must be the lack of color, on my text editor it shines like a detailed zoom in squirrel eyes staring at an eclipsed sun while holding (and later dropping) a nut with its tiny hands
can you imagine that yellowish-purplish bright? can you smell the particles of the grass hovering after the nut landed on the ground?
more important, can you count the bounces of the nut? or the elk besides him chewing sunflowers?
@ajax Because they're there. The powers that be hath created a flag reason for them. I didst uncover that reason. The mere existence of such a flag led me to the unbearable conclusion that all obsolete comments must die.
I didst destroy them first by stabbing them with my flag-lance upon sight. I then found it to my liking, and didst decide to hint them down as an arrow hunts its target.
I didst create an app for the purpose of hunting them down. Alas, it was fed by the API, and was quite talented at getting my IP to be banned from the network.
I didst then find the Data Explorer, which I used to extract unworthy comments from their parent posts and put them into a SQL database.
I then found it necessary to create a nice interface for the flagging of the comments, as it was not to my liking to plow through a SQL DB, manually constructing the URL's.
And so I didst create a webapp in PHP for the purpose of showing these comments.
And I found it in need of a name - Charcoal was it called, for it filters out the comments as charcoal filters out things that people would rather not consume from water.
To this day, my flag-lance plows through yonder comments at a rate of 100 per day, lancing them as meat is lanced on a sheiskabob.
@Bart I think it would be good to have possibility to hide all of them. (Similarly as ignored tags.) I do not think that it should be in the default view.
The posts I have mentioned above show that there are some other users who would like to have that possibility. The MathOverflow post has 17 upvotes. (It is not exactly about this, but somewhat in that direction.)
I just wanted to know whether some more experienced SE users know of another possibility. (That's why I have asked here - judging by the reputation, it seems that this room is full of experienced users.)
Well, there might be many reasons for keeping them. Maybe if someone sees migrated question, they might object to the migration. It is good that some people can see them and can check whether it was correct to migrate them.
And there are probably other reasons I cannot think of right now.
But clearly there are people who prefer not to see them.
Well, having a per-user setting is not the only possibility. Perhaps when viewing some tab with questions, there could be a switch whether to show or hide migrated questions. (Maybe it makes sense for closed questions, too.)
In that way the users who do not want them would only have to do one click to hide them.
But I certainly agree that search is a decent workaround. The questions in the search do not look that much different from the usual view.
I had posted comments on this answer http://stackoverflow.com/a/8900730/684229
These comments were related to the code, noting that it is dangerous to use this replacement - in case the object has been already initialized, the new code is not equivalent to the old one, so special check is needed...
I agree on both points; I just don't see how anyone can truly answer that question without either providing a link-only answer or copy-pasting an entire class which I assume would be frowned upon. As @Bart mentioned in the comments, seems like a delete question would be in ordered. Also, there are two other link-only answers which weren't deleted. — Justin1 min ago
I've heard rumour that the world will end if we don't take care of the close vote queue by New Year's Eve, no wonder everyone was so up in arms about it.
Feature request: when hitting the "Ask Question" button on Meta, start with a pop-op stating "Your idea is probably bad and your assumptions are probably wrong. Do you wish to continue?"
"Your question contains the words 'voting system' and 'change' in the same sentence. You will probably be downvoted into oblivion. Is this a fate you would like to have?"
"I see your post contains the word "capitalization". The sound you've just heard is your doorbell. Jeff is on the other side. Are you sure you want to submit this?"
@Oded can I @ reply to someone who reopened a question?
How much reputation/points does one need to have in order to add a comment to a question?
Suppose, I see a question, but i do not want to answer it..all i want to do is add a comment on that question to ask for some details like asking the user to share some more code/inputs or stuff like that! ...
