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Tom

02:02

Are questions like this acceptable on SR?

Q: Screen capture software for Windows XP?

exactly this question: A free, lightweight but quality video capture software for Windows? But for windows xp.

Journeyman Geek

@Tom: feel free to throw it a closevote

Tom

Would this be a question for meta?

Ah, I found this: meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/220/…

Journeyman Geek

02:19

also

ack. windows XP

Tom

Exactly

Journeyman Geek

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Undo

13:57

Well folks, we did it

Izzy

14:16

@Undo Oh – that means I've lost privileges (didn't make it to 10k in time). But still, good for us! Apart from only having 2 members with 10k+

Oh again: privilege levels still show the beta standards?

Undo

@Izzy Yep, we'll get the new privilege levels after we get a design

So that means you still have time to win that election that's coming up ;)

Izzy

@Undo How much? I'm still missing 2k :)

Undo

@Izzy Probably months.

Izzy

And I thought enough "mod-enabled" users were one criterium for maturing.

Undo

We really have quite a few

Izzy

14:22

Well, a few months will bring me closer at least.

@Undo I doubt that. With the "matured levels" applied now, it were only 2 (next to the "real mods").

Undo

People will work up to that. I'm more concerned about the community being able to close stuff, which it can.

And it does so quite handily.

Also, now we have to figure out if we want to be in the Trilogy's migration lists

Journeyman Geek

I'd put in a word for that

Undo

I'm not terribly enthused at the idea of having a firehose of crap pointed at us, but it would help promote the site.

Journeyman Geek

Also, as I'd mentioned, I won't be standing for elections on SR

Don't forget tho, you can reject moves

Undo

But can we reject them fast enough?

Journeyman Geek

14:29

If you have SO? Maybe not ;p

Undo

Looking at SO's migration stats, we're talking about a migration every day. At least.

Journeyman Geek

not too bad

Undo

And we all know the average quality of the things that come off SO

Journeyman Geek

SU might have more actually

Undo

Strike that, I read it wrong. More like 110 per site in the last 90 days.

So more than one per day.

Izzy

14:39

@Undo Yes! And if we want to expand ours (I'd e.g. recommend to have at least SU listed there – as questions on "how to solve issues with software X" are popping up here quite regularly).

Plus, the "trilogy" then should be well informed about what we accept here at all (remember those unfitting migrations? One time I got the answer "if we are unsure, we just migrate and let the close-voters handle the rest").

@Undo And the close-votes handle the rest, huh? :) If a migrated Q gets close-voted by our users, that IMHO results in the migration being rejected, right?

Undo

Right

@Izzy That is technically the policy, as much as I dislike it

Along with "don't migrate crap", but if you don't know what crap is...

Journeyman Geek

lol

If its crap, kick it back

It a mod does it, we have a quiet word.