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Adam

00:22

Definitely belongs on Raspberry Pi. Super User could handle it as well, but it focuses on RPi technology.

Andy

00:40

@Adam, you've been doing the Low Quality reviews right?

Adam

Yeah, just went through them.

Andy

I made it to 1K, so I'm working through them. I've got this one which I originally flagged as low quality. I'd like to delete it too. If you decided to do so, what reason did you select?

If you didn't...I suppose that's a completely different question.

enderland

feel free to post VLQ stuff here if you want downvotes...

Adam

@Andy I didn't flag it, but I'm not sure why. I'll go do that.

Andy

@enderland, I'm not sure if you can see that review. I'm discussing this answer though: hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/a/527/57

Adam

00:43

Scratch that, I guess I did flag it for low quality already.

enderland

Weird to have a +7 rep notification, downvotes FTW!

Andy

@Adam, I'm not concerned about the flag. I'm concerned about what reason you used to justify deleting it. The options: "Commentary", "It's a thank you", "Same problem", "Different problem", "Link Only". Which is most appropriate?

Adam

I've had a few 9's and 7's recently because of the low quality post raid.

Commentary is most appropriate here I'd say.

It's just stating how one webcam is better than another. Nothing truly related to a recommendation.

Andy

OK. Makes sense.

Adam

Hopefully we'll be getting mods within a few days. We could use some janitors.

Andy

00:51

teeters right on the edge No one touch my rep.

Adam

>:)

Firepower0701

01:05

I hope Adam, Andy, or Undo wins the election tbh

@Andy I fixed it

How will we meet the "healthy beta" requirements. We aren't even close

enderland

patience...

those are more like guidelines at best, too

Adam

01:22

@Firepower0701 Those don't really match up with the nature of recommendation sites.

The specific knowledge and/or experience required to answer recommendation questions is much higher than regular sites, so questions can't be answered as easily.

enderland

Yeah

Adam

02:22

The low-quality answers are superfluous today.

Cfinley

03:10

I always seem to get on too late.

It is going to be difficult it seems to find time get be on here after work.

I do try to check to make sure all the reviews are clear before I head to bed

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ArtOfCode

10:23

A number of LQP, but we're not doing as bad as we could be on that front.

@Firepower0701 Do I assume correctly that the most recent downvote on my mod nomination is yours? No worries if it is, I'd just like to know your reasoning, especially if you've got an issue with how I moderate.

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Hardware Recommendations Meta

11:55

Q: How do we deal with the product photos?

As all we know, copyrights may vary a lot. Do we want to make a general thread and collect permissions from various companies to show their photos? I do not mean individual images, only the whole collections. Sometimes they publish galleries with a huge collection of photos that can be very usefu...

discussion

Firepower0701

12:12

@ArtOfCode I didn't downvote you for the election, but I did upvote Andy, Undo, and Adam.

ArtOfCode

13:03

@Firepower0701 Ah, Ok. Thanks for clearing that up.

belford

Hi! Could you refer to this question? Isn't it important for us to do something about product photos?

belford

13:22

I do not see anything wrong in an attempt to collect press materials etc... People like it and many of them will go to the site just by the search engine. It is difficult to imagine a good review without the illustration.

ArtOfCode

@belford No more reason for us to do it than any other site

Firepower0701

13:42

Is the Hardware Recs Beta similar in growth to the Software Recs Beta?

Andy

We're only on week 2 of public beta right now. It's hard to tell

Software Recs first 5 weeks ^

Hardware Recs first 4 weeks ^

Query for Software Recs: data.stackexchange.com/softwarerecs/query/372076/…

Query for Hardware Recs: data.stackexchange.com/hardwarerecs/query/161411/…

The Software one is modified slightly from the Hardware one to reduce the time frame, instead of showing the entire site history

But, they are the same base query

Undo

14:08

@Firepower0701 SR felt more active

Especially by now

@belford The other answers to your question explain it, but we don't need to have a policy on that, much less try to enforce anything.

Also, the companies that are going to be unhappy about a product photo being used in a favorable recommendation are few and far between.

I'd say that if it becomes a problem, then we can talk about it. Right now, we have a site to build.

@Andy Note the difference in the y-axis scales :/

SR had a ton more voting.

Andy

More questions too

Undo

@Firepower0701 Anyone on that page right now would do a great job if appointed.

belford

14:25

@Undo, I agree but this site is quite unique and most users won't make their own photos - recommendation is often based only on "googling" rather than real experience. I know that we have bigger problems now. We should encourage users to vote more ;).

Undo

There we go

We really need double or triple the voting we have now

Andy

Scotty! We need more users!

I'm givin' 'er all I got cap'n!

Well...Microsoft crushed my dreams today. I was hoping to play with a Developer HoloLens. That's not going to happen at a price of $3000

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/…

Undo

Ouch

I thought they wanted to sell one or two of them

Andy

Maybe that's all they wanted to sell. Just one or two.

Firepower0701

I feel like most people knew that the hololens would be that expensive, but everybody hoped it wouldn't. I think the lens will turn into Google glass for rich people... oh wait

ArtOfCode

15:18

First person to tell us they've got a mod email wins... something!

(read: nothing)

Andy

15:29

I got an email this morning about being a good contributor. Does that count?

ArtOfCode

15:43

@Andy Nope, I got one of those. Got a "top user" mail a while back, too.

Subject line is something like "Would you be interested in moderating HR.SE?"

Undo

16:07

@ArtOfCode "We need some provisional moderators for <site>" is what it was a year or so ago.

Although I'm not sure they really want who those emails go to shared

Can cause too much unneeded strife and unhappiness.

ArtOfCode

@Undo When I got mine, it was what I quoted.

No problems were had with sharing who got them on OS, though to be fair the first three to get them were our mods.

Undo

@ArtOfCode Interesting. It must have evolved over the year or so.

@ArtOfCode I never got a 'top user' one :(

Just a 'thanks for participating'

ArtOfCode

@Undo That'll be because I was top of the leagues at that point

Undo

Oh wait, it talks about 'making the leaderboard'. So I guess I did.

Andy

@ArtOfCode "Moderation on Moderators SE" was mine

ArtOfCode

16:15

@Andy Perhaps they're all different, depending on who sends them...

Andy

Then we went and ruined all the good jokes that'd generate over the years by changing the name

ArtOfCode

I had Grace Note. Who were yours?

Andy

Pops

ArtOfCode

@Undo yours?

Undo

Robert

ArtOfCode

16:16

Hey there @Adam

Aye, so maybe it's just the people who send them

Maybe there is no template for once

Undo

Yeah, sounds like a per-person thing

Or maybe they write out the whole thing every time

Adam

@ArtOfCode Hello, hello.

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Adam

20:18

Our first question about electrical engineering has appeared.

2 hours later…

Firepower0701

21:49

So... did it get moved to electrical engineering

Adam

22:04

Electronics.SE doesn't allow recommendations.

Hardware Recommendations Meta

22:14

Q: Are questions asking about computer circuits allowed?

This question just came up. It asks for a recommendation of a resistor – a component found on a circuit board. This topic has been very briefly mentioned in an answer in an earlier thread, but I figured a question focusing on it would do some good. My initial thoughts are that this is far too sp...