> When Mr Fearn completed his written assessment, he said he had to save the Word document under his full name to a particular file. In that file, he could see the names and assessments of other candidates.
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Then someone uses that to pretend to be him and withdraw the application...
@JourneymanGeek So people don't cite that post as "evidence" of a bug ("hey, the system let me upvote this post after I flagged and my flag was handled...")
Interesting discussion I've noodled around with many, many times. Personally, I think we might be looking at this problem from the wrong end of the spectrum (in my opinion).
How we handle routine edits has some big UX gaffs. Bigger picture: these systems need broader participation, not less. Wh...
> Bigger picture: these systems need broader participation, not less. What we really should be looking at is how we can allow routine, low-friction edits… without being so damn imposing and disruptive to everyone else in the process.
I'd like you to consider whether an edit is essential
That wasn't
We don't need everything ever in iron clad, impossible to wiggle past terms.
Broadly I think its the curation vs creation thing - if half the posts on the front page has your name on it, maybe easing back on the editing is good. Post a comment, post an answer.
Mixed feelings about the new blog post. There's some admittance to fault in it, but it's also filled with the irksome 'inclusivity' jargon of the previous posts.
@Tinkeringbell I think I read that Kevin admitted somewhere he genuinely didn't know who Robert is. Or maybe I imagined that.
Lately, there has been a lot of negativity on Meta about feature-requests being left hanging for months or even years without any official reply.
I noticed something very promising, the last few days, that I wanted to bring to attention:
A lot of feature requests seem to be getting looked...
On How Hitler Stopped Homeschooling we read
to gain control of Germany's hearts and minds, Hitler banned homeschooling in the 1930s. This law has never been repealed, and is still in force, leading to horrific consequences for Christian families in Germany who want to homeschool.
They ...
@fbueckert I'm sure you yourself are aware of how much this "just leave the bad apples alone" argument comes up in different forms ranging from thought policing to curious optimistic proposals. I'm trying to recall a good answer to this argument, but I think how the various previous platforms turned out to be should be an obvious learning experience as to why eliminating either side of "promote good" and "shun bad" is bound to fail. Perhaps, in an ideal world, promotion is done so thoroughly all the time not to make the janitorial work necessary, but I can't think of how it can work in SO. — Marshmallow39 secs ago
4 characters left. It doesn't happen just in movies.
i don't always agree with the result, and feel like in those cases no feedback against it is really accepted, but it does seem the most effective at actually getting something done
@Makoto I do actually see my role as being one of a mentor or teacher. Most of my answers explain where the OP might have gone wrong (if it’s a debugging question), and I try the explain what is going on and why and how things are designed to work. That’s teaching, right there. Sure, it’s a very different setting from a classroom or a one-on-one mentoring relationship but I do strive to transfer knowledge. I think answers that teach to fish are better quality compared to the answers that merely present the fish. — Martijn Pieters ♦3 hours ago
That's semantics, no?
@Makoto I know I learned to respond better and to leave the snark at home (literally, my family is now forced to my snark being spoken out loud instead) since those efforts. I’m being no less firm when evicting accounts 2, 3,4, and 5 for a repeat question-ban evader, I just make sure to not rise to the bait. I never saw why people had to conflate “having to be constructive” with “allowing quality to slip”. That’s one of those mischaracterisations of the goals SE set for these efforts. — Martijn Pieters ♦3 hours ago
Spot on.
On the question, I'd probably suggest a change in the title, since it gives me the previous "SO why hath you forsaken me" vibe, but the post is about something different.
But eh, Ms. Chipps looked at it, so sounds like SE saw it.
eh, i can see where he's coming from with it... I often avoid directly answering questions because i'd rather provide hints at the answer in the comments and get the op to figure it out themselves.
Answering and explaining it all directly is fine and all, i just feel like it misses that opportunity to get the OP to figure it out
getting the op to figure it out isn't useful to future visitors nor does it scale to the quantity of incoming questions SO has
Lately, there has been a lot of negativity on Meta about feature-requests being left hanging for months or even years without any official reply.
I noticed something very promising, the last few days, that I wanted to bring to attention:
A lot of feature requests seem to be getting looked...
On How Hitler Stopped Homeschooling we read
to gain control of Germany's hearts and minds, Hitler banned homeschooling in the 1930s. This law has never been repealed, and is still in force, leading to horrific consequences for Christian families in Germany who want to homeschool.
They ...
