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Scott Pack
Scott Pack
03:19
I also agreed. The answer is pretty toxic.
 
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Romeo Ninov
Romeo Ninov
06:04
@RoryAlsop, If you check for example my profile in Super User you will see I have 3x Custodian and one Reviewer (which mean 250 review)
 
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Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
07:23
@RomeoNinov Thanks for responding - that's useful.
M'vy
M'vy
08:13
Well yeah, the question is not a really good one, even now.
The answer was not to be taken seriously, and I deplore there was no mention of it anywhere (along with a >100 upvotes ?? seriously?)
M'vy
M'vy
08:38
Like it was mentioned earlier, and in a question I need to find. There might be a real use for canonical answer to specific "easy" or "frequent" new-comers questions.
I remember we had a faq tag on meta.
 
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Thomas Pornin
Thomas Pornin
13:16
@M'vy Upvotes are not necessarily a measure of quality and adequation to the site. In fact that's the point of moderators: to be able to do things that are not properly handled with the vote/accept system.
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M'vy
M'vy
Indeed. But upvote should be a measure of quality ("This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear")
Thomas Pornin
Thomas Pornin
Ah, should... so many things should be, and are not, or should not be, and yet are.
M'vy
M'vy
Well, I know right. I was expressing an opinion here :)
The same goes with the questions that should be closed, but gets downvotes instead. (Well, some deserves the close vote and the close vote, but sometimes not)
Sometimes it makes a double penalty that can be difficult for newcomers to handle.
Iszi
Iszi
14:15
@AviD Initial gut reaction: Pretty sure it's a dupe.
AviD
AviD
@M'vy sometimes the quality it is measuring is not necessarily a good quality. E.g. humour and mockery.
Iszi
Iszi
@AviD Wow, somebody's been watching too much </scorpion>
M'vy
M'vy
@AviD unfortunately that's not the quality we're interested in, we're not meant to be a funny site.
AviD
AviD
@Iszi yeah, right? Everyone knows you don't need the MAC address or IP, just your email address.
@M'vy exactly.
Iszi
Iszi
@ScottPack I like that I can see it behind the 10k wall though. Good read.
Come to think, do we have any nominees who aren't above 10k still? @AviD - if you're still interested in getting everyone's take on that answer, you might want to C&P here.
Or drop it on Pastebin or something and post a link.
AviD
AviD
14:23
@Iszi @M'vy, but he's seen it
and @Simon, but he's a donut
Iszi
Iszi
@ThomasPornin And that's why we're in business.
AviD
AviD
@Iszi and I'd rather not save it for posterity. It and all traces should be burninated.
Iszi
Iszi
@AviD What about @RomeoNinov?
M'vy
M'vy
@Iszi yeah, not above 10k yet. almost 6k
AviD
AviD
@Iszi ah true, but I think he's seen it
Iszi
Iszi
14:25
@M'vy Horseshoes and hand grenades, man. And 6k -> 10k would take a pretty big grenade.
Or you meant "almost 6k" as in "close to 6k" not "close to 10k, he's at 6k"
M'vy
M'vy
@Iszi I'm 5'931 :)
The thing is, reputation is much more base on the popularity of the question/answer than the actual usefulness.
or technical level.
Iszi
Iszi
@AviD Ok, some of this off-topic chatter should probably move to the DMZ.
AviD
AviD
14:41
→ 11 messages moved to The DMZ
@Iszi oo, did I do that right?

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