@Geobits it would be nice if you could decide not to use it. There are some obvious cases (especially on larger sites), where giving experienced users a dupe hammer makes sense.
Yea, on larger sites where a smaller proportion of eligible voters see each new question I agree it makes sense. It's pretty rare here that there's a question that doesn't get several views by close-eligible people in short order.
I think moderators should have the ability to cast a normal, non binding close and open vote like they were a normal user (while of course retaining their ability to cast a binding vote where necessary).
This can be used in "grey areas" where a moderator can choose to give his or her opinion, bu...
I kinda-sorta agree with his stance on moderators. In general, they are elected to do things like this (pro-tem is a bit different, obviously), and the vote legitimizes it in a way. However, "guy with a bunch of rep in a tag" is quite different in my mind. There's no period where people can comment on his past voting record, etc. It just goes from normal to hammer without being as transparent to others.
No offense to any of our gold-taggers, obviously. It's just not the same deal as when someone is elected by the community.
Hmm. I mean rather that both the election process and the newly elected moderator accepting the position combines to say "okay, these are the rules now", so it's hard to say mods are going into this blindly, or without knowledge that they're going to get a binding vote. If you don't want that, you can decline the position. The only way to decline the gold tag hammer is by stopping your contributions in that tag altogether.
Basically, yes. By having that diamond, you're effectively a spokesman for the community whether you're trying to be or not. I see so many meta posts starting with "I'm speaking as a normal user, not a mod here..." but that is simply untrue. Mods speak with mod-voice, whether they know it or not.
@Rainbolt so what is putting words in my mouth? Let's find a word to describe that.
FWIW, I wrote that answer before I was an employee here and before I had moderator rights anywhere. I still stand by every word of it, not that many people bother reading all of them.
Wanna be a moderator? Great - they're needed. But get used to standing by what you say, and if you don't want to do that, then don't say it. I have no patience for wishy-washy moderators; if you don't have an opinion, don't pretend otherwise.
Is your opinion on gold-taggers the same as far as binding dupe votes go? It's much harder to actively avoid that while still contributing in your best area.
We've no plans to make "opting out" an option. This is in keeping with existing behavior: once you gain the ability to vote to close, you can no longer flag for closing. The system trusts you more, and there's no way to tell it to trust you less*.
To be perfectly frank, I've never liked the atti...
@shog9 Also, the reason I said that your position on it was two years ago was because that's the last time you posted a comment on that post. So, you need to learn to read better.
@MartinBüttner if you aren't sure it's a duplicate, then you don't want it to be closed if 4 other people are similarly unsure. You want to wait for someone to be sure - or not close it at all.
So again here you're picking on one word in a much larger response and arguing that you're somehow right because you interpret it differently? I'm done - buy yourself a dictionary and read it. — Shog9 ♦Jul 19 '13 at 2:08
I have nearly 3000 answers on just that site. Most of them have flaws. If I had to cater to folks who insist on pointing them out, I'd do nothing else 24/7.
You didn't have to cater to anyone. The edit had one approval vote before someone (gee, I wonder who it was) rejected it. You could have gone your entire life without ever caring that I improved your answer.
And yes, I did look over the remainder of it for easy to spot grammar and spelling issues.
I have a challenge idea, can I give you a rough overview and you tell me if it's a good idea?
Roughly: Given a set of values, find the maximum number of disjoint pairs of values such that the sum of each pair falls into a given range.
This kind of program is needed when trying to select capacitors for a circuit such that the resulting capacity is within tighter boundaries than you can get with a single capacitor.
@Sp3000 It's probably O(scary), but it might be possible to find a polynomial time algorithm with some dynamic programming as I'm only asking for pairs as opposed to subsets.
I'm currently writing an explanation for a code golf from 5 days ago. If I didn't know any better, I'd say I was drunk when I wrote this. Lots of golfing opportunities missed, and I have a :c after a string (just in case).
@Sp3000 the second set has an image level where you repeatedly read an orientation (as a multiple of 90 degrees) and a length and then trace out the path (all in white, thankfully). I haven't dared attempting that one yet.
ah yeah, exposure mask was a bit annoying, too. I was able to reuse that entire code for a level in the second set though (augmenting it with my own mask generator)
well the second set needs a lot of dividing, so I've reused that several times. and I've also reused my min/max code a few times. but the exposure mask thing was the only one where I copied more than one node.
figlet is utility that converts plain text to an ascii-art representation for use in banners and the like. For example:
$ figlet "Code Golf"
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