With the introduction of the new Community Bulletin, I'm finding myself confused between the purpose of the red featured tag and the red faq on the per-site metas.
In the above sidebar, in the Community Bulletin, one of the questions listed has the tag faq and the other has the tag featured.
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@question_asker Have you actually found anyone else on this site that feels the way you do about it? Have you considered that maybe it's your views that are skewed and that the majority of users are happy with the way things are done?
@manshu tl;dr for Unsafe: it's basically a class in Java that's "not supposed to be used" because it lets you do things that Java "isn't supposed to do"
I mentioned this in chat before, but instead of "bounty" it would be more correct to say that the community would want the ability to "tip". This isn't what I've proposed in this answer, and can be put into another answer. It would then be sort of a compromise between the Supervote and Bounty. It would allow us to give up our points (+5, +10, +15) like a bounty. It would be unlike the Supervote in the sense that it costs us extra to reward the question more than it deserves. — Wesley Situ14 hours ago
what
"tipping" was literally zero of the options any of us had put forth
no one made that suggestion, so I don't know why this was declared to be what the "community" wanted
But that's not the point of me pointing that out - it's really counterproductive to go "oh this thing I just made up is what the community wants" when the two things we had all explicitly mentioned were already in the post (and, not coincidentally, the highest-voted answers, still)
What I'm saying is: there's a difference between "making a suggestion" (which it would have been, if not for that comment) and claiming it's "what the community wants"
And the option of "Ask the question asker to answer their own question, and then award a bounty on that placeholder answer." seems counter-intuitive. It suggests that first the question asker should put efforts in making and asking the question and then put more efforts in answering his own question just for rep.
and, as wrong and awful as shog was yesterday, I understand why he would think we don't have our shit together when 99% of us are going "this is what we want" and one of us is going "yes, that's true. what we want is [completely different thing]"
look I can't stress this enough - I was absolutely astounded at the way that dude interacted with us. If I talked that way to anyone at my job, I'd be out on the street in under an hour.
I've seen a few edits in the suggested edit queue that consist pretty much entirely of people inserting spoiler markup for questions. I understand why it's desirable, but I'm wondering if the decision to mark something as a spoiler shouldn't just be left to the answerer themself.
but in all seriousness, I think it's just good practice to spoilerize answers unless they're just going to be deleted, in which case don't waste the effort
Reading this answer (see comments) or this question here on meta, are answers expected and/or allowed to use spoiler tags for the reason:
Doing a favor for those who don't want to immediately see the solution when they load the page.
- generalcrispy
and
since we'll be discussing v...
questions on the other hand... I'm of the mind to just leave question formatting to the OP, unless there's a problem with it that is definitely, obviously not intentional
What? You don't find my title helpful? You had no idea what you were going to read before you opened the question...I see.
This site is getting on the Stack Exchange Hot List a lot lately! I've been clicking over fairly often and finding good stuff to read. I'm also finding quite a bit of th...
also, another thing that's meaningful to me when looking at meta posts is: how many of the people making their opinions known actually, you know, use the site? because honestly? the opinion of someone who isn't a regular here doesn't (and, imo, shouldn't) mean shit.
I don't base what I do on what the people who lived in my apartment before me liked.
to be clear, I'm not saying the people who posted those things are "wrong" because they're not here anymore, just that their opinions don't hold much weight with me
well my unofficial answer is that it would be nice if it was a policy just to make sure it happens uniformly across the site, since it seems like most people don't want to accidentally read the answer before they get a chance to try to answer.
but I would like to hear arguments against them
@manshu I'm dying to see the answer to that math problem
dude's comment back to you made it sound like the answer was "interesting" in some way (which doesn't rule out the possibility that it's Still Just A Math Problem)
@question_asker Why shouldn't a question asker get to choose the answer that he likes best? Why must he be put on some sort of clock for when he chooses the answer?
@LeppyR64 You misunderstand me! I agree that a question asker should be allowed to choose. But go ahead and post a puzzle and don't select the correct answer when it's posted and see what happens.
Can someone look at my answer here: http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/32412/the-trained-agent I'm having trouble formatting the number grids in the spoilers. I want the columns to line up and don't know how to do it.
@Khale_Kitha Fair enough. I'll go in and summarize it all later today when I can get to a real pc.
@GordonAllocman You at least posted an answer that a) understands what a rebus is (i.e., doesn't try to solve it like it's an equation) and b) uses an actual "common idiom"
people see a rebus and they're like "uh I worked it out, it's 3.255." or "hmm, seems like this one works out to the phrase 'I rode my bike up and down a hill in the rain on a Tuesday in November but then a gremlin hit me on the head and I fell down and that's all I can remember for now'"
I can't find any idiom using two weeks or fortnight from a simple google search but maybe my google-fu is a little weak today
Inb4 someone makes a rebus for "I rode my bike up and down a hill in the rain on a Tuesday in November but then a gremlin hit me on the head and I fell down and that's all I can remember for now"
I was going to say, for the "not for nothing" rebus, even that is one that I'd be reluctant to post, since it's a phrase you really only hear in the US northeast
A maths puzzle is a puzzle that involves maths. If there's no actual puzzle elements, and it's just maths, then that's exactly what it is. Not a puzzle.
@LeppyR64 @Khale_Kitha Good job. Due to the fact, that I can't split up the bounty (what would be reasonable here), would you mind if I pick Khale_Kitha's answer? I have seen KK working hard on this one, contributing a lot. Any other suggestion?
With the introduction of the new Community Bulletin, I'm finding myself confused between the purpose of the red featured tag and the red faq on the per-site metas.
In the above sidebar, in the Community Bulletin, one of the questions listed has the tag faq and the other has the tag featured.
...
What does this little rebus mean?
14 0
Is fourteen wrong or what?
I've seen a few edits in the suggested edit queue that consist pretty much entirely of people inserting spoiler markup for questions. I understand why it's desirable, but I'm wondering if the decision to mark something as a spoiler shouldn't just be left to the answerer themself.
Reading this answer (see comments) or this question here on meta, are answers expected and/or allowed to use spoiler tags for the reason:
Doing a favor for those who don't want to immediately see the solution when they load the page.
- generalcrispy
and
since we'll be discussing v...
What? You don't find my title helpful? You had no idea what you were going to read before you opened the question...I see.
This site is getting on the Stack Exchange Hot List a lot lately! I've been clicking over fairly often and finding good stuff to read. I'm also finding quite a bit of th...
I have to try this one !
Probably very far'fetched, but:
because:
What does the following rebus represent?
DSo0+
The answer, as the title implies, is something musical.
