I did not know that you could run out of Q/A votes :) Makes sense though

@SteveRobillard I agree. Now that I have read about how the system works and understand it better I realize I shouldn't have been doing that. I'll delete the ones of mine that haven't been responded to.

...and...I'm out of votes...

@RPiAwesomeness IIRC it is a daily max

@AwesomeUser

please join me in chat

@StevenLu and I were starting to discuss raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/q/311/141 in comments, but it would be better here on chat, so I suggested it be moved here.

@StevenLu initially responded to my +19 comment "For code, you may also want to consider using distributed version control software like git or hg, that way you not only have copies of your code in multiple places, but also have the complete history of how that code has changed." with "@MarkBooth "May want to consider" is putting it rather lightly, isn't it now? "

@MarkBooth you are correct and I am likely to delete the comments as they are somewhat off topic to the question

I replied with "Learning how to use a DVCS is a significant investment in time @StevenLu, so while you or I know it will pay off in the end for us, for some people just taking a backup may be enough."

@StevenLu followed up with "@MarkBooth I don't see why a DVCS is needed over a VCS if we are just considering being able to retrieve code later. Heck, it's even easier since you use revision numbers not commit hashes to identify a particular state. Learning a CVCS like Subversion isn't much of a time investment (as I recall... though it was a very, very long time ago). Yes, switching to Git was a bit unnerving at the time, but I have never ever looked back."

before I suggested moving the discussion here.

I have seen the entire comment thread since it was my question

@SteveRobillard - I'm just copying them here for reference, as the starting point for a discussion. I've already deleted my reply, as it serves no purpose wrt the question. If I could remember how to create a new chapt room populated with existing comments I would have done that rather than bringing them here.

@MarkBooth bringing them here was fine and should be done when the comment thread has gotten long or wondered from the topic of the question. You did exactly what you should have

@SteveRobillard hello

@awesomeuser I want to talk about the comments requesting users answer or accept an answer you have been leaving

and the flags you have raised to go with them.

@SteveRobillard yes, I am sorry about flagging those. I have stopped flagging them

I just want to make a few things clear and explain how things work. First inactivity is not a reason to close a question.

Ok

Second at least one answer has stated that he felt pressured to accept an answer meta.raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/q/468/56

I understand

These actions do more harm than good.

I saw that, and realized that I said to put a self answer twice.

@StevenLu The point of the original question was asking how to back up the code being written. In that respect, committing the code to version control and backing it up by pushing (to github, a git server or just a bare git repo on a shared network drive) or just committing (to a remote svn server) is much the same.

Also, questions are considered answered when they have an upvoted answer

So people don't need to accept a answer?

I would appreciate you removing those comments and remebering that the first rule of the community is to be nice.

I understand that you are invested in the site and only want to help us toward graduation. However, The best way to do that is by maintaining a helpful and welcoming community.

Ok. I was just following @RPiAwesomeness's post about q&a ratio

That's true

Ok I will look for them

I feel that the several users have made errors in judgement in pursuit of graduation or in pursuit of a number ( answered question rate)

Thanks for stopping me.

@StevenLu Using a DVCS in a CVCS workflow is no more complex than using a CVCS. In fact you can use Mercurial almost exactly like you would use SVN while getting all of the benefits of a DVCS too, and running your own mercurial server can be as simple as hg serve on a private network. So backing up a complete hg repo can be as simple as running hg serve on the RasPi and then doing an hg pull on some other machine on the network.

Correct they don't need to accept an answer for the question to marked as answered meta.raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/409/…

an upvote is all it takes. So as I said I would appreciate you removing those comments

Ok and that affects the % in Area 51?

If you want to help address the answer ratio issue you can do so by upvoting an answer.

Ps, I have removed like 3 and am going to continue now.

@AwesomeUser thank you

I apprecite your understanding and cooperation.

Ideally people should vote up all answers they find useful (and vice versa) and accept the best correct answer after answers have stopped coming in. It often takes people some time to see this behaviour and start to follow that advice themselves though, and some people never get into the habbit.

Had you responded to chat requests earlier and read the meta pages this could have been cleared up earlier.

I have to leave now, but I will continue at the next chance I have

@AwesomeUser no problem and than you

I also didn't see those chat responses. I will keep a eye out in the futute

Ok thanks

@SteveRobillard - I just messaged you on TL btw, but it looks like you might not be in that chat room currently.

@MarkBooth what do you need I was off eating dinner