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user41796

2:21 AM

@JimmyHoffa Nah, not our unfriend. The SO account's age is a giveaway - it's been open for a year. That OP is just someone who doesn't know how to express their problem and gets argumentative with strangers who can't read their mind.

user55340

1:53 PM

Mod types...

user55340

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A: Remove the [asp] tag or link the [asp] tag to either [asp-classic] or [asp.net]

So, the cleanup has been done. There are no questions tagged as asp. From Let's Ban the [ASP] Tag on StackOverflow! the next step would appear to be making it a tag synonym. From Stack Overflow a screen shot of http://stackoverflow.com/tags/synonyms Which is probably what we should have too...

user55340

Looks like a mod will have to do this... if we can get one's attention. — AnonJr 1 min ago

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user55340

2:08 PM

@gnat another win for branching theory

user55340

I've accepted this answer as it will form the basis of changes we are going to make to our SCM. The links to Advanced SCM Branching Stratagies and the git-flow model have been particularly appreciated. We'll also try and invest in training to improve our developers understanding of what they do with HG. — imp25 2 hours ago

gnat

2:21 PM

@MichaelT yeah. Looks like role based approach makes it through all the artificial complications. Lately, I am using it myself at work to verify / justify branching changes - works like a charm

Jimmy Hoffa

2:56 PM

@jozefg I think I might start playing haskell on SO. it's not so FGITW as most of SO and it makes me think about stuff I like. good answer on that BNF->AST Q btw.

though much of it is way over my head heh

enderland

@JimmyHoffa only one way to change that ;)

Jimmy Hoffa

@enderland Study galois fields furiously?

enderland

:)

Jimmy Hoffa

Semigroupoid

In mathematics, a semigroupoid is a partial algebra which satisfies the axioms for a small category, except possibly for the requirement that there be an identity at each object. Semigroupoids generalise semigroups in the same way that small categories generalise monoids and groupoids generalise groups, and have applications in the structural theory of semigroups. Formally, a semigroupoid consists of: * a set of things called objects. * for every two objects A and B a set Mor(A,B) of things called morphisms from A to B. If f is in Mor(A,B), we write f : A → B. * for every three objects A, ...

..I'll get right on it, after I peel my brain off the cieling. I really wish I had studied more math.

stupid review audits grumble. got an audit in the review queue for a Q asking how to name something, close vote reason was "primarily opinion based", that made sense because naming is opinion based...

user55340

@JimmyHoffa Downvote it and close vote it out of spite!

Jimmy Hoffa

3:06 PM

Will

user55340

@JimmyHoffa When I first read that title I thought it was the name of a dinosaur. The semisourpod or something like that.

user55340

It would be what attacks you if you use goto?

user55340

Neal Stephenson thinks it's cute to name his labels 'dengo'

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gnat

MSO voting at its best

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A: Please stop showing review audits for suggested edits to Moderators

Moderators are expected to be able to easily tell the difference between obviously bad and good posts. You are more experienced than most in this regard, and also have a bigger responsibility of doing the right thing. I therefore think auditing moderators is just as useful as auditing any other ...

@Servy sure (did you forgot to add cliche votingisdifferentonmeta?) I merely vonder how it happen that upvoted senseless comments tend to stick with posts that appear downvoted without a clear reason — gnat 53 mins ago

Jimmy Hoffa

I just pegged like 5 5th-close-vote-in-queue in a row

2 more! I am like the friggin avenger this morning!

user55340

3:14 PM

When I got in this morning, there were ~50 reopen reviews.

Jimmy Hoffa

(The Friggin Avenger; second most well known SO superhero right after Skeet The Oracle)

@MichaelT I had 9 I think, walked right through those (pretty easy just checking the edit history)

huzzah another 5th vote

wth!!

user55340

Btw, if you feel like looking at old questions that might need a cleanup - degree

Jimmy Hoffa

another close review audit; and it gives me a protected question! It's protected because it should be close voted!

I am on a serious roll with this 5th vote in a row shit, I have to look at my review history after i finish this to count them up, I just gave the death blow to a ton of questions..

All done, 10 of my 20 review queue votes this morning were the 5th vote. Crazy.

enderland

3:47 PM

hey cool, I think I can update my job title on the exchange server if I want

user55340

"Mountain Guru"

enderland

LOLOL

Robert Harvey

@gnat: Review audits are designed to catch robo-reviewers. The likelihood of a moderator being a robo-reviewer is pretty close to zero.

On Stack Overflow, any user above 10K or 20K should probably be exempt from review.

user55340

@RobertHarvey I've seen 10k users who haven't done a review before... I'm not sure that a 10k user should be exempt from audits.

Robert Harvey

But presumably with 10K they already understand how to review a suggested edit.

Audits are supposed to catch people gaming the system. I realize that they are also looked upon as a teaching aid, but they're not really adequate at accomplishing that mission, IMO.

user55340

3:56 PM

@RobertHarvey maybe suggested edits... but I don't see why that should be an exception for the other reviews.

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