The browsing experience of the [stackoverflow] tag is terrible... and I believe it is a mistake to have the single word [stackoverflow] serving as a synonym for for a [stack-overflow].
I see that stack-overflow is now a synonym for [stackoverflow]. I strongly object to this, as historically:
[stackoverflow] means the site itself (indeed almost all questions with this tag have been migrated to meta)
[stack-overflow] means the stack overflow exception, as in numerous languages ...
Honestly, I really didn't read other candidates answers much. Mostly in the luls between questions... (as I was a reasonably fast answerer out of the group)...
@Shog9 Yeah, I've always found the candidate responses very telling. I'm sometimes sad to see that that doesn't always appear to factor into the actual elections, but what can you do?
@TimStone I think debates and things like that can never help a candidate. It can hurt them significantly, but it's rare that someone gains anything significant (aside from taking what others lose from being hurt)....
That's true. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing though, since voters need to make a decision about who not to vote for as much as they do who gets their vote.
In typical politics smear campaigns make this a pretty revolting process, but luckily we don't have anything like that here.
@TimStone "What would you do if a user started revenge downvoting you for a mod decision you made?" "Well, I would leave a comment telling ircmaxell to cut it out..."
For the past couple of weeks, I have been really annoyed by the "Cast your vote in the Stack Overflow 2011..." banner that has been sitting at the top of the page. I realize that this is a community site, and that just voting would very likely get rid of the banner, but shouldn't I be able to ign...
@Diago That was my only exposure to South Africans growing up. A doctor (always from SA) would move to my hometown, work there for about a year, then leave. Something I never really fully understood.
Doctors in SA are either working for the Government and making no money, or do private practise and ends up owning a game farm and stopping after 5 years.
@shog9 - we were deciding if one infinite set can be larger than the other. That's impossible because you can add numbers to one set and then add "matching" numbers to the other set and then you add matching numbers to the other set and then add more to the other set...
You closed a question. That OP later finds your home phone number, calls you up at 3am and asks for you to clarify the reasoning. How many days should they be suspended?
I thought that custom ("Other") flag messages were considered a safe way to communicate with moderators, because they were the only ones who could read them. Going through flagged posts in the 10k tools, I just saw this:
There's no indication that the post was migrated from somewhere that this...
No, no... I appreciate your generosity, I do... But the unspoken fear, the unseen biting of the lip, the unheard worry in your voice... They steel my resolve not to intrude upon your creation, no matter how tempting it might seem.
I see that stack-overflow is now a synonym for [stackoverflow]. I strongly object to this, as historically:
[stackoverflow] means the site itself (indeed almost all questions with this tag have been migrated to meta)
[stack-overflow] means the stack overflow exception, as in numerous languages ...
I need a javascript spreadsheet that allows copy/paste from an Excel/Open Office document, like google docs does. Any suggestions?
Greetings Andreas
I thought that custom ("Other") flag messages were considered a safe way to communicate with moderators, because they were the only ones who could read them. Going through flagged posts in the 10k tools, I just saw this:
There's no indication that the post was migrated from somewhere that this...
