Yannis

Thessaloniki, Greece

Age: 33

You can find me in The Whiteboard. If I ignore you, it's probably on purpose.

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7h	comment	Flag Option: User is a troll Unfortunately sometimes you have no option but to focus on the person and not on the content. However, I do feel that a troll flag would encourage people to focus on the person instead of on the content, and that wouldn't be good.
8h	comment	Flag Option: User is a troll @GeorgeCummins Wasn't doubting there was a real problem, but as you mention these problems tend to fall into the "I know it when I see it" category. And we already have a flag for that (the custom one). I think a troll flag would be horribly abused, it'll generate tons and tons of spiteful flags (of the "he voted to close my question, the f'ing troll" variety).
8h	awarded	Teacher
8h	comment	Flag Option: User is a troll What's a troll? (Or, what's your definition of a troll?)
8h	comment	What to do about a dispute within edits? Editors get notified for `@username` comments, even if they haven't posted a comment in the question. It might make sense to try and talk to the editors before calling the cavalry. Especially on SO.
11h	comment	meaning of 'largest technical community' There's an e-peen joke somewhere in here...
11h	comment	meaning of 'largest technical community' That's... marketese.
11h	revised	Is it possible to "revive" deleted post? deleted 18 characters in body
11h	comment	Begginer webdeveloper. How to make development right? Your second snippet is... excruciating. Have you considered a template engine? Something like twig for example.
12h	comment	A tick box for "delayed response" Love the sentiment, hate the feature.
12h	comment	Delete softly when using the big stick But... but... but... what's the fun in destroying accounts if they aren't really destroyed?
12h	comment	How to install LLVM & Clang on windows? llvm.org/docs/GettingStartedVS.html & clang.llvm.org/get_started.html - You'll have to build them from source. Please take some time to read our [FAQ] thoroughly, support questions about programming tools are off topic.
12h	comment	We need to be a little less hostile @TravisJ We can't know definitively. What we do know is that it was already at -9 when shared in chat, fixed a bit right after it was shared in chat, and then started receiving downvotes en masse again after it was shared on Meta. Lot's of guesswork here, but... we can conclude "coordinated voting" when the only actual evidence we have of "chat interference" is a good edit. Also, this reminds me of my own patterns, I usually rant about a question in chat, while at the same time I'm fixing it on another tab. Because that's what chat's about, isn't it?
12h	comment	We need to be a little less hostile @TravisJ And the question is clearly at -9 at that point (and the user posting that message also was the first one who tried to improve the question). The question might have gotten a couple of downvotes from chat, but I'll venture a guess and say that it got a lot more downvotes after it was shared on Meta.
13h	comment	We need to be a little less hostile @Adel Yes, you are missing something. The question was already at -9 when it was shared in the chat room and the user who shared it was also the first one who stepped up and tried to improve it (first edit in the revision history). The comments here claiming coordinated voting from chat are completely unjustified. If anything, the extra attention the question got from chat was positive. That's not to say that crappy downvoting on questions shared in chat isn't common, but it didn't really happen here.
13h	comment	We need to be a little less hostile @Adel Personally I think trying to encourage or discourage votes (up or down) is a complete waste of time. Voting is anonymous (for good reason), and everyone's votes are their own, they can vote however they like. Even if you manage to encourage sensible voting patterns, it will take a while before people notice. If we are going to spend time and energy encouraging something, how about we focus on actions that are publicly visible and can immediately inspire others? Like polite comments and editing. And the best (and perhaps only) way to encourage those is to lead by example.
13h	comment	We need to be a little less hostile @Adel Who said we want to encourage upvotes and discourage downvotes? If anything it's the other way around, in general there are a lot more nonsensical upvotes than nonsensical downvotes. That said, what we actually want to encourage is fixing problematic posts.
13h	comment	Remove comments instead of locking the question Related feature request: Can we get a comments only lock?
13h	comment	We need to be a little less hostile I think it should be noted that rightfold (the poster of the chat message you linked to) is also the first one who stepped up and edited the question. Having some fun in chat is perfectly acceptable, let's not be too quick to brand this user as an ass who brought down the question and didn't care enough to try and fix it. He (she?) actually did the right thing here.
13h	comment	We need to be a little less hostile @ben336 That's a... horrible idea, and you say so yourself: "We can't force people to be polite or helpful about closing questions".