@flawr I used Mint Debian Edition on my 7-year-old laptop, and it ran fine. It also included media codecs for music and such. It was an older version tough, I don't know how it would work now.
anyway I'm using javascript's setInterval to run a loop method as part of my chat bot. However, the loop method is inside an es6 class, and when it is called from setInterval the loop method does not reconise this as the class that it is apart of
@Zgarb You can disable them showing you results from advertisers, but my understanding is they still send at least some aggregate data even if you disable it. Plus it's crazy slow compared to any other distro I've tried.
It's slower out of the box for sure. You can disable a lot of crap to speed it up, but if you're the type that likes to tinker too much for setup, then...
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What about the main site? Is it possible to make tags with winning creteria required? Also I would've add tips and experimental-challenge to the list.
I believe that showing the post score for nomination posts during primaries is a bad idea.
When I loaded the primaries page during the election, the first thing I saw was a post voted -1. This immediately colored my impression of the post. Reading his post didn't indeed make me wish he was a mod...
I want to reflect how on dumb this primary process is. All they will do is eliminate one candidate, while causing everyone to cast votes whose counts are public before the candidates have answered the questions that we wrote to judge who would be a good mod.
btw, I'm the guy who's in the habit of running SE election ballots through my own implementation of iterative Ranked Pairs voting to sow discord... I mean promote knowledge of voting algorithms... I mean just for fun, really :)
I understand that the current mods are good and there's good reason to vote for them, but having this voting happen in effect before candidates can answer questions just makes it silly
it makes it hard for anyone to prove themselves in their responses
Just took a look at all of the vote breakdowns, and it seems to me like this primary is pointless. All the current 4 (active) mods have >40 votes and the only other person who comes close is Digital Trauma, who has like half the votes. Everyone else has <10 or negative.
I have no problem with an election that results in the same 4 mods - that just confirms that the community strongly approves of them. I agree that allowing votes to be visible at this stage is not helpful.
@xnor Checked with a CM—looks like we're just going to have to go through the primary. Not ideal, but it would be a bit rash to end the primary early after it's already started. :/
The one benefit I can see is that if someone gets lots of downvotes it may prompt someone to defend that person and give examples of suitability. Doesn't seem enough to justify broadcasting votes though.
@xnor Eh, in most site graduations, the incumbent moderators usually all get re-elected. I can't say I'm surprised to see the current outcome in the slightest. :-P
I'm surprised how many downvotes are being cast. Until I refreshed the page and saw that downvotes were actually being made, I was quite conservative with them
I've disabled auto-protection on this meta site.
Or rather, set the relevant thresholds (answers from new users) to 10,000.
That should keep things under control for a few weeks.
@NathanMerrill Are you expressing dissatisfaction with the current mods in the running? Because they are the ones with the high scores, and like I said, I can't say I find this surprising in the slightest. :-)
@ChrisJester-Young i think nobody is surprised by the results, but it would have been nice to give at least an impression that other candidates have the chance to prove themselves over incumbents through their responses
@xnor PPCG has the special distinction that all of the current pro tems who are running were actually hugely popular with the community and were selected for that reason. i.e., they weren't randomly plucked out of thin air.
I was scrolling the Primaries page, and clicked the downvote button on a post, yes?
Ok. This Primary enty had 0 votes, then I downvoted, so it has a score of -1. So far, so good.
I noticed If I click on the number, I can see how many votes it has (am I supposed to be able to do that for an el...
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so I was wondering, are the candidates supposed to be familiar with what they can do as a moderator and how it works? that's the impression I got from the questionnaire
Meta site has a set of special tags: discussion
feature-request
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At least one of them is required to ask a question on meta.
What about the main site? Is it possible to make tags with winning creteria required? Also I would've add tips and experimental-challenge to the list.
I've disabled auto-protection on this meta site.
Or rather, set the relevant thresholds (answers from new users) to 10,000.
That should keep things under control for a few weeks.
I was scrolling the Primaries page, and clicked the downvote button on a post, yes?
Ok. This Primary enty had 0 votes, then I downvoted, so it has a score of -1. So far, so good.
I noticed If I click on the number, I can see how many votes it has (am I supposed to be able to do that for an el...
The story
"2016? Al..right," grumbled toy seller Hilbert. He opened his eyes, wiped salad dressing trickling out of his ear and ate a morning kick-start cremeschnitte. Exemplar holidays. He needs to go to work now though, and finish the year's accounting.
Christmas is a very yielding period of...
