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4:00 PM
That's an unexpected way of interpreting "Software Recommendations"
 
> What have you found is the best way to get your non-technical family to use a new browser, and how do you encourage them to not be afraid of the tool?
I still not see what characteristics he wants of the browser
 
@Braiam he doesn't
he knows what software he wants
he needs help convincing non-technical people to use it
 
thus asking for non software recommandation
 
mm... eldery.SE? howtoconvincepeopleiknow.se?
 
He's asking for a way to recommend software, which... I don't think is within our scope, is it?
 
4:02 PM
@danijelc that's my opinion, let's not knee jerk though, @Caleb might come out with some super compelling justification that we all agree with
 
I'm having a hard time seeing the recommendation request in this question - could you clarify that? — Undo 1 min ago
 
I mean we allow similar questions elsewhere on the network
@Undo the recommendation request is "how do I recommend software to this demographic"
 
^ Left that comment, we'll see where it goes
 
@Braiam He's not asking for a browser at all. He's looking for a way to make a recommendation when the receiving party isn't convinced they have a problem or savvy enough to undertake fixing it without some preasure.
 
@Undo you probably need the word "software" before "recommendation"
 
4:03 PM
grrr
I'm having a hard time seeing the recommendation request in this question - could you clarify that? — Undo 1 min ago
 
grrr
 
Well whatever, the word 'software' is in there now
 
the day that chat defeated @Undo
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Who knew oneboxing could be an olympic event.
 
I need more flags
 
4:05 PM
@kalina You're out? D:
You have to have like 30 by now.
 
I ran out of flags like 5 minutes after I start casting them, every day
 
with this few flags, I can't do multiple passes of questions before I need to restart
 
you need more internetz point @kalina
 
so like, the first 150 or so of our questions have been cleaned once
the first 50 have been cleaned twice
 
4:06 PM
IMO is easier getting flags from rep than for correct flagging
 
@Braiam I am not going to force myself to post when there isn't really anything to respond to and there's nothing I really need
that results in low quality
 
@Braiam It's one more flag for every ten net helpful flags, that's pretty easy :P
I have the full 100 on SO
 
yeah I'm gaining like 3 flags a day
I'd gain up to 6
 
And that's exponential
 
if I was using up all of my post flags
but I'm only using all of my comment flags atm
I'm still a bit iffy about flagging answers for deletion
even though the three I've flagged so far all got approved
 
4:08 PM
@kalina If they're link only, please do.
 
@Undo the first 5 days you will only get 2 flags
 
please
 
@kalina: those are usually fine.
Yeah, undo needs to catch up ;p
 
@Undo oh yeah I do, I'm talking about the "slightly more than a link"
 
(so do I, really ;p)
 
4:08 PM
are you telling me that Gilles is handling all my flags?
 
and once you get 50 flags you find difficult in what to use them
 
@Braiam not on this site
 
@kalina Heh, today it's been almost all Journeyman
 
@Undo I flagged at a different time of day
normally I flag after midnight before sleep
today I flagged after sleep upon arriving to work
 
22 hours ago, by Undo
Journeyman handles most of the flags when I'm asleep. I handle most of the flags when Gilles and Journeyman are both asleep/out. If Gilles and I are both awake, Gilles ends up handling most of the flags because I sit here and think about them for too long.
 
4:09 PM
...
 
apart from all of my case testing flags, I think I have a 99% approved rate
 
some mods that expend more than a sec deciding what to do with a flag they mark them helpful
 
@Undo Gilles is the experienced one of the group though
 
Yes, he is.
 
like, I frequently hit the time out between review posts
because 5 seconds between posts is actually sometimes just too long
 
4:11 PM
Thus he zips through and grabs the flags from under my nose
Oh, @kalina a thing for keeping track of new answers: erwaysoftware.com/blaze
 
when I comment flag I'm constantly bouncing off the "one flag per five second" rule
 
Type softwarerecs in the field.
 
oh I do it manually
because whenever I use an automated system, hell breaks loose
 
This thing just shows the new answers, no automation involved ;)
 
I'm sure at some point we'll have too much content to go through it manually
but I believe my flag limit will always be the limit I hit first
 
4:13 PM
We're growing fast, I know that
 
as long as you guys don't suddenly start getting cold feet once I'm flagging 100+ things a day
 
@kalina Hehe, if there are 100+ things to flag a day we'll probably have more than 3 mods :P
And with that, I've got to go. cya folks!
 
have fun!
@Undo there are certainly more than 100 things to flag right now
whether it is sustainable if another story
we won't know until somebody actively flags 100 things a day to see whether we start running out of things to flag
 
not sure if it's JS fault but when I click a link it clears the page instead of redirect/open the link @Undo
found the problem:
> Load denied by X-Frame-Options: askubuntu.com/questions/427125/… does not permit cross-origin framing.
maybe you should just change window.location
 
I'm going to bed now ;p
 
4:20 PM
@JourneymanGeek night o/
 
just seen this on AU cool
Congratulations!

This was only a test, designed to make sure you were paying attention. You passed. This answer has already been removed, but if it hadn't, your flag would have helped to ensure that it was. Thanks!
 
now we all know who is handling tha flags
 
really?
 
@Braiam oh, yeah. Will fix soon.
 
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Q: Questions that do not ask for recommended software on topic?

Ben MillerThis question was just asked: What is the best way to recommend a new browser to my family? The question does not ask about a browser recommendation, or a piece of software, but simply asks how to convince family members to use a new browser. Some commenters on the question seem to think that ...

 
4:26 PM
I see two of my favourites passed on election there on AU i mean
 
@StackExchange @Caleb can you post your thoughts on this, it currently has one answer on it saying "no it's off topic" so the floor is all yours
 
Would've figured someone would've pinged me that they were discussing my Q
Since mods have touched it @Undo
Either that or Flyk is in some other room
he is .. this is frustrating
 
@jcolebrand what is? We're a brand new site, you can't expect us to have everything instantly figured out.
 
@Undo that this is being discussed in chat but not for the site in question
so it's being discussed in some other room
which is going to make tracking down where the discussion is happening frustrating
Oh, Kalina is Flyk
Feb 14 at 14:28, by kalina
I'm Flyk on the site btw
thank you SE for allowing handles of various natures on various sites
 
Yeah
 
4:34 PM
@Undo helps to know who I'm talking to before I start a conversation ;-)
 
and Caleb did it
 
@jcolebrand I was going to, decided to finish my meta post first, sorry.
 
@Caleb heh
@Caleb thanks for the positive words.
I realize this is a tricky question to decide on, and that it is subjective. Such is the nature of asking complex questions on StackExchange.
 
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A: Questions that do not ask for recommended software on topic?

CalebLike all SE sites, this one is about a field of expertise: knowing when to use what software. This question is clearly related to that field. Unlike most of our questions that ask for that expertise to be applied and the take away value is only the answer, this question is about the field itself...

 
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@Caleb i get the feeling that question is to software recommendations what a question on programmers.se is to stackoverflow.com
 
4:39 PM
The connection may not be 1-1 here, but the long term battle we've been fighting over at BH to not just be a "show us the codez" site but a people where people learn about the field itself has some parallels here.
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A: What does "show your work" mean in the context of exegesis?

CalebExegesis of Biblical texts is also on topic for several other StackExchange sites whose respective scopes are limited to a particular religious tradition. What makes us different from those sites is that here, our focus is primarily on the process of hermeneutical analysis, not the final output o...

@Alex Sort of, ya.
 
@jcolebrand Flyk is here, yes she is.
 
@kalina Aye, so I saw. And the default English pronoun for unknown gender is he, so it wasn't a slight.
 
No offence taken :P
 
Yay!
@Alex Would you say that before Programmers a properly written highly focused question would be acceptable on Stack Overflow, if not the raison-d-etre of Stack Overflow?
 
I'm waiting to see what @Caleb has to say re: your question, since he was for keeping it and usually articulates his point of view pretty well
oh he responded
 
4:44 PM
@kalina to your point, I agree that the question is sort of at-odds with the site, as it's not about a specific "which software do I use" which normally have a list of answers, and then we narrow down to the one that actually works for a user.
 
for reference, it's already in the close queue
 
Meh, lots of good questions hit the close queue
if I voted to close every crappy question I came across on a stackexchange site I would run out of close votes in minutes on most sites. If I voted to close every question I disagreed with, I would run out of close votes even faster.
 
yep
I had a similar discussion regarding flagging on here only an hour ago
 
If the community decides they don't want the question, then I won't scream and kick, but I will also use the site less.
 
user58869
@jcolebrand hmmm, I mean that seeing "Questions that do not ask for recommended software on topic?" shortly after see the question "What is the best way to recommend a new browser to my family?" made me think about the way that questions on stack over and questions on programmers are about programming, but the two sites seem to have different requirements for the types of programming questions they can contain...
 
user58869
4:47 PM
so if there was another site that had that relationship to software recommendations that programmers seems to have with stackoverflow then the question "What is the best way to recommend a new browser to my family?" might go there
 
Because I obviously don't understand the site
@Alex sure, I'm behind that.
But until then
 
well, Caleb has a compelling argument for the category of questions in question
 
my suggestion is to let it marinate
You've already indicated "there's a code-smell here" but for recommendations
See if you can come up with why it smells, or if it just smells different
And for those who don't know code-smell, let me find a link that explains it neatly
 
"code-smell" does sound like a Stack Overflow thing
 
In computer programming, code smell is any symptom in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a deeper problem. Code smells are usually not bugs—they are not technically incorrect and do not currently prevent the program from functioning. Instead, they indicate weaknesses in design that may be slowing down development or increasing the risk of bugs or failures in the future. Often the deeper problem hinted by a code smell can be uncovered when the code is subjected to a short feedback cycle where it is refactored in small, controlled steps, and the resulting design is examin...
 
4:50 PM
and I'd rather avoid SO :p
 
@kalina I think you'll like it
> Instead, they indicate weaknesses in design that may be slowing down development or increasing the risk of bugs or failures in the future.
 
right! home time!
 
5:21 PM
A flag! I can deal with... oh, I can't. That was my own flag. Stupid notifications...
 
rofl
wait, that's an auto flag. You can't deal with it, @Izzy?
Odd
 
5:46 PM
I heard there was a migration.
 
No, it was declined.
 
And I heard it was rejected.
@Gilles reject it!
 
Is this an appropriate definition of CMS? This looks more like an ECM to me. Usually CMS is them web stuffs.
 
Wait.. This is software recs.
Ignore me.
 
5:48 PM
A content management system (CMS) is a computer program that allows publishing, editing and modifying content as well as maintenance from a central interface. Such systems of content management provide procedures to manage workflow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual steps or an automated cascade. CMSs have been available since the late 1990s. CMSs are often used to run websites containing blogs, news, and shopping. Many corporate and marketing websites use CMSs. CMSs typically aim to avoid the need for hand coding but may support it for specific elements or en...
I read the Wikipedia article, but I'm not completely sure what I should conclude from it
 
Seems ok to me.
 
The tag is being created for this question:
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Q: Looking for a scale-able full featured ECM or Collaboration Suite

JamesI am looking for an ECM (Enterprise Content Management) or Collaboration suite (tend to be used synonymously) solution to manage the following: Scalable: Start with 10 users, scale up to 1000+. Document management: Hosting, Versioning, Workflow (approvals, annual reviews) labeling, retention ...

 
Could be better written though.
 
should this question have the tag or (or unabbreviated versions, but they don't fit) or both?
SO says that is about websites
 
@Undo I got an empty page when clicking on the indicator.
 
5:50 PM
Huh, weird
It got handled, but before that I could see it in the 2k queue
 
2k queue.. That just sounds weird lol.
 
@Undo Was it the flag I raised?
NAA
And you deleted the NAA?
 
@Izzy No, 'twas a Community auto-flag
 
@Undo Ugh. That's strange.
 
I think we're talking about different things :P
 
5:52 PM
Then I should have been able to see it.
Nevermind. SE sometimes shows notifications for things you already have dealt with, but which need a second/third community member for peer-review.
 
oh well, no answer to my earlier question on the board - will look elsewhere, thank you fr your time though and best wishs with the site
 
So maybe the flag you were seeing was not the same as mine :)
 
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Q: What happens when someone needs one very specific feature?

crownjewel82I agree with the quality standards that have been outlined so far but I think there's a problem with people understanding the difference between a low quality question and a brief question. There's a big difference between "I need an IDE." and "I need a plugin for this specific IDE that does thi...

 
@Gilles strictly speaking, AU doesn't know if Software Recommendations are on/off-topic and adopts a everything goes for now
 
So, any opinion on vs or should I ask on meta?
 
6:01 PM
EMS seems to me a subset of CMS
is a CMS focused to certain necessities of enterprises
 
Oh? I understood the opposite: an ECM contains a CMS and more
 
now I'm seeing the EMS wiki and I see where you come from
 
I went and retagged the question to
 
> Enterprise content management, as a form of content management,
now I'm more confused
they are obviously related but I fail to see how exactly
 
ECM is a lot wider than one tool, it seems
I've written a starter-class tag wiki but I'm not sure about what I wrote. @James or anyone who knows, please edit.
 
6:11 PM
idk if it is, right basically its always a content managment system... Enterprise content managment just sound fancy but at end is quite same thing content managment system
 
do we need a phone tag?
 
@Braiam I'm not sure. We've debated / vs plus / when needed.
I'm in favor of privileging , because it's rare that a question would exclusively apply to one form factor
also could be e.g. PABX software or VoIP software
 
@Gilles I sort of am too
 
well, the only question that has that tag right now doesn't quite fit for what we expect the tag be used for
 
@Braiam EMS = ECM ??? Aren't you arguing apples versus peaches here? :)
(what is EMS, btw? Wasn't the Q ECM vs. CMS?)
 
6:27 PM
Emergency Medical Service?
 
@Undo That's what I was about to suggest
 
@Undo :)
Edited CMS tag
 
@Izzy that is a demonstration of the grade of confusion I was having
 
6:44 PM
@Braiam Check AAAAA
 
DVK
@Gilles - I used to refer to "application related to phone functionality". I think it should be reserved for that, independent on whether said functionality is smartphone app, VIOP etc...
 
@Undo / @Gilles why isn't there an "improve" button when reviewing tag wiki edits? Got a candidate missing to name its source (Gilles, you know what I mean)
 
DVK
@Izzy - are you politely referring to copypasta from Wiki? Not sure on this site; but on SFF.SE it is pretty much strongly discouraged, if not banned outright; even with attribution.
 
All I get is 3 buttons: Approve, Reject, Skip. On other stuff than tags, there's also Improve.
 
@Izzy only when you can edit directly (mod or trusted user) you don't have improve button
 
DVK
6:47 PM
@danijelc - From my somewhat limited exposure, ECM is just CMS with bigger price tag and somewhat fancier features. It's a proper subset.
 
@Izzy ¬_¬
 
@DVK Well, not really pasta, but tough smell of it :) Partly quoted, yeah. I also do that often with my tag wiki edits, but make clear what's quoted (italizing it) and naming the source.
@Braiam LOL
@Braiam Ah – OK, trusted makes the difference. I was pretty sure I have this button over at Android Enthusiasts
 
@DVK as i posted earlier about that
idk if it is, right basically its always a content managment system... Enterprise content managment just sound fancy but at end is quite same thing content managment system
 
DVK
@JourneymanGeek - suspensions are very tricky to do right. there are many health and safety concerns.
@danijelc - every ECM is a CMS. Not every CMS is an ECM.
 
@DVK exactly
thats what I said earlier ECM is always CMS
 
6:58 PM
@Izzy You need to have 4k to get an improve button here for tag wiki suggestions.
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A: Battery Charging log

shubThis should solve your problem.

^ Eeeeeek!
 
Why hasn't it been deleted yet? D:
 
because people need to get free flags :D
and review items :D
 
oh right. flags
 
boom
 
smoke curls upwards
 
7:01 PM
Wow, that thing collected three VLQ flags and a Community low-quality autoflag in two minutes :P
 
guys I have another noob question
 
@danijelc Go for it.
 
why under answer we dont have close option
wouldn’t that be just easier than flagging?
 
nice, google has featured my country independence day in their logo... but it changes your search preferences from english to spanish :/
 
@danijelc Because closing is meant to keep questions from getting answered - and you can't really do that for answers.
Deleting is closing for answers.
 
7:04 PM
Oh I see
@Braiam from where are u?
 
7:16 PM
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A: Battery Charging log

shubThis software does all that you want. It shows detailed battery info providing systematic logs. However the info shown are not always very accurate. It may differ in actuality. This is the case with all battery app.

hes back
 
-_-
 
flaged comented etc wont edit yet give him a chance ..
hes traying at least from one sentence, hes on 3 now
 
@Izzy because you don't have the privilege to edit tag wikis without supervision: softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user
 
@Gilles op can edit and flag their own answer, right?
 
7:22 PM
yes
 
even if deleted
 
yup
@danijelc nuked
He's done this twice, posting almost the same answer after deletion.
 
yeh well
if u cant ban him he will be back with 5 sentences now
@Undo bad ting is hes actually recommending software which meets OP request
 
Yeah, but we can't set the precedent that those types of answers are okay.
 
true true...
 
7:27 PM
The issue is resolved, don't worry about him.
 
yeh not an issue for me at all I'm easy going
 
8:05 PM
@Braiam flagging only if they have 15 rep
 
 
2 hours later…
9:49 PM
@Undo Ah! OK. Gimme 3 more weeks for that :)
@Undo =:-0
@Undo Yay! The system works!
 
10:04 PM
:D
 
Guys I have again question
what is the story with community wiki..
see this, not getting why it is community wiki
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Q: Software that put watermark in background of PDF

Any BodyI need a software for PDF books that I have on my computer to make me able to: Put my name in the background of each page of my PDF books Put an image of my choice in background Image and writing be misty such that I can read words I can see the watermarks when I print a page Free (gratis) soft...

 
@Gilles Me.needz.more.repz...
 
@danijelc The answer was marked community wiki by its author. CW posts don't earn reputation for anyone and are more freely editable.
 
hi *
 
kk but answer is kinda VLQ so basically anyoen can convert it to CW
 
10:16 PM
which tag to use for a question for software without (additional) external dependencies? standalone or self-contained ?
 
no limits it only makes more editable
?
@mirabilos thats on Linux or more generally?
 
@danijelc in this case, on windows
where applications are usually self-contained/standalone UNLESS they require e.g. some specifit .NET version or other runtime
but a tag should be generically usable
 
I see but taht sound quite narow to me
 
I'd use either term, but we should standardise on one
basically “runs with what's contained in the base OS install”
 
I mean i don’t see logic to tag that
 
10:18 PM
(a not uncommon requirement, actually. see it lots of times when trying to help people on AIX or Solaris)
uh why not?
 
In my opinion is narrow
it will bring in a lot of specific tags in other OS than, most of linux related questions than would get number of dependencies related tags
 
mh. going with standalone then.
 
Im no expert in matter anyway
 
10:31 PM
@Gilles can you explain?
do you not like such a tag?
 
@mirabilos which one?
 
the standalone one which you removed again from that post
unless I'm reading the editing history wrong…
 
what the hell does it mean?
 
basically “runs with what's contained in the base OS install”
 
uh
what does the name have to do with that meaning?
 
10:37 PM
a not uncommon requirement on Windows, and people using e.g. AIX or Solaris at work
hm well, standalone as opposed to 'needs supporting runtime'
self-contained was the other word that came to mind
 
that's a matter of packaging anyway, it isn't about the software itself
and yes, self-contained would be a better name
 
depends on the PoV probably
 
but it isn't a useful tag
 
hmm
hmmmmmm do you really think so?
maybe not right now, but in the future
but yes, it's often of limited importance, compared to the others
but I figured at least standardising on a name early on would make sense
especially so that everyone knows what people are talking about
mh. I proposed a tag wiki earlier. feel free to accept or remove it, then, depending on whether you agree with using the tag at all or not
I just added it because I saw it in a question and because it's a recurring topic in IRC (where I'm much more active than on SO/SE)
especially in the corporate world
 
A standalone program is a computer program that does not load any external module, library function, or program and that is designed to boot with the bootstrap procedure of the target processor. In early computers like the ENIAC without the concept of an operating system, standalone programs were the only way to run a computer. Standalone programs are usually written in or complied to the assembly language for the specific hardware. Later standalone programs typically were provided for utility functions such as disk formatting. Also, computers with very limited storage used standalone ...
 
10:42 PM
right, but that nowadays only applies to bootloaders
 
rather comparable with "statically linked"
 
that meaning of standalone, anyway
statically linked is stricter than the tag I proposed
but yes, maybe self-contained would have been the better choice
 
self-contained links to...
Self-sufficiency (also called self-containment) is the state of not requiring any aid, support, or interaction, for survival; it is therefore a type of personal or collective autonomy. On a national scale, a totally self-sufficient economy that does not trade with the outside world is called an autarky. The term self-sufficiency is usually applied to varieties of sustainable living in which nothing is consumed outside of what is produced by the self-sufficient individuals. Examples of attempts at self-sufficiency in North America include simple living, homesteading, off-the-grid, survivali...
 
self-contained on unix would mean e.g. links only to libc (and whatever else is there in a default install)
 
@mirabilos I'd agree to that, yes.
 
10:43 PM
that's too non-IT
hm
ok. would people agree if I change the proposed tag to self-contained, then?
 
I like the "self-contained" more, as to the interpretation of self-sufficiency: "It suffice to only install that, no need to drag other stuff along"
But as Gilles wrote: whether that makes a good tag, might be something different.
 
mh. @Gilles, what do you think?
 
Is it a meta-tag? Should that fact better be part of the description/requirements?
 
@Undo: ?
 
Hmm?
 
10:45 PM
what do you think?
 
@Izzy not a meta tag, but not a good tag either
 
@Izzy wtfh is a meta-tag?
 
self-containedness is about the packaging
pretty much any software could be made into a self-contained package
 
sure, but to many users, only the packaging of the binaries is relevant
right, “could”, but not much is
corporate world often makes installing other stuff hard
 
yes, but it also means that often an answer is going to be useful to someone who needs the self-contained package, even if the original question didn't care
so it isn't a useful way to classify questions
 
10:47 PM
hm okay
 
@mirabilos See:
Jeff Atwood on August 06, 2010

There are a few tags on Stack Overflow that have bugged me for a long time. Namely:

subjective best-practices beginner

best-practices beginner

beginner

But I could never quite articulate what, exactly, was wrong with these tags. It’s been bothering me more and more as time goes on. So much so, that about two months ago, I was compelled to ask on meta: Should we permanently remove the [subjective] tag?

There are some weak arguments in favor of keeping [subjective], but that’s about the best its proponents can muster. The arguments against it are much stronger. I felt Shog9 made the best case: …

 
I'll agree to not use the tag for now; if the need arises, we can revisit
@Izzy thanks, not seen that yet
definitely not meta
 
@mirabilos I just remembered having read it. Luckily my Google-Fu was able to turn it up :)
Though it's not the one I was really after...
 
then please, someone with enough karma to do so, delete softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/tags/standalone/info again
 
Nevermind, gotta go now. Good night everybody!
 
10:50 PM
good night
I'd better go, too…
 
11:44 PM
@Braiam SU did too until relatively recently
morning
 
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