Users should not be able to undelete answers that are deleted by Moderators. I unknowingly undeleted my answer to a question that had been deleted by a moderator.
For instance, this answer was deleted by Rebecca, and I wanted to 'vote' to undelete it, not knowing that as the answer owner, I'm ab...
@MichaelMrozek I'm not arguing or disagreeing that a group of 3kers can't reopen, I'm saying that a user can't undelete their question/answer if a mod deletes it. I think that is appropriate behavior
@MichaelMrozek notice the question in context is "delete" not "close" and pertains to answers (altho I keep saying question as we know that both are "posts" :p )
@drachenstern I know, I'm saying there's no action right now that's normally reversible by users that can't be reversed if a mod performs it. Closing was just an example
@drachenstern They can undelete questions, not answers. The point is it doesn't matter if a mod deleted it or not, that doesn't change the functionality
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Jeff Atwood.
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And now, for another episode of Found while researching an SO question: "I have been trying to implement Reversi (a.k.a. Othello) using Java3D for a final project of my computer lab course, every thing was going well until i got stuck."
@PopularDemand: yep, I remember that one. It made me feel lucky to be on SO, versus some of the other sites. There's some real weirdness going on. Math and physics in particular, I think.
First law: Every body remains in a state of rest or uniform motion (constant velocity) unless it is acted upon by an external unbalanced force. This means that in the absence of a non-zero net force, the center of mass of a body either remains at rest, or moves at a constant speed in a straigh...
So, again, whats the problem with small edits ??? I thougth being able to edit those small ,but annoying errors was always a great thing......................SE should of allow small edits, bumping or not.lol
@badp Probably the worry is: 1) It'll flood the suggestion queue and 2kers will drown in a sea of minor changes, and 2) It'll give people lots of rep for basically nothing
If I have something major to add, I won't edit for a one shot 2 reps (which you only get if you have less than 2k rep anyway). I'll post a new answer for 10 reps per upvotes.
If I have something major to add, I won't edit for a one shot 2 reps (which you only get if you have less than 2k rep anyway). I'll post a new answer for 10 reps per upvotes.
@PopularDemand his complaint aside, he has a point about the enter-button-commits-comment...that's behaviour incongruent with the other edit controls (questions/answers) on the site.
People keep getting bogged down in "is the behavior right or not". It couldn't matter less; it's wrong to spam 10 comments on a post because you don't like how the enter key behaves. It's also wrong to keep doing it after multiple mods ask you not to; when I first saw that behavior I assumed the commenter was 12, and then discovered he's apparently a college professor
@MichaelMrozek - i'm only taking this on face value of that post....and it struck a chord of my own personal annoyance at the comment return key behaviour...
@Kev Lots of people don't like it, and personally I don't know why they didn't just change it back, it's not particularly useful, but people saying "that behavior sucks, so it's ok for him to abuse it" annoyed me when I read that post originally
@MichaelMrozek I also got pretty annoyed by the "It's not the expected behaviour" argument, since I feel like it's really open to interpretation...I was concerned about the other usability issues though, which was in part the fault of the technical implementation..but meh.
@TimStone - on chat it feels natural to hit return and I expect the message to be sent...because this is chat. comments aren't chat...i still get tripped up by the return key because it's use case is not chat.
@Kev I guess I'm just confused what you expect the enter key to do, because it shouldn't put a newline in something that doesn't actually accept newlines.
@badp and @MichaelMrozek, since tis is The Tavern and seriousness gets choked out here, should we make a room specifically for discussing this editing issue?
If I have something major to add, I won't edit for a one shot 2 reps (which you only get if you have less than 2k rep anyway). I'll post a new answer for 10 reps per upvotes.
@Kev Well, it does have to do something, but telling you newlines aren't accepted in some way is certainly an option. :) Is the problem that you're accidentally hitting the enter key, though? That really never seems to happen to me, so while I can believe it does to other people, it's hard for me to appreciate how much of an issue it actually is. :P
@TimStone - for me it's because in chrome I used to drag the comment box to make it bigger. in the old days hitting return would add a CRLF which was useful for editing the comment and reviewing each individual sentence written rather than it being crammed in a single line. this was before the days when you could edit comments and had to get it right 1st time. I'm still pavlov's dog programmed for that behaviour. but then I am nearly 44 and so old dogs and new tricks etc.... :)
To: the_mrozek_exception@josh.gitlin.name
From: rchernoff@stackexchange.com
Subject: Ha, ha.
Body: Josh, a fake e-mail? Really? Oy, I hate you so much. At least it gives me the opportunity to write this mail to you which you'll never see because it'll never get delivered. Oh, and I'm going to delete your dumb socks and claim balpha did it when you ask me about it. Never come back to Stack Exchange, -Rebecca
In iTunes 9 and earlier, I could go to a playlist and hold down option and click the small arrow next to the name of any sony in that playlist to select that song in the main library instead of the playlist. This was very useful, for example if I wanted to remove a song from my library, I could u...
@Moshe There's an easier way. Start -> Run -> charmap. Make sure Special view is ticked. Type 202E into the Unicode Code field. Click select, then copy.
If you hold down option (maybe alt on window) it changes
That's exactly what I was asking about, namely before it was an arrow which took you to the store, but if you click it while holding option it took you to your library
@badp "A person who is drowning does not always wave and call for help. In the final stages, raising the arms and vocalising are even usually impossible due to the instinctive drowning response. The technical term for the situation where a 'drowning' person is capable of waving and calling for help is 'aquatic distress.'" - Wikipedia
First law: Every body remains in a state of rest or uniform motion (constant velocity) unless it is acted upon by an external unbalanced force. This means that in the absence of a non-zero net force, the center of mass of a body either remains at rest, or moves at a constant speed in a straigh...
