Hi guys. Stupid question time. I was just asked why I voted to close a question (which is currently still open) stackoverflow.com/questions/10336685/… Thinking nothing of it, I responded. But how does this user know that I (and apparently Flexo) voted to close this?
@Emil - you're not currently blocked. For future reference, if you encounter an audit you think makes for a poor test, please bring it up on MSO. We do refine these based on feedback.
An answer should not simply consist of a single link, mostly because of link rot, and I am personally not a fan of these short answers being accredited a lot for minimal work (aka a google search). In this specific case, both the answer and question were bad and should have been deleted in my opinion, but I chose to go with the answer first since that was the object in the review queue.
In my opinion, this answer should rather have been a comment.
To be honest, I was questioning this, and I was going to check the standard response messages that pop up when you click "Recommend deletion", to simply check if a recommendation for deletion would be best, but in audits, this popup does not pop up.
@Shog9: I completely agree. If the community has determined that the question, as it stands, does not meet the quality standards of our site, how can we say that the answers do too?
@animuson FWIW, my general feeling on link-only answers is that, while they're not ideal, if the link clearly solves the problem described in the question then editing them to describe the solution (at least in brief) is preferable to deletion.
@balpha: Chat feature request: Sync the hiding of the "you have been pinged" marker - when having the same room open on two pcs it's annoying that the marker stays there on the second PC even after clicking it on the first one. Especially when clicking it doesn't just scroll up but opens the transcript.
I'm not certain where I should ask about this, so you poor souls will be need to deal with me or forward me on to the right place. I'm sorry about this. Okay, so I see this comment on a really inane and very old question. I don't like the comment because
... it makes reference to "boobs" and "sexy female bodies" although the question is about monopolistic pricing practices, see meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20807/…
Maybe the commenter was trying to be funny? I don't understand at all. And I don't like that word "boobs". They are breasts. I am female, I have breasts. And that anatomical detail doesn't really belong on Meta SO.
@FeralOink I'm going to go with "just let it go". Andrew isn't generally given to lewdness, afaik, so I think it was more like a comparison to GoDaddy ads (which most of us in the business are not too keen on either)
I'm very confused as to why you're assuming StackOverflow is operating at a loss. All indications from Jeff and Joel are that it's actually running at a profit (albeit modest).
Regardless, StackOverflow is actually very competitive. They jumped into a red ocean with the Q&A sites, because th...
> StackOverflow is free forever (like Evony, without the boobs in advertising). StackOverflow is anti-competitive the same way Canonical, Ltd is anti-competitive: It's not.
Ahh, okay! I totally 100% agree with the answer by Eric, and nearly every other answer. SO is NOT anti-competitive! It is a good site, that does not exploit us!
What is the difference between “tits” and “boobs”?
P.S. I'm not sure if this question is appropriate but as English is not my native language I really would love to know the difference.
@jcolebrand Yes, thank you. I appreciate your time, all of you, in fact. I will clean up my comments that might possibly incite foment, so to speak ;o) Thanks, and don't be a stranger to EL&U!
I'm very confused as to why you're assuming StackOverflow is operating at a loss. All indications from Jeff and Joel are that it's actually running at a profit (albeit modest).
Regardless, StackOverflow is actually very competitive. They jumped into a red ocean with the Q&A sites, because th...
What is the difference between “tits” and “boobs”?
P.S. I'm not sure if this question is appropriate but as English is not my native language I really would love to know the difference.
