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SPArcheon
SPArcheon
8:52 AM
@AndrasDeak usual tunnel vision - "product communities on SO"
A really innovative idea.
find some big technologies and give them "autonomy", with a "private" leadership
I wonder why they didn't that before.
Could work for some big product right?
and so on...
Basically:
You know all you smaller tech specific sites that already suffer from split rep between SO and your separate site?
WELL! HOPE YOU LIKE SUFFER MORE! TAKE YOU REP AND THROW IT DOWN A CLIFF!
You invested on SharePoint? Too bad! Now get ready for our new 180° turn!
We incentivize Microsoft to create a Sharepoint Collective on SO!.
Hope your SharePoint specific site enjoys a slow and painful death. You outlived your purpose.
@AndrasDeak Yea, totally wonderful idea!
SharePoint was on SO, moved on SharePoint.SE and now they try to pull it back WITHOUT ANY "MIGRATION" PLAN.
Really makes me want contribute.
 
 
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Andras Deak
Andras Deak
10:53 AM
@SPArcheon I knew you'll be a fan :D
 
SPArcheon
SPArcheon
11:22 AM
@AndrasDeak you can start the downvoting now!
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A: Beta release of Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

SPArcheonSo... I just finished reading this. I won't go over some of the weird results of this idea like giving some users a "more equal than the others" status that could either be good or go horribly wrong. For that, there are already many other answers. I will only point out another aspect of this reso...

You could even be the first one.
 
Andras Deak
Andras Deak
11:34 AM
too late, there are already votes there :(
 
SPArcheon
SPArcheon
@AndrasDeak And even UP ones... weird.
 
 
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Andras Deak
Andras Deak
12:46 PM
Better luck next time
 
b_jonas
b_jonas
1:34 PM
@SPArcheon No, that's backwards. Smaller sites enjoy the advantage that SO attracts all the stupid questions away from them.
At least once the site is past its initial hard phase where it has to build up a dedicated communit of regular users.
 
SPArcheon
SPArcheon
2:15 PM
@b_jonas ^ this.
 
b_jonas
b_jonas
@SPArcheon What about that? What should I notice? Other than the advertisment bar at the top for "we have launched SO Collectives".
@SPArcheon Sorry, but that clothing doesn't look good on Rarity. She would never wear that.
 
Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2
Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2
Looks too human
Even for my own non MLP eyes. :)
@b_jonas only three badges for whole site. While other sites have hundreds, or thousands.
Assume the point is "Why bother, if I have no chance for a gold badge"?
 
b_jonas
b_jonas
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 That badge is based on a fixed threshold for count of upvotes. Smaller sites have fewer users, so it's much harder to get that many upvotes. And I think people who look at those badges know that.
 
SPArcheon
SPArcheon
 
b_jonas
b_jonas
@SPArcheon What's that from?
 
SPArcheon
SPArcheon
2:27 PM
 
Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2
Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2
@b_jonas magento.stackexchange.com/help/badges/22/great-question about same amount of users, much more badges
 
b_jonas
b_jonas
Oh, you mean Rarity's dress? Then perhaps it's just drawn wrong in that first picture.
 
SPArcheon
SPArcheon
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 actually more like "Why brother if there is no upvote and thus no way to use privileges since they are not scaled down"
 
b_jonas
b_jonas
@SPArcheon Ah.
@SPArcheon Why do the privilages matter? I don't think they matter that much to the people who bring good questions.
Also the privilages do scale in a four-step way.
The score thresholds for privilages that is
Nor do you need very high rep questions or answers to get the privilages. I know that from Sci Fi.
Sci Fi is a reasonably large SE site, but getting 100 upvotes seems unattainable to me. It didn't stop gaining a ton of XP for all the privilages.
 
 
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SPArcheon
SPArcheon
3:41 PM
btw, I wonder.. did you ever notice how they draw Zatanna in DC Super Hero Girl?
^ @b_jonas
which obviously no one at all noticed and made parodies off....
notice that it is only the "hero" version that has the purple stripe.
So, head canon is that she uses that as a disguise, probably based on some tv show she saw.....
Trolling does not end there. Tara Strong works on the show, but she voices ANOTHER character instead. And she behaves like.... Rarity, not Twily.
 
SPArcheon
SPArcheon
4:04 PM
And this is specifically for @ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2
"Realistic" (at least by your standard it seems) Pinkie with totally unrealistic Gummy
 
SPArcheon
SPArcheon
5:01 PM
 
b_jonas
b_jonas
5:30 PM
@SPArcheon That's normal. Tara Strong voices Bubbles, not Buttercup, in Powerpuff Gurls.
 
Andras Deak
Andras Deak
huh
 
SPArcheon
SPArcheon
 
Andras Deak
Andras Deak
now that is uncanny
cc @ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 you must see this ^
 
SPArcheon
SPArcheon
Rarycat?
 
Andras Deak
Andras Deak
5:48 PM
somehow less creepy
 

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