Meh, didn't happen. I got the +10 just a minute or two after midnight. Not that it really makes any difference; I'm nowhere near Epic or Legendary, so hitting the repcap really only matters in terms of street cred.
I could have gamed it by accepting answers on some questions which I haven't yet accepted answers, and later unaccepting them, but I didn't care enough to do that
Anyway I did meet my real goal of breaking 1k for the month yesterday. For the near future that's what I'm aiming for, because it's easy enough to do and still fast enough that I'll stay in the top few users.
I think I can repcap on flavor days if I just time everything properly. 10 questions with +4 average is enough to do it, and if I answer a couple it makes things a lot easier. +4 per question isn't so difficult if they all fit the theme. If I managed to do that consistently I could get Epic in about a year.
I'm just curious, does Naruto up to Naruto Shippuuden retains its original seiyuu (voice actors). Or there certain changes with the voice actors? If there is, specify the changes and the reason for it.
Just lost -35 due to serial upvoting. It seems like all the upvoted posts were ones I posted for flavor day. Presumably someone went and upvoted all of them, but they were all grouped together on the main page. Does that really constitute serial upvoting? Not that I care about the rep, but if we continue doing flavor day it might become a bigger issue.
FWIW I also sometimes upvote a lot of posts in quick succession. I read most of them when they are posted, but I often-times don't upvote them until I check that they're reasonable questions and/or they get answered. If a single user has a lot of posts grouped together on the front page, it could be mistaken as serial upvoting by the script.
@Krazer I don't know if it tells the user whose votes are reversed anything. The MSO posts I've seen are all from the perspective of the person receiving the serial voting.
@Krazer I don't know how the script works. It is true that I had upvotes on all of my questions yesterday at roughly 11:12, which is probably not enough time to read all of them. So in this case it's probably justified.
However, I do the same thing in practice, and it isn't serial voting in my case. I read the questions all when they are posted, but I typically vote on them in batches of 10-20 every few days rather than immediately voting. Since I've already read them I probably only spend 10-15 seconds per post. If one user was disproportionately represented among those posts it might catch that as serial voting.
Anyway it should be pretty easy to test what a serial upvoter sees on their end. All we need to do is make an account and serially upvote someone, then wait till those get reversed. I'm willing to do that, but I need to know whether or not it's alright to do so first. Obviously on the mod end of things it'll be obvious what I'm doing, and I don't want to get suspended for it.
The exact algorithm is not public, so I doubt that you'll get an authorative answer on your first question.
The user that has his serial votes reversed doesn't get any notification that this happened. If a user is frequently misusing the voting system this way, he might be contacted by a moderat...
There's no notification unless moderators themselves notify the user.
That doesn't answer whether the same user can just go back and reupvote those posts, but I imagine it would be somewhat difficult to find a way to prevent them from doing so.
@Eric @Krazer was saying above that yesterday we had the 3rd highest visits since we posted on r/pokemon. It's probably because I posted so many lolis.
There was someone determined to downvote the hell out of some one he didn't like.
After a bit of experimentation, he found that 3 a day was the max.
From my experience, if the votes are more spread out, you can get away with more.
Since I've been on the receiving end of serial upvotes of 10+ in a single day. Each separated by a few minutes each. (presumably the time needed to actually read my longer answers on SO)
The most I've been serially upvoted in quick succession (seconds apart) was 5 without getting reversed.
@LoganM I dunno. I've never serially upvoted anyone before. I've always spread it out over days.
Dammit, I mistyped my comment here: http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9189370#9189370 I meant, the most I've *been* serially upvoted in quick succession.
IOW, I've never serially upvoted anyone. (at least not in a single day), but I get serially upvoted about once a once or so. (on SO)
@Eric I don't know about that. That said, there's not much point to using all 40 votes on one person. It shouldn't take nearly that many to push them to the repcap.
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I heard that you can check if it's an audit just by going to the actual question page and checking if it has close votes. If that's the case, it wouldn't seem like it would slow bots down at all.
@iKlsR I don't think we actually use it for anything on the main site. It's better to use standard English conventions, with terminology in quotes. That said, I wouldn't have edited that post just for that.
It seems like my questions are disproportionately unanswered compared to the site as a whole. I'm not sure if that's because they're about more obscure series (which is fine) or too hard (which I should work on fixing).
@Eric Papakiki was really big when it came out, but I haven't heard much about it since. Kami Sen is a manga that I picked up literally 3 days ago just because someone told me it had a loli.
I've been collecting stats from our Area51 page on a daily basis. These statistics are publicly available, but they have to be saved and compiled by hand because they're updated regularly.
These statistics will be updated approximately once a week, probably on Monday mornings whenever someone bu...
On the high end we seem to be doing fine. Most sites that graduate have users near or at 20k, and around 30 users at least 2k, but we seem to be progressing towards that at a reasonable pace. The more worrisome part is the 200 rep side. We'll probably hit 150, though it might not be until the end of the year. But most graduated sites had way more than that at time of graduation.
Also, our total users is still very low. We're tied for third-lowest in the network (with Politics)
Other than that, stats are doing reasonably well. Traffic is back up, and our user growth is at a reasonable pace again. % Answered seems to be swaying between 88% and 90% depending on the day of the week. No changes in answer ratio. Q/D is doing alright, though we need to keep up the seeding.
I'll wait till I see graphs to make any final conclusions for myself, but for now I'm more concerned with things that the stats aren't showing us.
@Krazer I doubt I will find time to do that, unless it's something really easy. If other people want to do it then go for it, but I probably won't have enough time even during the summer for that.
I'm confident that if we keep this up, we'll build a fairly large community eventually. The issue is that it's a slow process. We need people to be sharing our content with friends who are also into anime, but that doesn't seem to be happening so much so the only people we're getting are people who randomly find this site through Google or who are already on some other SE site.
So... The troll we had in the C++ room pushed us over the limit. 2 hours later, and trying multiple things, we came up with the ultimate (nuclear) solution.
First we had a big deliberation among most of the room owners and a majority of us wanted to try gallery permanent gallery mode. So we did, and there was a lot of backlash in just the first hour. So we canceled that.
But at least we forced the troll away.
While that was happening, somebody came up with the ultimate solution.
@LoganM No need. After the troll realizes that every single thing they say gets removed, they'll probably just leave.
They can keep on trolling, but everything they say will just be silenced.
We haven't tuned the bin-bot yet to figure out exactly what is the lowest interval at which it will escape the spam filter.
But everyone is subject to the same spam filter. So if the bin-bot is tuned right. (or if we run multiple of them), then the troll will not be able to get any message through that sticks.
But yeah. It's a nuclear option. It's not very nice to whoever is targeted. And hopefully we won't ever have to use it.
Most trolls either don't stay long enough, or they post single messages that are bad enough to be flag worthy. So it's never been a problem before.
But we had a user that was persistently (over many months) been poisoning the room with shit.
We kindly asked her multiple times to leave. She refused. Then we asked her not so kindly, she ignores us.
At one point we got her question banned on SO, and she stopped trolling for a while. But she got out of the ban and started to piss us off again.
She even admits that her sole purpose in the room was to troll people and annoy everyone.
There should be a way to ban a particular user from a particular room. Gallery mode already makes this possible in theory, but you have to go through the trouble of giving write access to everyone else who wants to talk. It always seems to always be the same users causing problems, like Retrosaur in Bridge or that guy in the Mi Yodeya room.
@Mysticial the topics got weird (Fluttershy and spusgley were joking around), spyder is like (what's going on with ponies), Retrosaur hates pony shit and goes off... then things escalated...
So how about "cold" and "sweet" for the next flavor? This way we can do snow themed anime settings and arcs, kuudere characters, and best of all... ice cream!
well, anyway, since I have no flavor in mind, we can pick any flavor even if I have no questions for that flavor. Maybe next time you won't have any and I'll have a lot (doubt it)
as I said, I hope we'll have plenty of flavors to go around
@Krazer IMO just games shouldn't be too hard. If eroge count then I can easily do 30 questions, and even if we're not counting them I could probably do 10.
I think I will need to hold back some with eroge questions. They probably won't get answered, so if I ask 30 of them I'll just be lowering our %answered by 3% or so.
It'll be very difficult to answer the flavor day questions in real-time. Questions here tend to be answered after someone researches them and/or someone knowledgeable on the series finds the question, both of which aren't likely to happen in just one day.
I don't know what day is good though. It seems like weekdays are probably out. Sunday could work, but I don't know if we could get enough participation right after flavor day.
@Eric Wednesday could work, but it's going to be hard for anyone with a real job.
@LoganM The whole point of it is to start dropping questions on Saturday so ppl can tackle them on Sunday.... which is typically out slow days and sometimes it tapers off to Monday, which helps boost traffic
@Eric That is more because people aren't answering even the easy questions IMO. Probably because we have a lot of fairly obscure series, and if you haven't seen/read them then even easy questions are impossible.
Speaking of answering questions, this answer isn't complete, but I happen to know the answer to everything that was left off. Is it acceptable to edit that in or should I wait until someone else provides a complete answer (or he edits his answer to include the other info)?
Kodomo no Jikan has 7 OVA episodes.
Kodomo no Jikan: Rin no Gakkyuu Nisshi is a summery episode of the
TV series. This OVA episode was released in 2008.
Kodomo no Jikan: Yasumi Jikan - Anata ga Watashi ni Kureta Mono is
a side story of the TV series. This episode was released 2007 during
the or...
I'd like to keep flavor days on saturday as it's bring up our visit numbers up (we had the highest visit count since 2/27 this sunday). We can work on the subject matter to be more answerable
@Eric If it were 90% correct and just missing a little bit of info, I'd comment it, but he's really sort of misinterpreted the question and only answered half of it at most.
@Krazer Even if we do that, there will always be more obscure series than we can handle with our current user base (which, generously, is fewer than 50 active users). We really need to just expand our user base by a factor of 20 or something, and then we could have most fairly mainstream things covered.
@Krazer I don't know. According to SE philosophy our site's community should build up on its own without us doing much of anything. But that doesn't seem to be working particularly quickly for us.
@Eric I don't know if that's the right question to be asking. It's pretty clear what this site is supposed to be providing.
The difficulty is figuring out why it isn't catching on. Either we're not needed, or we're not visible enough, or we're not effective enough for what we're supposed to be doing..
Next week is really busy for me. I'm leaving on Sunday for a conference, and returning on Wednesday. After that I have lots of stuff related to final exams to prepare for. So depending on the day and time, I also might not be able to attend.
I'm just curious, does Naruto up to Naruto Shippuuden retains its original seiyuu (voice actors). Or there certain changes with the voice actors? If there is, specify the changes and the reason for it.
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Kodomo no Jikan has 7 OVA episodes.
Kodomo no Jikan: Rin no Gakkyuu Nisshi is a summery episode of the
TV series. This OVA episode was released in 2008.
Kodomo no Jikan: Yasumi Jikan - Anata ga Watashi ni Kureta Mono is
a side story of the TV series. This episode was released 2007 during
the or...
