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I don't understand why stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4752386 was rejected, as far as I can see the link doesn't render on the tag page?

hichris123

@Stijn The reviewers probably didn't realize that.

Louis

12:38 AM

cv-pls-opinion-based stackoverflow.com/questions/23530679/…

12:50 AM

@Louis Not necessarily. (Dis)advantages and performance differences can be supported by facts.

Ugh, can an SO Diamond step in here please? stackoverflow.com/questions/23523180/…

@Stijn you're fighting a battle that doesn't need to be fought. He's forming a naturally-sounding title, not crap like "[petapoco] how to temporary table"

@Stijn I don't see a problem with "...with PetaPoco?".

@Anna So I should change all my questions to "How can I do X in C#?" then? I believe that the consensus was that appending "in ..." is still considered to be adding a tag in the title?

@AnnaLear Ah gosh darn it, why not lock on the capitalised version?

Unlocked now, actually. No need to prevent voting on the question since we're discussing it here now anyway.

1:01 AM

@Stijn PetaPoco (which I haven't even heard of until now) seems kinda specialised, so mentioning it in the title seems warranted. Not so for C#, which is, like, ubiquitous.

What @michaelb958 just said. Plus, in this case it's such a minor thing that it's definitely not worth getting into an edit war for.

@michaelb958 The question is tagged with petapoco so I see no reason to have it in the title.

@Stijn "How can I create a temporary table?" -> meh. "How can I create a temporary table in PetaPoco?" -> oh, an actual problem.

Eh, for folks browsing c#, it's probably easier to notice that (as an organic part of the title, which again is key) than the tag.

Louis

@Stijn Without specific details about what the OP wants to do, people are just going to provide opinions.

1:05 AM

Oh geez, the guy's backquoting the body now.

I guess I pay more attention then when browsing the question list then, I always read the tags. Oh well no point in discussing this any further then I suppose.

Rules are not immutable. If not following a rule makes more sense on all counts, then for Skeet's sake don't follow the rule.

@michaelb958 I prefer consistency, I either try to always follow a rule or I don't follow it at all. It avoids discussions like "why was X fine on this question but not on my question?"

I'm off, good night :)

@Stijn Well, that would be a point against it making sense.

See you later!

Would you look at the comments on this answer on MSO. It's not every day you see legal discussion interwoven with smilies.

1:46 AM

I have seen the future. Or maybe it's the present. Either way, I'm scared.

Pëkka

2:26 AM

Random Wikipedia entry of the day

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@michaelb958 loooooooool

3:01 AM

@Pëkka I don't think that "lol" was the intended reaction. The guy answered the question (with a link-only answer, what's more), then unilaterally closed it.

Shog9

3:15 AM

@michaelb958 we're working on plans to build that into Stack Exchange. Just FYI.

3:54 AM

Also, the badge thresholds on Unity Answers seem kinda low. For instance, Famous Question (gold) requires a question to get 500 views. There are eight people with Famous Question for every person with Supporter.

...which, now that I think a bit harder, is a pretty good indicator of there being some problem.

Laszlo Papp

6:17 AM

haha, my downvotes for 5 posts of the same user got reversed even though all the posts were removed after my flagging. Will I be suspended? :P

7:12 AM

@Shog9 I flagged an answer a few days ago because it had an off-topic comment chain. It looks like the flag got handled (all comments are removed) but my flag is still active. I don't know how easy it is to find a specific flag? Post in question is stackoverflow.com/questions/619895/…

Shog9

@Stijn cleared