(Please read carefully. This isn't about sock puppets.)
I just noticed that our friendly Joe Friend has two Stack Overflow accounts, only one of which has moderator privileges. He seems to have another account, which is listed as having the same network account as the former account, and the sam...
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@ShadowWizard hmmm ... FWIW I only checked the question and chose the same close reason as Sonic. Since there's no close reason "answer no longer needed" and I've yet to see somebody use a custom off-topic reason "I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because answers on this question are no longer needed" I can hardly people asking this question anymore.
@Glorfindel still, closing faq makes no sense. If anything, have the faq tag be removed first, then close.
I'm also not comfortable closing faqs as duplicate like @Sonic did, would never do it myself, since it creates weird scenario. Ideally, the two topic will be merged somehow.
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog no, can't see how it's related. If you want me to use hammer for non trivial cases, please explain when asking, will save some time.
One can ask "How to delete a question?", then post a comment "Wait, no, how to edit a question?". The question will still be "How to delete a question?".
@JourneymanGeek trying to be not too overzealous, but also use hammer when it's needed. :)
@Magisch I just checked your answer which has that comment. The answer, while it looks correct compared to the accepted answer, might looks like a "hint" compared to a "solution". Unfortunately SO doesn't really like "hint" answers (if I recall some posts on MSO)?
It's good that you learnt the expected quality on SO from that comment though :)
@Magisch your case is good example for the collateral damage that the upcoming changes will cause, yeah. No doubt SO/SE would lose many users as result.
I probably got upset by that comment at the time and cursed at the computer
But it would have been orders of magnitude worse to not get a comment at all
I don't buy the "If you can't say anything nice don't speak" because I think a lot of the people who regularly snark also have so much value to add with the non snark part of their comments that getting them to stop would only leave more answers then already with no feedback, which is the least welcoming thing you can do someone.
I find it personally much worse to be ignored then insulted. At least if someone insults me unless it's entirely baseless there's some value I can extract
@Magisch not sure I agree, from a neutral perspective. No feedback is not insulting. Guess the next step would be to allow "Hello and welcome to Stack Overflow, thanks for your question/answer!" comments, or maybe even auto post such comments.
(these days such comments will still be flagged as "not needed")
@ShadowWizard I disagree. You've taken time out of your day to ask a question or help someone with theirs. No feedback is complete disrespect of that time
Getting actionable criticism couched in insults isn't ideal, maybe even very upsetting, but it's something
heh, perfect example of someone unable to take even hint of criticism: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311829/…. Not my downvote there, and I was super polite in the comments.
And such people makes the major part (I'd take a guess at 99.999%) of Stack Overflow new users.
They don't get the answer they want to hear and they take off angry.
I don't have that much energy as is, gotta portion it wisely
Every bit of time I spend staying angry at the world could be spent relaxing or having fun. In that sense it is a zero sum game. And anger doesn't feel great either
When I was a child and naive, I have a thought where I believe all people are law abiding. Eventually, I was broken badly when many people cut my queue. Since then, I don't care about the ideal world and the surrounding.
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It hasn't been very well publicised, but StackExchange is going to drop support for most third party logins in less than a month from today. This could affect a lot of the old-timers, because back when we joined the site it didn't have its own login accounts. Therefore this is a public service an...
@Sonic is this your close vote here? If so, can you please retract it? The API is still alive, it was just upgraded from version 1 to version 2 at some point, so the link appears to be "dead" perhaps. If not you, can you please vote to Leave Open?
oops @So has too many users...
@Glorfindel yet again.... how exactly is this off topic as "can't be reproduced"??? If there is something I miss, please add a comment explaining this. (I know you just followed existing close flag in the queue, but still...)
Stack Overflow allows spoilers in the form:
>! SPOILER
Example:
Why doesn't chat support them? They would be quite useful, especially for rooms that are frequently off topic and often have dicussions about movies etc.
Many other sites, like Arqade, would make even better use of spoilers.
I both use ROT13 in my own comments AND find myself agreeing with you. It does make the comments section look a bit of a mess and could be off-putting to first-time visitors to the site.
I suppose we have to ask ourselves why people use it. They want to hide potential spoilers.
Puzzling is uniq...
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I posted an answer and while I was waiting to see if it would go through I got a popup saying a new answer was added. Turns out it was my own and it was that slow that it served me my own notification
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My current workflow: unlock remote desktop session with long password that can't be copy pasted, get distracted long enough to have the remote lock again, repeat. And I really need to get this done ....
@rene Oh hey, I'm getting into that workflow too... open the session, have to look up something obscure about using SVN or Emacs (the former archaeologist in me is having a field day on this project)... and go back to find the session closed. Then decide to catch up on the SE chatrooms, clear some flags on IPS, get coffee, get stuck on small-talk and hey, it's lunchtime!