@Undo I think KitFox was asking for help in the TL a few weeks ago. Yeah, it's the same thing, but it's become much better defined and we also helped with Irma and are trying to do a bit for Maria.
Occasionally I have to answer meta posts (last night/today I wrote one I'm very proud of), and there's a flag or two every couple days. It's very calm.
@Undo Because if you start on SO, it never ends :)
You know those custom mod messages you write, spending time tweaking the copy to match the situation precisely? On SO, you mostly either get a straight template or a two-sentence thing I mashed out.
like "this is not acceptable: <link> don't do that again. Come back in seven days"
Ultimately, I think it'd be good for smaller site mods to do a shift on SO. Sometimes being direct can give you a better chance of reforming someone than being eloquent.
Ultimately, the question is simple: Would we be better or worse off without this user? On beta sites it's tilted toward keeping folks around, but on SO "are they wasting my time" becomes a very real factor
And my site is very early beta. About 3 months old IIRC
Yup. We went into public beta on 6/18
Also, I feel like SO is stress relieveing, e.g. "Nope!", "Bad flag", "Wrong", clickey, clickey, making the internet better, click, etc. while small betas are just building up stress about situations.
Well, I'm going to sleep now. It was nice talking to you Undo. If you're interested in helping with the Harvey/Irma/Maria tool, please stop by our room and/or ping art or I.
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I'm about to work on updating the allspam command, and I've realised we're going to need some basic sanity checks to make sure that we're not reporting a legit user. What do you think are some good rep and num of posts limits?
Imagine a legit user posts 50 or so legit posts, then starts spamming. One of us come across this, then looks at the past 7 or 8 and decides that they're spamming. Usually someone isn't going to check for all 50 of these posts, so the sanity check is just in place to prevent the non-spam posts from being deleted.
