@JanDvorak It's fixable with a simple edit. What about that question is saying "BURN IT WITH FIRE ASAP" to you?

because that's what both offensive and VLQ flags are for.

The title did

I think he was focused on the odd spacing that Word 2013 uses for its default style.

See above: fixable with a simple edit. Fix first, flag later. :)

@Bart You got away with that one....

:D I see

That assumes a real question. I didn't understand the question part of that rant.

Thanks

@JanDvorak Nah, JasonC answer is perfect...

I don't actually know if my answer is correct, it's from 2007 docs not 2013. I'm just going to let votes decide on that one.

Oooh. I love guessing answers.

Compounded by the "it's long so it must be good" voter mentality

... superuser.com/questions/844952/…

Now it's driving me crazy, and I'm getting into an MSOffice 2013 document search hole; I hope somebody posts "works for me" or "this is totally wrong" soon. I don't actually have MS Office to test.

I can check if it works in the random version of OpenOffice that I have

If by that you mean int random () { return seed = (seed * 0 + 2013); } I think it can help.

I'm afraid I don't have OpenOffice 2013 at hand

Oh, OpenOffice. Dammit. I suck at being clever.

animuson goes in for the kill! superuser.com/a/845010/245945

I answered based on my interpretation of the very vague question.

The OP clearly wanted to know the name of the Microsoft employee responsible for making the decision.

Heh, I found that odd spacing thing very irritating myself.

I mostly use Word to print off various details about video games that only I am ever going to read, and I'm not incredibly concerned about the spacing. I'd much rather fit it all onto one piece of paper.

I'd use HTML for that

I solved all my Word problems by just refusing to write any documentation entirely.

@JanDvorak I do use HTML and CSS for my resume.

I love titles like these stackoverflow.com/questions/27135675/…

@animuson You should write "Created with Notepad: The right way" at the bottom of your resume.

Best Viewed in IE3

I only use the webpage to actually create it. Then I print it to a PDF because most online services won't let you submit a HTML document as a resume.

@JanDvorak My favorite are the ones like, "if...else does not work correctly in Java".

"C++ integer math is broken"

That's the first Super User question that I've answered and didn't also ask...

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DELETE PLEASE NOT NEEDED by james1395 on math.stackexchange.com

Does that happen a lot?

Maybe some sort of automatic banner that pops up with instructions if title / post is edited to contain "DELETE" by an unregistered user.

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/27136948/1234256

@Rafflesiaarnoldii The login stuff I'm working on is irrelevant. It has nothing to do with allowing unregistered users.

Yeah, Shog's meta post is talking about making massive code changes (like removing unregistered users entirely) out of the question right now. Flipping an existing setting on on a single site is fine... barring any other reasons not to do it.

@Bart Is there magic that I'm unaware of in Unity and MonoBehavior base classes? I assume the OP is lost somewhere but I'm unsure how to help him further given my current answer. One tip please?

I walked into the bedroom and both of my cats were sitting on the window sill having a stare down with three squirrels, just sitting there on the fire escape right next to the window.

I wish I could've got my camera before they all ran away.

@JasonC Do the cats manage to catch a squirrel?

@rene No there's a screen in the way I don't let them run around outside.

@rene Why would he make StoreData a MonoBehaviour to begin with? I'd say your code should work though, unless I'm missing something. MonoBehaviours are a bit tricky where it comes to serialization. (Well, anything from UnityEngine.Object really)

@Bart OK, we'll see what happens... tnx for checking...

If he doesn't resolve it, ping me again tomorrow @rene. I might have a better look tomorrow evening.

I will...

Someone today said '@Bart sounds like a bad person'.

Not referring to any specific Bart, of course.

Spot on though

I should've just done a tl;dr

re #3: 50 rep on comments

@JanDvorak comments are not good stuff

"necessary evil" maybe

@Shog9 if I had 50 cents for every answer that starts with "I don't have 50 reputation, but..." ...

Sometimes, those are actually answers

When they're not, there's a really good chance we'd just be deleting the comments

Which right now means moderators would be deleting the comments

hmm...

I like #2 with maybe a grain of #3

I'll go for the cash equivalent

#2 is in no way trivial, btw. It's not just "hey, one more review queue" - there's no visibility for deleted comments so no real oversight, there's no revision history so no way to track changes, comments don't bump, etc. etc.

Some of that we should build anyway - it ain't like 50 rep users never post yards of crap comments

@Shog9 Well, there is a revision history... just not in a usable way.

@AnnaLear right, deleted comments are saved too - we just have no UI or privilege levels for any of that

@Shog9 How's that cranberry sauce?

@Shog9 Suggested edits for comments!

Should there be a priv to see deleted comments?

@JasonC awesome

@JanDvorak Not unless there's something to be done about them.

Bawawawawa woke up from a cat nap.

@Shog9 Can't we do all 3?

:P

@rene why lose? You got 25 shiny points... :D

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/27137570/…

Meh.

I like that better, actually

I like the less links too.

@Rafflesiaarnoldii where do you click to focus, then?

@JanDvorak No clicks; mouse over, twm style.

What about touchscreens?

@JanDvorak Point and laugh at the ipads next time you're at starbucks.

And show them your glorious mouse-over focus.

What about my Nokia 5230?

Point and laugh at all the things

points at JasonC ha!

Then once mouse-over focus frustrates you to the point of you punching a hole in your monitor, apologize profusely for pointing and laughing at all the touch screen users.

twm style.

CV stackoverflow.com/q/11039119/2371861

@Rafflesiaarnoldii question info external, i.e. unclear

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/27137835/…

needs two more close votes: stackoverflow.com/questions/27137570/…

@JanDvorak so... here's the thing... Comments, much more than questions and answers, are often used to construct a conversation. Applying the normal tooling to conversations gets weird fast.

We could probably get away with a "view 3rd-party deleted comments" privilege

true...

But imagine the case where I post something and then realize I really shouldn't have said that.

Or even just miss the editing window and have to delete it to post a revision.

Now there's a deleted comment there, but... Realistically, no one is better off knowing that.

@Shog9 Metaers would run out of pitchforks.

True

Outside of extreme edge-cases where someone is trolling and you'd want to get mods involved anyway

The editing window thing is still an issue if it rearranges the comments

Comments, more than any other part of the system, are prone to creating a fire hazard when they pile up

No one wants to talk about comments

The hard truth is, any change we make to how comments are handled is gonna piss off someone

Probably a lot of someones

I find it useful to think of Twitter whenever I think of comments on our sites.

@Shog9 +1

kicks @Jon

If a behavior is common on Twitter, chances are we should be discouraging it

Comments are pretty damn useful, but... They're extremely prone to abuse. And that potential isn't reduced very much with reputation or experience.

@Rafflesiaarnoldii it would if that preference applied to the entire conversation, if one arose

And... It would have to

Either automatically or via mod-flags

@Rafflesiaarnoldii You would. Either those who want the checkbox effect public, or those who don't

@Rafflesiaarnoldii it would piss off the dev who will have to write code for that, then fix all the bugs it's going to cause (:

umm.... all messages in star wall says "just now" - only for me?

@ShadowWizard "just now"? just you.

Also, checkbox options tend to be... Well, ideally they're used when there are two contradictory but equally-valid options and which one is appropriate depends heavily on the situation. In practice, they're often used when someone is unwilling to find a solution that takes context into account without forcing a conscious decision and punts - with the end-result being a feature that no one uses and catches folks off-guard when it is used.

See also: Community Wiki

See also: Improve as Unhelpful (suggested edits)

@ShadowWizard Try hard reloading.

my clock is fine as far as I can tell, didn't mess up with it recently

I've learned to be very, very wary whenever someone suggests a checkbox.

@bjb568 grrr... worked.

@ShadowWizard you're getting old. Anything to you feels as if it happened "just now".

I suggest a checkbox to turn Shog's wariness on/off.

@Shog9 ☐ … ☑

kicks @bjb568

ow

\o

hiss

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Good example: that's a terrible UI for a homepage. But, that's not really the purpose - it's to let folks test different options.

dang, forgot to make coffee. Need to boil the water again. :(

Compare it to filters in /review: almost no one uses that, but put quick links to filtered queues on the main page & they get used.

People really need to ask themselves "Why is the OP asking this question and what is actually meaningful to address in an answer?" before posting an answer or leaving worthless comments.

@Rafflesiaarnoldii That's not what I meant though. Case in point: stackoverflow.com/questions/27137247/…

"Why is the OP asking this question" can translate to "Why would anybody be asking this question and reading the answers"?

Although that's just a mild example. Next time a real gem of a worthless comment comes up, I'll have a better example. I see it all the time though.

Those "you should use std::vector instead of an array" comments I was bitching about yesterday are right up there.

Any comments specific pertaining to the specific weirdness of a contrived illustrative example fall in that category too. "Q: Intelligent question about class structure in this example?" "Comment: You shouldn't name your classes with lowercase letters, and you forgot a semicolon, also use List."

Oh crap is this another episode of Jason C talks to himself?

Argh, it totally is.

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CÁLCULO DE HORAS JAVA 8 by Cristiano Bombazar on pt.stackoverflow.com

SHE HAS VERY POOR QUALITY

... what?

ah

Yeah. Blame google.

O que você já tentou?

(says google)

@Rafflesiaarnoldii If you have to ask, don't do it. ;)

Still a pretty good X.

Da hell… hu cum up with dat name?

Boring.

crackstation.net/hashing-security.htm herm… fixing DD

@Rafflesiaarnoldii It's boring. My cornify bookmarklet has been getting a lot of use lately.

Everything's boring. Everything's saaaad. I'm going to write a bad poem about it in my blog now. Sigh.

popten.net/2011/10/…

Lol, Fiver made the list.