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Now if it would only let me post 16 different answers at once...

@animuson Was it an old Community-bumped question, or?

@Timjadarnel27 You're right, you should have stayed up until 2:00 am playing Diablo, like I did..

@TimStone: meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/132870/revisions - I added an extra tag to it to make it re-order them. No idea why they were out of order to begin with o.o

It saved it as removing discussion and adding discussion which was weird

Hmm

12:21 AM

Is it possible that the meta tagging system lets it pass with a synonym as a required tag, then retags it as [discussion] and leaves it at the end of the tags?

wild guess

Strangely, that was my wild guess too.

That'd mean that it'd have to do the ordering before the synonym lookup though, which seems odd.

Unfortunately the sandbox isn't helpful for this one xP

It doesn't have enough sand

@animuson I tried anyway, doesn't seem to have worked.

12:50 AM

Is this an answer? I mean, he cites where he got it from, but the entire answer is just a copy-paste from that source.

Shog9

@animuson It answers the question. Therefore, it is an answer.

It's not straight-up plagiarism, as he cites his source.

It might be a copyright violation, but I wouldn't bother it unless the author complained.

1:22 AM

Ooooooh 423 flags? goes to add more to the queue

Anonymous

@animuson and then he bountied it to farm rep from his copied answer.

Anonymous

1:38 AM

I'd attack that.

Poor Jeff

Anonymous

Did you just vote to delete that? >_>

Anonymous

I'm hoping it'll get to 60 days. :P

Isn't it 90 days?

Anonymous

Apparently not. I thought so too, but double-checked in the middle of writing that sentence.

1:53 AM

Why do you care? You wouldn't keep your reputation from it. Your question is only score of 1.

Anonymous

I always forget that part.

Anonymous

I think it's entertaining enough while still being vaguely-legitimate that it's worth keeping.

Anonymous

In cases like this I'd appreciate having it.
I preferred it having a score of 0, though. That seemed appropriate.

Q: Are answers that just contain links elsewhere really "good answers"?

Happy?

Anonymous

Happier, thanks.

Erick Robertson

2:37 AM

Happiest, thanks!

Mahnax

3:55 AM

blog.al.com/space-news/2012/05/…

> Six to eight weeks.

Moshe

5:04 AM

@Lix, @Timjadarnel27 - Radio spot about that internet rally (link). I'm in there talking apps at some point.

Woa, so many ads in the beginning.

I'm at 27:45.

Sankar Ganesh

6:40 AM

@All: hi , why my answer was deleted by Bill the Lizard

stackoverflow.com/questions/4051108/…

Anonymous

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I have often wondered at the practice on SO, SF, and the other sites where someone will ask a question and an answer will come in that says Look here: http://link elsewhere. Rarely will the link have exactly the answer necessary--often it's an entire article--yet these answers get voted up. Why ...

discussion hyperlinks faq-proposed answer-quality

Anonymous

People are increasingly strict about answers that are just links, without any content themselves. Somebody probably flagged it.

Tim ManishEarth

I'm getting a deleted question per day. Big negative thingies in my rep history. Gain 200 rep, loose 100. Every day. :( How will I reach 10k see-invisible-stuff powers at this rate?

Shog9

7:41 AM

@SankarGanesh Give this a read: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/94022/…

Note that you can still edit your deleted answer. Add a summary of the information, and then flag for moderator attention and request undeletion.

That is a nice information, Thanks :)

8:25 AM

Hello @Shog9, are you there ?

Looks like something happened wrong here it is not showing current question list,

Q: Old question in newest questions tab

9:05 AM

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This is a duplicate to it-shows-old-question-in-newest-tab (which was closed). It happened yesterday for me too the same time as it did for the poster of that question. After a few minutes it was working again. Now it happens again. In newest quesions tab, questions from yesterday are displayed...

bug questions

welcome @Lix :)

good morning guys :P

just poping in to say hi

Okey, @Lix and BTW, i bit you by 3 Rep on SO now :P

at the moment :)

Not sure about the future

oh - thats no problem... two downvotes and thats fixed ;)

Oye....... No..... :P. It looks like someone did false voting on me to suspend my account :(

what do you mean suspend?

9:16 AM

Account Suspension , by flagging for false votting

someone flagged your posts and you got suspended?

yes, about a Month ago

oh wow - what did you do? :P

ha ha. I dont know much i did some research for that person and found that he was asking his group of friend to flag my answers

:P

oh - that sounds nasty :/

FasteKerinns

9:21 AM

@Lucifer How come you know about the issue,how you researched? I also want to do on my Acoount suspension..

oh any BTW - @luc - get working on SO again... I'm ahead now ;)

ok bye @Lix

;) hehehe

well just search for Transcript & Comments @FasteKerinns, you might get luck

9:35 AM

hey there's an "answer your own question" box on the ask question page on meta now!

oh no!

Comes to mind....

well... not really... but its like posting in a blog...

I think someone mentioned it as something they were working on recently

I don't really like it...

Its asking people to go on rants - more or less...

answering and asking their own questions... I wonder how rep works for it...

hmm I managed to dispute my own flag this morning

4

although that was actually the correct thing to happen

A: What is this "answer your own question" jazz?

I'm going to try to post a question answer pair...

tombull89

9:43 AM

It's an interesting idea - more likely to get people to work out how to do something and then once then know the answer post it as a question with your answer immediately after. I'd personally call that rep-whoring if that was done on a large scale.

Popular Demand

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Since Stack Overflow began, spontaneously sharing what you've learned by posting a question and immediately answering it has been allowed and even encouraged: if you have a question that you already know the answer to if you’d like to document it in public so others (including yourself) ...

Tim ManishEarth

@Lix You don't get +15/+2 acceptance rep. You can award yourself a bounty(to prevent someone else from getting the autobounty), but the bounty rep goes down a black hole

well.. I guess its an issue of wait and see...

Tim Yi Jiang

@tombull89 Are you going to call people who keep posting answers rep-whoring?