I pinged the mod in the Teacher's Lounge - a room for mods, plus raised a mod flag. (I really only needed to do the latter one, but didn't think of it until after)
Throwing an idea here that I intend to look at sometime:
There are folks who don't like mass-editing of older posts for things like grammar and spelling because it pollutes the activity tab for tags, irritating answerers.
Which makes sense
Further, the activity tab acts as, essentially, the sole method of oversight we have for edits.
(this is a >2k issue, primarily)
So, we can't just hide edits from the activity tab
Here's how one might solve that problem: Check whether an edit is trivial.
I think you could do it programmatically, and do a darn good job of it.
What I'm thinking:
You can't just use Levenshtein distance or something similarly simple, because a quick sentence restructure where you move chunks of words around - but don't change the meaning - is going to give you a distance indistinguishable from a substantial edit
And so we need a way to extract meaning from sentences.
@angussidney Don't know what implementation strategy would be.
This is more a "cool problem, real problem, what happens if we throw tech at it" rant
Anyway, could we get something useful about the underlying meaning and structure from SyntaxNet, then diff before/after? Could then do things like check synonym distance on changed words in the same positions, or get spellcheck suggestions on words before and see if they match the word after the edit.
@angussidney Honestly, purpose is twofold: (1) primarily because I think it'd be fun to try, (2) secondarily to show that there is a solution to this problem other than yelling at people who improve old posts.
Might be possible to fold back into Smokey. Don't know.
An ideal solution would be to change the way edits are displayed on the active tab. Instead of a full post view with a summary, tags, and votes, but make it say in one line 'angussidney edited [an answer on] How to write a question title? 3.1415926 seconds ago', and don't count it towards the 50? post limit before the page ends
That way edits are still visible, people don't complain about other stuff being pushed off the homepage, everyone wins
Don't know if we can get biggish changes like this either, but it'd definitely be easier
@angussidney Smokey doesn't gain much by being integrated, and we'd lose quite a bit. Autoflagging is the great compromise in my view, and it works decently well
I'm probably being a bit negative anyway, even if it was a userscript that we could download to make us think twice about small edits that would be cool
I generally flag as spam in two scenarios: if the person is intentionally trying to spam, or if what they're doing is considered spam, and while they may not know that, the post is so low quality we may as well nuke it as spam
How I judge whether something fits into one of those categories is rather subjective
@QPaysTaxes I normally submit an edit or comment, then start flagging as spam if they continue to do so afterwards
Yeah, that makes sense
Everything is subjective I guess, and everyone has their own opinions
I've got someone arguing with me about leaving a comment that I thought two user accounts were created to troll the site. here if you can be bothered to follow the conversation.
@YvetteColomb I agree that it's a troll and that leaving your comment was OK, but your last reply in chat is a bit agressive IMO. 'Please learn more about the other activities on the site before correcting people' in particular sounds a bit rude.
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For a project I'm working on, it'd be nice to be able to retract flags through the API.
We allow people to retract flags from the web. Could this functionality be extended to the API? It could work such that you receive a 'Retract Flags' option on calls to /questions/{id}/flags/options, then pas...
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Good. Now, I must poop........
