@AJH - so you deleted it yourself then.

the phrase "already has an answer" is a bit misleading on that particular question. The duplicate question was asking something else, not about 3rd party vs brand, like the merged question asked.

But, it was not a good question anyway :)

@AJHenderson - I don't think you can undo a merge and I suspect that the original could be adjusted to better fit a more usable case in general.

@AJHenderson Well, the question I closed needed to be closed, and should probably eventually be deleted. I did not want to lose Michael's answer, though. We can probably tweak the question I merged into to support the answer better.

@jrista I figured that was why you deleted it. I'd challenge it was a valid answer though combined with comments. I pointed out the primary differences between first and third party. I just didn't seperate it from also saying there wasn't enough info to give a more descriptive answer and tried to combine it with something useful for him to consider.

I'd still maintain the first vs third party bit makes it an answer to the original question

But now it doesn't fit at all

Oh well, not a big deal since it was a bad question to begin with

And @ESA I (or anyone with 10k rep) can still pull the contents of the answer out

I don't really see a good way to modify the question to fit Michaels answer but if someone has ideas it is worth saving

Is a battery grip with it for reasons other than battery and comparisons of grips are pretty different topics though

# worth not with

@jrista ok, actually on my computer now instead of my phone so I can type. I know I've gotten in to some confusion before on parts of SE when I cross comment like advice into an answer. Sometimes people complain, other times they don't. I normally try to combine a comment in to an answer if I think I can give information that gives at least a partial answer to keep things more contained

and only do a separate comment if it really doesn't flow with an answer.

though that one was more like 75% comment 25% answer

where as the balance is normally more like 50/50 or 75/25 the other way

I too mostly just thought it made Michaels really good comparison not fit and didn't want to lose that or have it be hard for someone to find

@AJHenderson Well, I am not sure you really provided an answer. To be frank, you were chiding the asker for not following the rules and posting an off topic question. Which is ironic, given how much you don't like being chided for not following the rules yourself. ;P

Your answer, at least as far as I understood it, revolved around the validity (or lack thereof) of the question, the notion that it was a shopping question and therefor off topic. The "answer" part of your answer was really just more chiding disguised as advice to "google it".

Again, to be frank, telling people "just google it" has been about as off-topic an answer as you can get for as long as StackExchange has been around. Disguised as an answer or not.

Simply put...your answer was a comment about the question, hence it was deleted. The question WAS off topic, and the closest match was really actually quite similar (not radically different, as you've been trying to make it seem). I merged the one remaining answer as it was a good one, and I did not want to lose the content. John C. made a very simple edit that makes his answer completely valid on the other question.

@jrista I don't mind, I only raised the point because you mentioned it. It was borderline sure.

I also wasn't trying to chide. I was trying to give helpful advice, but if it came off as chiding, then it wasn't what I wanted it to read like

also, don't want you to think I took offense to your deletion of my answer. I was just defending why I put it since I did feel it was valid enough to post, but I also understand the delete

particularly in the new context

it certainly wasn't a great answer to begin with

and it didn't deserve the 5 upvotes it had

maybe 1, it provided minimally useful information based on a question that was minimally answerable

I honestly would have had no problem with the entire thread being deleted other than not wanting michael's answer to be lost

and yes, the alteration to the question makes it fit by bolting one question on to the other, but I still don't think it'll be discoverable under the main question.

I wouldn't expect to find a great comparison of two battery grips under a question of if I should buy one

I suppose we could just make that question specifically though in a way that would be on topic and then have Michael repost it

maybe that would work the best

err actually, nm

I forgot the contents of his answer

(that's what I get for not re-reading it after having been away from the thread for 24 hours)

I suppose it really is more of a review of a particular grip and batteries so it fits fine

I think I remembered the battery comparison and crossed it with grips

@AJHenderson It just seems like a lot of words written for something someone doesn't care about...that's all.

hehe, I'm just verbose

particularly in chat

I try to distill it down in answers, but even then, I'll tend to go on to try and make sure I'm clear, even if it's minor details. Sometimes I can over do it

side effect of writing more or less stream of consciousness I think.

are you able to migrate that video question or does a mod from video have to be on. I was writing up an answer for it now in the hopes it would migrate (since if it does, I'll be the guy that answers it over there anyway :) )

if not, I can always just drop it in a text file for now

never mind

I see it is now migrated

excellent

Gents, I just noticed that the landing page of PhotoSE is slightly different for anon users (ones who have not logged in) when compared with the page when you are logged in. Is this by design?