Software Recommendations

Nick Wilde

00:29

I've been looking at vote counts and they really are not what they should be I think

at least this blog post sure says it should be more

Also if we are going to get the number of 3k and 2k users more voting would be good

The reason I notice was that the votes per question/answer (either up or down) has been going way down since the public beta opened

Yes I know that is partially due to all the one post and run users but still all our regular users please remember to vote as they say Vote Early, Vote Often

damryfbfnetsi

16:54

@Gilles Would you mind closing the mod nomination question as a duplicate of the announcement post? I just got another nomination and we've already chosen the mods.

Also, I will applaud anyone who gives the correct explanation for my new username.

Undo

17:09

@damryfbfnetsi We're not necessarily capped at three mods. Anyone that wants to nominate themselves or another is welcome to at this point.

Gilles

17:25

@damryfbfnetsi I think other sites leave the mod nomination thread open until the end of the beta. More moderators may be brought in if one of us resigns or if we need more help.

If you'd like to stop receiving notifications, we can anomymize the question

damryfbfnetsi

21:25

@Undo @Gilles The reason why I said that was because you said that we did not need any more moderators...

Undo

@damryfbfnetsi Not at the moment, no. But it's always nice to have an up-to-date list of folks to draw from when/if the need arrises.

damryfbfnetsi

Have any of you identified the correct explanation for my username? (Check my profile for a hint!)

Undo

@damryfbfnetsi I've been trying to figure it out.

but can't :P

damryfbfnetsi

21:53

damryfbfnetsi, San Diego, CA

101 13

If you look at my bio, you'll see that the "moderator" disagreed with your statement that my user name is not understandable (because it is), and he was also trying to imply that my user name stands for "declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it"

Undo

hah!

damryfbfnetsi

In real life, such a flag would be "declined - flags should only used to moderators aware of content that requires their intervention"

Nick Wilde

You know I was just reading that and trying to figure out a riddle to it instead of just a plain and simple acronym

looking for complexity where there wasn't and boom I can't see what's right before my eyes!

damryfbfnetsi

Something like that.

Nick Wilde

oh hey since you're online @Undo: I was trying to quote a previous chat post the other day and I couldn't find how to do that (by playing around or by searching)... I'm pretty sure I saw one of you blue diamonds do that a while ago (but I'm not sure which one); do you know how?

Undo

22:01

24 secs ago, by Nick Wilde

oh hey since you're online @Undo: I was trying to quote a previous chat post the other day and I couldn't find how to do that (by playing around or by searching)... I'm pretty sure I saw one of you blue diamonds do that a while ago (but I'm not sure which one); do you know how?

^ Like that?

You just use a permalink to the message

Nick Wilde

yeah like that

exactly like that

Gilles

1 min ago, by Gilles

@NickWilde paste a link to the message, with nothing else in the post except optionally a reply

Undo

^ Copy the permalink address, post it as a message

Nick Wilde

I knew about the permalink - I even tried it with other stuff in the post but not by itself

hmm while I got some high experience users here who can probably answer my other dumb question I might as well ask it...

proofreading badge... why don't I have it?

I've reviewed 102 suggested edits and that page says it is awarded when 100 have been reviewed

oh cool assuming rep increases at standard rate in 3-4 days I should have expanded moderation privs and can access flag queues and such

Gilles

@NickWilde caching? Has it been 24 hours since your 100th suggested edit review?

Nick Wilde

22:10

@PINGALLTEHMODS anything I should be aware of when that happens - like does my vote have different weighting or anything unexpected like that?

Gilles

@NickWilde no, everybody's vote has the same weight

@NickWilde the 10k flag queue is going away soon

Nick Wilde

@Gilles about 36hrs - wouldn't have asked before one site cycle had gone by

Gilles

72

Q: Let's get rid of the 10K flag queue

The 10K tools are pretty cool... You get a birds-eye view of activity on the site, a "dashboard" view of what's happening. Some of the individual tools haven't scaled particularly well with Stack Overflow's growth, but the concept behind them is still sound: we trust you to enough to be a bee wat...

feature-request review moderator-tools 10k-tools flag-queue

Undo

@NickWilde IIRC audits don't count. Seen any of those?

Nick Wilde

@Undo that would be the just testing you ones yes?

if so not here - about 10% of my reviews at SO have been those

Undo

22:15

yeah

hmm

Nick Wilde

@Gilles oh sounds like it is no where near as cool as it sounded ah well no loss disappearing then

(by sounded I mean in the privileges page)

ah well I'll just wait and if it hasn't given me the badge by the time I get to 120 reviews I'll look into it more

then it'll just be delayed gratification

Undo

22:41

dunno

damryfbfnetsi

22:57

@NickWilde I accepted your answer to the mod nomination question so that no one overlooks it

@Gilles Why did you remove the featured tag from my question? Isn't that @Community's job?

Nick Wilde

23:19

@damryfbfnetsi thanks :) Discovered that with the lowered rep limits and my highish rep here I can do almost all the moderation tasks anyways.

Gilles

23:45

@damryfbfnetsi because I guess it's outlived its active usefulness, since we aren't currently wanting more mods

Transcript for

Software Recommendations