Timeline for Deviant vote alarm
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| Mar 19, 2010 at 13:41 | comment | added | David Thornley | @Neil Butterworth: I've got both guru and C++ tag badges. Should that give me powers greater than my rep gives me? How about I retag a question as C++ myself? I think we're in complete agreement here. | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 23:12 | comment | added | nb69307 | @Daniel So did I. I actually have two "guru" badges, but still don't think that should give me any special SO powers. | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 23:06 | comment | added | Daniel Daranas | @Neil I mixed up the guru badge and the tag badges. I was talking about the tag related badge for having +400 votes. | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 21:00 | comment | added | Tom Hawtin - tackline | Given enough answers, all questions are shallow. Or something. | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 19:20 | comment | added | Welbog | This scenario truly defeats my suggestion, so I am marking this as the accepted answer. I'm leaving the question up in case someone sees it and gets a better idea from it. | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 19:14 | vote | accept | Welbog | ||
| Mar 18, 2010 at 18:36 | comment | added | nb69307 | @Daniel SO has no concept of a "guru" (apart from the tag with that name) and I hope it never does. | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 18:30 | comment | added | Daniel Daranas | Guru votes should cancel deviance. e.g. 10 upvotes in a question tagged C++, I downvote -> I am deviant. Then you come and downvote too but you are a guru in the C++ tag -> You are not deviant, and I am not deviant anymore since a guru has agreed with my seemingly deviant opinion. | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 18:09 | comment | added | nb69307 | I would have upvoted some of the above comments, except that for the first time in my SO career I have run out of comment votes! I really can't see the justification for a limit on these - do the Panjandrums (I'm reading "Anathem" at the moment) really expect us to have to switch to adding "I agree" comments instead of upvoting? | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 17:49 | history | edited | nb69307 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 18, 2010 at 17:47 | comment | added | mmyers Mod | @NIfE: It seems to me that e-mail should only be used as a last resort. If I received an e-mail from a moderator asking me to explain my voting, I'd probably ignore it. | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 17:47 | comment | added | nb69307 | @NIfE Well "you guys" couldn't, as we don't have access to the poster's email address. And neither, I think, do the mods. And I for one do not want such access. | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 17:43 | comment | added | Welbog | @You guys: or the moderator could e-mail the guy in question for an explanation. You don't need to be an expert to know if the guy's reply is an actual answer or some BS to support malicious voting. | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 17:41 | comment | added | perbert | @NflE: that implies that the moderator has a deep understanding of the topic at hand. A Javascript coded isn't necessarily fit to judge a Java question, or a C++ coder a question regarding Python syntax style . | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 17:40 | comment | added | nb69307 | @NIfE Say what? None of the current moderators are C++ (for example) experts. How could they judge. | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 17:35 | comment | added | Welbog | That's why it's up to a moderator to figure out if the votes were legitimate or not. | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 17:34 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | My thought too. This suggestions would make experts into deviants every time there was a truly deep questions. | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 17:30 | history | answered | nb69307 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |