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Rubiksmoose

21:01

Q: Vote ordering of accepted answers has changed: Accepted below top voted

On this question, sorted by votes, the accepted answer is #3 in order of votes. It appears as number 3 in the list as well. Is this new behavior intended? Did I miss something?

Yay!

JAD

that's from '09, and about a self-answer

BESW

Ooh, pretty big earthquake just now.

Rubiksmoose

@JAD Yup that was what I was trying to find documentation of.

That self answers are sorted by votes.

Sorry I was not at all clear when I said "I'm determined to find where this is documented though lol". Undefined pronouns :(.

JAD

the answer links to a blog btw

you might want to accept that as your source

Rubiksmoose

@JAD That is indeed what I accepted as my source.

JAD

21:06

Accept Your Own Answers

Jeff Atwood on January 06, 2009

Have you ever wondered why you can’t accept your own answer on Stack Overflow? If so, you’re not alone.

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words; here’s what I just did to one of my own questions:

Before:

After:

Hey, look at that, I just accepted my own answer!

Now, there are some special rules around owner-accepted answers, to prevent gaming:

Wait 48 hours. You must wait 2 days from the time you originally asked your question before you can accept your own answer. This gives other users a chance to answer the question in good faith, and earn the accepted answer. …

Rubiksmoose

Oh cool I didn't know that the blog posts got oneboxed

otherwise I would have just posted that.

JAD

:shrugs: apparently :P

Rubiksmoose

Thanks for the help btw.

JAD

no problemo

Yannick MG

@GreySage Thanks for the insight! @Rubiksmoose I was asking about closing and reposting rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/122054/… because it felt like the re-opening process was going nowhere.

doppelgreener

21:36

@JAD feature-request implement a magic 8 ball appearance for status-reply-hazy-try-again et al

@Rubiksmoose Also, for those seeing negatively scored accepted answers moved out of top spot: you have SOUP installed, and it implemented that feature sometime in the last few hours. (cc @JAD @Yuuki @GreySage @trogdor since y'all were in that conversation)

Q: The Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch (SOUP)

The Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch (SOUP) is a project to collect various minor client-side bug fixes, work-arounds and usability improvements for Stack Overflow and other Q&A sites on the Stack Exchange Network into a single user script. The intent of SOUP is not to make any substantial o...

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Whenever you see some crazy new feature, it is usually safe to check it again with SOUP switched off first. If you forget to do that at first, definitely do it once you realise other people aren't seeing it, because it's probably that.

trogdor

@doppelgreener technically I didn't see any of that stuff

GreySage

The star dam is opened!

doppelgreener

pinging you 'cause that's why other people were seeing that 8)

trogdor

mmm

doppelgreener

goodness, did we really go for half a week without stars on things? wow

how'd we manage that

trogdor

21:44

very carefully I guess

JAD

woops, sorry for that one

doppelgreener

no problem, everything is ok

i noticed it a couple of hours ago and went through the exact same "hey look at this!" "i don't see anything" "what about here?" "nope" "oh it was SOUP" cycle with some other folks

trogdor

for what now?

oooh

same thing still

KorvinStarmast

@MikeQ Murlock Revolt, HG Wells .... ;)

@BESW UH, you OK? Did that shake knock your internet dead, or what? brow furrows in worry

trogdor

nah

KorvinStarmast

21:54

@trogdor the news says says 7.1 (Richter, right?) That's a healthy shake ...

GreySage

@KorvinStarmast Where?

trogdor

I didn't even notice it

must have originated closer to him

BESW

5.3mb, more than 60 miles away northeast.

Or, almost 100 km northeast and almost 100km down.

> There were no reports made to Guam E911 dispatch of damages or injuries from the earthquake (source)

KorvinStarmast

The earthquake that shook Palm Desert in 1992 (7.2) was felt in San Diego CA at about 5.5, our house shook pretty significantly. Palm Desert is quite a bit more than 60 miles from where we were living. ;)

Depth looks like the difference.

@BESW I saw your post about a big shake, and then ... nothing. I was surprised that you didn't make a further comment. Good that the worry was groundless.

@GreySage Guam.

doppelgreener

@BESW that's good. :)

@KorvinStarmast BESW's apartments are made to withstand earthquakes pretty well. has he ever described it whilst you've been around?

KorvinStarmast

22:09

No, have not seen that. Building to code makes a difference. (See also what happened with Hurricane Harvey in Rockport TX).

BESW

Apr 21 '17 at 23:58, by BESW

@Shalvenay I hope so. One of the things that saves our homes on a regular basis is that instead of basements, we build on a concrete pad wider than the house. Lets it float when the soil liquifies.

Rubiksmoose

@YannickMG You can never just repost a question if it got closed. You can ask a substantially different one though. If you try to post the same question again it will immediately get closed as a dupe if not deleted so I would not suggest trying that.

@doppelgreener Wow what crazy timing for that feature to be added lol.

GreySage

That feeling when you have 3 minutes before work is over and you just can't get yourself to be productive

Yannick MG

I assumed that was the case, thanks for confirming.