@YiJiangs独角兽 A common base (the right-most panel, for some reason), your version (the left-most panel), and the incoming version (the middle panel). You have to pick the appropriate lines and save to resolve the merge, but I'm not entirely sure how that works in that interface.
Because it's sort of that thing that you need to participate early, not late. So they don't advertise it to all late comers
Those who care will generally either vote right away (a lot of people did in the first 30 minutes) or they'll ask. If you can't be arsed to do it right away or to ask, you don't need to see the link ;-)
As a moderator, sometimes it's nice to defer a flag but not have it in the mod-queue. There are various reasons, but the simplest is that if the (1) count is static, you kinda gloss over it, but if it disappears today and reappears tomorrow, we're not going to gloss over it as often.
This is par...
@jcolebrand Why does the system need to do anything? If a mod has already said, "I don't really see it, but I'm willing to reconsider if someone else does" then all an edit will accomplish is reducing the chances that anyone else will flag. So the first flag just sits and rots.
"Hey folks, someone flagged this q as offensive to all senses - but strictly-speaking, I can't taste the rot yet. Maybe you spend 5 minutes and clean this up before the next guy flags, and I don't delete it with prejudice?"
You closed a question. That OP later finds your home phone number, calls you up at 3am and asks for you to clarify the reasoning. How many days should they be suspended?
Will anyone be upset if that doesn't make it into the digest? |: There's already going to be an insane amount of questions, and I can't believe that's a serious question...
I see the following title for SO: "Stack Overflow 2011 Moderator ElectionsslugsterStu for Community Moderator!And as a last ditch effort, some bold words to draw your attention :-DWhy?"
So, I spotted this one particular question, where the guy posted an answer to it, almost immediately afterwards (like, under one minute), where his answer was this huge (albeit well-phrased, and looked to be thought-out) message, that he later (a day or two) accepted as the answer to his question.
I'm trying to judge between thinking "rep-whoring", or "legitimate question", and/or to edit his answer to be CW.
The question I'm referring to would be this question. If you look at the post times for question/answer, they're all of about 40 seconds apart, and the answer is far too long to have been typed up from scratch, it had to have been pre-prepared.
I'm just on the fence on whether this seems like acceptable behavior or not.
Well, presumably the OP had the issue and wanted to provide the resulting solution, which is certainly acceptable. The original question seems valid enough to me that posting it was ultimately beneficial to someone (although whether or not that question is a duplicate is another story).
Yeah, I considered the possibility that he had the question in mind long before he posted it, and then just happened to think of posting it again when he had written the answer. (I agree on the duplicate part, but like you said, it's another story entirely)
In other news, I should've posted this to "Posse comitalus". Whoops. >_>
Yeah, definitely had the second tab open to copy the name verbatim - couldn't have done it without reading straight from it.
But now that I've gone through all the trouble to go search through old CW discussion posts on meta, I still don't have a clue entirely how it functions.
I keep seeing mention that it's supposed to be for exactly that: multiple users to work on a single post, but I also see mention of it being used for vote protection, or to justify questions that are somewhat subjective. (mainly just wonder about posts that would otherwise be closed as "Not a real question")
Eh, whatever, I'll get to the bottom of it eventually.
Oh, also... I can bold NullUserException ఠ_ఠ's name, but not italicize it. Is that expected? I get the "weird characters break things" bit, but I was confused why one works and the other doesn't.
* NullUserException ఠ_ఠ asked:* All of you have amassed a fairly large amount of reputation. If you are elected, how are you going to balance your time between posting answers and moderating?
Neal answered: I do not plan on posting as much. But when It comes to it I believe that if I see a gr...
@YiJiangs独角兽 exactly that - I just noticed I voted the opposite way around to someone on a "identical posts" where the questions seemed to be dupes (I thought the newer question was better asked and had better answers). What happens to the dupe close votes on the one that doesn't close first then?
Ah, well. I was a night owl, then I started getting up really early instead. Hanging out is obviously not the same as writing code, but the principle still applies.
I can't help but wonder what has happen to TheTXI lately. Has he been put on demanding project that has taken all his free time? He hasn't responded to anything on meta since Nov 6, on SU Oct 9, SO Nov 4, etc. We miss his sly helpful answers on meta and his blunt to the point SU responses, and...
@jcolebrand this is a feed for the single blog at blogoverflow.com. we don't use that single blog, so the rss is empty. that is not a feed for all of the blogs on the domain.
When you've spent a week fleshing out a class hierarchy, and have yet to write a single line of executable code, that's a pretty good sign you're being overly abstract...
@balpha Saw this .. yesterday midday? Also, I want to know if that means that now somebody like Apache will be in charge of the Flash plugins that we have all come to loathe, and if that means that it can be fixed up.
@balpha wow, that's a total game changer - "Adobe also suggested that Web application developers in the future would be using HTML5 rather than Flash" sounds like an April fools though
* NullUserException ఠ_ఠ asked:* All of you have amassed a fairly large amount of reputation. If you are elected, how are you going to balance your time between posting answers and moderating?
Neal answered: I do not plan on posting as much. But when It comes to it I believe that if I see a gr...
I can't help but wonder what has happen to TheTXI lately. Has he been put on demanding project that has taken all his free time? He hasn't responded to anything on meta since Nov 6, on SU Oct 9, SO Nov 4, etc. We miss his sly helpful answers on meta and his blunt to the point SU responses, and...
