Answer by bad_coder for The backlog of reviews in the First questions review...
An official answer regarding the aging out of review items from the First questions review queue was given by staff in Do posts in the first answers and first questions queues age out?The script that...
View ArticleDo collectives get to see my email?
I noticed in the Privacy Notice for Collectives™WHO IS THE CONTROLLER?(...) In addition to this privacy notice, you should review privacy notices of the participating organizations with Collectives...
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for Why has my old question been closed after 8 years?
I was one of the close voters.My criteria was the question and its answers are essentially about an anti-virus blocking several programs. It's not about the details of using a specific programming...
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for "Last seen" was important
This has been partially restored with reduced granularity see this FR marked status-completed with the developer comment underneath.
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for Does a user have any practical options for dealing...
such a flag is unlikely to have more than a single example.Encouraging flags on one single CV doesn't seem wise because there's little to go on.Chances are you'll be flagging a user who might regularly...
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Should the information link in Teams have javascript:void(0)? [closed]
I noticed in the sidebar the information link of Teams has the destination javascript:void(0). Should it read like that? It seems there could be a prettier text.Reference: Don't use the <a> HTML...
View ArticleAudit that doesn't have full error message as text
I failed this audit but if I understand the reviewing guidelines correctly the post "Needs debugging details" because a part of the error message is only included as an image and not as text. From the...
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for A/B testing on the Ask page
For example, being a duplicate is not the top reason that first questions get closedIf I had to make an educated guess it's because finding duplicates can take a lot of work and it's frequently the...
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for Why did I get a one-year ban on all review categories...
Approving the edits in 1, 2 and 4 is a serious problem because of the wrong indentation alone.It's a common editing mistake that the editor design contributes towards because there's no obvious way to...
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for Calling up moderators from the 2021 election -...
Congratulations Dharman. The mod team and the users just gained a diligent moderator who strives to make the site better.RyanM I'm also happy you were called up, as time goes by I've realized more and...
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for Staging Ground: Reviewer Motivation, Scaling, and...
We will be ensuring much increased visibility for new Staging Ground questions by interspersing them in some of the questions listings on the siteWill the intermingled SG questions have a different...
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for "Go to page" buttons should have the ability to...
I think that these buttons could be improved by adding a way to manually enter a page number.I think there should be a surface that can be incremented/decremented with mouse scrolling.
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for Rule proposal: comments asking for accepts and votes...
and it's frustrated some users who were genuinely unaware.Understatement Machavity. I liked curating but... If I edit/close/flag 1000 post for free and then need to ping a 1 rep user just as a reminder...
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Answer by bad_coder for Collectives Update: Introducing Bulletins
Where will the link to bulletins be placed? Will it be a tab on the top of the collective page?Edit: Found it
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for Merge [jetbrains-rider] into [rider]
I have some experience with JetBrains products. Using the ide suffix (e.g. rider-ide) could give overall tag consistency to SO and be an important step towards eventually burninating the behemoth ide...
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for Should we approve a tag wiki suggestion which only...
I was one of the reviewers who approved, the tag wiki was borderline and under normal circumstances I would be 80% inclined to reject the edit.BUT, it's a scientific library that's about earthquake...
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for How should I handle questions which show the desired...
but not in writing?Clear problem statement in prose that's not just code is a must!What the author in the referenced example question is asking about is how to convert a list of lists into a dictionary...
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for Let's dash the [hyphen] tag
The hyphenation tag is missing a wiki and an excerpt so it's not clear to me what makes for a rettag and what doesn't.The hyphen wiki currently says:hyphenation for placing hyphens in words...
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Answer by bad_coder for Server Error: Failed to upload image; an error...
One of the moderators on Meta Stack Exchange posted a workaround for the bug that works if you're willing to upload to Imgur directly. I'm reproducing the post here in case some readers are interested...
View ArticleTypo in election page "candidiates"
There's a typo in the election page, where it reads:Primary (active only if there are >10 candidiates)it should be candidates.
View ArticleWhy is there only 1 position open in the 2022 Moderator Election?
I just noticed there's only 1 position open in the 2022 Moderator Election. This seems to be very few given that it's often said the workload for SO moderators is high and there aren't enough mods. Can...
View ArticleWhat should I do about ChatGPT content in questions (not answers)? [duplicate]
I came across a question today that pasted a ChatGPT answer into the question. How can I handle such a case?
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for All the [lint] and [linter]s need some [static-analysis]
I agree with Erik A's opinion:We certainly should not make lint or linter the main tag.The way tags are organized in the Python ecosystem each static analysis tool has its own tag (the way it should...
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Syntax highlight apparently broken in edit preview and suggested edits queue
I think currently syntax highlight is broken for edit preview and the suggested edit review queue.This is the case for the majority of posts I've seen, it seems the exception are code fences with a...
View ArticleAn asker inserted insults in a question edit; a ‘rude or abusive’ flag was...
After two edits to a post to remove salutations (and fix typos) the OP rolled back the revisions and edited this into the post:Edit: Can you like Fuckoff Mr. "insert user name" ? what a shitty hostile...
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for Rule proposal: Duplicate closure to roll-up questions...
If I understand correctly the question can be boiled down to:(...) using a single roll-up question as the duplicate target.A prime example would be this regex roll-upI think it's reasonable to ask a...
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for In an [ide]al world, there is no need for this tag
In past burninations of large tags the mods could ask staff to remove the tag from some posts provided questions wouldn't be left without any tags. In this case, from questions that have a second IDE...
View ArticleIn an [ide]al world, there is no need for this tag
Looking at the related tags list in ide's top-users page we can get a reasonable idea of how the tag is being used. It mostly doubles with a second IDE specific tag:eclipse - 1610...
View ArticleComment by bad_coder on How to rephrase someone else's question?
Carefully removing redundant code seems like the right option, especially if all the answers don't address the redundant code and the question can safely be boiled down to a MRE form.
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for 2023: a year in moderation
I really think the year in moderation posts should include a breakdown like the one in What posts get deleted, and why?With 1,048,164 posts deleted in 2023 there's no way to understand that number...
View ArticleAnswer by bad_coder for Discussions update: Expansion to all tags
We are seeing roughly 35% higher retention rate among contributors of Discussions vs Q&A — meaning users that contribute in Discussions are more likely to return and contribute again.I have a hard...
View ArticleComment by bad_coder on Python questions about indentation: Answer? Close as...
@KarlKnechtel the duplicate should be the other way around, this Q is from 2016 while the dup target is from 2020.
View ArticleComment by bad_coder on Decade Old Unanswered Questions
Some questions were only adequately answered years later when a new functionality was launched, like: "how to implement X in Y" when much later X became part of Y's standard library. So keeping those...
View ArticleComment by bad_coder on Dissent with a user on contents of a post
The editor was right. Your rolebacks returned the post to a worst state. You licensed the code to SE and wanting to maintain it containing errors is incorrect on your part. You also made some noob...
View ArticleComment by bad_coder on Dissent with a user on contents of a post
@JonathanScholbach one mod on another side took issue with my edits, they've managed to edit less posts in 5 years than I've edited in a just a couple of days. I'm going to give you a sure rule of...
View ArticleComment by bad_coder on Dissent with a user on contents of a post
I agree with this post, author's intent is always to be respected. However, I'd call this issue a case of "site etiquette" in "collaborative editing". The OP is an experienced user (a mod) so lets be...
View ArticleComment by bad_coder on 2024 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
Does this accurately reflect the status quo? Some mods continue on strike because they're unsatisfied that not more posts can be deleted?
View ArticleComment by bad_coder on Extraordinary burnination: turn off the [tdengine]
Maybe it would be less work to post on their GH or send an email? If there is a community bot they might turn it off.
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