The Whiteboard

6:55 AM

I think that edits in rev 4 and 5 made this question sufficiently differ from duplicate for reopening (I voted, and someone else did)...

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Q: Spring - Confusion over configuration?

Somewhere I read Spring offers convenience over configuration. But Spring folks are bringing in so much changes over the configuration , that I am now really getting confused to use the xml configuration or the annotation. I would like anyone to suggest a surefire methodology or rule of thumb in...

gnat

8:14 AM

SE "decline machine" in action...

@Shog9 per my reading of your update, basically plan is to wait until there's more evidence of abuse? like it was with sticky hot questions... oh wait we probably won't give a damn even then. Heh, decline culture at SE is not in the best shape — gnat 2 hours ago

we dropped that request 3 years ago, no need to revisit until it really blows up

thorsten müller

10:35 AM

possibly spamming user: stackoverflow.com/users/2164230/jessie-jones and programmers.stackexchange.com/users/87959/jessie-jones on both sites ALL his answers (three on SO, one on Programmers) have links to something calles "Microsoft Virtual Academy". like: microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/…).

user41796

2:23 PM

@thorstenmüller - good observation; their answer on P.SE has already been deleted. For curious 10k+ users, it's here. From my read, it wasn't horribly spammy except that it was a new answer on a 2 year old question with plenty of decent-enough answers already. However, they also endorsed w3schools which justifies deleting their answer, IMO. :-P I kind of see the user as just a bit misguided, but I don't have access to their SO posts.

Yannis Rizos

2:49 PM

You will be building your web site much faster when you don't waste your time with asking such low-quality question here. — Doc Brown 2 hours ago

Ouch! (deleting...)

gnat

4:01 PM

@YannisRizos deletion incomplete - not only comment, the whole question is worthy of deletion. It's as low effort as it gets

Yannis Rizos

@gnat Yeah, but OP hasn't logged in since he posted it and there's no reason to delete this before he even gets a chance of seeing it was closed. You'd be surprised how many times this had lead people to believe that their question disappeared due to an error and they've just re-asked it.

gnat

@YannisRizos I see, that makes sense

user55340

Ideally, one would have it that when a question is closed, it automatically sends a non-cascading delete (as opposed to comment was deleted, so inbox item was deleted) message to the user with the relevant information.

Yannis Rizos

I usually wait a day or two... Unless the homepage looks really bad, at which point I don't really care if they got notified of the closure or not. Site > OP

It's also good to wait for them to read any helpful comments explaining the closure, of course (assuming there are any).

user55340

Might also be useful to have a mod option of making a non-cascade deleting comment for if the question the comment is part of is deleted.

gnat

4:08 PM

@YannisRizos yes. though in that sense, grace period for deleted posts makes even better sense. Sort of doing automatically (and less harmful for site) things that currently require manual effort and pollute the questions list...

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A: How can we stop premature deletion?

This would only be a sticking plaster, but let people see their deleted questions if only for the first 48 hours after deletion. The links to them would still remain invisible to everyone else (except moderators). This coupled with notification of comments should give people enough time to corre...

Yannis Rizos

@MichaelT That already happens, mod comments survive deletion. Yes, we are that awesome ;) But it's still a bit icky, as the OP doesn't have a chance to respond.

@gnat I've already upvoted that.

user55340

Given the "more than 5" rep, including a "ask a question about the question being deleted" on meta, or (given the more than 10 rep), including "many mods can be found in chat" could provide avenues of response to a deleted comment.

user55340

An argument for faster deletion is go avoid the piling on of downvotes that one sees in sites that don't move as fast as SO. When one can vote on nearly every question every day, this becomes more of an issue. A deleted -3 rep question may be less ego impacting than a not yet deleted -7.

user55340

4:31 PM

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Q: E Solution for Academic Files

I would like to know the best solution for Academic Files (over 3,000 and growing). We currently have them packed tight in file cabinets, overflowing in boxes, and they continue to double every year. Our bosses want to use SharePoint, but I am not convinced on it. We want to know what the best o...

software college

user55340

Its been a bit (4 sites) cross posted.

user55340

I'm surprised it wasn't on academia.SE too.

user55340

5:12 PM

A followup, its been closed on two other sites, deleted here, and on Sharepoint.SE it got two answers so far... one of which identifies the broad aspect of it, the problems of inflow and two case studies by Microsoft on Sharepoint in academic settings.

user55340

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A: SharePoint Usage for Academic Files

I would start by saying that your requirement is a little too broad. Yes, indeed SharePoint is a great (greatest if you ask me!) Enterprise Content Management tool (Records Management, Document Management and Web Content Management - all accompagned by a lot of Business Intelligence, Social, Work...

user20683

6:00 PM

@MichaelT Academic file management? Easy, use Mendeley

user41796

6:49 PM

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Q: Best Programming Language that supports - Work from Home

I am an "intermediate" java programmer (hobbyist). I would like to transition over to working as a programmer full time from home over the next year or so. I had given some thought to learning "android" but the market seems to be saturated with little chance of making a reasonable salary. My qu...

java home

user55340

I'm amused by the "java" tag on that one.

Mushy

7:22 PM

Hello Programmers

user55340

'ello.

Mushy

So I wrote an SQL-like database in Java for a database course last year or so. I resurrected it for conversion to c++ which allows me more programming experience in the language. When I am done, any suggestions on what to do with it?

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