@angussidney Idea is to have two groups of flaggers, core and not-core. Core folks would get some percentage of slots allotted to them, to keep rewards coming to us.
Possible counter argument for allowing signups: Support we have to provide. I see this as support for learning SD/MS, learning how to set up their preferences, support for dealing with the eventual declined flag (remember, in a flood of people, some are going to be here for the free flags), and support for when it doesn't work ("why am I need getting free flags?!")
My proposal: Post the Meta topic with sign ups disabled, mention it is disabled while the post is active, and reenable sign ups after a week. Anyone still interested at that point can come back
I'm willing to take that workload on. We'll probably get less signups than you think; plus we now have 5 admins; plus this doesn't actually take a lot of time already
... so... possible alternative... Hide the signup link somewhere in the middle with no special formatting. Lots of uncommitted folks just read the beginning and the end of a longish question.
our last admins were chosen by me emailing Undo and saying "hey need more coverage, angus is sane and could do that" and Undo saying "yeah and Andy has experience, done"
completely unrelated: can the graph on this page accept annotations? If so, if there a way to annotate today as the day max flags jumped from 1 to 3? That'd be helpful in the future
I noticed a new user named j658063 DOT mvrht DOT com, curious I went to the primary domain which leads to some sort of get rich quick site. Perhaps they are hoping search engines will somehow parse the name into a link. Maybe it is innocent and a convenient name.
However I am curious, is using...
> Few unique characters in body, repeating words in body, repeating words in title ---------- Title - Repeated word: *foo* Post - Contains 3 unique characters Post - Repeated word: *foo*
@Undo from past experience MSO is a bit meaner than MSE, so maybe MSE would be a better choice. Also, only power users from non-so sites read MSO, so more people would see it on MSE
@CaffeineAddiction what do you mean by remove your API key? You can turn flagging off for your account, yes. If you want to purge your OAuth access token from the MS database, there's no self-serve option to do that, but you can ping Undo.
@CaffeineAddiction aye, it might be a good idea. That said, there's a pretty obvious disclaimer there when you give us a write token in the first place.