The Awkward Silence

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scohe001

9:35 PM

"How to talk to a bot when it insists on ignoring you?"

sphennings

@scohe001 There was discussion of muting responses to tp/fp feedback. I don't know if it was implemented.

scohe001

Oh! I had no idea. Was this in the closet?

Also, that one looks like a helpful improvement request, no?

sphennings

@scohe001 Personally if it isn't directly suggesting an edit I'm likely to flag it. Otherwise it's too easy for peanut gallery comments to slip through.

@scohe001 YMMV obviously. On it's own a comment like that is completely benign.

scohe001

Dang and here I thought my flagging was aggressive--you're putting me to shame! :P

I can appreciate the methodology though. After spending a few weeks in the closet there'll be whole hours where every new comment looks NLN

More flags definitely don't hurt

sphennings

@scohe001 I'm currently at a 3.5% declined rate on my comment flags which I think is pretty acceptable.

scohe001

9:49 PM

@sphennings That's only like 30-40 declined for you, isn't it? That's insane!

sphennings

60 out of 1700

That's nothing on mith

I don't know what their rejected rate is though....

scohe001

Is there some way to list users on the site by flags? :P

sphennings

Hey @Mithrandir What percentage of your comment flags get declined?

I can see how many flags you've raised but that's the extent of the detail.

scohe001

Yea I know it's possible by going to the user's page, but it'd be cool to see a ranking

sphennings

I can't see what you've flagged or how they've been resolved.

Catija

9:52 PM

Meaning flags cast or flags attracted?

sphennings

Comment flags declined / comment flags cast.

scohe001

@sphennings I'm at .9% declined right now :)

Catija

Yeah, I don't think the mods even have access to that info.

sphennings

@scohe001 That's not bad.

scohe001

@sphennings Haha thanks! I'm sure by the time I get where you are around 1500 I'll be closer to your percent though

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