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by cruise02 14y ago
Yes, that's going to be true anywhere. There are 30,000 posts on Meta already, so it's a good idea to search first. Valid complaints are paid attention though.
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by cruise02 14y ago
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/2950/1288
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by cruise02 14y ago
I've heard this complaint before, and I kind of understand where it comes from, but removing politeness isn't the same as rudeness. I'm not replacing "thanks" with "suck it." I'm just removing "thanks." It really doesn't belong where mos
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by cruise02 14y ago
> There are examples... Where are these examples? This is the internet. Please provide links. > And the rest of us are powerless to do anything about it. That's simply not true. Stack Exchange provides a Meta site where you can t
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by cruise02 14y ago
Then answer the old question. Or suggest an edit to one of the old answers if it's out of date. Anyone can do those things, even with only 1 reputation point. The system was designed specifically so answers can change over time.
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by cruise02 14y ago
> Another thing that resonated deeply with me was how Newton studied a book by a French mathematician (I don’t remember which one): he started reading the book – when he found it too hard, he started over. That’s what he did until he un
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by cruise02 14y ago
If you want your complaints to reach people who can actually do something about them you'll go where those people are. If you don't really care, that's fine. Keep posting your complaints on blogs and in comments on sites other than the on
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by cruise02 14y ago
I didn't try to define anything as illegitimate. I don't make policy at SE, the community there does. There are thousands of active users who discuss policy issues on SE. Most of them are never going to see random blog posts and comments
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by cruise02 14y ago
This isn't my opinion, so I don't know what you're disagreeing with. Would you expect HN to change because of comments you read on Stack Overflow? Of course not. Everyone is perfectly welcome to discuss things where and whenever they wan
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by cruise02 14y ago
I never said the guy couldn't or shouldn't post on his blog about it, nor did I say it can't be discussed here on HN. If you want something to actually be done about what you perceive as a problem though, you need to join in the community
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by cruise02 14y ago
I'm not the one who's confused. Moderators don't set the policy for what's on topic at Stack Exchange sites, the communities who use those sites do. The place to argue what is and isn't on topic isn't on that guy's blog, and it isn't here
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by cruise02 14y ago
No, I think you're being willfully ignorant. He explicitly says "broaden allowed topics for discussion." He understands what's on topic and what isn't. He wants a place to have discussions that are off topic for Stack Overflow, but doesn'
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by cruise02 14y ago
He is complaining about wanting to ask off-topic questions, which is exactly what you denied was in the article.
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by cruise02 14y ago
Oh, not on the official site. I don't think that page is updated in real time, so the vote counts would be off by quite a bit for the hottest questions on each site. You might find an app on http://stackapps.com/ that uses the API thoug
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by cruise02 14y ago
No, I don't think I've ever seen any official support for customizing themes. There is the Hot Dog theme for SO ( http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/34939/1288 ) that you might be able to use as a starting point for a custom user theme.
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by cruise02 14y ago
This is a legitimate issue. We'd prefer to just have one canonical resource for each question asked. We do try to help Google out by merging duplicate questions together when we can, but with 3.5 million questions to review some topics ca
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by cruise02 14y ago
Here you go http://stackexchange.com/questions Click the "Filtered Questions" link at the top to customize it.
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by cruise02 14y ago
From the linked article: > ...throw out the gazillion-sub-site silliness and broaden allowed topics for discussion.
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by cruise02 14y ago
I'm one of the moderators on Stack Overflow. It's not my goal to stamp out any sign that SO is a social network, but I do want to prevent it from turning into Yahoo! Answers. Some level of moderation is necessary to maintain quality. Jus
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What cryptographic flaw was exploited by Flame to get it signed by Microsoft?(security.stackexchange.com)
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by cruise02 14y ago
Yes, there are additional notes. Look for the "download the full presentation" link (requires slideshare login) right after the "It's better to be safe than sorry..." quote.
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by cruise02 14y ago
> I live in the American Gardens Building on W. 81st Street on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face
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by cruise02 14y ago
Great examples, both. Even though Programming Pearls is a series of articles bound together, being by the same author and on a common theme makes them feel like they have a narrative running through them. Petzold's Code is another exam
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by cruise02 15y ago
I locked the question because it was deleted by community vote. If I hadn't undeleted and locked, it wouldn't be visible at all. Just proves you don't know what you're talking about. I haven't attacked anyone here.
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by cruise02 15y ago
How has that been made clear at all? I've only seen one link to an actual question here, and that one wasn't deleted, but locked (by me) to prevent it from being deleted. Raise your standard of proof.
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by cruise02 15y ago
> Let the search engines figure that out! It's their job! Ummm... right. You go ahead and keep posting noise to your site and let the search engines figure it out. Let us know how that works.
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by cruise02 15y ago
We do look at number of views and links to a post before deleting it. That's why a lot of questions that aren't really on-topic for Stack Overflow are simply locked instead of deleted. We're trying to clean up the site without breaking th
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by cruise02 15y ago
This isn't about running out of bits. The primary reason for creating Stack Overflow was to increase the signal/noise ratio for programming information on the Web. If we don't reduce the noise, then search engines have a harder time tryin
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by cruise02 15y ago
> They have no data to back this claim... Neither do you. I'm the moderator who undeleted and locked that question so it can't be deleted again (after ten community members voted to delete it). I've argued in the past in their favor,
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by cruise02 15y ago
"Link or it didn't happen" is a perfectly valid response to empty complaints that provide no evidence. As a moderator I'm in a position to actually do something about real problems. If you just whine and complain without giving me a lin

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