@ShadowWizard "andrew" was an unregistered profile on SO with no activity and an email that was years ago merged into a spam-master sock on SU... which in and of itself doesn't prove anything, but also does suggest that it's easier to delete the profiles involved and see what happened if/when he re-signs up.
@AstroCB Your edit changing to be verbally beat down into reading to be verbally beaten down was not necessary, nor perhaps idiomatic. The OED says: “beat /biːt/, v.¹ str. & wk. Pa. t.beat /biːt/. Pa. pple.beaten /ˈbiːt(ə)n/, beat.” So to be beat down is permissible, since it has two valid past participle forms.
I'm currently working on a few things around login/signup/recovery/etc. Was testing current behaviour earlier and the easiest way to experiment is on my own profile. The downside is that sometimes you end up finding a weird edge case or a bug and then you feel compelled to fix it while you're at it.
@tchrist It wasn't necessary, but it also was permissible: perhaps I should have favored the more laconic version, but it was part of a longer-reaching edit, so I think that it was fine.
It is a bit of a morbid concept, but having recently had a friend die unexpectedly and having to deal with the online repercussions of this event has gotten me to thinking about what should happen to my accounts when I kick the bucket.
I haven't had any great insights yet, but here are some thin...
Was just thinking about all the times the sarongs fall off at the Burn because people don’t twist them right.
@ShadowWizard I actually asked about the morbidity thing for a particular reason. All I feel comfortable saying in a publicly searchable place is that I hope that the Community Managers would be able to know when one of the elected moderators should happen to pass away from old age.
Is there a one word substitute for the scenario below, and what is the politest way of saying it to another person or colleague?
I drink water from my bottle by touching my mouth
When someone wants to drink water from my bottle, I need to inform him/her in a polite way that I drank it by to...
I'm hoping to get rid of the "too minor" edit rejection reason, in favor of a more direct way of indicating edits that fail to significantly improve a post. We're also fixing to warn editors when their edits are rejected. Between the two of these changes, I'm thinking the other rejection reasons ...
invalid edit - This edit is incorrect or an attempt to reply to or comment on the existing post.
radical change - This edit changes too much in the original post; the original meaning or intent of the post would be lost.
How about this instead?
invalid edit - This edit changes the m...
I do agree that I am often bothered by having to pick a suboptimal reason for rejecting edits.
I do a lot of custom ones, but still.
I also wonder whether people without enough rep to edit on their own are honestly likely to know how to find the rejection message. It does not go to their inbox, does it?
Is there a one word substitute for the scenario below, and what is the politest way of saying it to another person or colleague?
I drink water from my bottle by touching my mouth
When someone wants to drink water from my bottle, I need to inform him/her in a polite way that I drank it by to...
invalid edit - This edit is incorrect or an attempt to reply to or comment on the existing post.
radical change - This edit changes too much in the original post; the original meaning or intent of the post would be lost.
How about this instead?
invalid edit - This edit changes the m...
