@ArthurHavlicek The latest election page is here. This has some details about how the elections work. But Magisch is right, there are formal elections. It's not like other forums where moderators are often chosen on an ad-hoc basis.
Actually, we can't clean out the review queue. The outcomes for reviews are from a consensus of up to 5 users, but moderators have a "one-click-win" ability that trumps that. We invariably allow users to form a consensus for any open/close voting.
You can clean the review queue, but it means that consensus stops with you deciding to close. On Software Engineering SE a mod was famously responsible for the vast majority of close votes.
yeah, but I no longer have the game, spent a couple of years online building a crazy stable of paladins, once I lost the account can't be bothered again
@Snow I'llo get through it all eventually. I got one boy playing RDR2 and one playing Far Cry 4, so I get to roam around on each.... we restarted both games so the geriatric (me) could have a go
@Snow is it? I been chucking grenades in the water and machine gunning the fish
@Snow nice map, my boys aren't online though, is there an offline version?
What I really want is a great big space exploration game, but one where I don't actually have to learn how to fly a spaceship. Elite and X2 I tried, both were too crappy in that regard
something more along the lines of Medieval total war but in space
@Kilisi Oh this map? I don't think so because it's updated regularly. You can however buy the official strategy guide which can come as a physical book. Since the game has been out for a long time now, you should be able t find on cheaply on eBay. I have one and it was very useful.
if I had to guess the way they're doing it is to keep a database of what you have explored locally but the actual generation and mapping happens on the fly based on a common universal seed. Like procedural generation but the same procedure, and everyone starts at a random point in the galaxy
It's not terribly deep but you can learn space languages, explore planets and star systems, craft things, make a base, get new ships, all that. But a lot of it is just visiting cool planets and exploring
Yes. The new reinstatement process goes live sometime tomorrow, at which point she'll enter her request (if/when she wants to). Obviously, the process isn't immediate.
I wouldn't be surprised if this process is stacked against the... appellant.
I think it was you that pointed out there is a moderator dismissal policy that was ignored. They should have reinstated her immanently, and then kicked off that process.
To be fair, the process I linked was one that's initiated by the moderation team, not by SE or the CM team, but there's still a process there of mediation. None of us know how much or little mediation was done between SE and Monica. From what Monica says, it wasn't a lot. My point was that a process doesn't appear to have been followed in her case.
I personally don't mind if a policy wasn't followed, provided any decisions can look justifiable. After all, it's hard to account for every possible scenario when writing policies (though this would seem general enough case to be covered by a policy).
she was convicted of violating a rule that wasn't in place, can't know what the violation was and must engage in an ever more obtuse and drawn out set of bureaucratic processes that may or may not be rigged against her - Kafka would truly be proud
And obviously, this needs to be addressed. I expect that SE aren't engaged in speaking with the press to clear her name because the press will ask "So what are you doing about it?", a question for which there's no answer yet.c So the mire remains.
And there's going to be people hating SE for reinstating here. There's going to be people hating SE for not reinstating her. It's all a FUBAR mess of epic proportions.
@ArthurHavlicek I don't really worry about popularity when I take a stance.... probably better if I just shut up.... but, it's my internet, so no need to get uptight about anything
We could imagine for some reason Monica being of extremely bad faith and hiding that SE did give the details in private, and that they are silent because they are embarrassed to make them public. This is a highly unlikely, but decent conspiracy theory
You know how it is, bosses have a meeting, someone gets their panties twisted, someone else is new and wants to make a splash, another is having a bad day.... they're all high and drunk.... one thing leads to another.... someone peed in the corner, someone puked, strange noises coming from the cupboard and when they sober up someone got sacked by accident.
@GregoryCurrie Could you clarify to me your MSE question ? All I really get to it is an offensive subtext regarding SE staff that may not reflect completely what you meant
It's become very apparent over the past few weeks that certain employees of Stack Exchange have not been able to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with community expectations.
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@Magisch Users sometimes tag answers that they want to believe rather than it being the "right" answer. You could leave a comment asking them to reconsider, but as you know, sometimes they don't return or don't want to change their mind. It's just standard noise.
SO is somewhat different because the difference between right and wrong is a bit more defined. On these kinds of sites, the differentiator between right and wrong is softer.
There's no harm in you asking the OP to reconsider. Failing that (and users do shoot and leave, never to return), you can edit the answer to point out the issue and point to another answer, if one exists.
I like to say that I am prescient, but CS Lewis beat me by nearly a century:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very ki…
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What do I need to do to get this profile deleted already?
Ah, who am I kidding, the backlog must be going into the months now.
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@RichardU That doesn't really make sense to include as part of this process (and they don't as far as I can tell). The assumption is that those don't get made and, if they do, will get handled by external processes (eg courts).
@RichardU Is it? There seems to be plenty of people talking about it. Regardless, we are never going to hear anything about that unless Monica chooses to share (and that is dependant on how private discussions with SE go). In no realistic way is that ever going to be carried out in public IMHO.
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