@GreenFly it does work most of the time. The vast majority of people in law enforcement are well meaning people that want the best. The problem is making sure that the bad few don't ruin it for the rest (and all of us)
take the NSA metadata collection. It's an amazingly awesome tool that is super helpful to legit investigations
but the problem is how do you prevent one or two bad apples from abusing it
and if you don't protect against it, you risk a cultural shift that can make one or two turn in to many
@AviD @JeffFerland @RoryAlsop Would one of you mind putting a hammer to this? I've got no clue why it's such a rep train. The comments thread is also TL;DR.
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After a ton of discussion, work and input from the community, we're rolling out the remainder of major closing changes that you've helped us design, as discussed in these prior posts.
They're live on Meta today, and will likely roll out to the rest of the network sometime next week.
The clos...
1. Has U.S. gov't asked SEI to provide user data? 2. Has SEI provided any user data to the government in response to requests? 3. Is the data provided to U.S. gov't (if any) limited to certain SE sites, or does it encompass the whole SE network?
For number 3, i.e.: If U.S. gov't requests info on me, are you only going to give them info regarding my activities on SO, or do my activities on SU, SF, Sec.SE, Goat.SE, etc. get caught in the net also?
yeah, but then it's really just an OT reason that says "This question is too specific to a particular situation and is unlikely to be helpful to future users, so it is off topic"
even though it really isn't Off Topic since it would be on topic if it was actually broadly useful
it's an inaccurate word game that's going to cause more confusion
yeah, that may work on SO, but I don't think it works nearly as well on the smaller sites where there are more varied reasons for why things are too localized that aren't really truely off topic
I can understand the problem with it being overused and improperly used, but maybe simply raising the rep bar would have worked better
personally, I think Seth's answer hit the nose exactly on the head as to what it means. I don't see what is hard to define about that
problem is people apply it when they don't see a need as opposed to being someone who understands the question to actually know that it is too localized
it certainly is the easiest to abuse
but I also think it is a necessary close reason unless we want lots of unanswered open questions
which isn't helpful
not saying there isn't a problem
just saying that getting rid of it causes problems too
Oh, so I did have another interesting idea on it that I put out on MSO. If there was an option to vote "Useful for Me" on a Too Localized question it could force the question back open if people found it useful
thus auto-correcting for incorrect closures
it could even be a permanent counter on the question that would convert in to upvotes after reopening
@Xander I voted to delete, I think that then means it needs another such vote and it'll be handled without a mod? Not sure tho, the low quality queue here is rather static, thankfully :)
@Xander I'm fairly new to it also, I just didn't see many low quality votes before to deduct the inner workings out of it... anyway, I've seen it automatically adds a comment based on my choice, which is IMO pretty neat
@Xander You're 43 rep points away from the VTC privilege... can't you drop some answer somewhere? How about linking them here, and you do a bit of rep whoring? Doesn't seem to bother others :))
@AJHenderson Oh yeah? Very nice. I just moved here a couple of years ago, and haven't had a chance to spend any time in Greensboro yet, but I hear it's a nice area.
@AJHenderson Yeah, they kill you when connecting to smaller airports.
@AJHenderson LOL..That's odd that they put them there first. Charlotte had a security gate without them until last summer. I'm Pre-Check now though, so I never have to deal with them anymore anyway.
@Simon Yeah, it's just not a good answer. Yet, at least. And it's a bit weird that he posted the question and then almost immediately posted an answer. Usually when people solve their own problems, it takes a bit of time.
@ScottPack Yeah, but in the time that I've been here, it never lasts. And we did actually get some nice snow last winter. It's gone in a day, of course, but it's pretty while it lasts.
@AJHenderson Yeah, it just came here last year. I was chomping at the bit since one of the very first airports they rolled it out to was DFW, which had been my home airport until right before they started the program.
@AJHenderson And the swabbing is only if you get randomly selected. Normally you walk though the metal detector and you're done.
No messing about with shoes, or laptops, or jackets, or any of that jazz.
Yeah, almost flew into there last year, but was too expensive, so ended up at LGA instead.
I looked at it on Google Maps as was a bit surprised to learn that it actually handled scheduled commercial service, it's so small.
Abilene, TX is another fun airport. Two gates, and small enough that they don't have a baggage conveyor. They just drive the baggage cart up next to the terminal and pitch the bags through a roll-up door onto a tray.
@ScottPack The Dayton airport was actually a bit larger than I was expecting. They have two separate terminals, in fact.
@Xander 3 surface gates, but I've only ever seen one boarding at a time. Gate 1 goes tot the front of the plane, gate 2 goes to the back, gate 2 is unused.
It's fantastic. I had to take my food from the restaurant to go once. Security just waved me through. Half of a burger, fries, and a soda. Bam! Move along.
LCK is pretty nice as well. Definitely bigger, but it's primarily freight
@ScottPack Huntington Tri-State? Seems about the same size as ours here. I love small airports, chilled, no waiting, no pressure anywhere and they'd usually even wait for you if you didn't make it quite on time (happened a few times and the pilot just made up for the difference in air then, we were always on time at the destination)
dunno how they do that tho... prolly just a bit less of waiting to land
I was about 15 minutes late one day and the boarding lady (don't ask how those are called, no clue here) even came to the check-in personally to see if I made it... in Hamburg tho, I was 1 minute late and they nearly closed the gate on me, and made me run gate to gate so we could then sit on the plane for nearly half an hour before anything started moving
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After a ton of discussion, work and input from the community, we're rolling out the remainder of major closing changes that you've helped us design, as discussed in these prior posts.
They're live on Meta today, and will likely roll out to the rest of the network sometime next week.
The clos...
Thanks for the report! It will be fixed in the next update.
