@StackExchange oh yeah-here’s the chatroom where users can talk to us right now. (But only if you have my pants.)
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Still taking questions? What about the change in graduation policy? Sites can now stay in eternal beta and won't be closed. Does this mean SE will be more selective in the private beta? And are the ideas to add more milestones independent of graduation like elections, privilege levels currently considered?
Still taking questions? What about the change in graduation policy? Sites can now stay in eternal beta and won't be closed. Does this mean SE will be more selective in the private beta? And are the ideas to add more milestones independent of graduation like elections, privilege levels currently considered?
@DavidFullerton SE pretty much said that public betas won't be shut down unless they're really falling apart. So I was wondering if that means that SE will be a bit more careful on which sites they let out of private beta
I noticed something odd today after looking at a deleted answer on my phone and on my laptop both using the chrome browser. On my phone the answer is hidden and marked as spam/offensive and on my laptop it shows just fine. The post is not locked and it was deleted by the user.
How the answer ap...
There are times when I need to light a candle, but I don't have a working lighter and I am out of matches. I need to create a makeshift match (or at least something to produce fire) so I can light the candle. I would use a gas stove to light something from one of the answers on this question, but...
@michaelpri Because LH.SE has no definition of what is a good answer. Believe it or not, answers are criticized for answering the question in a way that lacks convoluted tactics involving sporks or whatever.
In another Q I saw someone mention LOGO and it reminded me of some programming language from the past, mostly used for educational purposes. Basically, you would have to program a turtle with a pen through it's back. By telling it where to move, the pen would draw lines. It could also lift the pe...
As a longtime New York City resident, I've never owned a car.
I drive fairly regularly, though, thanks to rentals, Zipcars, and the kindness of relatives and other not-quite-strangers.
Since much of my driving is done in cars I've never been in before, I frequently found myself pulling into a ...
Sometimes the owners or overseers of a community need to remove someone popular -- suspend a top user, boot a popular moderator, or fire a key employee. As we've seen, sometimes this causes an immediate, vehement, and very public reaction, and you have a public-relations fiasco on your hands. N...
The bad state of the mod tools seems to be a major point in the whole thing. Not a Reddit mod, but from the small bits I understand the Reddit mod tools are far behind the SE mod tools. Not to speak of the whole mess of defining "brigading" and using shadow bans. Though that doesn't mean SE should ignore all the ideas to improve the mod tools further ;-)
@MadScientist That got the mods to fire up their communities, but now that the mob is angry, I don't know if the satisfying the moderators will calm them down too.