Yeah, that guy is interesting. He posts some strange stuff that gets a lot of upvotes, but also some really good questions/answers. And then there's this latest question...
Wait, hear me out. This is not a joke question.
A list-building website with ranking, like for example Demolistic, is potentially very similar to SO. If the list items can have descriptions, and justifications, the similarity is even closer.
Wait, hear me out. This is not a joke question.
Kinda, anyways. It's more of a joke question than
What can Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange learn from list-building websites?
but less of a joke question than
What can Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange learn from Batman?
It's easy to think of Welbog (A...
How do I delete these draft things? I wrote an answer to a question then decided not to post but the draft answer won't go away. I've tried closing the browser and starting it again, and also tried blanking out the box, but neither of these ideas worked.
This is now done for answers and new questions. A bulleted list for Jeff's enjoyment:
We save drafts automatically for all new answers and new questions once every 45 seconds.
Ctrl-s will allow you to save a draft whenever you want (though it will disallow this happening too aggressively.
Dr...
"just start a draft on a different question" sounds like a joke answer, because obviously that wouldn't be the recommended optimal solution. I forgot this is SO we're talking about
Clearly every SE site will have to have a question titled "the trash bin", where we can all make drafts anytime we need to get rid of one on a real question
@MichaelMrozek I envision balpha hurriedly hacking a block for this, then relaxing after seeing "I'm too lazy to actually try"... then cringing and picking back up after rchern's comment.
@PopularDemand are you implying @balpha is spying on the transcripts? or does he just have a console running locally outputting all messages? or does he just know?
As per Jeff's request, I put another easter egg into our internal chat today. Now I get overrun with feature requests for that egg. Lesson learned: Stack Overflow employees have their priorities straight :)
Wait, hear me out. This is not a joke question.
A list-building website with ranking, like for example Demolistic, is potentially very similar to SO. If the list items can have descriptions, and justifications, the similarity is even closer.
This is now done for answers and new questions. A bulleted list for Jeff's enjoyment:
We save drafts automatically for all new answers and new questions once every 45 seconds.
Ctrl-s will allow you to save a draft whenever you want (though it will disallow this happening too aggressively.
Dr...
