@JeffSchaller i don't know the mental health impacts of expecting accountants to find meaning in life post redundancy is kind of cruel. yet satisfying

anyway how were my SE log in creds saved even when i uninstalled firefox and reinstalled it, internet browsers are so creepy

again i dont want to be a naggy Nathaniel but i just want to know why gddrescue didn't put a man page with the install sure yes there is one online, but you know sometimes its good to just have the comfort of not using the www

the silence is hurting my feelings more incrementally each second that passes. It's a thought crime and now we are all in the wrong for letting it happen. add to project list multi platform adam bot utilizing the fact that my communication skills are flawed in a way that selecting random social media posts from my history will make as much sense contextually as if i were really me

preventing the awkward silence as follows forever

@JeffSchaller Thank you.

Are ticked answers no longer at the top? Did this change recently?

@FaheemMitha only if the accepted answer is a self-answer, AFAIK

I mean, an accepted self-answer isn’t pinned to the top, it will move around based on your sort preferences, unlike accepted non-self-answers

@StephenKitt I see. Yes, that would explain what I was seeing.

But perhaps with the new obsoletion attempt they'll unpin accepted answers...

I wonder about adding some corner-case sorting logic that says "if it's a self-accept and there's a different answer that has more votes, put that other one first, despite your sorting preferences"

Self-accepts are already unpinned

oh! brilliant :)

so we know the logic is there to do that...

that's exactly what Stephen said above sigh -- so maybe extending it to any-accept

yeah, that was Makoto's top-voted suggestion on the obsoletion discussion

I could see putting the accepted answer in 2nd place, despite other sorting, just for legacy's sake

maybe I should read.

We either trust askers to be the holders of ultimate knowledge or we don't. And needless to say, we shouldn't.

@JeffSchaller e.g. meta.stackoverflow.com/a/405308/5067311

the check-mark is movable, too, so it seems like a bit of a corner case, where it's a long-gone OP who can't be persuaded to click

I mean if we don't trust askers to judge their own answers fairly then we shouldn't trust them to judge others' answers fairly

@JeffSchaller yeah, there's been a lot of brainstorming on how to handle that. Perhaps allow some community vote or moderators override accepts... there's no good solution, alas

we've even had active askers refuse to switch accepts to highly voted non-wrong answers (I don't remember a specific example)

@JeffSchaller many still-present OPs can’t be persuaded to click either

of course, the corner-case allows for some dust along the baseboards :)

I suppose some of it's a translation issue. One person writes a question, someone (or ones) answers it; then the OP clicks a checkmark next to one of the answers. Now and for the rest of time, hundreds -- thousands -- of people come along and vote on the various answers. Millions of people browse the site and mistake (mis-take) the accepted answer as being on a pedestal of some sort.

I know when I'm browsing SO/SE for information, I scan the accepted answer and its comments AND the other answers and attempt to suss out the information that's useful to me. Maybe I'm the exception.

(I have inside knowledge the the checkmark is not terribly special)

Exactly. Likely, being or not a SE user makes a significant difference in this case.

I'm inclined to say "caveat emptor" -- if you're copy/pasting code you don't understand, you get what's coming.

Most likely this has already been proposed on the main Meta, but what I'd probably like most is to split the green tick into two marks, one attached to the question to signal that the OP has got what they were looking for, and one attached to the selected answer. With no answer pinning.

How would the new tickmark work? Follow the highest-voted answer?

The tickmark would stay as it is. I'd just attach some mark to the question -- because I seem to recall that a common objection to the proposal of unpinning accepted answers is that potential answerers wouldn't like to scroll through long Q/As to know if the Q has already been answered from the OP's point of view.

@fra-san this is probably not the best place to debate this, but I think the latter is unfortunate — because many good Qs get little attention once the OP accepts an answer

@StephenKitt I totally agree. What is important, IMO, is not whether the question has been answered, but whether the answer I have in mind has already been given.

(Tangentially, I feel there is often too much overlapping among answers in long Q/As. But this is a different issue).

@fra-san that's usually a long tail of crap, at least on SO

@AndrasDeak ...making harder for new answers to be seen and voted on (I don't think lots of users would routinely also sort by activity when reading long Q/As).

Designing a good Q/A site is hard, apparently :-)

sorry I didn't notice user also removed the newline from the command for the suggested edit and after I approved I noticed it.

would someone please "approve with edit" and add back the newline or "reject" it please?

unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/368688

thanks

@αғsнιη I've rejected it; thanks!

(and, hello new 'review' interface!)

@JeffSchaller many thanks

@JeffSchaller you know SE maintenance time window reduced to a few seconds?

read-only mode

sometimes I see that page that saying "we are currently offline under maintenance ..."

then after refreshing the page again that message page doesn't show any more

I'm not up-to-speed on the SE maintenance windows, no. I haven't been on the site as much as usual today, so I might have missed it.

Maybe they did an unannounced failover test or something.