Moderation
Keith Thompson
turnaround time.
Any comment from the moderator(s) on what moderation criteria are
being used?
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Seebs
> I'm glad to see that the moderator(s) are giving us a much faster
> turnaround time.
Me too!
Long story short: I'm gradually getting the hang of scheduling, although
it's still not easy for me. I'll probably still occasionally forget for
a while.
> Any comment from the moderator(s) on what moderation criteria are
> being used?
Discussion of C is fine by me.
There is a fuzzy boundary when a question involves a non-standard API.
Consider, for instance, a question about the unix-like "select()". If
the question is "why do some systems change the timeval argument, and
others not", I'm likely to bounce that to a Unix-related group. If the
question is "how can I pass in a literal structure instead of declaring
one as a local variable", I'm likely to view it as topical.
The big goal is to have the option of making long, tedious, off-topic
flame wars go away, weeding out stuff like off-topic software announcements,
spam, and so on. I don't think a discussion of C is significantly harmed
by the mere existence of or occasional discussions of system-specific
details, but I like the questions to be fundamentally related to C.
If the question would go just as well in a discussion of Ruby or perl,
it's probably off-topic.
Which is to say, probably a lot less dogmatic than I was ten years ago.
-s
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav
> Any comment from the moderator(s) on what moderation criteria are
> being used?
Entertainment value?
DES
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