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12:00 AM

If there's more than I think 30 nominees, any above 30 are dropped automatically, as sorted by rep. Beyond that, it's all about who the community chooses. One of our recently elected mods, @Studiohack, had much less rep than many of the others elected.

Interest, moderation done with existing privileges (see the FAQ for a detailed breakdown of moderator abilities as rep increases), and other stuff is all considered by the community, but it comes down to votes in the end

@TheWhitePhoenix I don't know, I just got an envelope through my door stuffed with money and a piece of paper telling me who to vote for :/

I used to be the highest until @Sathya trainwrecked me :P

that was me @WilliamHilsum

The White Phoenix

@William lol

I got all the minions I wanted, so I could focus on more fun stuff!

The White Phoenix

So, to moderate, do you guys need to be on, like, all the time?

Can't be..

12:05 AM

@TheWhitePhoenix No, that's why we have multiple mods, so it rotates through the timezones

superuser.com/about

The site is really run by the users... everyone can edit, vote up/down, close questions and more - the moderators simply have additional powers (e.g. to close a question requires 5 users, or just one moderator)... the moderators are peace keepers / keep everyone in check....

Stack Overflow Blog: A Theory of Moderation

Posted by Jeff Atwood on May 17th, 2009

We believe deeply in community moderation. That’s why we appoint Pro Tempore Moderators and, ideally, democratically elected community moderators for every site in our network. But what do community moderators do? The short answer is, as little as possible!

From the very first version of Stack Overflow faq way back in mid-2008, our goal has always been to give power back to the community:

Stack Overflow is run by you! If you want to help us run Stack Overflow, you’ll need reputation first. Reputation is a (very) rough measurement of how much the Stack Overflow community trusts you …

@TomWijsman I was about to link to that :P

The White Phoenix

Heh, and I just finished reading that

:)

> Moderators are human exception handlers, there to deal with those (hopefully rare) exceptional conditions that should not normally happen, but when they do, they can bring your entire community to a screaming halt — if you don’t have human exception handling in place.

The White Phoenix

12:06 AM

Interesting statement

You guys find many such users?

@nhinkle: I'm so used to look such things up in the awesome bar...

The White Phoenix

those exception throwers?

@TheWhitePhoenix Heh. More than you'd think by looking around the site. We keep things pretty tidy - you don't see all the deleted spam, suspended users, etc.

The White Phoenix

Nice work

Who suspends users? I guess you guys right?

Mods have the ability to suspend users, although we only do it in very extreme cases

12:12 AM

Another thing to note, is that the system can automatically suspend users in very extreme occasions...

The White Phoenix

Ahh, so only the really naughty monsters get caged?

Ohh? auto? Neat.. Like, for using tons of swears or lots of spammy urls??

@TomWijsman um no...?

Journeyman Geek

hmm

@nhinkle:

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A: Can we prevent some of the low-quality questions from entering our system?

Based on the feedback from this post, we have now implemented a form of screening during the question ask period. Questions from IP addresses or accounts with a history of extremely poor questions will no longer be accepted. This is intended to weed out the worst quality questions. (hint hint, ...

That's not a suspension @TomWijsman

Suspension locks your account at 1 rep and doesn't let you ask, answer, comment, etc.

Journeyman Geek

12:13 AM

that's an IP ban

That just prevents you from asking new questions if your quality is too low.

@JourneymanGeek an IP ban is a different thing as well

The White Phoenix

Can users get negative rep?

I mean, a total rep that's less than 0

@nhinkle meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/75577/…

@nhinkle Hmm, okay...

@TomWijsman I think I'd know about the different types of blocks and bans ;)

@nhinkle: Yeah, those two I linked are IP bans, are you completely sure there are no automatic suspensions?

12:15 AM

@TheWhitePhoenix nope you never go below 1. Although if you have a bunch of downvotes, then get a bunch of upvotes, your account would still go back to 1 if your rep were recalculated

The White Phoenix

Hmm, interesting

Good to know - you know, should I aspire to graduate in to moderatordom

Journeyman Geek

lol

@TomWijsman there are no automatic suspensions. Spam posts get automatically deleted with 6+ flags and results in an automatic -100 rep.

@TheWhitePhoenix if you work your way up, at 3k rep you can vote to close questions, at 10k rep you get access to some moderator tools, and at 15 and 20k rep you get more tools at your disposal

Journeyman Geek

@TheWhitePhoenix: on the other hand, this site is peer reviewed. once you get enough rep, you can get near modlike powers

To be honest, being a moderator is a lot of dirty work. It's not something you necessarily ought to aspire to :P

The White Phoenix

12:17 AM

ha ha? Ohh, kinda takes a toll?

@nhinkle Agreed, looked some more up: The system indeed only bans severe cases and alerts moderators to check the less severe cases.

Journeyman Geek

is about halfway to being a trusted user ;), and has access to a sub-set of mod tools..

The White Phoenix

Well, you must enjoy it for some reason? Or are you merely addicted to it, joy isn't a factor?

The whole system has a fairly interested model

I think it's a pretty nice step forward for discussion forums in general

@TheWhitePhoenix: Check out the full list of privileges if you want to, the amounts are listed in the FAQ.

A mix of addiction and giving back to the community. To quote the FAQ....

> At the high end of this reputation spectrum there is little difference between users with high reputation and ♦ moderators. That is very much intentional. We don’t run Super User. The community does.

12:20 AM

@nhinkle: Yeah, the ability to be helpful in an useful way. And also the aspect of learning new things on the go...

The White Phoenix

Or at least, the most active members of the community run it.. It would seem.

Yeah, I can imagine it can kind of suck ya in

in a good way

Journeyman Geek

@nhinkle: don't forget, its actually useful in terms of learning

i came here with questions. they got answered. I answer more than i ask now, and learn stuff both from other users, and by looking for answers.

I almost never ask questions now, I almost always answer. And even more than that, I edit and VTC.

Oh absolutely. I still love it when I can provide a good question, answer, or blog post.

But as a moderator, my priorities are shifted towards keeping things clean, rather than generating content.

writing for the blog is tons of fun, too.

The White Phoenix

12:21 AM

I've not even thought of asking questions.. heh, I guess that's the point afterall

@TheWhitePhoenix I learn more from answering questions here than asking them :P

Journeyman Geek

@TheWhitePhoenix: this and SF are probably the two most productive places i've been in to do so ;)

@nhinkle: especially when the question needs research

And with my most popular question, I learned more from doing research for a blog post about it than I did from the answers on the question :P

The White Phoenix

I can totally believe that

Journeyman Geek

and at some point, rep gets less important ;p

usually when you hit your first daily cap

12:24 AM

@nhinkle 1 down, 1,078 to go! :) ... took much longer than I thought it would!

The White Phoenix

Daily cap? I hope you at least get a big badge for hitting that?

@TheWhitePhoenix you can earn a max of 200 rep from upvotes per day. You get the mortarboard badge the first time.

The White Phoenix

Ooooo

I'm 1/2 way there already

for today

heh heh

Journeyman Geek

lol

took me about 2 years to get that i think ;)

The White Phoenix

Though I'm pretty well exhausted for the day, getting late for me

Yeah, I can see how each up vote closer to 200 could get to be less and less likely

Anyway, I'm gonna skoot for now.

Nice meeting you all, I quite suspect, you shall see me here again.. soon..

s/all,/all.

12:27 AM

Thanks for dropping by @TheWhitePhoenix. Nice to meet you.

The White Phoenix

@nhinkle Thanks indeed. Nice to meet you as well. Cheers!

Journeyman Geek

headesks

I wanted to do something, but forgot what it was.

See you... :)

I answered another one, but someone has already asked another question! I see a problem to my plan!!

@WilliamHilsum: What are you trying exactly? I skipped on it I think...

12:31 AM

Answering all the unanswered Windows questions! :)

I really, really hate it whenever people put emotes in their questions/answers.

@WilliamHilsum: Good luck with that XD

@WilliamHilsum Where do you see this count then? I see 2500...

@MarkSzymanski I do that all the time? :(

Sorry, Windows-7 questions!

Ok, sorry XD

Ahh.

That seems more feasible :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

@WilliamHilsum: aiming for a badge?

12:32 AM

@WilliamHilsum:

user image

@JourneymanGeek Other than revival, which I already have, I don't think there is anything special

Journeyman Geek

>_>

user image

Journeyman Geek

i THINK i got revival for one of my own questions

I have loads of answers that were never voted on, doesn't mean they are bad... I won't bother with those unless I have a lot of time and there really is nothing there.

12:34 AM

Oh, no answers, that's not unanswered.

But I see the point that this is more efficient to handle first...

Journeyman Geek

@WilliamHilsum: or the OP dissappeared... or for some reason hasn't picked the obviously right answer or...

@JourneymanGeek found it and can't be bothered to come back!

It is a shame in situations like that, other users can't nominate an answer

1 down; 1,076 to go! :P

:)

@nhinkle should help us with this one:

-5

Q: Tag PNG files in Windows Explorer

Is there a workaround to make Windows 7 apply tags to .PNG files like .JPG? maybe some registry hack?

windows-7 windows-explorer jpeg png tagging

12:49 AM

@TomWijsman what do you want me to do with it?

0

Q: nominate an answer as the answer.

I am sure that someone would of brought this up before, but I haven't seen it... Once again, chatting in the chat room and we are trying to answer some old questions on the site. A lot of the questions were by people who have only asked that one question and obviously have not been back since. ...

feature-request

Well, or we could vote for it. But it's too localized.

Nice idea, @WilliamHilsum!

I think that's great for all those questions that people have just left.

Closed already :/

I've got too much links under my questions...

user image

Thanks tom! :P

12:54 AM

@TomWijsman where's copy from/what's it do? o_O

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Q: Copy Question Link Markdown - Making it easier to copy links to questions!

Screenshot / Code Snippet About This small UserScript makes it easier to copy the URL of the current question into pre-formatted Markdown. Once installed, it adds a 'copy' link to the question. License MIT License Download http://files.quickmediasolutions.com/userscripts/copy.user.js Pla...

script clipboard copy

Go to town on this one, guys. And flag any "CAN I USE MAH KEYS ON ANOTHER COMPUTER?!?!?!" posts as dupes.

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Q: When reinstalling Windows 7, does the language, version, architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) or source (OEM, retail, or MSDN) matter?

We get a lot of questions on Super User about Windows activation and licensing. This question is an attempt to answer the most common questions in one place with a canonical answer. When reinstalling Windows, the following questions often come up: Can I transfer the copy of Windows from my...

windows-7 license activation community-faq-proposed

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@nhinkle: Close or explicitly flag?

@TomWijsman flag them, so I can evaluate them on an individual basis and decide whether to incorporate info from their answers into this.

Normally I'd say just vote to close, but this is a special case, since we're trying to direct people to a canonical answer

Bye for now, everyone.

12:58 AM

Bye @MarkSzymanski

Journeyman Geek

@nhinkle: Apparently the big manufacturers embed a key in their BIOS so activation isn't needed for specific versions. 'retail' OEM (say from your FLCS or newegg) will

@JourneymanGeek that is correct. I talk about that in the answer, but if it's not clear enough, feel free to edit as you see fit.

Flagging spree incoming...

Journeyman Geek

just restored his old laptop from the disks from another laptop of the same model last night ;p

36 flags remaining, I can flag for a while. :)

1:02 AM

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Q: When reinstalling Windows 7, does the language, version, architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) or source (OEM, retail, or MSDN) matter?

We get a lot of questions on Super User about Windows activation and licensing. This question is an attempt to answer the most common questions in one place with a canonical answer. When reinstalling Windows, the following questions often come up: Can I transfer the copy of Windows from my...

windows-7 license activation community-faq-proposed

I just flagged a question of Diago, hides in a corner...

Oh dear god. FLAGS EVERYWHERE.

Journeyman Geek

lol

OH MY GOD ITS FULL OF FLAGS

Sorry William, you're going to have some more accepted-answers-on-duplicate-questions. :P

Still trying to get my name to the top of Google (not working)... just found out about the Hilsum Theory!!! (with two other names!)

Ridley–Watkins–Hilsum theory

The Ridley–Watkins–Hilsum Theory (RWH) explains the mechanism by which differential negative resistance is developed in a bulk solid state device when a voltage is applied to the terminals of the sample. Such effects had been observed in the laboratory by J. B. Gunn in 1962, and were thus named the "Gunn Effect", but it was Kroemer who suggested that J. B. Gunn's observations were in complete agreement with the RWH in 1964. In essence, RWH mechanism is the transfer of conduction electrons in a semiconductor from a high mobility valley to lower-mobility, higher-energy satellite valleys....

1:07 AM

@Wil your blog is the 1st result...

Well, I mean for "Hilsum".... but yeah, I want some of my answers to get there as well

Oh... it is related! It is my Grandad's brother who did that theory

Thank god that browsers have visited links...

Journeyman Geek

lol.

wow... never knew this... "and his research helped form the basis of modern LCD technology, bringing in over £100m to the UK government"

Journeyman Geek

^^

1:09 AM

Who knew, you can learn a lot about your family from Wikipedia!

just cleared a bunch of flags :P

@studiohack did you read each one to make sure that they shouldn't remain?

I wanted Tom to flag them so I could check them individually for info to add to our new canonical answer

It looks like you just went through and bam-bam-bam closed without reading, judging by how many you did so quickly

oh, well I closed them @nhinkle

Right. See, I wanted to check them individually...

:( now I feel really crappy about my life after reading those articles... have to stop!

1:11 AM

towards the end, I noticed a pattern and realized I must have stepped into a big mess @nhinkle - so I apologize, and the history of what I closed is under my history on my profile

Can you go check your mod history and give me a list of links to the ones you closed, so I can check them individually for content we should add to our canonical answer?

I do try to get a quick view on whether it is pretty relevant, but manual checking (to even improve your CW post) is necessary...

And no worries - I know you were doing the normal procedure, I should've warned the mods :P

well i looked for a notification in chat (via the inbox) to see if you had warned anyone @nhinkle

My bad for not telling you. Sorry @studiohack

1:13 AM

its all good, my apologies for not checking things out more clearly

Where?

→ 1 message moved to Super User Blog Editor Room

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Q: It is possible and legal to perform a clean install of a Windows 7 64bit Upgrade license from Vista 32bit?

Possible Duplicate: When reinstalling Windows 7, does the language, version, architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) or source (OEM, retail, or MSDN) matter? I have actually never bought a non-OEM version of Windows, so I have never dealt with upgrading systems. The question is twofold: How...

windows-7 64-bit upgrade

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Q: Can you activate one Windows 7 on 2 identical machines?

Possible Duplicate: When reinstalling Windows 7, does the language, version, architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) or source (OEM, retail, or MSDN) matter? Theoretically, can you activate Windows XP, Vista, 7, on identical machines? For example, if peter and tom got the same machines at Bes...

windows-7 activation

2

Q: Windows 7 Enterprise -> Ultimate

Possible Duplicate: When reinstalling Windows 7, does the language, version, architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) or source (OEM, retail, or MSDN) matter? Unthinkingly I installed windows 7 enterprise on my development box at work rather than the ultimate version. Now windows is complainin...

windows-7 activation

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Q: How to upgrade windows 7 to windows 7 ultimate? Also what is the difference between OEM and Retail.

Possible Duplicate: When reinstalling Windows 7, does the language, version, architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) or source (OEM, retail, or MSDN) matter? I got a copy of windows 7 pro from my school just in time when I needed to make a format but yesterday I went to a windows 7 meeting and...

windows-7 windows

Any reason to link these all @studiohack? :)

thanks @studiohack

@TomWijsman he closed them before I got a chance to review them to see if any of the content should go in our new community FAQ

1:21 AM

Or are these just the ones you didn't check?

several more @nhinkle - cheers :)

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Q: How to switch between Windows 7 Editions?

Possible Duplicate: When reinstalling Windows 7, does the language, version, architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) or source (OEM, retail, or MSDN) matter? I am currently running Windows 7 Enterprise RTM which is part of my MSDN subscription. However I need to downgrade to Professional on on...

windows-7 activation

Can't moderators see the recent moderator actions? :S

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Q: Windows activation on Windows 7

Possible Duplicate: When reinstalling Windows 7, does the language, version, architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) or source (OEM, retail, or MSDN) matter? I'm testing Windows 7 professional on VMware, and I came across a setting saying I have 3 days to activate it. Suppose I have it activa...

windows-7 activation

Recently closed list should list these, @studiohack.

yes @TomWijsman but its easier for @nhinkle, so its easier for me to do that for him

1:22 AM

Okay

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Q: Windows 7 retail license transfer?

Possible Duplicate: When reinstalling Windows 7, does the language, version, architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) or source (OEM, retail, or MSDN) matter? I bought a new Window 7 pro retail copy, but I'm thinking of upgrading my hardware so I think I'll need to reinstall the whole OS again,...

windows-7 license

I feel a bit bad for all the people who'll be losing 100+ rep from this if the questions automatically get deleted later, but it needs to be done. We have way too many "can i use my key for x64" questions, and people should've been closing them as dupes all along

I agree @nhinkle, how are you planning to do merge them? or what?

how about you merge them, or some...and then delete and edit as appropos?

@studiohack I'm just flat out closing, but taking note of info to include. Merging makes a mess. I made a community wiki post, and invite anybody to edit it as they see fit.

In some cases I'm leaving questions open if they're specific to a more edge case

okay @nhinkle, have fun increasing your flag count ;)

1:25 AM

haha. @TomWijsman is having fun shooting his flag weight through the roof i bet

well i deemed one of his flagged posts as invalid (sorry @TomWijsman :( ) because the post had already been closed by Diago a long time ago, and that was before I knew what was going on @nhinkle

also, @nhinkle the post i marked as invalid, I can't find it again, and there are too many similar questions in @TomWijsman's flagging history to find it again... sorry :(

It's OK @studiohack, if we miss one, no big deal

there's 20 more where that came from

yeah that's what I thought

The massive Windows Activation dupe cleanup of 2011 has begun!

wheee doggies! :P

1:31 AM

Hah, just closed one I myself had answered.

Journeyman Geek

doggies?

Closed by nhinkle 2 sec ago! :(

@JourneymanGeek it is an american thing i think, we like to put y or ies on the end of stuff and it makes it easier for little kids to say when they are learning english, so like dog is doggies, or mom (mother) is mommy, etc

Journeyman Geek

@studiohack: i mean...
<--- DOGGIE

And, I'm out of flags now. :)

Journeyman Geek

1:34 AM

lol...

yeah, like @nhinkle said earlier, dump as a link

Journeyman Geek

i have my full quota ._.

so, ditto

@TomWijsman just dump them in here as a link

Well, I'm a bit tired of going through the lists and verifying them...

whoa @nhinkle impressive number of flags dealt with today! ;)

1:36 AM

Haven't found a magic query. But [windows-7] combined with 32 64 or license or license transfers or whatever is a good start...

Hopefully there aren't any important ones lurking under all of Tom's, hidden by his now massive flag weight

Journeyman Geek

@nhinkle: hmm... you DO realise the activation stuff is true for vista and XP as well, right?

And of course my Duplicate Question Suggestion Boxes.

must restrain himself from the flag list and the big red number on top

what's up with the new avatar @TomWijsman?

@JourneymanGeek it applies to Vista, but not to XP. XP's licensing was rather different in some ways

1:37 AM

@studiohack: Too much studying! And the new Personal Productivity beta SE site...

ahh @TomWijsman :P

You're welcome to edit the question/answer to apply to Vista @JourneymanGeek

Plays with the idea of sock-puppet accounts for massive flagging...

Is there any way to use page anchors, so we can link people to a specific section of this new post? I don't think there is, but just checking

@TomWijsman if you do that, which "you shouldn't", accidentally let slip tomorrow what the account was so I can merge them. But "don't do it".

@nhinkle just wants more big red numbers :P

Journeyman Geek

1:40 AM

;p

@nhinkle: I'm tired anyway, I wonder how much flags I will have every day now with the increased weight.

Would be funny to annoy you with the maximum flag amount every day... ^^

I would love more flags @TomWijsman - especially not an answer

I wish users like @TomWijsman could mark a flag as "low priority" so they wouldn't float to the top when there might be more urgent flags by users with lower flag weight

Journeyman Geek

feature request?

we don't really get enough flags @nhinkle, at least here on SU to justify that, IMO

1:42 AM

@studiohack suppose so

i would look at the whole list anyways, and I do it out of order sometimes

Well, Wednesday is my last exam, might be more active on SU again after that...

Gonna catch my sleep, still got a lot of learning to do tomorrow. Have fun closing questions... :)

cya @TomWijsman - thanks for your work :)

GOod luck Tom

Left some starred messages. Stupid that we can abuse it, although that might be fixed in the future...

Thanks, @nhinkle.

Journeyman Geek

1:47 AM

hmm

should tags be camelcase?

@JourneymanGeek they're automatically lower case. always. so CamelCase wouldn't really work well.

Journeyman Geek

ahh, then its fine

*thinks he just created a new tag,"openindiana" and the 'official' name for it is in camelcase

@JourneymanGeek what is openindiana? o_O

Journeyman Geek

:) solaris fork - its the 'official' distro of the ilumos project, which is a fork of solaris 10

openindiana.org

i'll probably test it out myself after my exams. it'll be nice to know (and let people get a little rep out of it) before hand tho ;p

oh hai ther

Journeyman Geek

1:57 AM

I also need to sneak in another hard drive. I'm going to end up with a ludicious amount of disk images at this rate... r61 triple boot, r61 'factory' XP install + the usual stuff. backups for my desktop

Journeyman Geek

2:22 AM

hm

superuser.com/questions/303153/… the SO mods migrated this to the wrong place ><

1 hour later…

3:43 AM

@JourneymanGeek it wasn't the SO mods, it was 5 random users. I informed them in Ask an SU Mod not to do that in the future.

Journeyman Geek

oops ;p

And, one of them even replied just now with an apology! Wow!

Journeyman Geek

oooh, blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2011/06/22/…

but eh, wiping a system that has a virus, and doing backups is always best practice

4:04 AM

morning

Good morning, @Sathya.

how are you?

mark didn't you go to bed?

interesting to see that Gnoupi & HowToGeek are no longer moderators

Oh huh, that just happened. Also, SE employees are separate now it seems.

@nhinkle: No, I didn't, I just left for a bit :P

4:05 AM

it's shown as separate, but there's no identification for a common man (yet)

I'm good, thanks @Mark.

I think I had asked why HTG is still a mod despite not doing anything quite some time ago.

can't remember where.

He was just sort of an honorary figure or something IIRC

link exchange

SU hardly needs it any more :P

HTG was supposed to seed with "pro" answers to supplement UGC

I don't think that went very well :P

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Q: Per-site metas don't have ability of suggested-edits

I love the suggested-edits feature that was recently added onto Stack Exchange. However, this feature seems to be missing in per-site metas. For instance: Server Fault Meta: DBA Meta The parent websites, do have the edit/improve this post link however.

bug status-bydesign suggested-edits per-site-meta

wolframalpha.com/input/…

4:11 AM

^^ asked by me Feb 6 - 4 upvotes

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Q: Why can't I suggest edits on SE meta sites?

Right as I was going to post this as a possible bug, I finally found this post which says that per-site Metas don't have suggested edits by-design because it's "not needed". However, I've been participating a lot over at Skeptics meta where there is a lot still to be figured out in terms of site...

discussion suggested-edits per-site-meta

^ Asked Apr, 14 upvotes >____________>

and both are [status-completely-ignored]

@nhinkle well, that relies on Alexa.

Alexa numbers ought to be taken with a pinch of salt

What's the URL to audit rep, again. Isn't it just /audit?

@Sathya i wasn't going for 100% correct info, just a ballpark to indicate that we're not doing too shabby :P

@MarkSzymanski it's superuser.com/reputation

@nhinkle: Yep, just found it myself. Thanks!

4:13 AM

@MarkSzymanski click on your rep, it'll bring up that page

@Sathya: That's my profile's rep page, I want the text-only page that shows all your rep to audit it, and with the recalc button.

@MarkSzymanski click on your rep, not your name

@Sathya: That's what I clicked.

Brings me here: (not sure if you can view it or not)

http://superuser.com/users/33060/mark-szymanski?tab=reputation

ah sorry yeah I'm running the modified scripts

Ah.

4:15 AM

@MarkSzymanski you should install Rebecca's SE extensions userscript, then you get the audit link

so I get access to the audit report

@nhinkle alexa.com/siteinfo/…

@nhinkle: I used to have them installed, but I just haven't reinstalled them since I wiped my Mac.

I do have the chat mods/favicon badge installed, though.

why yes indeedy

user image

touchwood btw @nhinkle nothing from Doc after you left

@Sathya yeah nothing turned up that i could see

if he made another dupe, then this time it was more discreet

yep.

will I get a obsessively addicted badge in 7 days?

user image

4:36 AM

There should be a community-faq for "How do I recover data from an erased hard drive?"

Or does that kind of question not pop up enough to have its own community-faq question?

I thought it was there?

guess not,

Yeah, I don't see one.

4:58 AM

hey @Sathya you busy ATM

shoot @KRo

so i have a .sql file that I need to try to open. I assume that it's a mySQL file, but might not be... any ideas on how to open?

open with Notepad++

see what're the contents

if it's bunch of inserts/updates then you'll have to run them.

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