@Ben I had 3 people in mind when I saw that there would be 3 spots open (now 2), and those three people nominated themselves, so I've followed through. No promises or "explanations" offered in the last few days or tonight would make me change my mind.
I read over the speeches, but I voted according to what I've seen over my time here over the last year. A speech or chat session really wouldn't change much to be honest
Seems correct given that many of our questions are non-SAs who have been momentarily drafted into "fixing the computer". Whereas almost nobody is ever momentarily drafted into refactoring C#.
@ChrisS yup. For every deep technical question we get there are at least 5-10 "OMG Help they locked me in the datacenter and won't let me out until I fix X" questions
That doesn't surprise me, we've been getting more and more 1 rep users asking single questions lately. As you say they have probably been drafted in to fix an issue, but it would be nice if we could encourage them to stay.
I think SF has a threshold where you have got enough answers, answered enough questions and feel part of the community that you stay, it's getting that threshold low enough that more people cross it.
@Sam Early rep-gains are the best way to keep people hooked. A couple of the mod-candidates have mentioned 'upvote more' as part of the discussion process, and that's part of why.
@Sam It's a two-sided threshold: you have to have enough questions and be inquisitive enough to learn more (member of the community on the learning side), have enough experience to be able to throw out helpful answers relatively often (member on the answering/teaching side), or enough of both for the balance to make sense :)
@sysadmin1138 Getting past that first 100 rep seems to be the critical threshold
I think some of the barrier comes from brand new 1-rep users not being able to do much more than ask questions and post answers. There are good reasons for that, but I've seen frustration because of it.
True. If you came here because you wanted to take part in SF then it's pretty easy to get over that hurdle quite quickly, but if you just came here to get an answer to a question, the inclination to build the rep up and get to a point where you can do things isn't there.
As originally requested here and described in Diff is Hard, Let's Go Shopping!:
[The team is] planning to open the floodgates and allow everybody to submit content edits on posts
Am I the only one who sees this undesirable? In fact, the more I think about it the more I think it has the pos...
So it's great that our whole community is now able to provide edit suggestions, but the decision to limit one-click approval status to moderators is causing me some heartburn.
Much to my surprise, today I encountered a nearly-good edit, one that I was about to make, and rather than be able to ...
@josh i'm not to sure, I can see that it may be a good thing in principal, and it might help some of those initial users get the incentive to stay, but in practice it may just be work work for everyone else.
> But I think that this potentially doubles the work for people (like myself) who like to edit. Now, instead of just doing the edits ourselves, we have to review someone else's edits and it now takes two users to approve the edit another user made, so what could previously have been done with one user now takes three.
> we are starting out with requiring 2 approvers ... we may relax it ... we may introduce a single click approve for 20k users ... we may allow single click approval for content owners ... I don't know ... still to early to tell – waffles
and that brings up one of the possible benefits, that with anyone able to edit, it will flag more posts that need an edit to the higher users, especially if there is a tool for it. Meaning better questions.
I think it's something that is worth a try, I've no problem at all with approving good edits that make thinks better, and if what waffles says is correct and the spam issue is not such a concern, then it may work well.
So I know you won't display the votes until the election is complete, but does anyone know if they are going to have any real-time indication of how many people have voted?
Yeah it would be nice to see a good represenation, but I fear we may only get those that a really involved in the site, and those that happen to be attracted to the big blue bar.
So, n00b voter here. I have a question: Is there any final confirmation after I click my selections? I don't see a lever to commit my vote and open the curtain...
need some quick help guys...I have some driver files that I need to present to my VM by giving it a floppy disk image. What is the easiest way in Windows XP to take some files such as .ini and .cat and wrap them up into an image file?
I know I'm exposing my ignorance...but I've never had to do this before. I have RawWrite and dd for Windows, but it seems they either read from a physical drive and write to an image file, or the other way around
Do you have another working VM? Why not attack a floppy image to a different VM, write the files, and then reattach the image to the VM you need the drivers on?
I'm installing XP Pro 64 bit on a VM with the LSI Logic Parallel SCSI controller - the Buslogic one is not recommended for that guest OS, but XP doesn't recognize the LSI controller, so I'm trying to F6 and give it a floppy. I downloaded the driver files from LSI, but they are just zipped up, not in an image format
I know there is a vmware floppy image on ESXi, but I tried that and it's not working...don't think it has drivers for XP 64 bit
As originally requested here and described in Diff is Hard, Let's Go Shopping!:
[The team is] planning to open the floodgates and allow everybody to submit content edits on posts
Am I the only one who sees this undesirable? In fact, the more I think about it the more I think it has the pos...
So it's great that our whole community is now able to provide edit suggestions, but the decision to limit one-click approval status to moderators is causing me some heartburn.
Much to my surprise, today I encountered a nearly-good edit, one that I was about to make, and rather than be able to ...
