it attracts moderators because moderators tend to be the users who are interested in going above-and-beyond in maintaining the network's quality bars, and users here also learn modly stuff i guess
probably also, the people who are here but not mods, are the kinds of people who would want to put enough energy into stack exchange that they're the kinds willing to run for being a moderator.
so there's a lot of overlap in that people who are moderators, or would be inclined to be moderators, are here.
Also, mods deal with a lot of crap, so those willing to dig in to the crap of spam around the network are often also willing to pick up crap around the rest of the site as well.
@GrantGarrison There's a script from @Glorfindel which shows you the sites that your not on. I used that and opened them all in new tabs but it did take a while :)
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with open("posts.json", "r") as fh:
reasons, posts = json.load(fh)
x = []
y = []
tps = 0
fps = 0
for input, label in posts.values():
x.append(input)
if label:
y.append(1)
tps += 1
else:
y.append(0)
fps += 1
x = numpy.array(x)
y = numpy.array(y)
If anyone's interested: I've released "Left-sidebar in the Topbar" (GitHub) (install), a userscript which moves the left-sidebar into a drop-down in the top-bar.
@Ferrybig History.SE has essentially put a policy of "close every question about the Holocaust/Nazis" as an attempt to stem the flood of troll questions they were gettiing
Current site policy (before this post unofficial) has been the following:
Questions on these topics have a hair-trigger for being put on hold. This goes in particular for new users who don't have a proven track-record of asking good questions.
There is a certain quality bar that all questions o...
So, y'all, charcoal.all chat is a useful place for discussing about the trolls who we know are haunting this room. It's only going to contain cryptographically verified Charcoal people.
@doppelgreener GitHub accounts can be cryptographically verified to have the same owner as a Keybase account. I know whose GitHub accounts belong to real people here, and can let in only those people.
@ArtOfDuck Yes. I went to keybase.io/docs/the_app/install_linux, curled things, and then input the next command and entered the password, got that error