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I don't understand why you seem to be attempting to speak for all moderators. I don't know or care what your attitude is about moderation, I'm speaking of my own personal experience with SO moderators.
Provide some links, please.
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That word: I don't think it means what you think it means.
Sorry, no grammar cop points for you. That was a correct usage of the word "irony."
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Sorry, no grammar cop points for you. That was a correct usage of the word "irony."
No, it wasn't. Either he was implying the SO mod was being inappropriate (wrong), or he used the word incorrectly.
>> No one is taking a tone with you.
> Oh, the irony.
Condescendingly telling someone "nobody is taking a tone with you." That's the irony you're missing.
Now days I still consume almost every day, but produce a bare minimum ( very similar model to US economy :) ).
I love SO, but I understand complaints about "rude" comments and lots of duplications. The thing is most people even with 10K+ ratings don't really know the subject (and got there by producing that same "duplication" instead of "closing as duplicate"), and these very people tend to be a lot ruder, since it is a "self defensive" way to a "self proof" that they really are worth something ( e.g. Psyc 101 ).
However people who really "grok it" tend to be the most helpful and fun to talk to.
Oh.. and the search. SO search sucks. I always Google my way into site:so in order to find anything.. But I guess SO knows there is Google, and does not care. Well I do! Fix it! :)
Again, SO rating mostly became a game, and since now it can also mean something on a resume (although personally I don't believe that resume itself means anything), more and more people try to game the system, and many of them winning the game. e.g. two years ago the content on SO was _really_ to the point. Now you need to click around to "find it". Two years from now... something new will emerge? :)
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The high-traffic tags are full of low-quality or frequently asked questions. The amount of duplication in e.g. the C++ tag is staggering, but there doesn't seem to be a conscious effort to enforce a no-duplicate policy of any kind. Picking out worthwhile questions is difficult with all that noise. Worse, the "unanswered" section is full of questions that have been answered, the asker just never bothered to click acce…
> the asker just never bothered to click accept . . . and the original user is evidently no longer interested in getting it answered. I find this very annoying, too. I can understand why it would happen from the point of view of the asker: he might have found the answer on some other website 5 minutes later, or he might have just decided to find a workaround. Still, I think SO should remind people to accept answers (…
It does. Your accept rate is displayed under your username when you ask a question. Let it drop to low and other users will start complaining in the comments under your question, telling you to start accepting if you expect answers.
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I don't understand why you seem to be attempting to speak for all moderators. I don't know or care what your attitude is about moderation, I'm speaking of my own personal experience with SO moderators.
Provide some links, please.