@ChrisE close view is generally considered one of the very important ones on any SE site, as it forces out the bad stuff and has a direct impact on site quality
Yes, you need to make sure people know what to downvote, but that is relatively easy
@RoryAlsop out of the 47 questions currently on the front page, only 12 aren't closed and don't have close votes. Although you could tell people that the closed questions "need improvement", in reality, close votes mean "your question isn't good enough, it doesn't deserve to be here". Closing questions never "forces out bad stuff" - never has, never will.
Good morning Nofel. After what you said yesterday, I took special note of road stud colours. There's four that I counted.
And just reading the highway book code. Puffin is with figures which switch red or green and pelican is where there are no figures and while pressed it will be red until the signal is green and then it turn green for u to pass. Just FYI @motosubatsu @Snow
Green r sign of carriage way to slip road, Red r sign of hard shoulder to carriageway. white r in between lines. amber r physical barrier between roads
@Snow having grown a number of sites from private beta to full site, and moderated many, I can categorically state it absolutely does get rid of bad stuff. It is the single best way to start that process. Then you need to grow a community happy to edit closed posts for reopening. It's all been proven many times.
@Snow I concur.. there's no denying that we have our fair share of low quality posts and that understanding what is "on-topic" here is a bit more difficult than some other big SE sites but I don't think those factors alone are sufficient to account for the number of closes
Possibly more of a challenge on subjective sites, but one of mine, Parenting, has seen dramatic improvement since we moved to a policy of putting on hold quickly until problems are fixed
@RoryAlsop the problem we seem to have here is that transition to people being more proactive about editing for improvements, all too often it's clsoe and move on
Workplace is over 5 years old. In my books, that's what I'd call "mature". But still we have a 25% acceptance rate and a predilection towards closing rather than proactively helping questions maintain a good quality. Whatever worked on another stack to improve things clearly hasn't happened here.
On the Health stack, there was a hard moderation style of closing any questions that weren't academic in nature and downvoting any answer that wasn't citated sufficiently. The site is now effectively dead.
@Snow no. It is reasonably old. But in the approach to questions, and the makeup of the community, I would definitely not class it as mature. There is a small core of people who approach things in a way I'd class as ut you have the challenge of a high number of one-visit folks, the high subjectivity of the site, the perception of many visitors that their view must be right etc
@Snow it has major problems that aren't the voting issue
As a counter example, look at Skeptics. The hardest rules on SE - incredibly successful, but vast numbers of questions are closed instantly, and then reopened when fixed
How - how do you get points from closing something?
If I look at the questions on the front page here, many are closed because they are just badly written, and a bunch of off topic or opinion based ones. The badly written ones could be edited (and you'd get badges and rep for that @nofel) and the opinion based ones could be re-written to fit, although that is more work.
@RoryAlsop I guess you and I have different perspectives here. I'm interested in helping the users more than the stack - I don't think that many people on this stack search for answers before asking something. Other stacks are more knowledge based, WP is more subjective.
People just need to do it - I've not been great at it here, as I have to put most effort into the sites I moderate, obviously, but it needs more people like @motosubatsu who are willing to edit.
@Snow yeah - people need to be encouraged to search first. Help vampires tend to plague subjective sites more than strict ones
@Snow WPS is by no means the most subjective. But it is in the top 5 I reckon
The problems wps has now, we had on Parenting a couple of years back. So we got much stricter at closing fast and editing, so no answers until the question was fixed.
That really helped with quality of questions and answers
There's a really good SeDE query showing editors - worth looking at it. Good game I have used elsewhere - see if you can move up 10 places in the editors league :-)
Encourage everyone to make improvements - folks with low rep can get a lot of points for doing this!
I remember the time when I had msg from mod and I had to tell her that before closing question if ppl can edit it or recommend me as I am no good in english
@Nofel most sites (not all) are pretty good at helping folks who don't have English as their first language. But again, this needs a good sized core of people who are willing to edit.
If I mentioned company A's offer deadline to company B, would it make sense to ask for time to think about company B's offer that goes past A's deadline (hoping to get an offer from company C in that time)? Or would that make it seem like I just used A's offer to speed up B's process?
@NotThatGuy yeah.. if you're stating to B that you need them to speed up so you can make a decision due to A's deadline asking for time beyond that isn't going to go down well
more seriously.. obviously I don't know the full circumstances of what they were suppressing but there are legitimate reasons for suppressing the details of error messages on public-facing websites (not suppressing that an error has occurred at all though), primarily it's a security measure
@motosubatsu that error was simplying saying "u didn't close the closing tag which was remarkably hidden so ppl don't see it but it all came down while I give facelift in my final days
coz I am too good at RWD
according to my office
my colleague told me yesterday that he had to leave the company right after he get his IRL
and hoping I would stay here
and said don't share my plans to leave company as he won't get IRL
@motosubatsu @Snow whats the best place to apply for loan with bad credit rating
I might need coz on probation they don't give u new house coz of job uncertainity
@Nofel I don't really have any advice as to where to go for such a loan - but what I would say is if you can avoid doing it in any way then do so, loans when you have poor credit and/or job "uncertainty" tend to be astronomically expensive
if the alternative is a slightly crappy commute for 6 months while you work your way through the probation period I'd pick that every time
@Snow I was actually bored enough today that I bothered to provide backing to a common sense answer on a common sense question, even though it's been put on hold.
Here in the UK there's so much legislation and people who will object. you have to get permission from the FAA, the land owner, anyone within (or without) visible range. You have to have a certificate, a florescent jacket, a portable fenced off area to take off and land the thing, someone to supervise you, you need to be insured. yada yada yada.....
@Snow that's what I loved about where I lived in Colorado. It was so far off the map, nobody bothered you. A few times the state tried to bother us, we ignored them.
But the principle is sound. Like if you have a fireplace, make sure you have more wood than you need because you may need it of your world goes in the crapper.
But emergency storage is a principle my church taught before there were cars so, there you go.
Nope - we fly from my back garden whenever the weather is good
@Snow To be fair though, the drones we use would be no use for hovering outside your window for a number of reasons. 1) the camera angle is generally over 60 degrees up, as these things are meant to always be accelerating. 2) they are quite noisy - no subtlety there. 3) racing is generally below tree height. 4) we do require public liability insurance and correct failure modes
@Snow across my family we maybe have 20 drones of different kinds, from phantom camera platforms, through carbon fibre racing ones, to tiny whoops for in the house
@ChrisE speaking as someone who had to clear out a metric f##kton of mice-infested grain from a house occupied by a former Mormon I have to say it's a great idea - as long as the Church also educates it's members in proper food storage methods
If under 250g and non-commercial your only limitations are - some locations are off-limits (e.g. Near airports), keep it below 400m, and you need a spotter with you if you use VR
Yes they can.
You have made the classic misunderstanding - it's not your Macbook, it's your employer's Macbook which they have assigned to you to use. It remains however their property.
The finer details of what the company can access on a device they have assigned for your work use depend upon...
@motosubatsu They do. The problem is that people don't listen. Rotate, rotate, rotate. And don't buy stuff without knowing how to cook with it. So many idiots buy a bunch of grain and a) nothing to grind it with and b) no knowledge of how to cook with it.
@RoryAlsop If you want another phantom body, I have a mark two. I left the batteries go dead and they won't charge, so it's pretty much useless now as I can't buy batteries for cheap enough to make it worthwhile.
My first phantom I got from a friend who lives in the highlands - he realised it was too heavy to take up the mountains. Now he has a mavic- and he loves it
In my office, a newly recruited employee calls me 'Sir'. How can i politely ask him not to call me 'Sir'?
It appears to be simple, but I am finding it hard to address this issue.
$19 for a drone, 88c for a spare set of blades. Although you can probably get blades for cheaper in other places.
The problem is with this drone is that the blades are exposed - they get dented and bent when you fly into things, which affects the flight charactaristics.
@RoryAlsop Mist Positive is asking for a recommendation for a first drone, hence the Hubsan X4. Cheap and fun. If you want more fun, you spend more money.
Stick with the X4 for now. Five minutes is longer than you think while you're concentrating. When something is cheaper than a pizza, you can't really go wrong. If you want to spend more after that, then you can do.
Put it this way, there's cases when 5 minutes of really good fun seems like a really long time while you're doing it....
@JoeStrazzere I can see how concealed carry makes sense in some, very select situations - but IMO the requirements for getting a CC permit should be really, really high. Although to be honest I think the requirements for any firearms permits should be really, really high.
That and my presence, as "the IT guy" once went to see a flight-off, just to see a good crash lol... the "Ops guys" now don't want to take me see flights :(
@motosubatsu I feel strange today. Haven't had a single cup of coffee and I am already pumped up and working efficiently
> BTW, seems that I just posted the 1000th discussion question
That means we have 1000 discussion questions and 212 that are not
@JoeStrazzere I've known Americans who have expressed utter horror at how restrictive the gun laws are in the UK.. given we have a lot less of this sort of thing I think ours are much better
@DarkCygnus probably because "discussion" is the most generic of the "required" tags
Can I ask for this question: Can my employer force me to open my office macbook? to be re-opened? While it certainly has legal aspects I believe that they are ones that a competent HR manager should know and given we have the jurisdiction for the OP now it's answerable (and I've edited my answer...
I have noticed that when a reopen-request is carried out and the Question is finally reopened, some users edit their posts to include a "(REOPENED)" on the title of the Meta Question.
I think I like this practice, but I was wondering what do you think about it? Have you done it?
In any case, ...
@ChrisE Just kidding, but yeah I have a strong opinion about guns, I just don't like them at all. Probably cause in my country when you see a gun there is no chance that the guy has a clear background
You either see a gun when getting robbed or assaulted (or killed) or when some stupid dude wants to intimidate you
(at least in the City, in the Eastern parts is more common to see guns)
Hah, over here it's the opposite. Anyone with a gun is either a cop, soldier or went through a one-year-plus waiting, training and certification period to get one.
How can i politely ask him not to call me Sir ?
In my experience, these two approaches have worked well if done in a in a tongue in cheek manner:
"Please do not call me sir, my Dad is a sir, I am just a regular guy."
Or
"I am not an officer, please do not call me sir."
Followed by: "Plea...
In theory there's a different social dynamic at work but in practice any answers to this particular question aren't affected by the fact that you're dealing with coworkers rather than acquaintances.
@ChrisE While my knowledge on the subject is admittedly limited, I imagine a lot would be improved by simply unifying a minimal background check + waiting period + registration and putting a stop to things like the gunshow loophole. Which is a set of measures that most Americans across the country seem to agree on but which the hardliners are considering a slippery-slope to gun-grabbing.
@Lilienthal I just want to make sure that my state's gun laws aren't usurped by concealed carry laws in other states. (I like to know in which state I will feel safe, and which states to stay away from)
@Lilienthal I have no problem with public sellers of any kind being licensed. None whatsoever. I think BG checks are a must, but I think the waiting period is silly.
I also oppose firearm registration. That serves no useful purpose. If you have evidence that a guy has illegal weaponry, get a warrant and go clean the place out.
@TheSnarkKnight Agreed. I'm contemplating a move to the US long term but viable locations would depend a lot on whether I'm able to register for a CCP as a foreign national...
@Lilienthal If you have a Green Card (permanent resident alien) then you can get a permit here in Georgia as long as you meet the other requirements that we all have to.
@JoeStrazzere Thales make some fun kit in this area...
@TheSnarkKnight you, Chris and others here are probably note people who would scare me if they had a gun
But in the US, toddlers and kids have shot and killed more people than terrorists. Generally their own family guns... Proper gun control (requiring training) would go a long way to helping that
It wouldn't stop criminals, though
Making guns unavailable would be the only solution there - and that's unlikely in the US
@RoryAlsop The shootings get WAAAAAAAAY overplayed in the media. Half of gun deaths in the USA are suicides, most of the rest are illegal guns, the remaining are our own police
You are much more likely to be killed my a medical mistake, a car accident, a knife, a baseball bat, et cetera than a legally purchased gun
@RoryAlsop fun fact. There are more guns in America than there are Americans.
More than 1/3 of Americans are legal gun owners. That's tens of millions that own guns legally. Believe me, if legal gun owners were a problem, you'd know it.
Gun control is one of two areas where law abiding citizens are targeted because of the actions of criminals.
The other is opiods.
My wife has severe, chronic pain so (among other treatments and medications) she takes opioids. She has to see her doctor every single month. That's a $60 copay for us and several hundred dollars from the insurance company.
Her pain doctor is double board certified with a sterling reputation who follows all the rules. My wife follows all the rules. And yet if our pharmacy has a new pharmacist, she gets looked at like Dave Chapelle.
That's why I get pissed off when I see people say "opioid crisis". There's not an opioid crisis. There's an ILLEGAL opioid crisis. Yet you have companies like CVS saying that they won't fill most opioid prescriptions that are longer than the number they choose.
Not that I'm passionate about these 2 subjects. :)
@TheSnarkKnight That's not entirely accurate. Even though I support gun owners' rights, I support accuracy more. Firearms account for the vast majority of homicides in the US. Look up the FBI UCR data. If you don't cherry pick "rifles" and include firearms generally, it's around 70% of murders.
@ChrisE those are homicide rates though, all of which are not murders or even crimes. I'm not cure, and will have to check, but I think that suicides are included.
@ChrisE Yes, it's confusing, so much so that I made that mistake.
BTWMy SO's mother has SEVERE pain too, and is on opiods, and thanks to the protections, it's damn hard for her not to be in pain. Sorry about your wife, I understand