@MichaelPetrotta that's weird, you should see Favorite Tags and Ignored tags below the Community Bulletin
Can't find that ad maybe you have some browser extension or toolbar injecting it?
@AnnaLear I flagged this question choosing "Other" to explain and the flag is still active. By "handled" I assume you sent some warning to those two? Thanks!
Stack Overflow delivered a little piece of coal to me, today (or I noticed it for the first time today). Animated GIFs as ads. Like, the old-school, flashy-flashy kind:
Here are two deanimated frames:
The ad (sourced from here) flips back and forth a few times before settling on the fi...
The question itself is asking for link only answers so I would just flag the question as "Other" and ask to close it. As for the answers, they do answer the question so NAA flag is not fitting in my opinion and would likely be rejected anyway... you can downvote if you like.
Also see this for lots of discussion about this topic
More than often I get a lot of itch when I see an answer which contains only a link. For example this one.
Check this link, it will solve your query..
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.express.doc/info/exp/ae/rdat_dawp02.html
This ...
No, it is your interpretation... Good answers are worth of tutorials. There are several thousand (if not more) answers around that are lotta better than the corresponding "tutorials".
Picture pages! Picture pages! Time to get your picture pages!
... time to get your crayons and your pencils!
That's right, it's time to realize that you're simply not going to get anything meaningful accomplished this week, and your time would be better rewarded by joining in on the last of th...
@Undo I've been using these sites for a couple years now =) I was just trying to decide whether I should make a Meta post, or just mod flag the post where the close votes have happened.
Since it's isolated, I think I'll just mod flag. Maybe.
I was going through some questions today and I came across one that didn't fit the scope of Stack Overflow. On entering the close dialog I was presented with the following
(The user who created this custom reason has 20K+ rep)
Is this really what the flexibility of close reasons comes to now?...
We have an ASP .NET 4.0 application. We transfer data between pages through query strings. In one case we are moving a large data to the next page which is around 7000 characters. We were getting query string length error. Then we tried increasing the maxquerystring length in Web.config. Now it i...
@UndotheSnowman: What kind of comments would you flag using that script? Obsolete ones? If yes, why not share the comment ids (preferably grouped by/including post ids)? That way someone could easily parse them with a script, display the nicely (simple overview to spot false positives) and then nuke them quickly without going through the flag queue
yes, please send me a list of ids (dumping them in a gist is fine). i still have a userscript here to bulk-delete comments. sorry about the flags part :p
@ThiefMaster If you're up for it, I'd like to have it built in to my back end - I can make it look however you want, and @Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish I'm sure can provide the magic.
if you had an option to simply export a list of ids that were marked as valid to be deleted it wouldn't be a problem to copy&paste it into a local script executed via JS console on SO itself
@ThiefMaster One thing that can be done is this: You "pretend flag" stuff from Charcoal, and then it generates some throttled flagging JS that is pasted into the console
@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish I vote we just let @ThiefMaster run through the queue like you or I would, then I can export the ones he handled on my side and send it to him.
I was going to post this as a separate question until I came across this topic. If something seems off about the wording it's because it was meant as a standalone post.
I believe my point of view differs from most of the already provided answers in that it focuses more on raising awareness rathe...
@MichaelPetrotta I've got 23 tabs open right now and I'm using all of them. But even if I wasn't, it would be a lot more userfriendly if we could see this all on one page / report.
Clarification: 23 tabs in total. If I'd add a few more for specific posts that I'm not already following because of a closevote, I can't even read my titles anymore
@MichaelPetrotta Wouldn't you say receiving a notification / daily report about the results be a better solution?
I may have missed it in your answer, @Jeroen, but how would that help? At that point, the damage has been done. Are you thinking cleanup after the fact?
I keep those tabs, myself, to try to catch suggested edits in flight.
And personally, I'd like to focus attention on those schlubs approving bad edits. I know that's not what you're focusing on in your answer, though.
Well, I think I was reading it from my POV, as a (very prolific) reviewer who looks at history. I don't think casual reviewers will use tools like that. @Jeroen
Unless it's somehow brought to their attention. "You screwed up, and here's where"
@MichaelPetrotta You're right. That's why I would like a system that actually gives you notifications (like rep changes/comments) as warnings/positive reinforcement and at the end of each voting period gives you an overview of how you did.
I think that would weed out a lot of the people who just didn't know they were approving badly but do want to improve.
The out-of-the-box dropdownlist is a horrible and unfriendly control. I would suggest that you .Clear(), SelectedIndex = -1 and SelectedValue = null (or, SelectedValue = 0) before you populate the control. OR, you could create a user control and use that instead. — Brian2 mins ago
That is bizarre. I've never seen complaints about the DropDownList specifically before.
Other than general complaints about ASP.NET server controls.
"There are no items for you to review matching the filter "off-topic; [asp.net]" - wow. That's a first for me.
Also, I just got a review audit that was a question with a bounty on it (and the bounty showed on the review page). That should probably be filtered out, considering you can't close vote bountied questions anyway.
@jadarnel27 that wasn't very smart, was it? I would have tried from the question page itself, not via the review. Anyway good point, feature request asking to exclude bounty questions from audits or at least hide the bounty in the review screen would make lots of sense. :)
someone asked about hats the other day if you exceed the limit for each review queue within a day: imagebin.org/283939 Well, I did not get any hat, but now I can prove this achievement during the hat period.
I think a contest is the right approach, but it needs to be done in a big way.
First, set an amount of time, I was thinking two months, though 45 days is fine. If you do that starting next month, you can end things at the end of the year, but that's not crucial.
Second, you give out one-time p...
@MichaelPetrotta, yep, you're right, I overexaggerated, but still interesting and it means we need to be careful with the off-topicness of Facebook posts.
They fixed the wording over the earlier, really really problematic versions. I don't see an issue with "[the place to] get help with your development questions."
It has been 6 months since the Facebook-StackOverflow partnership and mini-site were launched. Is there any data that can be shared publicly about whether the Facebook mini-site has been a success or a failure?
To me, it has generally felt like there has been little, and now dwindling, support...
I noticed today when going to http://facebook.stackoverflow.com I am 301 Moved Permanently redirected to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/facebook*. Is the mini-site gone or is this just a bug?
Somebody had to do it:
library(plotrix)
n <- 28
col <- rainbow(n)
plot(-2:2, -2:2 ,type="n",xlab="",ylab="",main="28 stupid overlapping circles")
for(i in 0:(n-1)){
theta <- i/n * 2 * pi
draw.circle(cos(theta), sin(theta), radius=1, border=col[i],lty=1,lwd=1)
}
<sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><strong>*</strong> let's see if it works for questions too...</sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub>
@ColeJohnson I thought we were supposed to close problematic questions that would be a detriment to the site and its community if they were left around?
@UndotheSnowman the close reasons were intended to serve the folks moderating the site, reflecting their policies and proclivities, not dictating them.
@9Shogsa-Shogging What's the difference between This question already has an answer here:Possible duplicate: and "Exact duplicate` when questions are closed as duplicates?
On duplicate questions, I often see different headings for the duplicate question list. These include:
Possible Duplicate:
[duplicate question list]
and
This question already has an answer here:
[duplicate question list]
and more recently,
This question is an exact duplicat...
@hichris123 Maybe; who knows? Does it have Peter's excellent answer when I find it? Are there existing duplicates that the asker ignored? Are there existing duplicates that could benefit from being closed and pointed to Peter's answer (and others)?
(I'm serious: I'll nearly always search for duplicates when reviewing questions like this one. And even when they come up in /review, it's not uncommon to find that a newer question actually makes a better dup-target than dup-source)
The one I voted to close doesn't show "effort" if you were to read the close reason
Here's the close reason:
Questions asking for code must demonstrate a minimal understanding of the problem being solved. Include attempted solutions, why they didn't work, and the expected results. See also: Stack Overflow question checklist
Stack Overflow delivered a little piece of coal to me, today (or I noticed it for the first time today). Animated GIFs as ads. Like, the old-school, flashy-flashy kind:
Here are two deanimated frames:
The ad (sourced from here) flips back and forth a few times before settling on the fi...
More than often I get a lot of itch when I see an answer which contains only a link. For example this one.
Check this link, it will solve your query..
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.express.doc/info/exp/ae/rdat_dawp02.html
This ...
I was going through some questions today and I came across one that didn't fit the scope of Stack Overflow. On entering the close dialog I was presented with the following
(The user who created this custom reason has 20K+ rep)
Is this really what the flexibility of close reasons comes to now?...
I think a contest is the right approach, but it needs to be done in a big way.
First, set an amount of time, I was thinking two months, though 45 days is fine. If you do that starting next month, you can end things at the end of the year, but that's not crucial.
Second, you give out one-time p...
Somebody had to do it:
library(plotrix)
n <- 28
col <- rainbow(n)
plot(-2:2, -2:2 ,type="n",xlab="",ylab="",main="28 stupid overlapping circles")
for(i in 0:(n-1)){
theta <- i/n * 2 * pi
draw.circle(cos(theta), sin(theta), radius=1, border=col[i],lty=1,lwd=1)
}
How can I change a CSS class of an HTML element in response to an onClick event using JavaScript?
On duplicate questions, I often see different headings for the duplicate question list. These include:
Possible Duplicate:
[duplicate question list]
and
This question already has an answer here:
[duplicate question list]
and more recently,
This question is an exact duplicat...