Working at a help desk for a school I've gotten to see some rather classic Tech Support problems:
Prof: The projector isn't working.
My self: Is the computer turned on?
Prof: Hey! It works now. Thanks
Or
Student: My laptop doesn't have any wireless, fix it!
My self: See t...
After seeing this question, it made me wonder; Why dont Macs have hard drive activity lights?
It seems there is no actual meaningful use for them nowadays, so is that why Apple decided not to include them on Macs?
If so, why do PC manufacturers still insist on putting them on every single compu...
Hmm, maybe a definition on 'computer hardware' and 'computer software' in the FAQ would fit well... And maybe add a reference to the relevant part of the FAQ as a warning when posing a question.
@TomWij Feel free to go ahead and comment to that effect. I have had my full of referring people to the FAQ. They either go and read it and come up with a good argument on Meta, or they get over it and move on. If they have fragile ego's, they shouldn't be on the Trilogy.
@TomWij as @Diago said, nowadays I just hit close. if I'm in a good mood I'll add the relevant lines. SOme people will argue in comments or in meta, few will accept
@TomWij SU is past the let's be nice to everyone and not chase people away stage. It's got bigger problems to deal with, and is also the most moderated site in the Trilogy. It's outgrown SF in a year, and in that time some of us have learned when too much is... Well.. Just too much. Always make sure you search Meta, both of them, before making a suggestion. You'll be surprised to find how many things have already been discussed.
@TomWij Lately, very few. I think we closed about 3 a month. When it first started, 3 a day.
It took some time to get it to a point where we knew what we wanted, but now that we do, the community and moderators are on top of things quickly. It's the net effect of letting the ewoks loose.
Know how that feels... I'm wanting to get rid of questions (where possible) that have only one tag, so every now and then I retag a portion of questions to have two tags or more (and where the tag still fit the rules).
It's quite a lot questions that only have one tag but I think it is a good idea that I fill them up with two or more tags so that the tags get filled, they are easier to search, etc...
On the way I improve the titles, formatting, spelling and even tend to find things that could be closed/deleted or for which duplicates exist so it's not a complete loss of effort.
Wait. Hang on. Your complaining about an answer to a question that was, gasp, closed as not a real question? Seriously.... I think you need to take some time away from your keyboard.
However, that's what close and delete votes, flagging and moderators are there for. There is more then 900,000 qu...
I thought this was already discussed in the comments to the blog post announcing the feature:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/new-image-upload-support/
But I guess not. Anyway..
we have a special privileged account through which all images are uploaded, so images will stay around indefi...
In about two weeks, this community will receive some provisional moderators to help get this site started prior to the elections at the end of the beta. Please read this: Moderators Pro Tempore.
Please suggest some members of this community you feel would make excellent moderators (self nominat...
you can filter out :"For those that saw my SU profile, I want to become a moderator there but it doesn't really need a new one for now... So instead I think it's better to become a moderator at Not Programming Related because this site is in need of one"
@TomWij Believe it or not. You can do more as a normal 10K mod then as a moderator, we don't get to help, in fact, we hardly have time to answer questions.
As it's only a public beta by now and the time it will go public it's not going to be too busy in the start, I'm not going to worry about the inability to answer questions as I will have time till then. If after that period this lack of time is introduced and tends to work against me I could stop doing it...
@Sathya: Seems he misunderstood my intention with the comment I made to him, I've actually read his comment first which didn't show me that it was meant as a joke...
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Jesus Christ Almighty, what a f***ing mess of a website. I'm trying to post a question. Just the one, you know, f***ing question. So I sign up for an ID and I'm sent an email that doesn't real...
Oh... Stupid bug in Outlook. HTML formatted mails are not shown when they are in the junk folder, but when I remove the mail and look in the deleted folder it does render HTML... IE is more secure these days, but it's probably a security leak.
@Diago If you want rude, drop the length of an answer to about three paragraphs, each of those no more than two sentences. And not long winded ones either.
After seeing this question, it made me wonder; Why dont Macs have hard drive activity lights?
It seems there is no actual meaningful use for them nowadays, so is that why Apple decided not to include them on Macs?
If so, why do PC manufacturers still insist on putting them on every single compu...
Many people like me care much about wallpapers. It would be interesting to share the best wallpaper you ever had.
I thought this was already discussed in the comments to the blog post announcing the feature:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/new-image-upload-support/
But I guess not. Anyway..
we have a special privileged account through which all images are uploaded, so images will stay around indefi...
In about two weeks, this community will receive some provisional moderators to help get this site started prior to the elections at the end of the beta. Please read this: Moderators Pro Tempore.
Please suggest some members of this community you feel would make excellent moderators (self nominat...