@random I think we should be rather working on the community instead of making problems when there are none; thank you for pointing me at an actual mistake, it would be helpful if you did that every time instead of leaving a comment that doesn't get to the point...
@random: Remember, I'm trying to help the community. I'm not someone who has done so much effort just to be able to annoy users or make them go away...
@BloodPhilia I wish I had such an awesome sticker, they keep sending me everything except for those stickers.
@random Read the sentence above that, if you only base it on your personal opinion then it makes sense to ignore it.
@random If I wouldn't ignore, I would listen and edit all questions to just keywords, "Sudden hard drive crash problem, How do i recover/save the data?" to "hard drive crash recovery". But then I'm going to bump into other people. Just because I listened to your personal opinion on question titles?
I'd rather have "How to recover data from a hard drive crash?".
@TomWijsman is being factious really necessary..? And recover what? You've removed reference to the data - the example title is now incomplete, not concise
@TomWijsman the body is important, but there's a lot of difference between recovering data and recovering the drive for further use - the title should narrow things as much as possible
@random If I wouldn't ignore, I would listen and edit all questions to just keywords, "Sudden hard drive crash problem, How do i recover/save the data?" to "hard drive crash recovery". But then I'm going to bump into other people. Just because I listened to your personal opinion on question titles?
@TomWijsman I'm telling you because you're using an incorrect justification - you can't remove data because it doesn't fit (it makes the title incomplete) therefore the other words cannot be extraneous unless you accept incorrect grammer
1. Make the problem stand out.
The purpose of a title is to attract people interested in your problem or who can give you an answer. People scan web pages quickly. Make
it easy for them to notice your question. Some people read via the RSS
feed, so they don't see tags.
2. Keep it short.
You...
You've entirely changed the post here. If you were doing so in your own voice, it would have been better to post a new answer altogether instead of hijacking an existing one
@TomWijsman bad grammer is bad - that's why it's corrected so frequently on the site - and breaking a title to "fix" bad grammar that's a result of trimmings words is therefore bad - where's the opinion?
> Here are some good titles, taken from existing posts. They succinctly summarize the question and will catch readers' eyes when scanning down the list.
What you did was make up titles out of whole cloth to fit your narrative
> Tom, thanks for the assist but since the edit materially changes the answer in part 4, I'm reverting that portion. I am taking the opportunity to add the heatmap screenshot, since it seems that's the part most people disagree with so far. Thanks! - Mark Harrison
"A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding." ~ William Gibson
Because putting your opinion in other people's posts and then saying you don't listen to other people's personal opinion is the crux of the matter here
Hmm... To anyone else... when I starred... Tom Wijsman's video... I didn't read the context of why he posted it (Just reading now)... I make no reference to that argument and I am staying out... just saying it is a funny video!
If the tags are to be the source of information... Should we encourage links to Wikipedia (I am trying to get more in to editing/flagging!) ... superuser.com/suggested-edits/4913 Not pointing at Digitxp, he is improving what is there, just don't think it should be there in the first place.
@random ... Can you explain? :/ How can you push something in to wiki?
Okay, keep calm, someone may actually accept an answer....
One. Smegging. Point. One single tiny smegging point. One single tiny insignificant little teensy point and I could have gotten "fanatic" on the same day as reaching 10k.
@grawity Yeah, you get that a lot, some of the answers I spent longest on get 1-2 votes, one where I tell them to press Ctrl-; to insert a date into excel gets nearly 20... go figure...
@Mokubai Not strictly cheating... but... if you (or anyone) has good answers, post the link here, I will always be happy to upvote good answers! (don't be offended if I don't upvote - I hardly ever do OSX/linux or similar when I have no idea if it is a good answer!)
@digitxp not sure if you are interested, but, after reading one of your tag edits, I wrote this - meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/104315/… ... I did accept as it was a good edit though. Don't you get tired of making edits!!!
@digitxp "Arch Linux, unlike a typical linux distribution, does not include any default software in its installation" -- don't coreutils and the like count as software?
@Mokubai hehe... look at my questions... I have a low accept rate because I asked very specific questions that haven't been answered and I still need help... feel free to answer some! :) ... Also, sorry, can't remember/didn't read up, have you checked your /reputation to make sure it isn't higher!?
@TomWijsman I think it might be in your best interest to just take the rest of the day off from SU... not saying your wrong, or right, I think you just need a rest good buddy.
@TomWijsman your four most recent meta questions, while useful, came right after a pretty heated discussion earlier. They may be viewed as trying to either validate your stances or trying to poke at the issue.
I understand what you're trying to do, but maybe letting it be for a day or two and then coming back to those issues, might be a good idea
@TomWijsman perhaps, but I'm not going to get into a discussion on the finer details, plain and simple, there are oposing views on this topic at this time, and both sides are very firm in their stance
In situations like this, it is better to stop for a while (at max a day or two) and asses later
If anyone has Virtual Box installed, can you tell me the default settings file it uses in the latest version (I want to tidy up this answer I just wrote - superuser.com/questions/329590/… )
@SimonSheehan But it doesn't help if some of that work is frowned upon and pointed that in public (chat resulting in a heated discussion, obsolete comments on meta questions, edit history, ...). Makes sense to just leave the community that way...
@Tom with regard to the first two, I have observed what I interpret as a sentiment among some members of the community that there has been excessive editing lately. I think we can all agree that it would be nice if there were a more elegant way of handling edit floods. That being said, there's been a lot of heated discussion about edit flooding on meta, which I think has been even more annoying for certain people who wish we could just move on.
(hold on - I'm still writing, just ran out of space)
If you think of a specific way in which edit floods could be reduced without preventing people from making useful edits and without having to discuss at ridiculous length "what is a worthy edit", then a lot of people would be happy to hear it. But I think we need to take a break from arguing about what edits should and should not be made. It's getting silly, and I think people get annoyed by that.
@TomWijsman I'm just addressing the first two links you mentioned
now I haven't read all the transcript in ask a mod, so I'll have to look at that later
as for lots of boldusage, that's just a pet peeve of random's, I wouldn't take it personally
@RebeccaChernoff Edits should have a certain quality as to improve the question and answer so that other user benefit from it, trivial edits can be made but they should be made multiple times at the same time. In some specific case, it might be necessary to add a tag to multiple questions to benefit the people as they could search in the tag.
@RebeccaChernoff If necessary, they should be planned out well so that they do not interfere with the front page in such way that you can't see the recent non-editing activity anymore; there should always be a share of quality edits and recent new questions & answers.
@RebeccaChernoff Of course, in some extraordinary cases manual intervention is necessary to maintain quality of the community, but these should be planned out well on meta and chat: Get multiple editors together, prepare all edits in tabs and do some normal activity after the short flood to bump it halfway down the front page.
@nhinkle Uhm... I've not been doing that until after it has been made clear that my edits are not wanted.
The problem with all of those solutions is it involved excessive planning and intervention and other stuff. We need a solution that doesn't inconvenience so many people. For example, if a user makes more than, say, 5 edits in an hour, then they shouldn't all show up on the home page at once - perhaps they should randomly show a portion of those edits, so when you refresh the page, you only see 5 of the edits, but it's a different 5 edits by that user.
I'm towards the point that I'm just confused, it's like people pushing from two sides.
I'd rather have a meta post that gets to the point than differing personal opinions...
@nhinkle You could say "I wouldn't take it personally" for everything, but there is a point where it is enough.
@nhinkle You just said not to argue about it, I just referred to my Town Hall chat to point out that I changed by view on edit floods as so far, I'm not willing to discuss it here.
Look, I'm not trying to start a fight or anything. I just wanted to know if there was anything in particular bothering you. I hear you saying that you've had some confusion over what the community's expectations are with edits, and I understand that confusion. I suppose making some meta posts about it is reasonable. If you feel like there are personal tensions between you and a moderator, I'd suggest that you email them directly or ping them in chat. I'm sure Random would be willing to talk.
If you want specific behavior addressed, you need to call it out. You can't just assume that somebody knows why you're frustrated or that they understand your viewpoint.
Have you and random actually sat down and discussed in private (via email or chat) your differences and misunderstandings, or have you just thrown passive aggressive comments at each other in various formats? It's disconcerting to see such a rift between a prolific and involved user and a moderator. I honestly think that if you both took a moment to reflect, and then had a respectful conversation in private, it could be productive.
@TomWijsman your comments have not always been direct and polite either. You're proving my point: ambiguous comments in meta threads don't help matters. If you actually tried to have a dialogue, you might be able to understand one another better, if it were to the point.
At this point I'm going to agree with Kronos and suggest that you maybe take a short break. Go answer some non-meta questions, or just do something else for a bit. I'm not sure what you want, but it seems that you don't want to have a dialogue, so perhaps you just need to take a deep breath, and approach the situation with new eyes tomorrow.
@WilliamHilsum I'm not seeing exceptional privileges be implemented, see my comment for yet another idea but I guess it's not going to get checked frequently enough.
@nhinkle Well, this is the only thing I'm assuming: Random doesn't want one.
@nhinkle Honestly, I've got quite some studying and work to do the next days so I won't be here anyway.
Ping @random: Read nhinkle's comments. Hope we can forget about this and start anew... ^
@nhinkle Today was more of a procrastination day, too distracted/upset/bored to learn. Started bad with a discussion about the post Ivo said as a comment, then I went to watch some TV and when I wanted to go back to Super User (although I said I wouldn't), random pinged me on chat and it started again... :(
@TomWijsman but, I think it is best and will solve everything... I think it should be a privilege and it would solve everything, either a very high reputation privilege or simply (Was it you @Nhinkle on the MSO page?) a high record of good edits.
@Borisyo It looks like they determined, for whatever reason, the question wasn't of sufficient quality for the site, based on that message. Not a lot else to say, with no more information.
Hybrid Sleep effectively does the same thing as Sleep, except if the computer loses power, it also treats it as a hibernate, so when you boot back up, it resumes from where you left off.
So you really only want hybrid sleep. There's no benefit to simply sleep, if you have hybrid sleep enabled.
That's why they have hybrid sleep replace regular sleep.
So I bought a Cyborg RAT 7 mouse a while back, and I love it, except for one thing: it's not automatically selecting the profile for the game I've just started. This is annoying because, for instance, I have the forward and back buttons, as well as the side scroll set up for weapon selection in ...
1. Make the problem stand out.
The purpose of a title is to attract people interested in your problem or who can give you an answer. People scan web pages quickly. Make
it easy for them to notice your question. Some people read via the RSS
feed, so they don't see tags.
2. Keep it short.
You...
