Yeah he's a moderator on CR. We make heavy use of Duga there, the features you guys use were actually first originally designed for CR then adapted/expanded for your site :)
Couple different things. For one, and most importantly, Duga polls Stack Overflow comments that mention CR (or its domain) and we use it to push back on bad migration/cross-post suggestions
Ours is much more simple since it's just blindly matching characters
I think yours has some fancy probability thing or some other computer learning to eliminate the noise caused by very frequent use of the word "programmers"
Another thing is to inform us of possibly answer-invalidating edits
@Phrancis I think Duga better keeps tracking old name, it is quite likely that folks who post misleading comments will keep using it. Maybe worth adding a new name as well, but old one is definitely worth keeping - until at least we get more data and will be able to reliably tell if SO commenters stopped using it
Oh sure. just anticipating wise asses using the new name to get around the bot. I've actually seen people use back ticks: programmers SE to mention us without triggering a response.
I would've assumed it would catch those, but it may have to do with the fact that back ticks get rendered as <code>programmers</code> and perhaps Duga is set to ignore code in comments
Simon would definitely be in a better position than I to speak to any of that, of course
@Phrancis @CandiedOrange Oh God, I had no idea that this was actually happening.
@CandiedOrange I think some of them is caught by @Duga but overall that Machine Learning thing is tricky...
So... I guess I will do the same thing for Software Engineering as for Programmers? That is, more machine learning with logistic regression. But what I need then is training data and lots of it. Examples of comments posted that should be classified as both true and false.
It would be really helpful for @Duga if someone helped me create a new training set with comments of this form with the new site name. '1' for true classification and '0' for false classification.
3
(And '2' or anything else for other unclear comments)
Starred and Pinned the name change meta announcement
@ThomasOwens I wanted to thank you personally for all the hard work you did getting the site to where it is today. I was not as involved in this effort as I wanted to be, but I am glad to see that you really stepped up and did a good job representing the community. Thank you!
@Aaron: Agree with you in the approach. A lot of the answers here say "don't sugar coat it", but I understand it is not about pleasing everyone. People are more likely to follow good approach when the good things they do are reinforced, not when they are told they are wrong. They key here is to be tactful but consistent about what to do. From the OP's description, he is in a less-than-perfect coding team, with even old members who are used to their way. They would be more receptive to gentle approach. — Hoàng Long13 hours ago
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