@ExUmbris Getting attention for? It depends; if you catch a Stack Exchange developer around, maybe. But most of us are just regular users so we might be able to upvote but that's about it.
@Bart: I think I have the solution. @balpha will just have to implement an "assistant" that will parse the text of a question when it is first posted, do some natural language understanding voodoo magic, pinpoint the nature of the question that is begin asked and then scan all past question to find a match, show it to the asker and avoid to post the dupe in the first place.
Yep, I know what you are thinking @Bart. If he could do that, he should just sell the algorithm to Google and use the money to quit working and go live on some far away tropical island, never to be seen again....
but I know his sense of duty will make him take the right decision in the end.
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@Bart .... I think I will just stick to muffins, thanks. I am not really fond of the idea to having to pay a visit to Colgate because I ate some "rock candies"
In this question, how did "Should we “Sympathy Commit” to a site proposal?" end up being in the linked questions in the sidebar? I don't see any way those were linked on either side. Please pardon my obsessive curiosity.
I think there is only one way that is pretty sure to work. One by one, empty each room of every object. You'll need an empty room or a large clear area to stage removed objects.
An alternative to this, though less reliable is to picture each room as a grid. Work methodically through the grid, ...
> One by one, empty each room of every object. You'll need an empty room or a large clear area to stage removed objects
This may seem very silly but call for it. There have been studies that show calling for an inanimate object makes it easier to find.
Other than that do a fingertip search, work from one end of the search surface and then work in a methodical way. For cupboards and draws, once searched put a pos...
> There have been studies that show calling for an inanimate object makes it easier to find
I would assume that the "automatic post" feature also asks the user to fill the "message body" with a clear description of the problem. Clear being the focus here.
I find difficult to believe that "Disconfigured site selection." just wrote itself too....
maybe one could make a little more effort in describing the problem?
that said, I will also argue that probably an "autofill bug report" feature does not exactly drive them to think to add a screenshot or something similar to provide more info,
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This may seem very silly but call for it. There have been studies that show calling for an inanimate object makes it easier to find.
Other than that do a fingertip search, work from one end of the search surface and then work in a methodical way. For cupboards and draws, once searched put a pos...
