This is an example for last election. the monday after this one is over (so in 2 weeks), you can run this with the start / end date of this election and type in what thresholds for voter reputation you'd like to see. In my example, it shows that last year's election had 491 total voters, 245 of which had below 500 reputation, and 388 of which had below 2000
@rath trying to rep farm on SO is like trying to use a rude goldberg machine to make a cup of tea. It doesn't generally work, you don't generally know why and you end up frustrated and burned more often then any other outcome
I see. I thought our site had problems welcoming users but now I understand what all the meta-spam was about
Here's an easily answerable question - but no - let me do an in-depth search to find something from 2013, with much more details than needed, and tell the user to f-off and read that instead.
@motosubatsu This. I was surprised that as a trainee, i had the more experience/reputation in SO. They use it a lot, but without really contributing, just in a passive way
@motosubatsu depends on the tag you're in. if you're in an established language tag like c or c++, you'll be made to feel like crap immediately as you get scolded by 5+ people
So i'll ask it here. I work with another apprentice who is the exact same level of experience and in terms of hierarchy. We started at the same time but he doesn't really understand things as quickly as I do. However if we get similar (or the same) task he tends to just try and figure it out but as soon as I figure it out he just asks me how to do it. Without me he would never finish his work but I want to try and get him to figure things out on his own
so I don't want to just be like nah do it yourself or try to figure it out because when I've finished she'll just say you should've helped him and not left him behind (happened before)
Later in life, help will be sparse. There are situations where you really can't piggyback off of a coworker. In these situations, he will have to do it on his own. Either he can learn it (in which case your acquiescence is hindering that learning) or he can't (in which case you're just delaying that realization). Either is bad
@Twyxz while your fellow apprentice certainly sounds like a help vampire handling them at work is tricky - it's all too easy for the vamp to spin your reluctance to help as you not being a "team player"
@Snow lol, yes I do, but that is not what I am interviewing the candidate for. I'm a Fellow of the Institute of Information Security Professionals, so I interview candidates for membership
@AnneDaunted not at this point, as I am generally reviled and have one foot out the door and another on a banana peel, but others might get better mileage than I.
@RichardU not true. You are definitely listened to
@AnneDaunted If the flags were dismissed, typically I'd remind them you had raised a few flags and were wondering what the outcome was going to be, but all site mods see the flags so there should be visibility
On sites with a lot of flags it can be a challenge though
Your approach on other sites is clear and thorough so I would expect it to generally work
I will say based on my experience with our current crew of moderators, I haven't felt ignored. It may be that they are either really busy, or are pondering the appropriate response. ( pure speculation here on my part ) @AnneDaunted
@AnneDaunted the good news is that if this becomes a pattern with an individual, and multiple people start flagging the same user, the mods will take a serious look at it, and take action, usually quietly and behind the scenes.
@AnneDaunted I'm more amused by it than anything. Usually, I get the attack of the downvotes on days I rep cap anyway, so it literally has no effect on me whatsoever.
@AnneDaunted there are people who just hate anyone who do anything even a little bit better than they can. If you get a downvoter, it is a kind of admirer. It's their way of telling you that they know they'll never be as good as you are ;)
I see these questions from time to time, and having gone through rebuilding myself from nothing, I know how to do both.
Does this come up enough for us to write a canon question and answer it?
@Magisch I suspect it was generally just typical kitchen clumsiness - it did irritate me that no-one would ever fess up to this sort of thing. It's just a mug after all but there is the principle of the thing
@Snow funny you should say that.. one of the other sites I occasionally visit for the current client is in actual fact a farm. No cows though (unless giant frozen hunks that were formerly a cow count?)
I tend to steer clear of the meat plant where possible anyway - it's more than a little fragrant
My co-worker weeps due to their family problems at office.
They don't seek privacy.
I don't intervene because I don't think it is my place to ask about their problems when they are not willing to share.
I am comfortable around them when they weep and ignoring them completely makes me feel like...
I always hear that. I wonder if american retail is different?
Here a grocery store cashier is a medium wage job that has an apprenticeship dedicated to it. And the few people I know who work as one really dont get too much grief
@RichardU I can sympathize - during my student years I worked several holidays in Greggs. Which basically means obnoxious, hungry tourists queuing out the door all expecting haute cuisine levels of quality and service when buying their 99p sausage roll
@Magisch If a Hindu in India lives a particularly wicked life, he is reincarnated as a retail worker in America
@motosubatsu Many people insist that much of what is posted on notalwaysright is fiction. None of it so far has been worse than what I have seen with my own eyes
@Magisch Being familiar with both cultures, I can tell you that in Germany, retail workers are treated far, far better than in America. In America, you're treated like crap in retail.
@Magisch I know this, you know this. But to your average Angry American Customer it's tha goddamm CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to yell at the poor cashier, question their citizenship, their religious affiliation, perhaps even kick it old school and suggest that telling them that they can't return their week old, half-eaten hamburger for a full refund might just be unpatriotic and/or communist
@motosubatsu I had two, make that three, wonderful defenses against that.
1)The "Retail Smile" 2)I'm fairly big 3)The "friendly neighborhood psychopath" vibe I was able to give off.
I once took on a customer that made a coworker of mine cry (and she was TOUGH!). He was an obnoxious, college professor type (may have actually been one) who thought he was better than everyone, talked down to people, was cuttingly insulting and really tried to hurt people..... After he made her cry, they let me loose on him..... it wasn't pretty
Long story short. I infuriated the prof, my coworker was watching from the back, laughing her butt off. Every time he came back, they threw me at him. Eventually he stopped coming.
@RichardU During one of my stints working in a restaurant I saw what chefs do to the food of people who upset the waitstaff. Suffice it to say a) the customers in question all deserved it and b) I will never, ever be rude to waitstaff.. ever
@motosubatsu I know of more than one hiring manager who likes to do lunch interviews for just that reason. SPOT THE ASSHOLE
@motosubatsu also 5)Janitors/custodians
One place the building maintenance was handled by an old man, who happened to be the brother of the owner of both the company and the building it resided in. Guess what happened to the jackass interviewee who was rude to the old man on the way in?
@RichardU similarish thing happens by coincidence here. One of the owners is handy and quite cheap, so the 200+ employee company has only one repair technician and the owner helps out a lot. Also assumes a lot of maintenance / janitorial positions, and likes to dress down a lot (comfy sweater & 10 year old jeans nearly exclusively)
the other owner has a tweed jacket on most of the time
@MisterPositive a snarky comment to her answer that got upvoted might have something to do with it.
Time to start flagging again. I'll probably run through the Q&A tonight and grant the moderators an assist by reviewing them. No need for such nastiness.