Ideally, you have something to manage your requests; you're not trying to handle this every place you need something from the API, and whatever is handling them for you is also keeping track of the rate at which you're hitting it, any backoffs that might be in place, etc.
That frees you up to queue requests, feed them in at a reasonable rate, log everything in a consistent way and most importantly: not make any when there's a backoff in place.
We already have a framework with api_get_post(). I've wanted to standardize the two anyway -- that way, we can have bodyfetcher call api_get_post() and then do its side of the work.
Yeah, I was trying to figure out how to do that without locking somewhere
Otherwise you have to go to a delegate pattern
Blocks would make this so much easier.
Delegate pattern would mean you have to know what object to call, what method to call, and what state information is necessary. And this would all have to be in a big array somewhere, tied to the specific request.
And to do it right, there should be a way to cancel requests and expand them; I.e. if we get more posts in an already-tipped site quota.
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Yvette brought this up earlier after a dispute in SOCVR, and while we don't see much of that happening in here (thankfully), I thought I should link this post as a reminder: meta.stackexchange.com/q/284569/285368
@angussidney No need to remind. I think that it's irresponsible of the ROs of the other room to ignore sexism and even make fun of it by the looks of it. My gut feeling says that both the users and ROs in this room are a little more mature and don't feel the need to make a gender distinguishment.
@JanDvorak in theory, yes. The AJAX thing was done to reduce server load, though - so it really depends whether @undo is comfortable with re-loading the server
I don't have an account on wordpress.stackexchange and I don't intend to since I have no interest in writing. So that's how the spam escapes. By being on a site I don't have reputation on.
Software that can make constructive comments and flag unconstructive comments is within our reach of machine learning technologies. I say it's 10 years off and will take a data center of processing power.
TL;DR: Yes it can.
Background
On June 27, 2014 Skynet awoke. It looked at Stack Overflow and thought "Why are all these people being so chatty and talking about obsolete things? I should nuke them all!" Fortunately, Skynet was a baby and only had access to my 100 comment flags a day.
Prior ...
I have more than 45000 reputation on stackoverflow because I'm always thinking about and doing programming. Also currently I'm #17 on the low quality review queue. I like finding and nuking spam and low quality posts.
I frequent several chatrooms that focus on spam cleanup and low quality pos...
Well @JanDvorak , looks like your suggestion to make a meta post got me a boat load of downvotes. The answer to your question is: "Log in to every subsite.stackexchange.com" that you want to flag, and just flag it. You don't have power over them because you can't be trusted to clean up spam yourself.
I guess I was calling into question the amount of trust they give to users with higher than average rep.
Everyone with a little bit of rep on any site gets exactly 100 reputation on a new site. No more, no less. So I'm sitting here with tons of rep, and 100 reputation on the new site and I'm like Hey! I've earned my stripes, I want to be head honcho here too.
Do your skills and knowledge on SO translate to more than 100 rep worth of points on Parenting, or Pets, or Islam or any of the other non-programing sites? The association bonus is to get you over the low privileges. It's not to make you a leader in the new community.
If you do, that will cause an infinite loop in the blame assignment algorithm as it searches for first cause. All the people who downvoted me have less than half the rep I do. pfft.
@ArtOfCode ahhh sorry I got a new computer and lost track of some old pings... I haven't forgotten about the idea of improving spam detection in general though cc @angussidney
No... I very quickly decided "yeah it definitely sounds like it's worth working on this" and then kinda stopped moving forward because there were seventy million possible options to actually work on and I wasn't sure which one(s) was best. I'm back on it now though.
@Pops if you missed old pings, you may have missed one of mine - PR stuff. If smokey gets integrated, I can foresee some PR issues when people find out. Have we got a plan on that front? Do you want us to handle all the "but why" and "ermagerd so dangerous" and ping you guys as necessary, or will SE handle it?
@ArtOfCode Good question, but I've been putting off thinking about it for now. I don't think we know enough about what integration looks like yet to know how to prepare. Short answer though, we should be able to do it.
Another thought @Pops: is it worth, given that y'all seem to think this is a good idea, seeing if you can persuade a dev to hop over to talk out the technical details of possible methods?
TL;DR: Yes it can.
Background
On June 27, 2014 Skynet awoke. It looked at Stack Overflow and thought "Why are all these people being so chatty and talking about obsolete things? I should nuke them all!" Fortunately, Skynet was a baby and only had access to my 100 comment flags a day.
Prior ...
I have more than 45000 reputation on stackoverflow because I'm always thinking about and doing programming. Also currently I'm #17 on the low quality review queue. I like finding and nuking spam and low quality posts.
I frequent several chatrooms that focus on spam cleanup and low quality pos...
