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10:50 AM
Any mods able to look at some cross-site spam on sites I don't have an account: pm.stackexchange.com/a/5594 and graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/7172
 
 
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7:55 PM
@awoodland It's usually best to just flag the posts
 
8:16 PM
@MichaelMrozek I didn't particularly want to sign up to either of those sites just for flagging
 
Oh, I forgot you need rep to flag. Never mind
 
@MichaelMrozek the association bonus is enough, but you do need to create the account
 
@Gilles That was my concern with "project management" - don't want anyone I know thinking I'm looking to move that way!
 
8:59 PM
This might be a good place to advertise this - I'm going through [polls] and either editing to make it "not a poll" where the Q (or its answers) are good, or I'm voting to close/delete etc. If I could have a hand closing/deleting some of this stuff that would be marvellous, if anyone wants to play.
 
@Ninefingers I kinda lost interest in cleaning up SO when they made the sanctity of garbage official
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@Ninefingers I'll take a look at some in the tags I know well enough to make good saving edits
 
Since then I've mostly limited my 10k activity on SO to reviewing suggested edits (and boy, we could use more hands)
 
@awoodland Thanks :)
@Gilles meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/124400/… gives us the ability to remove stuff, assuming it's not likely to be missed. It actually makes our lives much easier for cleaning stuff up :)
When we last had a bash at polls, we couldn't remove anything without like all of the 10ks. Now it'll only take 10 or less.
 
@Ninefingers that made a huge difference and looking through the "recent delete votes" or "most delete votes" there seem to be a few users regularly removing bad questions
 
9:04 PM
@awoodland Yep. It also takes the pressure off the mods. They now get to say "hey, you got delete votes, use 'em" rather than being the only people that can actually do anything about bad stuff. I regularly check delete/undelete and re-open, as often as I remember :)
 
@Ninefingers wake me up when this and this and all of its ilk are not on SO any more
 
@Gilles Haha :) not saying I agree with hidden features questions (and function pointers, seriously?!) but the question is read only, which is better than continually attracting answers etc.
 
Oh, well, I'm doing a few
My God! This question is nearly 2 years old and people are still down-voting it; ENOUGH! → I was going to just close (it's at -6 already), this made me expend a downvote
 
@Gilles I've already vtc on that one - can't vtc again :(
 
@Ninefingers yeah, I've already had that happen a couple of times just now
 
9:16 PM
@Gilles post in: chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/227/posse-comitatus - they normally get enough attention there
I wish there was a way for people with VTC or 10K to flag questions to be shown to others, as well as just voting though
@Gilles the top answer on it is NAA too
 
@awoodland "flag for review"? Not a bad idea.
 
@Ninefingers it would fill the hole that some people seem to use VLQ for too - technically flawed, but otherwise OK
If it isn't then is there a better mechanism than chat for bringing such technical issues to the attention of the community? I've always treated VLQ answers in the 10k queue as "request for review" if I'm familiar with the topic and there's no more serious problems. (I guess this ought to be a separate question really) — awoodland Feb 15 at 15:37
 
Wow:
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Q: Absolute minimum every software developer must know about IPv6

VolkerKNow that remaining IPv4 address space has dropped below 5% let's make list of things every software developer must know about IPv6, including maybe not so obvious new pitfalls, hybrid solutions, etc.

That clearly worked :(
 

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