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Someone_Evil

00:01

I suppose it would depend on context. If we're talking about composition (which I suppose we were) then that line I described gets drawn

Andras Deak

OK, thanks

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AncientSwordRage

03:03

@BESW what if a metal was functional Fenris..

Feeds

03:39

Needles & Nilbogs: Nothing today

posted on November 12, 2021 by Bardic Wizard

Taking the day off for Veterans Day, apologies for not getting this out earlier! Have a safe and sane day!

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Q: Extra attack timing: can it be interrupted?

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Q: How does Gaze of Two Minds interact with Blindsight and other non-vision/hearing senses?

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AncientSwordRage

16:25

@HotRPGQuestions I had a strong urge to link everything in that answer but I settled on just fixing a typo... Right choice?

Thomas Markov

17:05

Q: Make the "delete" button different when you already voted to delete

This is extremely annoying behaviour. If you've voted to delete a post and then you press the delete button again, you can now rescind that vote, but then you can't vote again! Because the button is exactly the same and there is always a confirmation popup when deleting, many people have made the...

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Pleaseeeeeeee

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Thomas Markov

18:15

@doppelgreener You have so very well articulated my perspective on many of those answers, thanks for that.

doppelgreener

Happy to help!

I had to do some digging after seeing my past actions get brought up. I saw that meta question but didn't have the time to dive in before.

Thomas Markov

@doppelgreener Your take was so much better than my attempt in a now deleted comment.

doppelgreener

I am told I can do the words good sometimes!

This also gets me thinking about one of Aesop's fables, “The Boy Bathing”: A boy bathing in a river was in danger of being drowned. He called out to a traveler passing by, for help. The traveler, instead of holding out a helping hand, stood up unconcernedly, and scolded the boy for his imprudence. "Oh, sir!" cried the youth, "pray help me now, and scold me afterwards."

The moral is that counsel without help is useless, but I think the moral is that you first help the person and then counsel them on avoiding the situation to begin with. Imagine if the old man was just saying “wow hey you shouldn't be bathing in the river, it's really deep, you didn't even bring a rope, you—” and then looks around wondering where the boy's gone off to. (He's been swept down the river but he's being helped out by someone else, don't worry.)

Thomas Markov

@doppelgreener I know it's been a while since you've oogled the interface, but maybe you remember how it works well enough to explain it to me

doppelgreener

Which interface is that?

Thomas Markov

18:22

What the mod would see

So the initial flag gets marked disputed, but a second user flags the post again. My understanding is that now a mod has to do something, but I'm unclear on what the options are there.

doppelgreener

It's functionally just a big list of currently active flags plus the posts attached to them, and a short list of options for action on those flags. (Helpful, unhelpful, delete the post, etc.)

Some actions will automatically mark the flag as helpful without the moderator explicitly dismissing it.

AncientSwordRage

@doppelgreener this is very true!

Thomas Markov

So was there an option available to mark the flag helpful and leave a flag comment without deleting the post?

doppelgreener

Yes

(and sort of but only in a roundabout way for comments, last I knew)

Akixkisu

@ThomasMarkov Generally, that is also an assumed response option in that meta.

Thomas Markov

18:41

So like hypothetically, a mod reviewing such an NAA flag could mark it helpful and leave a little flag response message to the effect of "thanks for bringing this to our attention, we don't see cause to delete this but we're marking it helpful so you don't get flag banned"?

Akixkisu

@ThomasMarkov Not sure if that is still the case, but they used to be able to send custom responses (which wouldn't even notify you in your inbox for some reason) - so unless something changed or part of the workaround hinges on those not working that should be possible.

doppelgreener

Post flags can come with responses, comment flags cannot.

Akixkisu

^which I raised.

Thomas Markov

@doppelgreener Gotcha, thanks.

Aha, found one of my NAA flags: "helpful - It is an answer, but I agree that I'd want to see a bit more explaination"

Akixkisu

@ThomasMarkov meta.stackexchange.com/q/239738/526695 to put that on your radar.

Thomas Markov

18:54

Which, with such a tool at one's disposal, really makes me wonder why Akixkisu had to be flag banned.

AncientSwordRage

@ThomasMarkov accidents happen

Akixkisu

I don't think I have received a custom comment on a helpful flag yet - I wonder if I did.

Thomas Markov

@AncientSwordRage Sure, which is okay, but an explanation to that effect would be nice.

Because the vibe I get from Nits' answer is "we did this on purpose cuz you shouldnt have flagged those posts"

To be clear, I dont see that any of the mods have commented on Akixkisu's flag ban or the possibility of having marked the flags helpful without acting on the posts.

So "we did this on purpose" is speculation, but it's the sense I got from that answer, and I hope I'm wrong.

However "you shouldnt have flagged those posts" is not speculation cuz its the header of the answer.

Now I'm saying a lot, which is when I usually get myself in trouble.

jots down question for next election's question collection

bobble

19:17

Q: More options than "delete" and "decline" when handling comment flags

I'm expanding this from a feature-request previously posted as an answer, as requested by dev Brian Nickel back in June. (Yeah, late to the party, I know. Maybe they've even stopped working on improving the new mod dashboard now. Anyway.) In the new moderator dashboard, flags on posts can either...

feature-request moderator-tools flag-dashboard

Q: Moderator Flag Dashboard hard launch

Previous posts Moderator Flag Dashboard soft launch Moderator flag dashboard design refresh (alpha) As of today, the Moderator Flag Dashboard is officially graduated and the old version sent to the smelter's yard. Based on stats from the past month, virtually all moderators wer...

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(latter for the links in it)

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doppelgreener

20:26

@bobble bounty time

V2Blast

@Ben I think that happened at least a few weeks ago - I believe he's had the shorter hair in various Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter videos for the past month or two.

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nitsua60

22:12

@ThomasMarkov I'm catching up after a day afk. My (our) intent is/was definitely not to intentionally cause a flag-ban on anyone. If you could help me make that clearer/find where it' snot clear in the post, I'd be grateful.

(cc: @Akixkisu)

@doppelgreener In fairness, I don't think the analogy is quite on point. OP isn't a boy drowning in a river, they're a boy who keeps drowning in rivers and is asking for help when he (inevitably, to his thinking) does so next time.

@Akixkisu We can still, and I try to very often. (As you may have noticed, I seem to have a surplus of words I'm trying to spend down.) I generally do on flags I mark "helpful" but on which I take the action that I suspect the flagger may not have expected--such as not deleting something. I generally do on flags I decline, too. Generally not on flags where I do the thing the flag seems to be pointing at me to do.

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