Ever thought about that this could be a genuine inability of that user (and possibly others) to express themselves with good formatting? As long as the content is good and salvaging edits get not rejected, I think we have much more important fronts to achieve real improvements on overall quality. — PlasmaHH43 mins ago
@ItachiUchiha post it as an answer and make it a community wiki
@ItachiUchiha If you bother, expand them into a proper answer - comments are not for answering. If you don't want to give users the impression you're stealing the idea or doing this just for rep, make it Community Wiki.
@AndrewT. Exactly, that the general point I was trying to make. If a user chooses to format an answer in his own way, is there anything fundamentally wrong with it? It may look like a car crash to you and me, but to him it's perfect. — DavidG1 min ago
umm, consider creating a FAQ for formatting & readability?
@ItachiUchiha Anyone can propose in Area51 if they feel it will be helpful for many users, what is wrong if it's a company's name? There is apple.stackexchange.com , sharepoint.stackexchange.com and tons more...
@AndrewT. There are ton's of posts on MSE and MSO with [status-faq] about how to edit, so we don't need to write one, but that user went ahead and added grey backgounds to all the images in my question, it looks ugly now :(
I strike it up to bio-diversity; you can't force everyone to think the same because that's not how we're programmed. There are people who take the time and effort to ensure courtesy, and there are people who roll their eyes and only wonder why people make such a fuss; 'if you can read the text then why make a point of when something is bold or not'. Both have a place in this world AND on SO (or any other stackexchange site) in my opinion. — Gimby6 mins ago
Yes, I am looking through Skeet's answers to tempt you to give some bounties to him. You can't stop yourself if you see a good answer, everybody knows that.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation commonly known as (CPR) is an emergency procedure performed in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person who is in cardiac arrest. It is indicated in those who are unresponsive with no breathing or abnormal breathing, for example, agonal respirations.
According to the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation guidelines, CPR involves chest compressions at least 5 cm (2 in) deep and at a rate of at least 100 per minute in an effort to create artificial...
@Braiam Those are amazingly difficult to tighten without quadrupling the number of support cases we get from people complaining that they can't post questions.
You would suspect a forum full of programmers would have this formatting a bit more automated. As a noob here, I was kinda surprised they have people scour the posts to make the kind of edits they do. The answer would be to ask "How to automate formatting on Stack Overflow" and implement the solu...
Currently the Informed badge description says:
Read the entire about page.
And the link http://stackoverflow.com/about redirects to http://stackoverflow.com/tour.
Since the "about" page was replaced with a "tour" page, guess it's about time to change the summary.
Any time you run a credit card transaction with cardholder data, you need to secure the data. You don't stash it anywhere, you encrypt transmission of it, etc, etc...
I didn't know you created the reputation system. But I can't give credit to people that have been helpful to me with the system as it is and I can't put my comment where it should be. So yes, I think the reputation system is messed up. — Bill31 min ago
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You could always go the Jon Skeet route and write a blog entry on how to properly format a question that many people read over time, then link it in your profile, then amass an extraordinary amount of rep / profile views such that everyone on the internet has read it or doesn't have an excuse to not have read it. :) — xDaevax5 mins ago
Yes @Lynn, he did prove his own case, but you gave him a lot of constructive suggestions in comments, so posting the answer hasn't gone in vain for him, he learnt something good.
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@InfiniteRecursion it's simple: edit when you see it and move on. If they persist, continuously roll back, or if it's unacceptably horrendous each and every time, notify a mod.