The Water Cooler

8:38 AM

@gnat Looks like a project for later.

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(I thought flags were generally handled within the site, are you saying that our NAA flags were broadcast across the network which is why Yannis popped in?)

RhysW

@enderland haha oh i agree, but they still do what you want :P

@jmac I've sort of stumbled through it myself but ive found it to be really useful for a wide range of tasks

@jmac ooh count me in

gnat

9:08 AM

@jmac flags are published within single site, not across network, Yannis just has sufficient privileges to see them as site user

it's default policy on handling these that is shared across network... unless there is a site-specific "override" -- meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/not-an-answer/info

tombull89

can I get a screenshot of workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18982/… - I'd like to submit it to GemsFromStackExchange.

9:28 AM

@tombull89: Ditto!

10:57 AM

Guys, I was wondering if we are too aggressively closing questions. (Myself included) Is the definition too broad to misguide so many of our users?

@Unsung We have about a dozen questions about that on meta already. Quality is paramount. If you have a specific issue about a specific type of question being closed that you think is on topic, please bring it up on meta for discussion.

@jmac The precise reason why I didn't ask on meta! I was just trying to see why we are getting such overly generalized questions. Putting this on meta again doesn't make much of a sense as it has been debated over and over again.

@Unsung What question do you think shouldn't be closed that is?

CMW

11:13 AM

Is there some reason why I can't find certain users via the search box?

Specifically, I was trying to figure out how many DedicatedAnts we have so far

12:55 PM

@Unsung: meta.workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2038/…

1:07 PM

@JimG. @jmac I'm speaking in general. When I see my review section, I find some 6 - 10 close votes every single time. Is that quite a high volume for beta? I wouldn't know. But does it indicate that people are getting misguided to ask questions here when they don't belong here? Certainly yes! So the question is whether we are giving a wrong impression to the outside world about what workplace.se is all about. That is something we need to debate.

@Unsung This may help. But honestly, across SE there are people who just want to ask what they want to ask, and who mistake SE as a forum. We need to handle that.

Downvoting a lot and closing questions are the best way to set the tone for what is accepted. As more users come in and care about high-quality questions and answers, we will get more core users who will be ever-more vigilant. And that is good.

And the close vote volume is bigger recently because there are more questions, that's all. As we get more questions, unless community moderation keeps up pace, there will be a bit of spillover. That's why we want more mods

Q: How to be valuable when automation & IT are stealing my job (and maybe my whole career)?

@jmac Thanks for the link. Does make a lot of sense.

@jmac Agreed. one of the other reasons I feel is that workplace boundaries aren't clear to everyone (unless new users go through the help center which I seriously doubt). Hence, sometimes there are slight confusions regarding what should be retained and what needs to be closed. In a way, it allows for the community to get stronger.

RhysW

3:24 PM

hey @jmac i have an important question for you :D

CMW

4:11 PM

Is there still something opinion-based about this question?

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I am a non-IT employee, graduated in business studies, and work in a field related to customer relationship management. I have grown in this field during the past five years since completing my education, and there is a frightening trend in my company and across the industry: People are being la...

5:09 PM

hello

Q: Site design for Workplace.se

5:56 PM

Hello @Jin

The mockups look awesome.

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I’m Stéphane, the new designer at Stack Exchange. I'll be working on designing the community sites' branding as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflect its topic. However, all sites will share quite a bit of common elements so they feel like ...

discussion featured design

@jmort253 I think Stéphane did a great job! I hope the community likes it too.

@jmort253 I have decided I will take credit for spurring that post even though it is probably coincodence :)

He and I worked on this together. By that, I mean we came to a creative agreement on the design direction, then he did all the hard work!

That's great. It's better than I pictured it would be.

@Jin I love it. Especially the red stapler :)

5:59 PM

@Chad :) we really wanted to squeeze an Office Space meme somewhere in the design

How long does it take to code out the CSS and create all of the individual images and launch?

@jmort253 about a week. but first we'll wait for the community feedback.

Yeh, the stapler was awesome... lost stapler :D

@CMW I think that is on the right side of the good subjective line... though still a little closer to that line that I prefer

Stéphane lives in France, so he's off for the day right now. He'll be replying to your comments/answers tomorrow.

6:01 PM

@Jin Sounds great :D Thank you!

They got the watter cooler in there too!

Ha I just realized this chatroom's name is The Water Cooler...

That was the original A51 name for this site

I wonder if the "watercooler" thing is a US thing only?

I'm not familiar with workplaces in other counties.

That is just wow! The whole concept knocks it out of the park

Thanks for the great work Jin!

6:04 PM

@Chad I didn't do anything :) it's all Stéphane, our new designer. this is his first SE site design, I think he did a wonderful job.

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Pronounced like Stef ain?

cause i see that and want to say stephanie :p

I still have problem pronouncing his name! Ste-foun is how I say it..

He's French, and I'm really bad a pronouncing French words..

ahhy more like steven with an f

@Jin Great job! And tell @Stéphane the same! It's a really exciting time here on Beta.Workplace.SE (soon to be Workplace.SE)!

enderland

6:43 PM

kinda cool to think workplace is going to graduate

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6:59 PM

@enderland I will pull a peewee on graduation day!

7:33 PM

@enderland Indeed. We've come a long way, but now we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel!

Q: What should a professional personal website's url look like?

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I go by a variety of online handles, including this one, and I'm planning to start building my own website. Problem is, I don't know what to create the URL as. If I'm looking to have this website be included in future jobs/interviews/etc., what/how should the URL look like? Is it more appropri...

resume

Can we ship that to programmers