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It's perfectly normal to have <100% accept rate. There are, to oversimplify a bit, two cases here: the first is you, based on this question and your SO profile; the second is the guy who asks dozens of questions — often low-quality — and maintains a 0% acc...
I need to go make lunch while I wait for my team lead to send out the next assignment.
To be honest when I close and answer it's more for sympathy to the asker, who still needs an answer even though he did not correctly fill in all the forms
@Diago Hmm... I just started considering "retags should have a 50% chance of being bumped." But I don't know if that's the best of both worlds or the worst of both worlds.
I suppose you couldn't retag vandalistically for more than one question -- on average -- without getting caught.
Eulogy for Bouncy: I vividly remember the day I met bouncy. I was sitting in my regular chair, typing on my regular keyboard, eating my regular sandwich and counting my regular millions.
Whilst chatting idly with my friend (who oft referred to me by name) bouncy came knocking. He didn't intrude, simply sat there, literally bursting with excitement that someone actually wanted to speak to me. Like a little lassie.
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As I reached down to pet him, his tongue lolled out of his mouth, and he returned to his docile state. Sitting there, quietly waiting (unlike clippy) for the next message to be to me, which he would eagerly bound forth and retrieve.
...then Jeff and Joel wanted some more testing of the chat people and people disliked Bouncy. Popular demand wanted Bouncy dead and sure enough dead was Bouncy.
But sadly, times change, people change and worlds change (as worlds are wont to) and there became more and more demands upon little bouncy. His formerly happy bounce became more akin to a blurring ADHD speed-addict than a friendly reminder.
Is this one of those hokey job description requirements where you must be an expert in a series of ultra-specialized skillsets that hardly ever intersect?
@Lance Roberts: What would constitute a viable alternative that would accord with Jeff's policy on tags? His decision was that these tags added nothing useful to tagging the question as opposed to the questioner. In particular, "noob", "n00b", "beginner", etc. are useless at describing the question because a beginner has no good idea of whether a question is near-trivial or deep and complex. – David Thornley 3 hours ago
@David, I don't necessarily have the answer for what is a viable alternative, but the point is that there is information there that no longer exists. So in this case if a b…
@LanceRoberts Actually I also don't agree with you about the whole newbie tag thing. But that's just the trainer in me. And it's to late at night for me to get into a debate :)
Code golf has nothing to do with the Stack Exchange engine or how SO operates. The fact that some SO questions present code golf challenges is incidental, and doesn't justify a MSO question about code golfing rules.
I'm not saying we need a 'newbie' tag, I just think there needs to be some way to differentiate things, but don't have a good idea on what that would be.
@PopularDemand I would say yes (you're wrong). MSO is also for the standard meta-questions about SO, like what's on/off-topic there, it's not only for engine questions
If they don't understand the jargon in the answer, they can post a question asking what that jargon means. On some sort of site dedicated to answering questions about programming
Kind of like how when my internet is down, I wish I could identify myself as a networking expert to Comcast so they don't put me through the whole script of things I've already done.
Welcome to Meta, Peter!
It's perfectly normal to have <100% accept rate. There are, to oversimplify a bit, two cases here: the first is you, based on this question and your SO profile; the second is the guy who asks dozens of questions — often low-quality — and maintains a 0% acc...
