@teresko Not really. They'll be on your activity page somewhere... unless they were driven by a deleted post... which "known-bad" audits almost always are.
@teresko looks like everyone who reviewed that item was blocked for some length of time. Yours being not the shortest (that would go to the guy who was already blocked when it was caught) but not nearly the longest.
I suspect the moderator responsible really hates spam ;-P
(I've pinged him by the way, lest anyone think I'm talking about someone behind their back here)
@animuson: it's the topic that I recently created that got deleted (that one) - the only answer on that I can see a few comments, but when I click "view all" I get a 404 in the Chrome dev tools.
@ɥʇǝS In theory, sure. In practice, stuff that happens in chat usually just results in a chat-only suspension. There have been exceptions, but they tend to fall into the "posts shocking stuff to shock people who are then shocked by it, repeatedly" camp.
@Qantas94Heavy My guess is that the AJAX call that fetches the rest of the comments doesn't check to see if you're the owner of the question and 404s because you don't have the privilege to view deleted posts.
@michaelb958 Nah it's not. That's the raw HTML that the JavaScript fetches to replace the existing comment thread. It's not supposed to return anything if it errors, because then you'd load an error page to replace the comment thread if something goes wrong, which would be odd.
@Others To clarify: He's trying to see if Qantas can see them. As the owner of the question he has access to view the question even when it's deleted, without 10,000 reputation, so he should be able to see the comments too. He's not really asking for everyone to test them.
@Qantas94Heavy It works like this: you can see your question (and the comments on it) because you wrote it. You can see the answer because you wrote the question. You can see the top comments on the answer because you can see the answer. But there's no check that would allow you to see all of the comments, because you're not the author of the post they're attached to and you don't have 10K.
It's sort of an unintended consequence of limiting the visibility of comments on deleted posts.
Now, that could be fixed in two ways: by allowing everyone to view comments on every post (which is how it worked up until about 6 months ago) or by adding an extra check that looks up the owner of the post's parent and enables him to view comments on the target post as well.
Truth is, this probably doesn't happen often enough to bother fixing.
Is it okay to delete an answer and resubmit it? I've somehow racked up -9 points because people are confused about copyright, licenses, and whatnot and now it is very light grey and virtually unreadable by the people who downvoted it for the wrong reasons. Or is this somehow bad form and my post should live with the SO equivalent of a scarlet letter?
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.
There is a lot of hubbub in the contents which I suspect stem from a misunderstanding of what the license concept is, and what the responsibilities of each party is under the TOS. Finally I will explain what the consequences of not following this statement woul...
@jmac rule of thumb: if you're writing a new answer, post a new answer (whether or not you delete the old one). If you're clarifying an existing answer, edit (and live with the votes).
@JoshC It was a major edit (though same conclusion) solely because it seemed people were more confused with the license structure (which I had assumed people generally understood) meaning they couldn't follow why I thought it was doing no harm being left there. As Shog9 said, I think I will leave it as be. since it is clarification of my answer rather than a new one.
I did a search for A$, but a whole bunch of results containing "Å", "A's" and "as" were return, could not find one containing "A$":
http://chat.stackoverflow.com/search?q=A%24&page=1&pagesize=50&sort=newest
Same thing for other special characters such as "#".
It certainly can be viewed that way. I meant - ask where/how to go about something like that. My guess is that you will get a similar response, but who know, someone might have a good idea.
Asking about it is not spammy, but consider that we have millions of users - contacting them, could very well be seen that way. And how would you anyway? Outside of a Meta question, I don't see how.
Together with a number of colleagues (UC Davis, Polytech'Nantes, Brunel U, Eindhoven U of Technology) we are working on a series of research studies related to Stack Overflow. While I do understand that this post would be technically off topic - it's about a study that could involve Stack Overflo...
I'm looking to interview a few Stack Overflow users for a study concerning the the process of answering questions online. Specifically, I'd like to hear about their experiences answering, editing and retagging questions on the site.
Alas, I can't think of a really good way to find users to inter...
@JoshC Think about how much incredible information there is on SO if you're starting out in a new language or platform. You could literally spend weeks doing nothing but reading through the top answers in [c#] or [java] or whatever and up-voting as you went.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.
There is a lot of hubbub in the contents which I suspect stem from a misunderstanding of what the license concept is, and what the responsibilities of each party is under the TOS. Finally I will explain what the consequences of not following this statement woul...
I did a search for A$, but a whole bunch of results containing "Å", "A's" and "as" were return, could not find one containing "A$":
http://chat.stackoverflow.com/search?q=A%24&page=1&pagesize=50&sort=newest
Same thing for other special characters such as "#".
