@lovis Is this really ads? And how common is it? To begin with I think we need to distinguish between type of links and in response to what. Someone asking a question and someone else responding with a link to a repo that they believe provides a solution, isn’t wrong, so we can’t deny it.

The problem is, who’s going to analyse the code to see if it actually contains the response…..

If the same person is constantly doing this then we can discuss it with that person of course.

@hhariri I’m definitely with you here. if you answer a question with a link, or ask a question concerning a link I’m completely fine with that. But “please check out my project” is not a question. You’re right that they’re not really ads; and nobody should or can analyse every message to whether it’s an “acceptable” link. It’s just that it feels that it got worse and I don’t want it to “run out of control” 🙂

We have a stackoverflow but no feed 😅

Well we can certainly address the issue in a couple of ways: a) If it’s a specific individual, take the necessary action b) Send a reminder to people. The problem is at 10K people, it’s becoming hard to moderate 😕. So the question is do we now start to have moderators like StackOverflow. That’s got its downsides too if we are not extremely strict and accurate on what is and isn’t a violation. Cause if there’s one thing that puts me off SO it’s the moderation.

Yeah I agree. I don’t think we need moderators, for off-topic it also usually works by reminding the people

I’m not completely against the idea of moderators if their responsibility is clear-cut and the rules are 100% transparent.

Let’s start by sending links that appear offending/violating/offtopic/etc here. Everyone here can vote with 👍 (to keep it) or 👎 (to take an action). Whoever posts the link should include own reaction in the body (to distinguish from other voters). If we have lots of them with 👎, we can take further action.

Obviously post links as separate messages. E.g. we can’t test-vote on the links posted above.

Are people allowed to pin things in a channel? Right now there are two in #feed.

Also did slack suddently stop displaying a preview of links? For example: https://www.haskell.org/hoogle

@orangy?

I think pins are ok, if they are up-to-date and relevant. Those in #feed looks like ads, so I removed them

As for previews, they are enabled unless the site shows irrelevant preview (like bintray), which are then excluded

Okay looks like it does work.

Thanks for the clarification!

Where do the custom emoticons come from? Are all of them picked by the one who manages the slack?

I don't really get these: beryl bowtie cubimal chick dusty stick rage1 rube simple smile fu glitch crab 🐿️ 👍 metal neckbeard piggy and pride.

That’s weird, because we don’t have these icons in the Slack customization. Either they are built-in, or something is wrong.

That’s all we have set up

It’s default set of custom smiles from slack, not a part of unicode or emoji set

I checked in other Slack teams, they are all there.

Yep, looks like they are coming out of the box.

Strange set of default smileys, thanks for answering!

We need also Gradle emoji 🙂

And if we get started then to be fair also a maven one.

Send me a link to a suitable image (128x128 PNG as far as I remember) and I can add it.

But for Gradle or Maven, I don’t remember a use case when it was needed.

To react on kotlin-dsl releases 😄