He came galloping up and halted.
Does "he came galloping up" mean the person was riding a horse? Was the person coming towards the speaker?
I just wonder if the man was riding a horse, and if he was coming near the speaker?
