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Ugh, it's being edited constantly too! Someone just removed the "Hello" from the first line, which was part of what made it great...
by mjs 14y ago
Ugh, it's being edited constantly too! Someone just removed the "Hello" from the first line, which was part of what made it great...
- ygra 14y agoFor some reason that change was attributed to me when all I did was adding a comma after the »Hello« o.ô EDIT: Ouch. I think those are SO's automatic attempts at making answers less chatty by removing salutations and thanks and the like. I'll rollback or try fixing it by doing evil Unicode things, then.
- MojoJolo 14y agoBoo. I read it with "Hello" and at that moment, I knew it will be a great read. Why someone remove it?
- friendly_chap 14y agoStackoverflow is plagued by overzealous editing IMHO. I understand it's hard to balance it, but a question of mine recently got 3 downvotes and a close, to be reopened later! And now it even has 2 upvotes. A guy answered it immediately, while some other peeps started whining about how it is not a proper question! I only wanted a quick fix, and I got it too, while the others nitpicked. Hilarious.
- mctx 14y agoI think it's great - it's not about solving your quick fix, it's about providing future value for googlers.
- zapdrive 14y agoThen where does one go for quick fixes?
- ldh 14y agoIRC, maybe.
- mctx 14y agoI treat SO like a technically superior colleague - if I'm stuck with something and have exhausted my other options (documentation, examples, research, SO search), then I'll phrase my question clearly, showing my progress and what I'm stuck on. This makes me look good to my colleague, and enables him to understand where I'm coming from. A lot of the time by writing out the question in full I'll be able to solve it myself by getting my thoughts organised.
- friendly_chap 14y agoMy quick fix question was entirely googlable.