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@Job_September_2020 As a software engineer in the US, this has never been my experience. It is normal to be able to see the time slots that are available or busy, but not the details of what is in those slots. If someone really needs to meet with someone and there is no available slot, they'll just schedule it for the next best time and email them explaining the urgency.

Looks like SE is serious about revisiting site design now that they've made styling easier.

Philosophy is getting a site design! They're only a couple years older than Space Exploration and have a similar number of questions. philosophy.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5332/…

@kimholder Oh, I meant in mod actions, not site activity. Site activity has been low-to-normal.

@kimholder We have been particularly flooded lately too.

@RoryAlsop I usually spend maybe an hour or two a work day, split up between the times during the day that I am available.

@uhoh Hm, unfortunately it seems that discussion has been deleted and was not retained in chat. I wish I could remember what question it was on, because I should still be able to see the comments if I knew where to look.

@uhoh That's essentially what I said in my comment. It doesn't put a vote on the question just acts on it in the queue

ok, that's what I figured

I think so. It's private to you, but if you want to share, I don't think there's any policy against that.

@ymb1 Did they basically just say they weren't going to address it?

@ymb1 Ok, thanks :)

That was only for that paragraph

That said, SE doesn't enforce this requirement on their users. I'm just letting you know that copyrighted images are not ok to share without permission.

> Images that don't have a CC-BY-SA compatible license, you cannot use them. End of story really.

but that doesn't extend to images

If you clearly indicate it as a quote and provide citation, it is covered under the right to quotation

yes, and everything you upload is considered a user contribution

hi

@kimholder Thanks!

@kimholder Some off-the-shelf stuff, some custom tools

I'm pretty excited about it :)

@kimholder A software team that develops and maintains common tools for simulation labs.

I've just been promoted to a Project Manager position at work!

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Astronomy nomination period for a new mod only has four days left, and there's still no nominees. If anyone's interested in running over there, please sign up while you can!

In the current system, that would be "needs more focus" or "opinion based"

@OrganicMarble I think we usually use too broad or opinion-based, depending on which fits better.

@OrganicMarble Yeah, I was about to comment on your meta post right before you deleted it, agreeing that some of these seem to cross a line. Our goal in the past has been to limit list-based questions to ones that were theoretically finite, not opinion-based, and made sense to answer in the limited space available in a SE answer. Also we generally discourage shopping lists.

I do think uhoh is right though that a big reason they are a major target is that they create so much content for this site. uhoh has created about half the tags on the site, about half the bounties on the site, has the highest number of posts created on the site. Even if a low proportion of their work is problematic, it's going to be very visible.

@RoryAlsop Right, but the thing is those downvotes are offset by a lot of upvotes, precisely because of the flashiness. If you notice an ongoing pattern, it's a lot better to bring it to attention then to let it turn the site un-fun for you

90% of clashes here come down to people not flagging enough, IMO

@Starshipisgoforlaunch It has already been asked and answered: space.stackexchange.com/a/21894/58

How many voted?

@gerrit Thanks for helping out when you could :)

Feel free to ping me if you have any follow-up questions!

@uhoh Yeah, you definitely have above average semantic skills, which is a good thing! Most people who become frequent editors do.

@uhoh If it really only takes you one to two minutes on average to process what needs to be changed and make the appropriate updates, then you probably have above average semantic skills and/or are being selective with which posts you choose to edit. There are certainly some non-trivial changes that can be made in that kind of time, but often editing appropriately can take longer than that, and as Jean-Marie described below, trivial edits are discouraged.

@uhoh I would say on average it usually takes about 5 minutes to process what needs to be edited and make a good edit, but often it's hard to tell without expending some of that processing time whether an edit is going to be close to that average time or longer. If you're short on time, you have to make a quick decision, and if you don't know whether you might get side-tracked for 30 minutes, it's better to avoid it.

@uhoh That is an incredibly unfair assumption. Down/close voting takes a second, editing can take up to 30 minutes. There's a big difference between "can spare an extra second after reading" and "can spare half an hour after reading". Someone might enjoy editing, but not be able to do it for much of the day.

@uhoh "I guess people enjoy down voting and closing more than they do contributing to the site by helping folks improve their posts" - That's speculative, making assumptions about people's intentions. There's a lot simpler explanation which is that down and close votes require a lot less time and effort than editing.

@DavidHammen Directly from the NASA webpage that hosts the image: "Please note that these images are copyright protected. Reproduction without permission of the copyright holder is prohibited."

@DavidHammen It specifically says on the NASA website that they may not be reproduced without permission.

Here's a brief write-up I did on it: space.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1530/58. As far as preventing StackExchange from uploading images, just don't use their image tool to add the image. Instead do ![image description](image link). Don't forget to include explicit attribution.

They weren't merely embedded though, they were invalidly entered into imgur under the Creative Commons license. Also, embedding and displaying images elsewhere is a bit of grey area. Usually, if asked not to display an image, even if it is displayed via an embedded link, we will remove it.

Unfortunately, I had to remove the images, because they are copyrighted and may not be reproduced without permission. I left links to them, however.

@fasterthanlight Ok, invitation sent!

@fasterthanlight Sure, I can make you a contributor and we can review whatever you had in mind to write. What's your wordpress username?