Timeline for How is Code Review doing right now?
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 16:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/ with https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 16:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/ with https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Feb 21, 2014 at 22:03 | history | edited | JamalMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2013 at 7:33 | comment | added | Malachi | @Jamal, I was trying to talk Dagg into answering his own question, as he said he had made improvements to his code but it wasn't what he was looking for. | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 7:29 | comment | added | Jamal | @Malachi: I can understand that, but it also bothers me. Even if that's the case, the system will still consider it unanswered. There's also no sense in closing it because the question should still receive answers. I suppose the best we can do is determine which unanswered questions do not apply to this, and try to get them answered. We can afford a few percentage points below 100%. | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 6:35 | comment | added | Malachi | @Dagg: on your Question it looks like you have 4 up votes and that the people that know lua think that there isn't anything to review, if you have something to improve that code, post it. I think you are doing something right if they upvoted and didn't provide any reviews. | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 6:17 | comment | added | Dagg | @Malachi, I'm not sure I agree. I asked the question so I could get an answer. I think self-answering will hurt my chances of getting an answer, even if, in the long run, it helps the site. I guess it's selfish, but I'd rather make sure the site is helping me first before I worry about helping the site. Maybe it was just silly on my part to use a big, general thing like CR for a small, focused thing like Lua. It makes sense for stuff like C (there is no single central place for C discussion), but I guess there are few enough avid Lua users that they pretty much stick to the mailing list. | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 6:04 | comment | added | Malachi | @Dagg, I am saying there aren't many people reviewing code for Lua, leave an answer for your question, don't worry about the upvotes or the accepting the answer part. the more visibility there is for lua Q&A on this site, the more people will come that write lua code, the more chance you have of getting the review that you want. even questions with 1+ answers show up on the unanswered list if none of the answers are accepted | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 5:50 | comment | added | Dagg | @Malachi, I'm not sure what you mean. I would hope that the reviews mostly tend to address the concerns of the OP, like "is this a valid approach," "is there a more idiomatic way to do this," etc. I realize that sometimes they don't, but I'm not sure how that's relevant here. Sorry, probably just missing your point. | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 5:37 | comment | added | Malachi | @Dagg a review doesn't always cover what we think it is going to cover, that is why we ask other people to look at the code. | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 23:54 | comment | added | Dagg | @Jamal, it's not so much that my new code is a "viable answer," it's just a few improvements to the original code. I would have upvoted it as an answer, but probably not accepted it, because what I'm really looking for is an answer that can either reassure me that my approach is a good one or convince me that it's not. | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 23:51 | comment | added | Dagg | @JonEricson, I thought about self-answering the old question with my current code, but figured that would completely kill any chance of getting a real answer. I suppose I could go on SO and find someone like Nicol Bolas and leave him a comment somewhere saying "hey, can you come look at my code on CR," but this doesn't feel like the right approach. | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 23:51 | comment | added | Jamal | @JonEricson: A self-answer would probably be preferred after the OP has figured out a viable answer for the question (a general review and/or specific questions answered). In case no one here can review that code, other non-SE sites could be used in the meantime and a self-answer could be posted based on the help received. | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 23:42 | comment | added | Jon Ericson StaffMod | @Dagg: This is a classic chicken and egg problem. Until a user comes along who can review Lua, lua questions will look unloved, which will discourage both askers and answerers. Why not try out a self-answer? (Not that I know how a self-answer would work. Perhaps you could go back to that old question and see if you can apply what you know now to that old code?) | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 23:02 | comment | added | Dagg | @JonEricson, what do you think the "different problem" might be? I've posted Lua stuff here a couple of times because I'm not inclined to sign up for the Lua mailing list, and I'll think "hey, I'll try CR." The questions haven't gotten a response. One of them I posted some time ago and while it wasn't bad, there was room for improvement. My current version of that code has changed pretty significantly. The other one I just asked yesterday. If it sees the same fate, I suppose I will just give up on CR for Lua. | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 21:05 | comment | added | Jamal | @JonEricson: I feel that I've done my part in that. First of all, I currently have two Revival badges (could've had another one, but the third answer hasn't received enough votes). This is entirely due to my personal knowledge, of course. I'm not sure I can answer any others myself. Second of all, I sometimes consider only unanswered questions when doing "mass" retaggings (I've just now done this with Wordpress). | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 21:03 | comment | added | Malachi | there are a lot of questions on topics that I haven't coded in before, but I have been going through and trying to find things that I could say about some of the unanswered questions that I know about. I agree with you @JonEricson | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 21:01 | comment | added | Jon Ericson StaffMod | RE: "Not all of our answers have to hit everything that is wrong with the code." This was something that I didn't grok when I looked over the site last week. I really wanted to provide an answer or two, but the urge to provide a comprehensive answer (or none at all) was overwhelming. It might be helpful if site regulars led by example and started answering unanswered (meaning no answers at all) in this way. (N.B. I looked at Perl and Lua questions, which are probably minorities here. That might be a different problem than what one might see on more popular tags.) | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 21:00 | comment | added | Malachi | @JonEricson: I agree with what Jamal said | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 20:59 | comment | added | Jamal | @JonEricson: I understand, and thank you for addressing that. I've already stated that this "election" is entirely unofficial, but I've also wanted to aid in this process by putting myself out there. Although obviously the community can put in their votes/thoughts/questions, I was mostly doing it for the powers that be. Regardless of what the community thinks, I too agree that this does help SE in making their decision. If anything, I also see this as an "insight" of the official election after graduation. | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 20:55 | comment | added | Jon Ericson StaffMod | @Jamal (and Malachi): we are in the process of filling the pro-tem moderator position. Since these are appointed by the Community Team, it's a little less public than usual. We don't want to put people in the position of publicly declining the job if they have private reservations. Having a meta post with pre-vetted candidates makes our job a lot easier however. (No guarantee that a candidate will be drawn from that pool, of course. It's just a useful place to start looking.) | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 18:56 | comment | added | Jamal | I mean, if they're already doing this review, then chances are they're looking for a new moderator as well. It's all private of course, so all we can do is keep checking the moderator section of the Users tab for an update. | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 18:53 | comment | added | Malachi | I meant like they were looking for a moderator to come in and clean things up around here. you know like every major corporation does, hire someone from the outside. unless @Jamal is the one they are in contact with???? that would be cool with me. | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 18:44 | comment | added | Jamal | @retailcoder: Or maybe it was just about boxes? :-P I've just woken up, so... | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 18:42 | comment | added | Mathieu Guindon |
@Jamal I think he meant InvalidCastException ;)
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| Nov 15, 2013 at 18:41 | comment | added | Jamal | You mean the aspects they were monitoring? Yeah, there are quite a bit. But at least we know what we need to do to improve. We just have to put it into practice. | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 18:37 | comment | added | Malachi | @Jamal: it sounded to me like they were looking outside the box if you know what I mean? | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 18:36 | comment | added | Jamal | +1 good answer. Definitely some things to consider for the future. Regarding moderators, I think they may be contacting the next potential one at this time as well. :-) We'll see. | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 17:59 | history | edited | Malachi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 15, 2013 at 14:42 | history | answered | Malachi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |