@JourneymanGeek I've had time to lookup his notification, it was a few times in a few days; thus the emphasis is proper, and eventually confirmed as correct.
@JourneymanGeek The nerve of you, raising sensible, well-thought-out objections to my ideas :< (but actually though, thanks for the thought-provoking answer)
@RyanM I was actually trying to work out a proposal with similar lines
but it would be unpopular
CWing feature announcements
I think people would be unhappy at not penalising staff - but it gets around people posting comments cause they are worried their answers would be DVed
(the former is a terrible reason not to of course)
If it is, it doesn't matter much... see, e.g., this person who gained several hundred rep after a q-ban and is still q-banned.
Also I think I'm just...less concerned about the importance of quality bans on meta. We're great (perhaps too good, sometimes...) at removing undesired content already. IIRC MSE's quality ban threshold is set more forgivingly, and MSO doesn't even have a question ban.
In a certain sense, it might be more important that answers aren't chilled, so that no one is afraid to respond to why a proposed idea is a problem. But then maybe we're missing out on useful would-be proposals, too.
possible spam since user has a (now deleted) spammy question on SO, linking to some shady trading platform.
@SPArcheon interesting, the creator is gender fluid, like Grace Note, as can be seen here. They refer to the creator sometimes as "he" and sometimes as "she". I have a feeling you were aware of that? ;)
@Ollie huh, yes. Pretty much same concept, silly question linking to this site saying how awesome it is. So, 100% spammer. /cc @Journeyman chew time! ;)
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
main()
{
int hour;
int min;
printf("How long has it been since the power failure?");
printf("\nEnter the number of hours: ");
scanf("%d", hour);
printf("Enter the number of minutes: ");
scanf("%d", min);
double t = hour + (m...
Depends on how much you need. I can refer you to some posts on MSE and read a tiny bit of SQL, but you'll probably want someone like @rene if he isn't having dinner now ;)
@ThomasMarkov sorry, not at the moment. Feel free to move to chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/1223/data-explorer-sede and drop your issue there. I'll circle back to that once I had dinner and this server I'm working on is up again.
Need some quick help. This query lists the questions where the accepted answer is not the highest scoring answer, can we add a column counting the number of answers that outscore the accepted answer?
There's a current question about link shortening services on Physics meta. I posted a couple of relevant links from MSE: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64450/… & meta.stackexchange.com/q/99136/334566 but they're both pretty old, and I couldn't find a more recent post on the policy, and on which services are blocked across the network. Also,
I hate shortened links. But I understand people using them, especially if they're the norm on some other site they frequent. They're really only useful here in comments (& maybe chat).
@ymb1 ok. Main use of userID in links is for the announcer/booster/publicist set of badges. Thing is, having someone click an URL with you ID doesn't count when the referrer is internal to the SE network, it's only useful when the visit originate from outside SE.
@ymb1 bottom-line, I edit hundreds of post. If everyone were to include their userID in internal links it would clutter the edition of posts, besides making the question/answer ID itself harder to read. After you've seen the source behind enough thousands of posts you'll notice the consenus is not to include the user ID. For the reasons I just tried to explain.
(I guess there's a canonical somewhere about this if I dig deep enough in my bookmarks.)
Personally I strip the IDs out of links I add when I'm editing new links into other people's posts because I feel weird about it, but I use them in my own posts.
I dunno if there's any consensus about that, though.
@RyanM That's you're choice. I strip them when I'm sending mod messages, if I remember :P but there's no reason to claim they're not counting towards a badge.... And then edit out someone else's user id
I've also learned to strip them when sending mod flags, since plagiarism flags on SO often result in the link from the flag ending up in a comment on the post... :D
As for the clutter... Ffs, this is a link at the bottom of a post, it's not even inlined. If you can't stand that... You're better off staying away from the edit button in its entirety.
@RyanM Haven't seen much on either site, that's true. Plenty of 'duplicate answers' ( people writing a cheap rip-off of existing answers, often on HNQ s) on IPS, but no outright plagiarism.
@Tinkeringbell is the question considered feature-request or not? essentially I'm requesting if the community agrees, that SE designs alternatives, but the tag was removed by someone now
@ymb1 I've added the link back in, lemme know if anyone tries to mess with you like that again. A mod flag will do, I'll make sure to share this in the mod room so the other mods will know as well
@bad_coder That's incorrect. As a result of the HTTPS changeover, the system can no longer distinguish between internal and external links, so the badge criteria were redefined to include internal links (and badges were retroactively awarded).
@bad_coder If you're concerned about clutter, might I suggest changing internal links to relative URLs instead? That'll reduce a lot more clutter than removing user IDs. (But be sure to pair it with a substantive edit.)
@ymb1 It's actually insurance for your reputation. If people agree that what you're saying is a problem but disagree with your solution, they'll upvote the question and downvote the answer, making a net gain, whereas if you post both in the question, they'll downvote that resulting in a net loss.
Then you can delete the answer and get your rep back, while you can't delete your question if it's been answered
I don't understand however downvoting discussion questions, if it's a bad idea, and there's something worth saying, then that's a good discussion, i dunno
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I've considered it but I think the full URL in the toolptip is a plus for less experienced readers (meaning the vast majority of non logged-in folks.)
@RyanM I mean.. a lot of people talk about the FGITW here... And I often don't recognize it: I've written plenty of answers that were submitted after others that ended up top-scoring, or at least in a top three
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog oh, I thought you meant the full URL with the question title slug. Yeah relative vs. absolute should show as absolute in the status bar, I've never seen a modern browser not do that.
@RyanM I've also considered that but unless you're dealing with a huge screenshot that should be reduced in size using a clickable link with mobile rendering inline I still consider it adds more clutter than benefit. (I'd be interested in seeing an example ReCommonMark though, otherwise I'd have to figure it out myself.)
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Oh, you're right. I was confusing the fact that it doesn't break, because that's actually the format for answers within the page. @bad_coder disregard that, I was wrong.
@bad_coder there's a difference between the enjoyment of a good argument and being right, and having to clean up preventable messes. The latter had nothing to do with being right.
@Tinkeringbell but I very much appreciate the fraternal heads-up, don't scold me over what turned into the motive of a positive interaction. I am sorry if I caused you any inconvenience, and of course I try to minimize the later instances.
@bad_coder While we're on the subject of unhelpful edits, replacing one grammatical error with another, e.g., "so I can some valuable rep points" -> "so to get some valuable rep points" is also unhelpful. As is removing the non-breaking space from the already-correct Stack Overflow (it prevents the brand name from being split across lines).
@RyanM yeah, you know that neurological phenomenon that sometimes the brain will ignore 2 letter words? That was one such case, I also wasn't wearing my reading glasses. So my bad there. As for the   I understand what it does, but what percentage of posts uses it? It clutters the post - although that's debatable.
Fair on the former, though I personally favor less readable Markdown that results in a more readable post for the latter. I use a lot of —, for instance.
In part because I'm too lazy to look up the keycode or go copy-paste it.
My coworkers were amused when I wrote Markdown like that into a Google Doc table that was run through a script to file bugs into our Markdown-supporting bug tracker. :-)
@RyanM but your phrasing (as per editors choice) made the post more tedious and repetitive to read (I tried to avoid that). "answer so to get" avoided the repetition of "can" twice.
@bad_coder I uuuusually try to stick as close to the OP's wording as I can, but that's a preference, not a requirement. In this case, the repetitive nature of the sentence could have been intentional as a literary device to make a point that it is a tedious game... but maybe it was just repetitive writing :-)
In this case, they'd clearly meant to put the word "get" in, so I added it for them. But rephrasing it to "to get some" (minus the "so") would have been fine, too, in my book.
The desire to stick closely to the OP's wording is also laziness: it means I have to do less editing when cleaning things up :-)
There is a particular user on one site who's probably responsible for an outsized number of my edits...they're a great contributor, but an atrocious proofreader.
So they often end up with an upvote and an edit from me.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
main()
{
int hour;
int min;
printf("How long has it been since the power failure?");
printf("\nEnter the number of hours: ");
scanf("%d", hour);
printf("Enter the number of minutes: ");
scanf("%d", min);
double t = hour + (m...
