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12:00 AM

As for the too localized theme, how about them apples?

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Q: Which new Mac purchasers get free upgrades to 10.7?

I recently bought a Mac and I wish I had waited longer as I then could have bought one with OS X 10.7. Does Apple offer free upgrades across versions? That is, I'm currently on 10.6; is there any way I could upgrade to 10.7 for free?

Argyle Marionette

So these are helpful questions at the time they're asked, but they don't age well. Is that it?

Is it your policy to not help the many users who could benefit from the answer during the initial window when they're asked?

Kyle Cronin

@ArgyleMarionette this is more or less it, I'd say

especially the questions about the free upgrades - such windows of time have long passed

bmike

@ArgyleMarionette Yes - there was a need for them in that transition period, but does the archival value of them make it worth keeping them around. Someone looking for upgrade advice now would likely be confused without them being edited to specifically state the limited time during which the Lion up to date program ran.

Argyle Marionette

Sure. You didn't close them as too localized then ("in that transition period"). Was that policy, oversight, or "selective oversight" where if pushed, you would have closed them then, but you were content enough to leave them open to help people, but really they were too localized?

Are you two diamond moderators?

As in, did I waste my time and yours flagging that post if we're here talking about it?

bmike

@ArgyleMarionette nope

Kyle Cronin

12:11 AM

@ArgyleMarionette some questions get more localized over time, and there can be a bit of deferring closing/deleting if it serves a greater good

Argyle Marionette

Helpful. Thanks.

bmike

@ArgyleMarionette Always flag - it provides a structure for acting on the flag. Plus you'll see your helpful ratio and have a history of what the mod du jour felt of the various things you felt needed a moderator to look at.

Argyle Marionette

Can diamond moderators act when there isn't a flag, or does someone need to flag first?

bmike

@ArgyleMarionette Moderator actions are binding, so if they go to the linked question and close them, boom - it's closed. Same end result - just that they get at the question from a link and the main view - not the flagging interface where all flagged questions are placed.

Daniel

12:26 AM

One more suggested edit to field in the next 19 hours, 33 minutes, and 25 seconds.

Kyle Cronin

12:47 AM

@bmike a post that's merged is effectively closed

bmike

1:05 AM

@KyleCronin but can't be deleted.....

Kyle Cronin

hm, I wasn't aware of that

deleted

bmike

awesome power, there ;-)

Kyle Cronin

indeed :)

daviesgeek

6:43 AM

13 hours, 16 minutes, 48 seconds until the moderator election ends.

@JasonSalaz Love that Jason. Soooo cool!

@JasonSalaz A late congratulations....

@KyleCronin So, had a question...how do you do the podcast? I know you use Skype, but how does the whole thing get recorded?

Kyle Cronin

@daviesgeek we each record our audio individually, I also record the entire call on my end and use it to sync up the individual tracks

I use Adobe Audition to edit - doing some basic noise reduction and leveling, as well as cutting out stuff

then I pass it through Levelator, use iTunes to add the podcast ID3 info, and upload it

I've been talking about doing a special edition of the podcast to talk about how the podcast is made

hopefully we'll do that one day

stuffe

3:14 PM

Would a podcast about the podcast be a metapodcast? Podmeta? Metacast?

<5 hours...

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What would the blogpost abut the podcast about the podcast be?

Metablogcast?

bmike

@stuffe not that anyone is watching

stuffe

Nice of it to end at a sensible UK time, just to make up for the Town Hall chat timing :)

Just time to get home, put the youngster to bed, eat tea and put my feet up and hit CTRL-R

Daniel

4:02 PM

apple.stackexchange.com/badges/69/proofreader?userid=9388

Woot!

(So if I do get elected, I accomplished it beforehand. And if I don't, I still accomplished it as a non-moderator.)

@stuffe 3 hours

and counting

Good luck, all. I wish I could have voted for four of us.

If I end up disappointed that I don't win, I expect I'll at least be happy that three great people did.

@stuffe No, 4 hours... the countdown on the site is a little overanxious, and rounds down.

stuffe

@Daniel how do you hunt down edit approvals without mod tools? I stumbled across a few, I don't actually know how to purposefully find them

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