Since the old insufficient effort close reason has been removed, are questions showing no effort at all no longer meant to be closed? Just downvoted? If they're meant to be closed, what's the current appropriate close reason? The SO help still refers to the "must demonstrate a minimal understandi...
First off, if a question doesn't show any of the effort made to resolve the problem down vote it!
Down-voting poorly-asked questions is immensely important - if you do nothing else, at least do that!
With that out of the way, ask yourself: is this question answerable? Not necessarily by you, ...
Today I've realized that when voting for closing questions, some of them have have an account for some reasons I can't see. For instance:
So I read that question, see that it lacks sufficient information and I'm voting for its closing. In the first menu I see there are 3 votes:
But once I c...
As part of our closing overhaul, we've moved, reorganized, and renamed a number of close reasons, including too localized. While that change was informed both by widespread misuse of the reason and numerous meta posts from you, many of you have also indicated concerns about its new home in the o...
I didn't see the code highlight until I did a triple-take.. it's hard to see the grey highlight under the green highlight... it makes me nervous that I might have approved a few edits that shouldn't have been approved..
I can't see this markdown diff mode, I'll keep reading. However, on this review that I'm looking at, someone has typed "<input>" and it's not showing up in the preview. Is there a correct way to type that? Backticks maybe?
I've never played with userstyles since greasemonkey got absorbed into Chromium. I think I've forgotten how...
why we using the word OOPS if something went to wrong in the sentence or communication with others?
I would like to know the correct information regarding this question.
Any help much appreciation
Is it possible to view the edit history of a question? I was told that the edit was approved when I was about to reject it, but now that I'm looking at it, the edits I wanted to reject aren't there. Looks like someone else did a simultaneous and better edit that got approved. I'd like to see the diffs.
@hyde that doesn't mean that there are no QT questions that should be closed. It only means that none of the QT questions that should be closed have got enough votes to get into the queue.
There are some similar voting users on SO/MSO, but it seems Physics has picked up quite some of them @Manishearth
I'd say the answer to your question is still a "yes, that's perfectly fine" though @Manishearth. At which point a moderator could step in, close it, lock it to stop it from ping-ponging, and escalate it to meta.
Yes, but there is a discrepancy in time? In the review page it has "Asked today" and "Asked 2 hours ago". On the Q/A site it is 17 feb. Is it from when it was flagged?
That badge would clearly need followup though. Silver "Renegade" for deleting 10 -3 posts, and golden "Che Guevara" for deleting 100 (which might take some real effort to get, the account might get suspended a few times in the process, I suppose). /joke
mine were deleted too, and i originally left a similarly bitter comment. I decided looking at your profile and work would make me feel better, but turns out I like your work and you hobbies and extra hobbies are nearly identical to mine. So decided I couldn't hate you and left a more neutral comment instead. And thanks. For now, my custom does what this question tries to achieve through a more sophisticated external template solution. — Brian Vanderbusch11 hours ago
I have often wondered at the practice on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and the other sites where someone will ask a question and an answer will come in that says Look here: http://link elsewhere. Rarely will the link have exactly the answer necessary -- often it's an entire article -- yet these a...
Why @Mat? It's easy, non of this password peppering or mashing or whatever those guys do. You can send it back to your clients if they lose it. It's great.
/me listens to the sound of thousands of employers putting him on a strict do-not-hire list
I'm looking for a book with the description of basic types of graphs, terminology used in this field of Mathematics and main theorems. All in all, a good book to start with to be able to understand other more complicated works.
One of my spam flags got disputed. But because 10k+ users don't see spam flags in the 10k+ tools, why is it disputed? A moderator would decline it, not dispute.
Is it ok at SO to provide a short piece of code, and ask help in understanding what it does? If not ok, what is the right close reason? Assuming the question is otherwise complete (contains all relevant code etc).
Is it OK to ask on SO for help in explaining someone else's working piece of code, from Open Source projects or library examples etc.? Or does this belong somewhere else?
Before the changes to "close vote" options, we used to have "not constructive," which I think would cover this case.
What option should we use now when a question includes a piece of code and asks for a specific explanation of how it works? There doesn't seem to be an appropriate option for clos...
@random Nah, I have nothing against such questions personally, and the question was otherwise fine, short, answerable. So as long as it's not specifically off-topic, I've no problem with it.
@TGMCians Both have Android tag and mention javadoc in the question title, probably. I think use of the "skip" option on CVQ should be encouraged more.
@TGMCians @hichris123 have a look at that question and comment on that question as eell if you agree it is not a dup. Afterall you have some rep in the android tag...
Sorry for pinging you TGMCians needed to link that comment for hichris123
Roboreviewers in the CVQ, incorrect duplicate (maybe other reason for closing is appropiate) I casted a reopen vote: stackoverflow.com/questions/15848227/…
Not very satisfied with this comment: "This reads more like a headline then an answer. Please try to make make answers self-contained and optionally use links to add information outside the scope of the question and answer, or as as reference only." in regards to this post: stackoverflow.com/a/22117457/3278057 , are there some templates to use?
In our Android project, our code is JavaDoc'd and that generates everything properly. However, any reference to the Android API classes/functions results in a JavaDoc error and a link to the relevant information is not generated. Instead we get plaintext class names. How can we set up Eclipse to ...
In regard to my previous message. The user in question posted close to link-only answers to promote his own blog. 4 within 20 minutes. The rest much looks the same. I flagged all for "moderator attention" with a comment about the case. Is that bad or good? As in: should I rather only flag one and that is enough, or is it best to flag all posts if I find them only promoting his site?
First off, if a question doesn't show any of the effort made to resolve the problem down vote it!
Down-voting poorly-asked questions is immensely important - if you do nothing else, at least do that!
With that out of the way, ask yourself: is this question answerable? Not necessarily by you, ...
Today I've realized that when voting for closing questions, some of them have have an account for some reasons I can't see. For instance:
So I read that question, see that it lacks sufficient information and I'm voting for its closing. In the first menu I see there are 3 votes:
But once I c...
why we using the word OOPS if something went to wrong in the sentence or communication with others?
I would like to know the correct information regarding this question.
Any help much appreciation
What are your experiences with them?
I'm looking for a book with the description of basic types of graphs, terminology used in this field of Mathematics and main theorems. All in all, a good book to start with to be able to understand other more complicated works.
