You may, or may not, have been there, or paying attention, when he has been. I think, though I'm not sure, that he approved a bunch of the edits during the cleanup weekend on SU recently.
It's the chatroom that is used by smokey, a bot that loves to burn spam. For practical purposes someone, or several someones, from a site will be in that room. When questionable content is detected, a message linking to that post is put in the room.
The site watcher checks it out and says yes/no and smokey will mark it accordingly.
Also, when am OP is found spamming the site, or lots of sites, links to their posts can be reported in the room, and they'll get added to a database as well.
I'm bummed about the 20 rep minimum to join chat, though. I wish there were some place that could be created that mods could invite folks with 1 rep to join in order to help them
Thanks! I was trying to follow your advice. (I think it was your advice)
I regularly see postings from new users that don't quite fit the criteria of the relevant site. In many cases, the posts are commented on and downvoted/closed, but the user simply never comes back to respond. But in other cases, the user is obviously invested in their question, but doesn't agre...
So, if this is the room for question help, everyone who is regularly doing that will need to be an RO there. Gypsy, you or I can experiment with it next time there's a need
@BenI. You can give users write privileges if they're under 20 rep under the 'control access' page: "Even when this room is read-only or their reputation is too low, these users will be able to talk in this room."
But it's not exactly the easiest method
They only need 20 rep across the network (e.g. 5 rep on 4 sites, 10 rep on 2 sites, etc)
I'd like to help this site out, I really enjoy it; I have some ideas and want to see what someone else thinks.
1st, i think it might be good to create a community ad for this site and put it on Physics, Computer Science, Theoretical Computer Science, Stack Overflow, Code Review, Software Engineering, Math, and Math Educators, that'll help spread the word.
I can start trying to design something, but I'd like to see what others think.
I'm a student, and I'd like to ask a question of CS educators - where I can take online courses that are on the cheaper side of things and will (probably) be able to go on my transcript. This leads to a two-part question:
Is this question on topic?
Are questions like this one (i.e., from a stud...
Also, @thesecretmaster, you might consider moving your list of community ads into a Community Wiki answer on meta so users with >100 rep but <1000 rep can edit
@heather It's a little better, now; probably answerable, but I think if you could narrow it down more specifically, it would be even better. Ultimately, you need to decide on a goal (e.g. 'I want to learn complexity theory'), and describe where you are now (e.g. CS beginner without much knowledge, etc.). Then, it's much easier for us to help you find the 'missing bit of the puzzle'
So it might probably better if you split this up into multiple questions, like "Highschool online course on complexity theory" and "Undergrad online course on computer architecture".
I wouldn't want to search for a course and recommend one to you that isn't any use (e.g. skips a part that you need to know), so specifying the detail in the question helps you get the best answers.
I'm a student, and I'd like to ask a question of CS educators - where I can take online courses that are on the cheaper side of things and will (probably) be able to go on my transcript. This leads to a two-part question:
Is this question on topic?
Are questions like this one (i.e., from a stud...
@Aurora0001 OK. Just a general question: Community's profile says that it\she\he\they "Randomly poke old unanswered questions every hour so they get some attention". What does that mean?
Might be easiest to leave it until the pro tem mods are selected; there are special tag merge tools that don't bump questions for moderators which are less disruptive
@ItamarGreen After about a month, if a question has answers, but none have a score greater than 0, the question is bumped to the top (as if it had been edited)
Bonus points if you find a SE system that I can't explain (although I bet it wouldn't be too hard to find one... there are far too many systems to remember in one person's head)
Well, the mechanism of chat flags means that anyone over 10k, plus every network moderator, gets a vote on whether a flagged post is offensive or not.
And the flags are shown even if you're not in that room, so you don't necessarily see the context
So often flags end up causing 'stampedes' of 10k users and moderators trying to figure out what's going on, and no-one really seems to get what's happening
Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence "going viral"). As with their real-life counterparts, some infectious diseases are global (pandemic), while others a...
I regularly see postings from new users that don't quite fit the criteria of the relevant site. In many cases, the posts are commented on and downvoted/closed, but the user simply never comes back to respond. But in other cases, the user is obviously invested in their question, but doesn't agre...
I'm a student, and I'd like to ask a question of CS educators - where I can take online courses that are on the cheaper side of things and will (probably) be able to go on my transcript. This leads to a two-part question:
Is this question on topic?
Are questions like this one (i.e., from a stud...
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