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@DavidPostill Most spam comes from 1 rep users, Meta sites require 15 rep. Even if they are monitored, it seems unlikely we'd see much reports if at all. Might be to save some requests on the quota?
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> This answer from a 1-rep unregistered user sounds a lot like spam. I am unsure if this is one instance of spam and am thus raising this flag instead.
When we search for 'false positive', it actually looks for posts having positive feedback... which due to SQL causes us to only get said positive feedback.
@MarkYisri "Can we make smokey a mod" (on GitHub). Under absolutely no circumstances. THat's not our call, either, that's SE's call and I doubt they'd do that
esp. because it's a bot.
they would sooner give me god admin everywhere than make Smokey a mod, probably.
@Undo soz I insulted apple products, I know you're a fan. My kids love them and we have a ongoing joke between android, windows and apple (they don't know what ios is)
Nexus 5X. Decent phone, but they've started bootlooping and EVERY NEXUS 5X EVER MADE WILL DO IT EVENTUALLY, or so says the Internet. LG is reluctant to solve the issue; many reports of RMAs being rejected for weird reasons. Fi helps out a little bit there, but the return process still involves me not having a phone for the better part of a month. Ridiculous.
If this was an iPhone, (1) there'd be a national emergency over how Apple could have done something so irresponsible, and (2) I would just walk into the Apple Store a few minutes from my house and hand them my old phone, walk out with a new one. If that one bootlooped, I'd probably do it again and walk out with a newer phone.
Grandmother once had an iPad 2 (looong out of warranty) not able to connect to cell towers in the middle of nowhere. Totally not Apple's problem. Somehow over two trips to the store she walked out with a brand new iPad Air
ok I'll bear that in mind next time we have a problem, but you know what, we've never had any real issues with their products. Which is a stab in the eye for my argument ;)
@Undo Impressive. I stil like to joke about it :D Not well founded jokes by the look of it O>O
Do you like having Fi, @Undo? I'm considering changing to it, but I have one data point to base experiences on. I'd like to double the amount of data I have :)
Ok, last question, I think - do you notice when you switch between cell towers owned by different carriers? Or is everything in your area all the same carrier?
Only time I have to actually care is when I visit grandparents in the middle of nowhere. You can force it to connect to Sprint/TMO/USC manually, and it'll dutifully stay there for six hours or so. Works okay, everyone else has issues getting signal too.
Oh, I don't because I'm not into that kind of stuff
@Andy yeah, it should figure that out okay. At grandparents I'm pretty sure the temperature changes the refraction of the atmosphere, causing cell towers to just disappear.
@YvetteColomb What should have happened is the OP should not answer at all and instead cast a flag/vtc as a duplicate. Answers should not be verbatim duplicates of other answers ...
@DavidPostill yes, not answering dupes is an issue. But we are allowed to copy and paste other answers if we give attribution. I've been through that debate with Hans Passant in meta more than once :D
usually I make a note that I have a link about it or something on my blog, and give details and stuff, disclosing that it's my blog post. Usually for nginx stuff on Ask Ubuntu, though.
This answer from 2010 is oft-cited as reason for questions about "Hackintoshes" (fancy word for "Running macOS on non-Apple hardware") not being allowed. The reasoning is that we don't want "a reputation for encouraging something that may or may not be illegal".
That's a horrible guideline, and ...
I don't think that's a stage of a site, actually - I think it's a phase users go through. Which is why it keeps on cropping up, no matter how many times it gets squished.
it'd be nice if we could get a large enough swath of users that 'get it' who can go around squishing this consistently, rather than... ya know, once every seven years.
It gets squished pretty well on the 2.0 sites, I think - most of them squished it in beta, and that's stuck since. It kinda makes sense that it's one of the Trilogy that still has that
Who's going to point out that they now know about Amazon's TOS and should enforce this policy of not circumventing it? Or, better, argue that Amazon also has a well known ToS?
I would but I have just barely over association bonus rep on SU
Quoting War Games; that wins the argument, surely?
@Run5k You're still doing the self-contradiction thing. My point is this: you cannot possibly hope to enforce every TOS or EULA. Given that, if you enforce one or two selectively, someone will come along and say "but why don't you enforce X as well?", and you'll have no valid reason. So you enforce X. "But why not Y?" So you enforce Y. That's not sustainable. Enforcing other peoples' terms is a strange game, and the only winning move is not to play. — ArtOfCode40 secs ago
I'd take a mod role on any site because I care about every site on here. It's not like I pick favorites. I like keeping sites clean in general, I don't see it as a side of contributing regularly
That being said, I also like competing in elections. It gives me a chance to enjoy some free public scrutiny and being challenged on your wrongs is always a learning experience.
