First off: I don't think that particular answer is a good one for the Don't foo the bar category and should be down-voted, though not necessarily closed.
Don't foo the bar!
An answer that just says that, is generally not an answer to me, since it does in fact not answer the question.
When is n...
great experiment! To help in testing, I plan to visit Stack Overflow questions in the hot list and actively vote up posts I like. This way will let SE team study how effective it works against "lemming effect" using familiar material (instead of obscure questions at smaller sites like Programmers, Workplace, Math, Code Golf, UX) — gnat1 min ago
this SO question can make a tough test for a hot list shuffle experiment! stackoverflow.com/questions/21546793/… - 10+ answers in two hours, wow. Almost like at Workplace, only less of upvotes
Meme: jQuery
Originator: Unknown (possibly Ólafur Waage)
Cultural Height: TBD
Background: A Stack Overflow-centric meme, jQuery began its career early on as the answer to beat for any question that even remotely referenced JavaScript. Its popularity became so great that eventually jQuery becam...
what I love about Workplace, is that community is passionate about answer quality matters (mis-flagging indicates this passion). In comparison, at Programmers an "answer" like that can get a warm welcome:
I am fairly new to doing more involved SQL work.
My goal is to email using the results of a query to drive email creation. I intend to create a stored procedure and schedule this twice a week (there will be at most 20 emails, this will not be heavy email load) on SQL Server 2008.
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@RhysW Perhaps if someone were around to help me I would be kinder to jquery. I sort of got it working, but then ran in to other troubles because the site was poorly designed. Hrmph.
@YannisRizos Your concept of spam seems to coincide with some users' concept of quality. I thought it was just me, but clearly not -- a lot of the answers on the post @gnat linked have multiple 'not an answer' flags when I reviewed them last.
How can I encourage a culture of punctuality in a software company?
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Perhaps "serial" or "sequential".
I am fairly new to doing more involved SQL work.
My goal is to email using the results of a query to drive email creation. I intend to create a stored procedure and schedule this twice a week (there will be at most 20 emails, this will not be heavy email load) on SQL Server 2008.
SELECT Project...
