Quick question before I post a meta request - when questions are closed (particularly with 'not a real question'), is there any guidance (eg, links to FAQs on meta) shown to the asker on topics such as "Yes, this can be reopened if you fix it"?
I'd test it out, but I don't think the mods would like that :)
After seeing a new user's question closed less than two minutes after being opened for "not a real question" (when all it really needed was a reword), I can't help but wonder - do we actually give any guidance to the asker beyond just the standard:
It's difficult to tell what is being asked h...
This is a nice way to circumvent the salutation deletion filter!
> Hell I am trying to implement some mod_rewrite directives for a php web site I'm working on, and I can't get directives in the .htaccess file to be used.
I just noticed massive deletion of questions reporting the same bug.. it doesn't matter what bug right now.
Why not leaving the first and closing all others as duplicate?
Shouldn't we report bug as soon as we notice it? Just wondering.
@balpha yeah, that's totally okay. But if he left one standing, there wouldn't be a hubbub over censorship and such, no late dupes asking the same thing, etc. etc.
@balpha: Are you from the mod team? How did you try to communicate? My question got first closed as a duplicate - ok. But after that, both my question and the one mine was a dup to got deleted.
If the bug is related to a build artifact that will exist for all of 5 minutes, after which point it will automatically correct itself -- this "bug" is of no future value and does not need to exist at all.
Basically, "wait 5 minutes, and you'll never see this again for the entire history of reco...
@Pekka well, you added it to the "swept under the rug list", so I assumed that's how you categorized it. if you didn't all is well :) I know you're a bit more resonable than lance
@balpha I regard that list more as an archive - when I add something to it, it isn't necessarily an accusation against Jeff or anything. (Although I see now how it could create that impression.)
@balpha Is it too late to get out my pitchfork and torch? I was thinking of demanding that you tweet everything that ever happens in fifteen minute intervals, so that there will be no chance of anyone missing out on the super important life lessons that can be found from minor, short-lived issues.
This is a tough question to ask, because it will seem like I'm either informing on fellow SO'ers and/or concerning myself too much with Rank.
Here's the non-controversial version: jQuery is a library we all know, and it's written in JavaScript. What is the tagging policy for questions on popular...
@genesisφ i just want to make you alarm, its not good to make dummy rooms , but i can understand , you are testing. so i alarmed you. Nothing in personal
@genesisφ tell me. If you took any action (press any of the three buttons) for all of the currently active flags the count should go away. Otherwise, no idea
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 3.1; en-us; K1 Build/HMJ37) AppleWebKit/534.13(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/534.13
The most important thing here is the Android 3.x portion, which matches the default Android browser on 3.x Honeycomb tablets. Most Android tablets are large enough to vi...
@PopularDemand Yeah, telling people "There's this policy that you had no reason to come across to be aware of" is a bit odd. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if someone felt that it was implicit in the whole Q&A deal though, since you're asking a question, not starting a dialogue, but eh.
No, I know it's been discussed on Meta, but you can't expect a new user to have trawled Meta before asking his first question. And no, new users don't usually read the FAQ before asking, but at least we can reasonably tell them that reading the FAQ is expected.
Hrm. I just flagged a not-an-answer that was a followup question. A mod deleted the answer and moved its contents into the question body within two minutes. However, the "answer" had terrible spelling/grammar. I totally get that mods are busy and can't be editing every bad thing they see, but it still seems like it's kinda bad form for them to just move crap from one place to another. Not sure what to do about it, other than mention it here and hope one of you has a good idea.
Is there a length limit to the names of variables in C++? What is it? Does this have anything to do with the "64/32-bitness" of the machine?
EDIT: Specifically, what is GCC's limit?
Also, a Southwest corner on my deck. That used to be nice too.
@Moshe It doesn't have anything to do with the machine's native word length because the compiler throws them out and just keeps track of registers/memory addresses.
Now i noticed that on stack overflow you can now see diffs of the different revisions side-by-side by clicking one of the buttons next to the revision.
My gripe with that is that it does not show changes to the title side by side.
For example: http://stackoverflow.com/posts/7393045/revisions
C...
It seems like we could do better to encourage some sort of standard for edit approval. I don't have a good suggestion. It just seems off.
It's not that I'm that concerned about that actual question. It's the principle that bugs me. I've seen a couple similar instances in the past (of edits that in no way [imo] should be approved).
Perhaps. I'll have to accumulate more evidence first to see if it's actually a widespread problem. There probably aren't enough cases to warrant a solution.
Okay, there's nice workaround to get some free flag weight!
What you need
3k minimal,
10k for the easiest way
Way to reproduce it
Find question with 4 close votes (10k here)
Flag that question
Vote to close that question
Result:
All flags on closed questions are automatically marked...
After seeing a new user's question closed less than two minutes after being opened for "not a real question" (when all it really needed was a reword), I can't help but wonder - do we actually give any guidance to the asker beyond just the standard:
It's difficult to tell what is being asked h...
I just answered a question.
My (and a fellow answerer's) author info seems to have been lost:
I just noticed massive deletion of questions reporting the same bug.. it doesn't matter what bug right now.
Why not leaving the first and closing all others as duplicate?
Shouldn't we report bug as soon as we notice it? Just wondering.
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 3.1; en-us; K1 Build/HMJ37) AppleWebKit/534.13(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/534.13
The most important thing here is the Android 3.x portion, which matches the default Android browser on 3.x Honeycomb tablets. Most Android tablets are large enough to vi...
Is there a length limit to the names of variables in C++? What is it? Does this have anything to do with the "64/32-bitness" of the machine?
EDIT: Specifically, what is GCC's limit?
Now i noticed that on stack overflow you can now see diffs of the different revisions side-by-side by clicking one of the buttons next to the revision.
My gripe with that is that it does not show changes to the title side by side.
For example: http://stackoverflow.com/posts/7393045/revisions
C...
Okay, there's nice workaround to get some free flag weight!
What you need
3k minimal,
10k for the easiest way
Way to reproduce it
Find question with 4 close votes (10k here)
Flag that question
Vote to close that question
Result:
All flags on closed questions are automatically marked...
