Close votes for this little guy, pretty please?

But it's sooo cute, @jadarnel27.

I know! But we can't treat it any differently just because of that.

I'm astonished that you left the "Please help me" in.

Haha, wow. There is something wrong with my brain.

And I know what. Time for a coffee.

Oh, and this one. If you've got extra close votes.

Good golly, are there a lot of such in asp.net?

@jcolebrand The two questions I linked above are exactly what I was talking about the other day (where there aren't enough people close voting in the ASP.NET tag).

My sincerest commiserations.

(I realize that was a long time ago, so you might have no idea what I'm talking about)

You may find me here if you need a little voting support.

Haha, thanks Fischer.

I'll keep that in mind.

If that had been posted in the c# tag, it would have been insta-closed.

I guess the C# tag has a little more traffic than asp.net.

I suppose they've both got more traffic than Haskell =)

Yes, probably. You know, Haskellers are lazy.

I didn't know that, in general. But I had made the assumption based on the one Haskeller I've interacted with.

Wasted pun? Laziness [non-strictness, pedantically] is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the language.

Was the retagging function removed recently?

Can someone explain why my flag on stackoverflow.com/questions/15176833/… was rejected? The answer offers no explanation at all to the OP and the OP explicitly asks why. I would think that ignoring the OP and just answering whatever you want to should be an automatic removal of answer.

Can you still use whitespace characters in comments?

@TinSoldiers Ah, I had no idea. I'm glad you made that pun, though. And then took the time to explain it.

Learn something new everyday is the motto of Stack Exchange, isn't it?

Now I know. And knowing is half the battle.

Quick poll: When the compiler spits out an error message, what do you do?

Flail wildly and copy paste the output unformatted to Stack Overflow with a question title of "What's broken here?" and no additional information?

Mostly, yes. But the clever ones mark the indicated line and ask "What does it mean, 'else without if'"?

@TimStone you forgot the part about "destroy all previous source code so nobody can do a post-mortem"

I thought that was a given

@TinSoldiersAndNixonsComin' I usually go do something else for a while, and see if it's still there when I get back.

And then you paste it on Stack Overflow. And then you go and fix it, right?

Yeah, usually. If it's Friday afternoon I'll just commit and let the next guy mess with it.

Obviously, impersonating their user account before I commit.

I hate when the notification "This question has been deleted" comes up while I'm typing an answer.

@TinSoldiers What do you do for a living (if you don't mind my asking)?

(I just find it interesting that your profile says you're a hobbyist programmer, considering your apparently vast skill at it)

@jadarnel27 I'm too lazy to look up the English term, so a description has to do. I teach pupils what the teachers in school didn't manage to teach them.

I've got a question about bounty.

I've got a SO question at stackoverflow.com/questions/15868894/…

And it currently has a bounty on it.

It turns out that the answer given doesn't work as written for a number of reasons. Eventually though, I did find that with some modifications it does work.

Is it best for me to award the bounty to the incomplete question and just put the corrections in the comments?

Or rather, the wrong answer, but with comments that make it the right answer?

Or would it be better to create my own answer, which was inspired by their answer, and award bounty to that? (And do I get it back if I do?)

Now that I think about it, a third option would be to edit their answer, but it seems wrong to make the changes and award them for a working solution they didn't provide (although they did inspire it).

What's the best way to do this? I'd like to hear the responses from experienced SO users

better to just let the bounty expire, I suspect

So don't award the bounty and do what, make changes to their question?

If it matters, here's a proposed edit to their post, to show how different it might be from their original answer in the question linked above: pastebin.com/Bt3mtmRv

Hah! It turns out that in the last ten minutes, another user posted an additional answer, which solves the problem in an elegant way and works correctly! So I guess they're the ones getting the bounty.

Problem solved! Although I suppose I'll still edit the original post to make it work.