First, to @all-sending-me-to-FAQ,
Where do FAQ tell that:
that contributions are downvoted on the basis of their formatting merits (mostly because the author had not finalized his discussion, editing and because he is restricted from most functionalities) ?
that others may insisting deny to t...
From the FAQ, which you seem to hate:
Like Wikipedia, this site is collaboratively edited, and all edits are tracked. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your questions and answers being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you.
Perhaps you should read the la...
As for MS being "less evil"... Pretty much the biggest thing holding MS back in areas where they're an "underdog" is their own corporate culture. Incompetence != benevolence
@shog9 Microsoft is evil in the friendly giant sense. I mean sure, they'll crush people and wreak havoc in Toyko, but it's just what giants do. Google and Facebook are evil in a very pointed sense.
@holyvier They are encouraging people to ignore the fact that their information is public. Also, things like "Would you like to tag your friend in this photo" is encouraging you to share information about others.
@lassevkarlsen As a leader in the field of social-web-apps, facebook gets to set the standard. If they encouraged prudence, then the rest of the web would follow.
Facebook is "evil" in the sense that they're in complete control of your information - you're playing in their garden, and so they're responsible for your safety - they're responsible for properly communicating / mitigating the danger of the game.
> This weekend The Wall St. Journal ran an interview with Schmidt that offered tidbits like that on a wide range of topics. One statement in particular, that Schmidt thinks teenagers should be entitled to change their names upon reaching adulthood in order to separate themselves from the Google record of their youthful indiscretions, is something worth stopping to take note of.
@devinb Google is "evil" in the sense that they now wield a huge amount of influence - either directly (in the sense that they're a large, wide-ranging corporation with many spheres of influence) and indirectly (in the sense that they're the gatekeeper for massive amounts of information) and so when they fail to take responsibility for the collateral damage it has potential to hurt a lot of people
> He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites.
MS is evil in much the same way as Google, but with their gates residing on the desktop vs. the 'Net: the fact that viruses / malware are still a very real problem in the Windows world cannot be ignored. Then of course, there's the whole software patent saber-rattling, SCO-funding thing...
@devinb that in itself isn't necessarily a problem: there's no "google wall" where your searches are laid bare by default. Yet...
(Having the capability to do evil is not the same as actually doing it)
Buzz was a big issue there: they took information that was private and made it public
@Shog, In providing a service that they had nearly a complete monopoly over, they decided that they then owned it. The day that google switched from *search*-targeted ads to *user*-targeted ads is when I was itching to get the out of there.
Well, but you could get out of there. There has never been a time when Google hasn't had viable competitors when it comes to search, email, or anything else...
...with the possible exception of ad-sales / SEO crap
speaking of evil...
> Robert Scoble (Scobleizer) is now following your tweets on Twitter.
@Shog9: "viable competitors" is the main problem. I personally have found Bing to be find/better. (When I search for something on either one, I find what i'm looking for in the same number of pages), and when I tell people that I'm using bing, they think I'm joking, and then that I'm an idiot.
I've been going through the deleted question list (trying to find the Pollyanna cataclysm question) and am blown away at how many were deleted in the last month. I knew I shouldn't have gone on vacation, something always goes wrong on the internet!
@shog9 My point there was that Google is so dominant that even valid competitors are considered strange and ridiculed. Like anything other than the iPod, or anything other than Windows (up until a couple of years ago)
like the iPod, if you're trend-sensitive then yeah, maybe you'll feel bad about it, but unlike the iPod all your accessories still work if you search via something other than Google
I suspect folks would switch away from Google Search very, very quickly if there was any real pain to it. The problem is, you're switching on principle, a principle that most folks aren't even conscious of!
I just wish they'd fix Google search so that it'd search on punctuation (on demand).
I can see why someone said recently that a lot of the deletions aren't being put on the list, there's hundreds not on the list. I wonder what their algorithm is for that.
I can't really get a bead on this guy. He's done the troll thing, that is, he's stopped the negative behaviour, (updating with @so and so) but he's actively refused to make any good behaviour.
@shog9 Agreed. Unless (and this is the hard part) they really are just an abrasive person who needs help.
can anyone decipher the pricing terms of the Amazon EC2? I'm trying to figure out if it's worth buying for a webapp that will start very very small (possibly for a long time)
Well well ... I think it may be time to close this puppy as no longer relevant ...
Looking through the top voted feature requests ...
Bounty for other people's questions (done)
Unsung hero (done)
Tag Synonyms (done)
Consecutive day count (done)
Find out which questions / answer awarded you...
I would really like to see all of my questions and answers on the profile page, even if some of them were deleted, and I don't have enough rep to see them on the site.
There have been a few requests for a change log or release notes which I think would be great.
I understand that things are constantly changing, and if the team had to update us with every change, it would be a full time job.
That is why I propose a Monthly Summary of Changes.
The team could t...
I'm not a frequent visitor of user voice, so this could very well have already been suggested there, and I apologize in advance if it has.
My request is simple: Many times, there will be a question where some people feel like it should be closed. At the same time, I'll feel like it's a perfectly...
Why don't we have a Tab that shows only questions for our interesting tags, showing recent first? I keep having to scroll down the page to find the questions I'm interested in.
It'd be like the Unanswered Questions -> My Tags tab, but for all questions with my interesting tags.
When you go to your recent page, example for me:
http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/13249
You get a date range for the past few hours, like this:
?startdate=2010-05-19%2000:00:00z&enddate=2010-05-19%2023:59:59z&tab=summary
However, refreshing this page later or the next day, etc ...
Sometimes you vote to close something and the OP then changes it to fix the issue or issues. You can't take a close vote back though. It would be nice if you could.
Jeff, any chance you changed your mind?
From the FAQ, which you seem to hate:
Like Wikipedia, this site is collaboratively edited, and all edits are tracked. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your questions and answers being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you.
Perhaps you should read the la...
Well well ... I think it may be time to close this puppy as no longer relevant ...
Looking through the top voted feature requests ...
Bounty for other people's questions (done)
Unsung hero (done)
Tag Synonyms (done)
Consecutive day count (done)
Find out which questions / answer awarded you...
Their site looks like a copy of SO, but when I signed up for an account, there's no way to associate my SO ID with their site.
Why don't we have a Tab that shows only questions for our interesting tags, showing recent first? I keep having to scroll down the page to find the questions I'm interested in.
It'd be like the Unanswered Questions -> My Tags tab, but for all questions with my interesting tags.
When you go to your recent page, example for me:
http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/13249
You get a date range for the past few hours, like this:
?startdate=2010-05-19%2000:00:00z&enddate=2010-05-19%2023:59:59z&tab=summary
However, refreshing this page later or the next day, etc ...
Sometimes you vote to close something and the OP then changes it to fix the issue or issues. You can't take a close vote back though. It would be nice if you could.
Jeff, any chance you changed your mind?
