@NickAlexeev I think it's within scope, yes. A little bit of demonstrated research would likely carry that one a long way.

@Air Tends to work better with a larger user base where you can use the contest to spur a bit more activity with the hope that it leads towards sustained activity.

@hazzey Nah, we'll still be around in a year. All of the indicators so far are positive. No predictions though regarding graduation as we've got a long way to go until we hit 3k questions.

@hazzey - was my comment on your liability question clear? Essentially, all you need to do is provide a jurisdiction (aka UK, US, Australia, etc...) and then flag for mod attention. And of us will then immediately re-open it. And if you don't care to do so, then that's okay too.

ha! jynx

"We three mods" chatted and came to the agreement that based upon the community consensus on the meta question that the only thing lacking to re-open your question was a jurisdiction. And while we could guess based upon your profile, the preference was if you did it

It's not that it makes it "better" but rather that the scope is narrowed, if that makes sense. Narrowing scope can be considered as better in this case too.

Perfect, thanks.

The community was pretty clear that it feels that it can handle questions of that nature, so that's what we're going to roll with until circumstances dictate otherwise.

My personal comments in chat may have been to the contrary, but that doesn't really matter in this case. My job as mod is to enforce the community standard.

TTFN, real life calls. :-)

@jhabbott Only SE employees can dig into who actually did the voting. Most times it's not worth their trouble. What was odd to me was the ~10 up votes in a very short period of time but not all rolled back.

I checked into things a bit more - had all of the votes come from the same person then all of them would have rolled back. Now we know why you continue to outpace me in the repz racez. :-)

@jhabbott My comment was in reference to repz. If you hover your mouse over the comment, you'll see the reference comment highlighted

There. I fixed it anyway. :-)

Yeah, the only oddity is if you just an @ someone then it will sometimes link to their immediately prior comment even though it may not have been related to what was being discussed

So @jhabbott should link to your comment about me being a mod

@jhabbott But clicking on the little arrow to right hand side of the chat comment puts some the chat message ID in the comment field and allows you to reply to something specific like this

Yes

be forewarned that all mods in all chat rooms see those flags

so if you choose to flag something as offensive or with a custom mod message, every mod in chat will see it. 10k+ users will see offensive flags too

@jhabbott I'm not sure. I can ask around. I'm pretty ignorant about tracking stuff from tweets as I don't use twitter all that much.

I think the difference between then and now is that I understand it, I could use it if I chose. But I don't see the value in it. Twitter just isn't a quality enough source of information for me. I use facebook if I want to find out what my more distant friends are doing. I use websites and RSS feeds for things I want to keep track of. Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, and the ilk all have too poor of a signal-to-noise ratio. Too much effort to sift through it.

I'd love to be able to tell you what common usage is, but for obvious reasons, I can't. :-)