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What does 'showdead' on my profile page do?
- danielha 20y agoTry it out. Then report back here and let us know. ;)
- danw 20y agoThe word 'dead' makes me worry it's a delete profile button so I don't want to try it! I dont want this to be like that time when I got curious if rm -rf / would work :)
- python_kiss 20y agoyeah Dan, do one for the team!
- danw 20y agoBig Red Button syndrome overcame me and I tried it. I'm still here, cant see any differences :s Seriously, anyone know what this does? It's starting to bug me now.
- jwecker 20y agoI tried it and it reset my karma.
- dfranke 20y agoIt lets you continue to see articles/comments that Paul kills. Dupes, spam, etc.
- danw 20y agoAnd now you've taken away one of the little mysteries that makes the world an interesting place :p Thanks for the info, it was bugging me more than any drop down menu should.
- dfranke 20y agoSounds like Paul ought to add some more cryptically-labeled knobs that don't do anything :-)
- danw 20y agoFeature Request: Add a magic switch! [see http://www.livingstonmontana.com/access/dan/191magicswitch.html]
- dfranke 20y agoThe unnamed MIT graduate is none other than Guy Steele. His son Matt is on my Mystery Hunt team and I've heard this story from him. It's not a cigar box, it's a locked filing cabinet in his basement (no, there's no Beware of Leopard sign, sorry). Guy doesn't like to let people touch it lest they try switching it to "magic".
- pg 20y agoIt's not only me who kills them. There are a bunch of people (mostly founders of startups we've funded) who have editor auth. 90% of dupes and spams are dead before I see them. Editors can also fix typos and replace linkjacks with the url of the original article.
- notabel 20y agoOT: What is policy (or general understanding) regarding near-dupes, i.e. submissions of different articles that all cover the same material? (I seem to be fixating on this today--it's the metaweb/freebase thing.)