Hey, guys, what do I do if I think someone is being really "oh it won't work" on every post and semi-rude, with the added suspicion that when I see a comment from him/her/them I see a new downvote on the tally? I don't want to jump to conclusions, but the comments aren't rude enough to flag but common enough to concern me.
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"Oh, it won't work unless __," which "is impossible/you said it won't work for you/blah blah blah" comments
I don't want to flag just yet: not especially rude/abusive . . . don't want to point fingers or name names . . . . and I don't want to jump to conclusions about anything, vote/comment stuff particularly. But
I'm secretly thrilled about answering worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/116170/627. Stellar winds are what I'm studying this summer; I get to use the stuff I'm researching. I've been quietly waiting for a question about stellar winds for a couple months.
@FreezePhoenix It's always fun to answer fun questions.
@FoxElemental I would suggest maybe flagging as No Longer Needed. Alternatively, use a custom mod flag to say that it's an answer in comments, or somesuch.
@HDE226868 No, sorry. I usually scroll through all of the posts on the mainpage 2 times per day, and always look at new user's posts (even if they aren't in the review queue). I have no idea as to which question it might have been
Also, @HDE226868, the owner ofthis rolled back your rollback
On the one hand, I could lock it to prevent further edit wars. On the other hand, one of the points of putting a question on hold is so that the author can improve it. Locking kinda prevents that.
I'm currently writing a comment to maybe nudge him in that direction and avoid the lock, and hopefully find a good resolution.
Read the comments? I told him that delete voting/flagging was an option if he really felt that desperate. He apparently tried to delete, then found he couldn't because of Ash's answer
So then he tried in the comments below Ash's answer (it seemed to me) to ask him why he had posted the answer, then VTC'ed, and then said if he hadn't he could have deleted
@Gryphon You're right; it's not an easy fix. But I don't want to encourage people just deleting - or, rather requesting deletion - questions if version 1 isn't great. Especially after someone put in the effort to answer.
@HDE226868 I realize that, but it is going to need some large changes, and with how resistant to change the OP seems to be... I'm just saying I'm not too optimistic for an ending the OP will be happy about.
I could probably have figured out that it was your answer even without the name at the bottom. The semi-excessive amount of research done is so typical of you.
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