We have inline comment editing, inline editing of questions on Area 51, and inline re-tagging.
Can we please have inline Question and Answer editing on the StackExchange sites?
When a dupe is posted, someone usually posts a comment to that effect within minutes. That comment usually gets at least a couple of upvotes while the question is still on the front page. If it's a common dupe, you might see three or four such comments show up at once, all upvoted.
Even with t...
My best comment of the day: @Tony. That there is at least a question to discuss and not a senseless rant? Like any of the other discussion tagged questions?
I need a tablet PC to run Flash Pro, presentation, and office software. Must have:
Good stylus feedback.
Keyboard
Video port to connect to projector.
2GB RAM or more.
SD slot
Runs MS Office, Adobe Flash, Illustrator acceptably.
Nice to have:
Good handwriting recognition.
Pressure sensitive....
If there's no penalty for a question being closed, and they get answers either way, what motivation do they have to bother searching for their questions before just asking them?
If it's a trivial question they tend to get upvoted, so there's actually motivation to ask dupes
@MichaelMrozek The fact that 1 out of every 3 questions they ask gets closed and they then run to MSO to complain about people closing their questions to quickly?
I guess there's always the assumption that some people are actually looking for answers, and not just asking questions for the hell of it. It's a bad assumption, based on some mythical, not-utterly-lazy user, but it's built into the system.
At present if you see a question that may be a duplicate and has an easy answer you can post the answers or post a link to the duplicate question. (Or the few hi-rep users can vote to close it as duplicate, think of normal users here, not the people that read Meta)
It is better for Stack Overfl...
I have looked at some resourses to tell me how "->' and "." are different but they seem to do the same thing. Does "->" act like a dot opperator into a Struct?
Why make your life complex? Just put the dollar sign into the HTML outside of the input element...
<span style="border: inset 1px black; padding: 1px;">
$<input style="border: none; padding: 0;">
</span>
Chat is the best thing that could ever have happened to SO. We actually see the features like closing as a dupe in action and tested by the users themselves. Best. Test Bench. Ever.
@PopularDemand Have you been around long enough to remember @Jeff stating explicitly that there will never be social networking on SO, and now we have what?
@Fosco Well, that's the bigger issue: it got three answers within as many minutes. There are always new users willing to answer questions, even if those questions have been asked many, many times before... So dup-closing, at least for trivial questions, is a losing battle.
> I thought this image would be An Hilarious Joke-humour for SO users, but once again reality has beaten me with real questions like “How do I round a number to the nearest integer using jQuery?”.
@Shog9 See another reason not to try on SO. With you around no one else can have their way on SO. SO is not big enough for you and all of us, so we accept that MSO is our only choice :)
received in an email from someone higher up: "Long story... but <other department> actually prefers if we don't e-mail back thank yous to stuff like this. It's a nice gesture but they've indicated it fills up their inboxes."
> [20] Impressive - 6000 rep and using a screen reader. My hat off to you Sir!
> [16] I find it extremely sad that I keep hitting my rep cap on Meta, but can barely get a vote on any of the other sites. I should seriously get a hobby.
> [12] Can I mention your last line totally contradicts your reason for not accepting answers? If you like giving reputation to the correct answer why not do so by accepting it?
> @Michael Petrotta: One of my earlier comments says I don't remember. Trust me.. it has happened. I posted over 200 questions. – Tony_Henrich 9 mins ago
@Shog9 I just read that. He contradicts his own over a 100 questions count in the question itself. And also someone actually mentioned he posted 125 questions. He is definitely an expert. Don't let you be fooled by people that have 3K or more rep, he knows more then them all. We are merely pawns in his world
@PopularDemand Well that's disappointing :). I misunderstood what he was doing anyway, I thought he was trying to reply to Michael Petrotta in-chat and ended up pinging me by mistake, but he was just quoting a comment
> I hardly think that asking an assload of questions really counts as experience when it comes to understanding how the community and the engine work. Basically, you're bitching that you've had some bad experiences, but refuse to identify any of them so that we can actually help you solve your problem (because the problem obviously can't possibly be you). – Aarobot 54 secs ago
A green checkmark indicates on the homepage that the question has an answer. So I know when I'm like "Wow, I have the same question" that there exists an answer.
This, of course, is presupposing that quality exists on the site, and that people aren't raving lunatics who upvote without checking, and mark things as the answer just to get their acceptance rates up.
@devinb that was my first thought; but when you post your working answer, you'd think -- and I know this isn't always true -- that someone would upvote it.
I find that very often a self-accepted answer is much less useful, since it tends to answer the question, but relies on many facts not in the question, making the overall question (as a google resource) much less useful later
@PopularDemand But not necessarily enough people to get it to the top. Glib "use jquery" answers will often get upvoted even if they aren't all that helpful.
"Don't do it" is not a useful answer to a question of "How do I do XYZ?", unless it is embedded into a section of your response.
I usually break down my "don't do that" responses like this:
To answer the question
Why you should not do it that way
In the past, I was working a personal project...
Is the edit button on questions not large enough? I understand duplicates sometimes, if the author's unaware...but the same user posting the same question in under a half hour...
It isn't rare when you downvote someone and explain your reasons that he returns a downvote on a totally unrelated question, most likely your latest or highest-scoring.
Yes, this is not a big deal (at least until it becomes serial downvoting the target user), but I think something simple can be ...
@devinb Actually that brings up a point I've been meaning to ask about: what do you accept on SE sites where there isn't necessarily a provably right answer?
like, getting everything organized and fully filled into google contacts and having that on my phone and maybe even syncing with facebook contacts and arggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh
my main thing is entering the data. i somehow never really had contacts managed online...at all...so i'm trying to remedy that particularly in google contacts
We have inline comment editing, inline editing of questions on Area 51, and inline re-tagging.
Can we please have inline Question and Answer editing on the StackExchange sites?
When a dupe is posted, someone usually posts a comment to that effect within minutes. That comment usually gets at least a couple of upvotes while the question is still on the front page. If it's a common dupe, you might see three or four such comments show up at once, all upvoted.
Even with t...
I need a tablet PC to run Flash Pro, presentation, and office software. Must have:
Good stylus feedback.
Keyboard
Video port to connect to projector.
2GB RAM or more.
SD slot
Runs MS Office, Adobe Flash, Illustrator acceptably.
Nice to have:
Good handwriting recognition.
Pressure sensitive....
I have looked at some resourses to tell me how "->' and "." are different but they seem to do the same thing. Does "->" act like a dot opperator into a Struct?
Why make your life complex? Just put the dollar sign into the HTML outside of the input element...
<span style="border: inset 1px black; padding: 1px;">
$<input style="border: none; padding: 0;">
</span>
i need to convert Monthname to integer of that month (and want to avoid a big switch statement). any ideas?
"Don't do it" is not a useful answer to a question of "How do I do XYZ?", unless it is embedded into a section of your response.
I usually break down my "don't do that" responses like this:
To answer the question
Why you should not do it that way
In the past, I was working a personal project...
I have some C++ code. It won't run.
Yelling at it isn't working.
