Timeline for Getting a bit too snarky
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| Nov 3, 2015 at 21:05 | history | protected | user9517 | ||
| Nov 3, 2015 at 21:05 | history | rollback | user9517 |
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| Nov 3, 2015 at 20:58 | history | edited | Falcon Momot |
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| Oct 17, 2013 at 14:35 | answer | added | Doug Luxem | timeline score: -5 | |
| Aug 29, 2011 at 15:55 | vote | accept | user9517 | ||
| Aug 23, 2011 at 14:00 | comment | added | gWaldo | I am certainly guilty of snark, and was recently called out for sending a lmgtfy link. I'm most tempted to do that when I see a question that is easily pluggable into a search engine, and obviously no effort has been put in by the asker. It makes me think that they are using SF as a search engine to boost their reputation. I know that it's wrong to be sarcastic about it and remind myself to try to be helpful. In the vein of being helpful, at work, I often help people solve their problems and show them how I discovered the problem and came to an answer. | |
| Aug 16, 2011 at 12:24 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/ServerFault/status/103442035096301568 | ||
| Aug 16, 2011 at 7:29 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | @John - no, I don't think I've ever seen a single flag on your account. | |
| Aug 16, 2011 at 5:29 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @Mark, if those flags are due to my comments please say so, although that would surprise me greatly. | |
| Aug 16, 2011 at 1:04 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | @womble - when it comes to comments, no. They don't show up in your flag list, they don't affect any weights, and there's no middle ground. A flagged comment doesn't even trigger a mod alert that there's a flag (we only see them when we look for them). Comments are a 2nd class citizen. But - if we felt that there was a problem, rather than over sensitive people, we would have contacted you privately. | |
| Aug 16, 2011 at 0:44 | comment | added | womble Mod | @Mark Henderson: Is there some middle ground of mod action between "ignore" and "mod hammer of doom"? At the moment, you're essentially running an open-loop system where unwanted behaviour can't be gently adjusted via feedback, but only when the car's landed completely in the ditch. To put it another way, since you're clearly referring to me: I had no idea that I was collecting mod flags, and hence had no way to know that I was offending people. | |
| Aug 15, 2011 at 16:21 | answer | added | voretaq7 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 15, 2011 at 14:39 | comment | added | Kyle Brandt | This came up a while back and I wrote a post on it (RTFM: blog.serverfault.com/post/1306724710). I think it is something we always have to keep in check. Also. for what its worth, I believe snark usually comes from insecurity. So when someone says something snarky I generally read it as: "I am insecure about my own knowledge and skill -- so I will now berate your ignorance as a way to to try cover up my own." Or, as a more concise version, I read it as "I suck." | |
| Aug 15, 2011 at 4:47 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | @John - also interesting to note, the person who has collected the most comment flags lately is also Australian. I'm detecting a pattern here... | |
| Aug 15, 2011 at 4:43 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @Mark, I think you've hit the nail on the head. On a global site we're obviously going to see different cultures and degrees which people see as impolite or rude. As you are well aware, Australians tend to say what they think, yet some other places this is incorrectly seen as downright rude. I'm tired of always having to compensate and and make allowances for other cultures but never seeing the same courtesy extended towards mine. | |
| Aug 15, 2011 at 4:29 | answer | added | Mark HendersonMod | timeline score: 14 | |
| Aug 15, 2011 at 4:10 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | Hmm. Lately I've seen a lot of comments come through the moderation queue as rude/offensive (perhaps the majority of them might belong to a certain user who provides great answers, and was absent for an extended period of time and came back lately), to which when I read them I think to myself "Hmm, just one flag, probably by the op being a bit precious about their mis-guided ideals" and promptly click "dismiss". I guess what others consider to be rude, I don't. | |
| Aug 15, 2011 at 2:29 | comment | added | Chris S | @Nixphoe, yep, plus this site isn't "questions & how to find answers" it's "questions & answers". | |
| Aug 15, 2011 at 1:07 | comment | added | Nixphoe | On a related note. I was told linking to LMGTFY has been disabled. Is this a part of the reason why? | |
| Aug 14, 2011 at 6:06 | comment | added | user9517 | @JefAtwood: I deliberately didn't provide examples as I didn't want to be seen to be singling particular people out. | |
| Aug 14, 2011 at 1:02 | comment | added | jscott | Kinda surprised this is [now] +10/-2 and the same isn't reflected in the answers yet. | |
| Aug 14, 2011 at 0:51 | answer | added | sysadmin1138Mod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 14, 2011 at 0:41 | answer | added | Ben Pilbrow | timeline score: 12 | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 23:12 | answer | added | Wesley | timeline score: 9 | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 23:08 | answer | added | Jeff Atwood | timeline score: 18 | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 23:05 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | can you provide some specific examples? I find it difficult to talk about this stuff in the abstract. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 20:15 | history | edited | user9517 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 13, 2011 at 16:02 | comment | added | Chopper3 Mod | +1 - though I would be just in front of TomTom but still right at the back of the line for throwing stones on this one | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 15:35 | history | asked | user9517 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |