Math Mods' Office - 2015-06-25

in Mathematics, 15 mins ago, by skill patrol

This question? @UhlBelk

@DanielFischer^ :-)

4 hours later…

5:50 AM

@mixedmath After few levels it seems really strange, see here.

@UhlBelk It is not known how exactly the quality filter works. So we can guess.

Maybe it takes some issue with the repeated characters. Have you tried omitting the string wllwllwllwllwllwllwllwllwllwllwllwllwllwllwllwllwllwllwllwllwllwllwll and posting the same question without it?

1 hour later…

Asaf Karagila

7:22 AM

8 hours ago, by mixedmath

10 secs ago, by mixedmath

4 hours ago, by Asaf Karagila

5 mins ago, by Daniel Fischer

31 secs ago, by Martin Sleziak

Feb 14 at 20:39, by Daniel Fischer

If you two want to chit-chat, take it to the main chatroom.

If I cannot counterflag spam flags on my own posts, why do they even show them to me. Makes no sense.

@MartinSleziak Now it is already mentioned in comments to one of the answers.

The name of the chat room Math Mods' Office suggests that there is a real possibility of finding a mod in that room. @emcor — 1999 11 hours ago

@AsafKaragila So you can keep the honour to yourself. Seriously, quit playing around in this room. You are pushing the real stuff off the screen.

Asaf Karagila

@Lord_Farin Fine.

8:12 AM

@UhlBelk I have tried to copy the exact question and post it here and I did not get any error message. I am not sure why you were not able to post it.

As it was only a test, I have immediately deleted it, here is link for the users who can see deleted posts: What are the odds that the pattern, win lose lose, will happen 23 times in a row (69 rounds)?

I think that the best thing is to consult the moderators. (Hopefully some of them will appear here eventually.)

If you really want to get the question from stats.SE to here, then probably the best way to do it is to request migration.

You might want to keep it in both places - although I do not think that it is a good idea.

There is also a possibility to transfer the ownership of the post I have just made to you. But IIRC this cannot be done by mods, you would somebody for SE stuff to do this. I don't think that they should be bothered with such triviality.

Your problems can probably be solved relatively easily by:

1) Playing around with the post to find out what was the reason you got the message about quality requirements.

or 2) Migrating the post from stats.SE.

If you choose to migrate, you should be warned that in the case that the post gets closed here, it will bounce back to stats.SE.

In any case, I find it strange that quality filter does behave differently for two different users.

Indeed, a "quality" filter that lacks good quality :-)

1 hour later…

Daniel Fischer

9:40 AM

@UhlBelk I think flagging it for migration is the way to go.

1 hour later…

10:43 AM

@DanielFischer Would it be ok if I created a new account for testing things. (If I created such account, I would probably try to gather a few reputation points on it by answering a few questions.)

For example, I tried whether I can post UhlBelk's question. It might be interesting to see whether quality filter behaves differently for low-rep user.

sounds like a great experiment :-)

This is a hypothetical question, I do not plan creating such account anytime soon. But occasionally something like that might be useful.

Martin 2.0

@MartinSleziak I'm quite sure that community overlord Shog9 has this kind of testing accounts, so it should be fine.

10:46 AM

As far as I can say, at the moment I can see how system behaves to me and how system behaves to unregistered users. I don't have possibility to test how it behaves somewhere inbetween.

@Lord_Farin Maybe he does. But can regular users (or at least moderators) try out how the system work for <2k users who do not have some privileges.

@MartinSleziak I'm confident the answer is yes. I will try to hunt down a source for you.

For example, on a phpbb-based forum where I am a moderator I can test out working with the forum with any users permissions.

@Martin There it is: meta.stackexchange.com/a/65609/222340

Also this: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/65604/…

I see. I think I recall reading even on our local meta that multiple-accounts are allowed if they do not interact with each other. (I asked a moderator just to confirm this.)

Although I don't recall whether it was mention on our meta that it is ok to have separate accounts just for the purposes of testing stuff.

@Lord_Farin Thanks for the references!

@MartinSleziak Welcome!

10:57 AM

I see in your link that in this case the user even stated in the profile: I am a sockpuppet account for Josh, A.K.A The Unhandled Exception. I am used to test XMPP integration.

So if I decide to make another account for testing purposes, stating that explicitly in the profile seems like a good idea.

Daniel Fischer

11:18 AM

@MartinSleziak As long as you don't use the account to do something you couldn't do with one account (voting for your own posts, double-voting on posts, bypass question limits ... - which I don't expect you're even tempted to do), it's okay. Use a different OpenID for a second account, or it may happen that the accounts are automatically merged by the system.