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04:22
SO is a tough crowd
 
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08:56
@Zanna How so?
I mean: which of the several ways this is so are you referring to? :)
:) I decided I want to vote in the election, but gaining reputation is too hard
maybe that's ok because gaining reputation is the wrong goal :)
I earned the privilege of downvoting... kept looking around for a bit... unintentionally came across some wrong answers, so I had to downvote them haha. At least I could hold off on that for 2 days!
@Zanna Hmm, that's not one of the ways I'm aware of that SO is tough.
In my experience, answers there tend to get upvotes much more readily than here.
Anyway, to gain rep on SO... you might consider editing.
that was my plan
instead I accidentally found a question I knew the answer to
In particular, I presume there are plenty of posts on SO with broken code fences.
very likely
09:07
It should be possible to find them in SEDE using similar techniques to what we did here.
Though there are many more posts on SO, so maybe the initial query would give too many rows and time out.
my last edit suggestion was rejected as vandalism because, it seems, the post author added some stuff in the middle of me suggesting my edit
which it looked like I had deleted
@EliahKagan But it could be restricted in an arbitrary way, such as by tag or by how long the post author's account has existed.
@Zanna Hmm, that seems like it involves a bug in the system. Shouldn't the post author's concurrent edit have caused Community to reject your edit suggestion?
I would hope so... after suggesting, I noticed that I had missed something and clicked edit again and did something else and submitted it again
maybe that could be involved in causing it
Oh. Seems like a more subtle bug, or a non-bug but opportunity for a feature enhancement.
If it's any consolation, on Ask Ubuntu lots of bad edits are approved, so the sites cancel out and and on average have good edit reviewing.
hahaha
some people never reject edit suggestions!
09:14
I recall an example of that, where I looked over their reviews and I wasn't actually sure that they were doing anything wrong. It looked like maybe they clicked Skip a lot, because their approvals seems mostly good.
that's good to know
Well, I'm not sure I know it. I don't remember the user or any of the edits, and I could be wrong.
"recall an example" was maybe not the best wording. :)
haha no, it counts
Editing on Stack Overflow is often suggested as the best way to gain rep for a sock account that is used to run chat bots. (One must make sure not to review any of one's own edits, of course, if one has enough rep on SO to do that.) Rep on Stack Overflow is recognized by both the SO and SE chat servers.
I am holding off on doing this until at least after the election, though. It's allowed, but if done just before the election it might look like wrongdoing. But that's only because I have an SO account (and it has enough rep to vote in the SO election, and I have voted). There's nothing wrong with editing to gain rep on a single SO account, whether to vote in the election or otherwise.
while I was looking for stuff to edit, I instead found things to downvote
so, quite possibly, I'll just get stuck on 125 forever :)
but, you're right, I should definitely go and edit things
@EliahKagan are you writing a chat bot?
I already have a suggestion pending
09:24
@Zanna Not yet. :)
Whoa, I just now saw this:
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Q: Leaving the site and the network - mid election is not the best, but there's no point in staying

YvetteThis post is a copy of Time to say goodbye - one less moderator with some customisations for Stack Overflow. At the writing of this post I am running in the 12th moderator election and am a moderator and the second highest ranking contributor on Pets. I have previously been an elected moderator o...

seen it
people talking about that in broom cupboard places
It seems I'm way behind the curve.
seems such a thing has never occurred (someone running in an election deleting their accounts while the election itself is in progress)
So, what happens if she's elected? She's still listed on the ballot.
Well, her account isn't actually deleted, is it?
09:27
Ah, I see. It's scheduled for deletion.
in that post you linked to she said "I've requested to have my accounts deleted"
I wasn't sure if that meant via the UI or in some other way.
@iBugsaysReinstateMonica Given that staff would have to manually process the deletion anyways due to other criteria, nothing but manual intervention could ever happen. ;) — animuson ♦ yesterday
Sorry, power cut, switched to mobile
No problem.
@EliahKagan yes, you're right, I don't know -- maybe her account won't be deleted before the end of the election
 
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12:16
I got enough points!
12:27
I voted in the election!
happy days
Congratulations! :)
Thank you very much for your help! I managed to get a list of recent Bash questions with code fence issues using your code and have saved it to suggest more edits later :)
Cool.
Did you use that for the edits you've made so far?
I suggested 3 edits using that, but none of them have been approved yet. However, my earlier edit suggestion was approved and my answer was accepted and got another upvote so I reached 154
12:37
:)
at least I achieved something today :D time to do the dishes
:) ttyl
13:17
I forgot to mention that when I went to the SO election page I saw this
Nomination withdrawn at candidate's request.

Votes for this candidate will be reallocated according to the Meek STV algorithm.

You can recast your existing votes at any time until the election ends.
13:41
Ah. Thanks.
@Zanna Any reason not to use a later version of the code?
14:05
oops, no, I just found that version when I searched for it
I have a CodeFenceCleanup repo that may interest you.
o rly :D
But it's not on GitHub. Some commits contain the version of fences.csv that I was working with at the time. I'd want to add--probably by rebasing it into each commit--a statement of, and copies of, the licenses that apply to the user-contributed content held in that csv file, before making it a public repository.
no worries
You have access to it though.
14:17
I have been using this thing extremely slowly btw
@EliahKagan I'll check it out :)
Anyway, if you just want the latest version, I think I posted that in the Downboat.
But I'm not sure if that's appropriate or not for what you're doing now.
As it's intended to be used on a csv file that has all posts that appear to have any code fences at all.
Were you able to obtain such a thing from SEDE for Stack Overflow?
I would think there are too many such posts on SO.
I restricted it to posts since 1/1/2017 with the [bash] tag
Ah.
Yeah that should be fine then.
Since, I expect that I will be able to understand posts about Bash well enough not to misunderstand things badly when trying to edit them
@EliahKagan thanks!
You'll want to change the last line though. :)
14:24
haha yes, that happened
Btw, feel free to clone my repo, make changes on one or more new branches, and push them -- if you like.
:) :)

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