so you havent slid out on a corner when hitting gravel or water yet? you havent been run into by a car that completely missed seeing you? and you havent been caught going 110mph down a roat that nobody was on, but a leetel plane up above? Ahh it is still Worth It.
The answer didn't contain an opinion, which is why I am asking about it. — Argonauts10 mins ago
I can't figure out what happen to his reputation. I see no reputation adjustments for a deleted question, which I would think, would be displayed no matter who was looking at it (perhaps its only visible to the user)?
weird, loosly looking at it (because it does not all show) he did aquire other rep during that time, that is relative to the rep that shows for that time. So the big rep from that question does seem to be missing ?
I want to stream movie via udp so I use this command line and it works well
ffmpeg -re -i test.mkv -q 1 -vcodec libx264 -f mpegts udp://network:port
but I want to run this command line using c# like this :
process = new Process();
process.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
process.StartI...
A question that I had answered was removed today, and with it I lost 592 reputation. The question is available via cache. I don't agree with the rationale for closing it out, but didn't take too much issue with it as it was still available for viewing.
The boilerplate rationale for closing it w...
Because those past few weeks were given as a chance to make the question back in scope, to collect reopen votes. But since it didn't, and no one came along to do so, it's subject to removal. 60 days is a long time to wait to see if anyone wants to fix a question
And when under 60 days the reputation is still in flux with it if it gets deleted. After 60 days it gets grandfathered and the reputation stays inflated
I'm not too sure if it's possible to actually gauge the op's intent from the question. Not sure if the answerers should be penalised for that. I was in a very similar situation , and while I was kinda meh about it....
I guess I think its questionable to wait so long, to delete a question that is nearly 45 days old, that was clearly getting views. Some of the hurt from removing this question could have prevented by removing it earlier.
Removing it earlier would have netted the same kind of outcry, of not giving the community a chance to fix it to reopen. Either you want a site littered with closed questions or you want all the juicy reputation for answering anything as fast as they come through
Even if I were a mod, I generally wouldn't delete questions unless they're unsalvageable. Old questions will sink into oblivion; really old ones with no upvotes or answers will get deleted on their own.
This is one reason I'm not exactly a fan of @random's approach. Yes, cleanliness matters, but unless the content is genuinely problematic, I wouldn't just throw it out.
A fair few posts on various metas always go into how much of a crying shame it is they lost reputation on a "really good" answer they added, to a question they admit is a poorly written or scoped, yet they don't touch or propose any edits to make the pair both good and on the level. So long as they got theirs
In this case a really good answer got 60+ votes. Its not like they answered it with two sentences and got votes, or quoted a single command, and got 85 votes.
I agree if you answer a bad question you shouldn't get reputation but in this case, votes happened, for whatever reason
@random: It's important to realize that even bad questions can have answers that provide useful information. Don't just go out and delete closed questions just for the sake of cleanliness.
If I were a mod, I'd be more inclined to use the historical lock feature instead.
Question 913055, "I literally kicked my computer. Analysis and to do list for this situation?" (10k only), was deleted by a moderator after being closed as too broad.
While the question is certainly too broad, it and its answers received a substantial number of views and upvotes prior to being d...
@random Not everything. Just questions that got lots of hits and have useful answers but wound up getting closed. These questions are rare and do not clutter the site.
Besides, the historical lock message makes it clear that the question is not a good example to follow.
To be honest, I've never really liked this approach to moderation. Cleanliness isn't everything. Closed questions aren't necessarily harmful to the site.
This is an example of the appropriate use of a historical lock:
As a programmer you certainly know the error of a stack overflow due to an obvious recursion.
But there are certainly many weird and unusual ways to get your favourite language to spit that error out.
Objectives:
Must cause a stack overflow which is clearly visible on the error output.
Not a...
> This question exists because it has historical significance, but it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site, so please do not use it as evidence that you can ask similar questions here. This question and its answers are frozen and cannot be changed. More info: help center.
I always thought that its better to let the system runs its court, a question is asked and if its closed before an answer is submitted allow it to expire. if an answer is submitted then it remains closed and eventually (I suppose I thought this happened automatically) depending on the amounts of votes it received it would either be purged or kept.
@random: Before you delete content, please make sure that it actually contributes nothing to the site. Bad questions can have good answers that don't deserve to be deleted.
@random Nothing means no meaningful contribution. It doesn't mean that minor questions with merely OK answers should stay, but it does mean that if there's an answer that can be useful to other readers, it should remain.
Remember our goals here: to build a knowledge base for readers and to provide a reliable venue for high-quality Q&A.
Ultimately, it's a matter of content quality. The answer wasn't bad by any means, just that it's a bit wordier than I would like it to be. It doesn't meet any reasonable standard for deletion.
@random: You need to realize that closed questions are not always harmful to the site. This is why we have historical locks.
That's why the question was deleted. Over on Skeptics if you came in with a "This thing happened but I guess it don't. Why?" without laying out the basis for why one would think that, the community would want to fix the question
The problem with the premise of the question is the mistaken believe it's still not an issue, so can if change the question so that mistaken believe isnt there, do the existing answers get invalidated? Can we then change the remaining question to something the answers actually answer or by doing so do we change the intent of the question?
If the asker is able to outline where they got their ill-formed notion that electrostatic discharge is a non-event today, that adds to the question quality without invalidating the answers
As it is it reads like something they thought of while taking a shower on the toilet
The question should not have been deleted. Say it with me:
We do not delete good content. We do not delete good content.
There are bad answers on that question (no doubt!) and the question itself is off topic, but that doesn't mean it should be deleted.
If it had no good content? Sure. De...
@JourneymanGeek Agreed. Then again, good content should never be deleted.
The fact that the question needs improvement does not make the answers bad.
@DanDascalescu The people who delete old upvoted posts know what they're doing, and they know it's frowned upon. They just subscribe to the "If it's off topic, delete it" mentality. It's sort of a wrecking ball approach and often does more harm than good. Short of following them around (please don't), the best we can do is to apply more community pressure to not delete good content. They don't err too much; but they have enough that we're noticing and going behind them and fixing those times when they do egregiously err (like in this case). — George Stocker ♦Feb 26 '15 at 17:58
@bwDraco I did undelete the question. An important and annoying part of moderation is trying to get a consensus and while you can't make everyone happy, actively trying to work on valid concerns
The majority opinion has a +153/-28 vote spread while the opposing opinion had +24/-19. The consensus is quite strongly in favor of keeping content like this.
@JourneymanGeek Post edited further to improve readability.
I've often commented on chat that "HNQs seem to straddle the line between the septic tank and greatness" - well not exactly but various things to that effect.
I came across a situation where a fairly terrible question had great, highly voted answers, and was deleted. In the discussion that follo...
Or "Are computers made in the last few years designed to be more electro-static resistant or am I just now thinking about it because I haven't touched the internals of a computer in the last some years?"
@JourneymanGeek How does 300 sgd compare to the cost of the BeoPlay H8? :P
I'm not sure how many of your requirements they meet...
buuuut I have weird ears, a big head, and I love them
actually, Bluetooth presents a huge problem if you want duplex (simultaneous) audio playback and capture at once
there is no standard Bluetooth protocol that provides good (at least CD quality) stereo audio playback simultaneously with mic capture
HFP provides terrible low-quality playback and mic capture at once; A2DP provides only (good) audio playback
HFP is good enough for a phone call over Skype (which can use HFP if you have the Bluetooth stack running on your computer) but not appropriate for music or gaming
@Ramhound Depends on how much $500 is worth to you. I would think that in much of the developed world, if there is a $500 luxury product you really want, saving up for it shouldn't be all that painful. I mean, gamers regularly toss $300-500 at graphics cards and $1000+ on full systems or laptops. Even budget gamers spend $250 on a console.
@Ramhound The H8 has a built-in mic, too. But it's basically only useful for phone calls. When using it for high quality audio playback, I have a desktop mic I use for teamspeak.
I use my BeoPlay H8 in two distinct "modes": (1) With my desktop for gaming, the H8 is connected to an Imperial BART 1 Bluetooth transceiver, which connects to my computer via USB (and exposes itself to Windows as a generic USB sound card -- with audio playback only). Always in A2DP when connected to the desktop. (2) With my smartphone, the H8 is great for phone calls over cellular or Skype (both HFP mode), and for listening to music while not on the phone (A2DP mode).
The SteelSeries Siberia 800 or 840 is a much cheaper ($330) gaming headset that's tethered to a base station, and provides proper duplex audio for gaming, high quality for both playback and capture...
i believe any of the shipping agencies are very good at "dispatching" a package dispatch also despatch (dî-spàch´) verb, transitive dispatched, dispatching, dispatches
3. To put to death summarily.
lol, sometimes packages look like they were delivered on a golden platter, sometimes they look like they were DropShipped :-)
Your temperature is 103 F (39.4 C) or higher You've had a fever for more than three days
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Severe headache Severe throat swelling Unusual skin rash, especially if the rash rapidly worsens Unusual sensitivity to bright light Stiff neck and pain when you bend your head forward Mental confusion Persistent vomiting Difficulty breathing or chest pain Extreme listlessness or irritability
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Oh @Bob, something I forgot to mention the other day - that TA value on LTE cells only gets updated on cell switch, so if you connect to one transmitter at 50m then move 5km away but still on the same transmitter, it'll still show your distance as 1
Mash keys and connect USB cable in some awkward combination => Download mode => Flash random firmware you found => Re-root => Connect ADB => Figure out wtf the DPI changing app did => Undo => Reboot again
Drive for half an hour => Realise reflashing reset your volume hack changes => Stop by side of the road to edit some system config files on the phone...
Found some ways to better control the battery on my Nexus 5X (with franco.Kernel installed); can't do the same with my Nexus 9.
I am able to get detailed battery status through /sys/class/power_supply_bms. Current full charge capacity is 2538 of 2704 mAh (93.9%), computed using charge_full and charge_full_design.
Had the phone for 7-1/2 months so this is okay, not great.
The best part, however, is that I am able to programmatically enable or disable charging by echoing 1 or 0 to /sys/class/power_supply/battery/battery_charging_enabled.
10-12% loss of capacity per year is normal but it's still more than I'd like.
I am still able to check the current (not full charge or design) capacity on my Nexus 9 at /sys/class/power_supply/battery/charge_counter.
The counter hovers at around 6210 mAh when fully charged, about 92.7% of the 6700 mAh specified full charge capacity; this is good for a device that's more than a year old (bigger batteries are charged and discharged slower, which reduces stress).
A question that I had answered was removed today, and with it I lost 592 reputation. The question is available via cache. I don't agree with the rationale for closing it out, but didn't take too much issue with it as it was still available for viewing.
The boilerplate rationale for closing it w...
As a programmer you certainly know the error of a stack overflow due to an obvious recursion.
But there are certainly many weird and unusual ways to get your favourite language to spit that error out.
Objectives:
Must cause a stack overflow which is clearly visible on the error output.
Not a...
The question should not have been deleted. Say it with me:
We do not delete good content. We do not delete good content.
There are bad answers on that question (no doubt!) and the question itself is off topic, but that doesn't mean it should be deleted.
If it had no good content? Sure. De...
