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I find it weird that the comment is locked rather than deleted. Funny it be, it does not seem à propos for answering a quæstion.
by Blikkentrekker 6y ago
I find it weird that the comment is locked rather than deleted.
Funny it be, it does not seem à propos for answering a quæstion.
- _jal 6y agoAt this point, it is a cultural artifact.
- Alupis 6y agoIt's from a time before StackOverflow (and StackExchange at large) got very ridged with all the rules. Back then, there were a lot of "fun" questions and answers, including the infamous "What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?"[1] Some old timers might remember those days... SO was a much more fun place back then. Now it's rife with down-voters, close-voters and hostile-towards-newbie folks. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-...
- NobodyNada 6y agoThe post was locked because it had received hundreds of flags and comments complaining that the post was broken -- even with the moderator note at the bottom -- and several edits trying to "fix" the post. See https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/250099#comment637_250099 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/250099#comment637_2...
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoMy point is that the comment should be deleted altogether as it's more of a personal rant than a serious answer.
- aasasd 6y agoYou'll fit in extremely well as a moderator on today's StackExchange.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoI'm not saying that these should be the rules. Only that so long as they be the rules, they should be consistently enforced.
- WhyNott 6y agoTo be fair, "law doesn't work backwards" is an estabilished legal principle.