@cairdcoinheringaahing that's brilliant, only in the US would a pair of socks have left-right markers...
@JourneymanGeek I suppose Singapore has tropical climate, I certainly don't wear socks during Summer... But right now I'm loving my socks and my new pair of cozy winter slippers.
@bad_coder Please note that proposed FAQs and FAQs, which that post is not, are to be created with inline links (and editing them out would be rolled back). Rather than the reason being an ease for anyone but yourself you should have said the reason was the non-standard practice of making such an edit. I would reject such edits on my posts. [steps back out of the conversation]
@Rob well then I didn't see those FAQs (or probably I read them and missed the rule you're invoking - for which you give no reference). But I also know for a fact most of the prolific editors choose to use lists for their links (especially on Stack Overflow and the lengthier the post more so). If you look at the canonicals it's rare to find one with inline links, and those posts have had the most significant number of editors overall (so that speaks for consensus).
You offered no reference to support your preference. It's not a case of prolific editors preferring it's a case of the old editor using the old format; and as has been pointed out, the new one doesn't. It's not a consensus that dinosaurs rule the Earth, even if they lived here much longer than humans; same for the horseshoe crab. As to your removed comment, you realize that isn't correct. --- The FAQ about editing can be found by searching, that you didn't read it doesn't mean it's not
applicable, or that the FR you propose above would be well received.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog that's an interesting idea, but then I'd be at increased risk of no one understanding the edit summary. (I actually developed the habit of the introductory sentence on SO because it tended to be a preemptive counter-argument to the "no improvement" rejection reason, and it worked.)
@Rob I know you mean well but I dislike argumentativeness, if you want try starting you sentences with some agreeableness and I'm more than likely to respond well to that.
hmm think I understand what went wrong. In the past, I had socks and underwear together in same drawer, as can be seen here. But later each moved to its own drawer, and I posted only the new socks drawer, causing the underwear to envy.
@Rob @bad_coder As the primary editor of the FAQs, I can state that such a "rule" isn't firm. For me, inlining links makes it easier to ascertain while reading which specific post a given link links to, especially with source links. It's definitely not a hard, fast rule, though, and it's perfectly fine to have footer links in FAQs in my opinion. It just makes that process a little harder, but it's still possible.
Inline links aren't the only way to get such info easily, though. Sometimes I also do so by hovering over links in the render preview, which works for both forms of links.
In my years of editing FAQs, I've used both forms of links, and if there were such a rule, I definitely would have run into it at some point
Well, my final decision is that it's a waste of time and effort to go bumping posts just because you think the link should be somewhere else. Whether you use inline links or lists is primarily a choice of the person who wrote a post, and when you edit a post you just leave that alone. Changes like that are truly 'no improvement whatsoever', and disguising them as 'ease of reading' is just... I can't even.
@Tinkeringbell well I'm also very annoyed with useless edits bumping ancient posts back to the front, just had discussion about that in comments under such post, the other person claiming that any edit is super important. (They just changed SO to Stack Overflow in 9 years old answer.)
Feel free to check in my activity, won't link here, but anyway I didn't think that's the case here.
@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 The post in question had already been bumped earlier by a more substantive edit I made
A bit of a question, though: is it OK to make a non-substantive edit if that post ((parent) question or any (other) answers) had already been bumped earlier by a substantive edit?
@Tinkeringbell aka too minor, yeah, I totally agree, like changing SO to Stack Overflow when it's the only change.
(to 9 years old post that was not bumped shortly before)
Also, moving turds is gross. Eww.
:D
Read today about Germany case where 5 people found dead in their home, of which 3 are just kids. But police gave no details, so something there is odd. @Luuklag @Tink @rene you're all from Netherlands, right? Not Germany? (Not that it really matters...)
@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 News here said there's rumors the family was quarantining due to Covid, and that there was a suicide note. So probably just another of those family dramas
@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 good question. I guess it's nice for future SE archaeologists but they could use the revision history as well. FWIW, those UserVoice edits (one every three days) are fully automated.
