I'm new to the review queue on the Workplace... but what do you make of answers like that one: workplace.stackexchange.com/a/74425/38233 ?

this reads a bit more like a comment than an answer, and does not actually add much to the discussion... but it might nonetheless be interesting to have around...

I somehow have the feeling that you guys are quite strict about it... aren't you?

I don't understand the close votes here - workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/74379/…

@enderland I don't understand it either, it seems to me EXACTLY the kind of question someone should ask

I apparently voted to close but I don't remember it. I try to be really good about actually reading the question and considering it before voting.

Regardless, vote's retracted.

@ChristopherEstep I think the real problem are certain individuals who think it's an obligation to use all of their close votes every day. I won't mention any insects by name, but you know who the prime example is.

Aside from that, I have a couple pet peeves. One calling something a duplicate that isn't.

The other (and a HUGE one) is voting to close because something is a duplicate and the dupe they're pointing to is closed, especially if it's off topic.

@ChristopherEstep The word "duplicate" here is used as "bears some resemblance to" I hate that as well.

Proof that someone hasn't read the instructions before asking a question? The phrase "is this legal?" is in the Q. lol

it's too bad the question can't be automatically closed when they select "company-policy" as a tag. :)

You need to be aware that the answers are considered when deciding duplicates, that is, if the question already has an answer elsewhere, then it could be closed as duplicate, even if the question is not. Notice that matchbox (or whatever you call it) on a closed duplicate question says "This question already has an answer here", not "This question has already been asked here".

Don't go for my blood on that one though, I did not make that rule. Some random diamond guy told me that on some other site a couple of years ago.

Oh, I know. But if it's a duplicate of an off-topic question, then the question should should be closed as off-topic as well, imho.

@ChristopherEstep I'm actively working on shelving the project I've been working on because the purpose has past :( but it's really a good thing, overall :)

I've been gone for so long I barely recognise any of the names that pop up here frequently anymore

hello world

test comment 1 2 3

hey enderland, how's things?

pretty well... was assuming you'd recognize my name ;-)

yeah, you're that guy who used to have a platypus as his avatar right? ;)

@RichardU I couldn't say from experience, but I'm guessing that by the time you're 50 you've had a chance to see a lot of organizational inertia and things staying the same. Similar to a current workplace question, it's probably easy to not have the time or care to spend the extra time to interact with your end users to get satisfaction, or you've done it all before and it doesn't provide the same boost. Has that been your experience at all?

@ChristopherEstep Ouch, agreed. And the economy's so competitive these days that they'll have a hard time getting a shot unless they suddenly become an ace networker.

@Lilienthal You say that like Stack Exchange isn't built on time-wasting :P

At least they are having fun lol

@puzzlepiece87 Stack Exchange exists and is successful because a lot of smart and talented people are bored at their jobs

@puzzlepiece87 Not only that but your BS tolerance drops to near zero. You've experienced decades of being (mis)managed by people who have no idea what you do, how you do it, how long it takes, what constitutes a major or minor change, or that the latest and greatest isn't, much less why it isnt'

I've long passed the stage of cynicism and am rapidly moving from severely jaded to mildly bemused.

for everyone's thursday lol's

@RichardU That sounds like an improvement!

lol sorry @enderland. Why do they do it? To overcommunicate?

@puzzlepiece87 it's a bot, technically

@enderland Oh, then I see the same thing when I occasionally hang out in Code Review's chat room, their vba project bot chimes in with github notifications.