@Lix - I am just interested - I voted on 600 questions, but I have not received the badge for it? so propably I misunderstood what the "electorate" badge is rewarded for?
@Dharmendra Under the "by type" heading, you see how many votes you've cast on questions, and how many votes you've cast on answers. You've cast 296 votes on questions, and 637 votes on answers.
@dha - a question is the actual question that was asked... a question can have multiple answers... only the vote on the actual question is counted for the badge...
@Lix Well, only the vote for the question counts towards that 600. Any votes on the answers still count for that badge as part of the "more than 25%" bit
@Lix As a .NET developer I've found using TortoiseGit with GitHub makes for a great way to store simple little side projects and bits of code. Though I feel like I'm not getting the "full Git experience."
(Also, TortoiseGit is a little buggy at times, but still very much usable.)
Is there any way to complain about getting downvoted?
Threads like the above are one of many that make it clear that the anonymous nature of down-voting sometimes causes a heated discussion as to why a down-vote was made. This is understandable, in some cases, were the member providing the answe...
true dat.... his heart was in the right place - but one has to seriously think about all the angles when suggesting a new feature... or a change of an existing one...
@Lix Especially one that messes with the "game balance" on SO, and particularly so when dealing with comments (the 2nd-class content citizens of the realm) and things that will incite more consternation rather than less
@Lix - This comment, in particular, I find enjoyable.
@PopularDemand I think so, but I don't remember. I also recall something popping up if you do too many downvotes without an upvote in there somewhere (could be wrong... that might be related to answers vs. questions)
@SantaFosco I've found that it really depends on the person, and also about the issue in question. "Thinkers" tend to be much more open than "doers", especially when the issue is about an idea or a "how do I do this" rather than a "what did I do wrong"
There are so many bad questions... Mostly what bothers me is people asking how to make solution A work, without telling us the problem or having any doubt that solution A is the way to go.
I don't know where it's from originally, but I've heard it in a lot of different places. Usually right before or right after the Simpsons line I just used.
@SantaFosco Oddly enough, other than the "give me a solution" tone to that question, I don't find it all that bad (yes, it needs some work, but the root is fine). I could easily see how, especially for someone with minimal experience, that question makes perfect sense.
@PopularDemand The Simpsons quote also reminds me of something a co-worker who grew up in communist eastern Europe once said... "Communism was never about sharing. It was about telling other people to share."
@SantaFosco I didn't read the specific example you just gave, but I don't see what's wrong with just telling someone how to do A. In 99% of cases you don't know enough about the problem to know for sure that A is wrong, and even if it is wrong, it's what the OP asked for, and what future searchers (who may have a different use case) need.
He has a fundamentally lack of knowledge of how databases/queries work, and is asking a specific solution question without explaining the context. It's bad, and he's not there to update/communicate.
@PopularDemand Agreed... I have many times answered exactly what they asked, and been downvoted for it. lol.
@jadarnel27 I've often free-handed code in answers simply because I didn't have anything around to test it. So the caveat is fair, just worded a little lazily there :)
@PopularDemand I used to work for a state government agency many years ago and we once had a large overhaul of our standard lookup data. The change that caught my eye was "Several new options for 'Gender'."
:920661 I hope not. I would expect a list to be both comprehensively exhaustive and mutually exclusive. If they were just tossing in abbreviations then I fear for their data integrity.
Though this was the same place which required that we never use boolean fields in the database for reasons which escape me. So for true/false flags I would use character fields with enum values like "is" and "no is"
@David M, F, O are standard values in DICOM data. But if they were considering "gender" to be how the person was seen / saw themselves instead of just physical characteristics and/or chromosomal fingerprint, they could have a whole slew of options. And that's not even counting "formatting" variations like spelling, capitalization, etc.
@David If you had been in Canada, it would probably have been "eh" and "not eh"
@cdeszaq My suggestion at the time was to just change the wording of the question instead of the data of the answers. Instead of asking which gender they are, ask which public restroom they use.
Starting with the next build, anonymous users will be redirected when they visit duplicate questions with no answers.
As with migration and merge redirects you can disable with ?noredirect=1.
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Since it on'y applies to non-logged-in users, I don't think it's as much of an issue. A logged-in user can "fix" the incorrect duplicate state, but an anonymous user can't do anything anyways
Incidentally, it also affects Google, since it's a redirect
I think the idea is that it's much more important to get anon users to land on actual content than on something that isn't actually content (or perhaps not the best content)
If Kevin Montrose is correct and Google will still pick up on keywords in the titles then it's not the end of the world, but it still seems like a loss.
@JeremyBanks Since it's only for non-answered questions, I don't see it being too problematic. It might be better if the original content was included in the body of the redirect response (i don't know if Google looks at this), but it is a bit worrysome
@JeremyBanks I suppose that makes sense, as long as the links that google is crawling (ie. from non SE network sites) have the titles in the URL, since they are not strictly required. (case in point: skeptics.stackexchange.com/q/8633/651 has just the ID)
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> GET /q/8633/651
< Location: /questions/8633/is-it-true-that-your-heart-skips-a-beat-when-you-sneeze
> GET /questions/8633/is-it-true-that-your-heart-skips-a-beat-when-you-sneeze
< Location: /questions/6151/does-your-heart-stop-beating-when-you-sneeze
i wonder if anyone has ever flagged their own question/chat comment for a moderator. "Moderator! Moderator! I'm being an a**hole! Please kick me out of this room!"
@animuson Oh, I would imagine that's not uncommon. There's a grace period for edits (and I think deletes), so a moderator would be needed to change something which needs to be changed after that grace period.
solving quadratic equations is an old art, if you have the equation in the form a*(x-h)^2 + k = 0, first rewrite it to a*(x-h)^2 = -k, then divide by a, (x-h)^2 = -k/a
If I may add a concurrence to animuson's position: I leave for an hour and you're inviting middle schoolers in to do their math homework? This is a Tavern, people!
@DanielFischer When possible, I still do most of my programming work in a pub. Somehow, I'm able to focus that much better when my senses are slightly dulled
Is it just me or is the chat on SO broken right now?
It loads without the stylesheets.
Update
master-chat.js and feed-icon128.png don't load.
It also seems the transcript doesn't work.
UPDATE2
Refresh without cache to see what I mean. Any browser. Looks like an update gone wrong??
Is there an easy way to see the pre-edit source for a suggested edit? It's hard to judge some formatting edits without being able to compare to the original.
Starting with the next build, anonymous users will be redirected when they visit duplicate questions with no answers.
As with migration and merge redirects you can disable with ?noredirect=1.
Is it just me or is the chat on SO broken right now?
It loads without the stylesheets.
Update
master-chat.js and feed-icon128.png don't load.
It also seems the transcript doesn't work.
UPDATE2
Refresh without cache to see what I mean. Any browser. Looks like an update gone wrong??
