The Assembly

rfusca

02:18

Good idea.

This room that is.

Sathya

04:07

morning

Purmou

04:33

Does that disclaimer apply to normal users as well? :P

Sathya

@Purmou which?

Purmou

@Sathya "Please note that anything you say is this room can and will be used against you in any Meta discussion"

Sathya

goes both ways I suppose

BoltClock

05:42

Has it been common practice for another user to post an answer on behalf of an OP and mark the answer as a wiki?

(Usually as a result of the OP not being able to post a self-answer so he edits the answer into the question instead.)

(And I presume the answer is posted as a wiki to waive all rep gain from votes on it.)

user2334

05:59

@BoltClock Fairly common, usually as a last resort after prodding the user to do it themselves. Although Jeff used to be on record saying if someone posts a legit answer in a comment, it's fair game to anyone who wants the rep.

BoltClock

@MarkTrapp Well, that's for comments, not edits...

Sathya

@BoltClock I've done it on occasion when the OP has abandoned it

user2334

@BoltClock Don't see the functional difference between the two: the person placed the answer in the wrong place and ostensibly refuses or is unable to move it.

BoltClock

@MarkTrapp True

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A: Using database_cleaner, mongoid and active_admin causes specs to fail with ActiveRecord::ConnectionNotEstablished

[moved from question] It appears that database_cleaner attempts to autodetect the ORMs available to it in its initialization method This can be pre-empted by changing the spec/support/database_cleaner.rb file like so: RSpec.configure do |config| config.before(:suite) do DatabaseCleaner[:...

Here's an example. Not wikied. Leave it alone?

user2334

I'd leave it: the guy even gave permission after being asked to do it himself

BoltClock

06:07

@MarkTrapp Thanks

Tom Wijsman

08:43

@BoltClock I support Sathya's way of doing it, the main use case where I do this is to sort out the unanswered tab where an actual answer is in the question/comment. I usually CW just to get rid of the people that nag me for benefiting from reputation, above 20k I don't care much (except for racing with others) about the reputation anyway...

Ivo Flipse

@TomWijsman Though now that everyone can edit, even anonymously, why would a post need to be CW?

Tom Wijsman

@IvoFlipse Re-read my message, cutting out the relevant parts: "... CW ... to get rid of ... benefiting from reputation, ...". But I just wanted to share "the unanswered tab" as a place where I use this as common practice, not make a case for whether to CW it. Just that, don't want to discuss this and waste more chat messages to it in this formal room... It's awkward to leave a message here. :)

Ivo Flipse

@TomWijsman While very noble, I would just ignore such people and happily continue answering

You're free to do otherwise, but it shouldn't have to be necessary

Well I think it might be time to cull our unanswered tab a little bit, surely there's stuff in our backlog from 2 years ago that's abandoned by now

Tom Wijsman

I've been actively been doing that in the past, but haven't done it over the latest months due to exams. And I do believe this is a forming problem, and not just on Super User... But well, unanswered questions will always be there on the other hand. But we can indeed at least try to filter out those that will never get an answer.

Ivo Flipse

since we're all being so "does this make the internet better", if you would stumble onto a 2 year old post that only get answers that should have comments, asking for clarification, you will not be happy. If someone new has that problem, I'd rather see them ask it again, in their wording and having someone active own the question

@TomWijsman But its probably better not to have you go around and flag a bunch of questions, because it would probably drown out all the current/relevant flags. But we can use chat or Meta, like we did with that last clean up

Besides, I wonder if downvoting would trigger the algorithm that cleans them up automatically

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A: Auto-deleting old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year?

Just to formally document the exact policies we have in place to remove old abandoned / dead questions: If the question is more than 30 days old, and ... has -1 or lower score has no answers is not locked ... it will be automatically deleted. If the question is more than 365 days old, and ....

Tom Wijsman

08:54

@IvoFlipse I'm thinking that a separate flag queue under the form of a separate site I can give you login to (so only moderator can remove flags from my personal queue) would help. Fairly easy to implement in a few minutes...

Ivo Flipse

Hmm that's fairly strict, especially the no answers. I hope that means no upvoted answers

superuser.com/search?q=answers%3A0

Auch that doesn't look pretty

Tom Wijsman

@IvoFlipse The hard thing there is deciding whether those that are merged or duplicate are useful or not, I wonder how much it would be without those types but I don't feel like Data.SEing right now...

@IvoFlipse Actually, search can do what I just mentioned: answers:0 closed:0 migrated:0 hasnotice:0

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