@daviesgeek Clearly I did not. I'm just weighing in with my uneducated opinion.
@daviesgeek WRT this one, you didn't ask me, but I'd say if you make a one-word edit, particularly if it's removing unnecessary fluff or improving/clarifying , that's not a problem. If you make another one-word edit a week later, that's not a problem either. A batch of one-word edits, particularly when the edit removes something that isn't clearly out of place or when the post needs more work than that, is problematic.
@DanielLawson Glad you took it upon yourself to answer. Thanks! I will try to keep those edits to a bare minimum :-)
@DanielLawson :-)
@bmike @DanielLawson @JasonSalaz I know some of you saw this question, but I was wondering why it wasn't closed yet, as it is a duplicate. Was there some reason it hasn't been closed yet?
@bmike exemplary of confusion around MacFUSE, "… tried a few versions but have been unable to find … work for my system." — apple.stackexchange.com/q/48196/8546
bmike and Jeff Atwood convinced me a while ago that duplicate questions usually aren't really a problem. I've stopped voting to close them, for the most part.
There are exceptions, but asking a question differently triggers different search terms, etc.
If I were a regular user, I'd vote to close. I don't think it needs mod superpowers, though, so I'll wait for two more close votes. Or one more, for that matter; I'd be okay being the fifth vote, but not preemptively closing it as the fourth vote.
Should it get closed, I would be inclined to re-open it. I do see it has garnered three close votes - but it hasn't reached a point where any moderator needs to take action
@DanielLawson Here comes the jedi with his (hopefully smooth argument)
Look at the original versions of both questions.
One wants a solution for a stealthy command line tool to avoid countdown timer and sounds.
The other wants to schedule time lapse.
We don't code questions that happen to share the same answer.
We do start closing 100% totally verbatim questions when we get a dozen versions of the exact same thing. The dozen is a guideline for moderators - not a hard and fast rule. Philosophically we will want to code questions when they are causing noise and preventing people from providing good answers.
In this case - closing one or the other would be shoehorning a time lapse question into a surveillance question. Just because the OP thinks terminal is the solution - these are really similar but totally different needs. I hope over time several good answers arrive for both in terms of apps, terminal commands - so keeping them open seems obvious to me to be in the interest of the site.
@GrahamPerrin Let's bring the fuse conversation back here since it's clearly something not to do with tags - and more to do with how people use that software which is open source, many versioned, sometimes breaks things bases on your base OS or even the version of OS you run at one point in time ;-)
@daviesgeek That's exactly the sort of substantive edit that I'm happy to be seeing more of from you. You've been doing far less batch editing "How to" to "How can I" and more like that. And if you are making a substantive edit, please, please do also throw in the style edits you want to see for that post (how to -> how can I, etc).
@daviesgeek Agreed. Keyword search apple.stackexchange.com/search?q=UIScrollView finds rubber band, which is bouncy; the OP could/should have contributed there. A vote up for your comment in the ~dupe.
I could vote down the question, but I wouldn't be so harsh to a newcomer who is experiencing bounce sickness! Simple closure and reference to the matching question is the nicer way for them to learn.
@GrahamPerrin I know. I rarely downvote, especially on dups. If it's a dup, it means that there's more than one person that was having that problem, so I don't downvote
@daviesgeek typo in the subject line, apple.stackexchange.com/q/18160/8546 "stealthly". FWIW I reckon the most recognisable expression will be "stealth photography".
The question (and answer) Can you disable rubber-band scrolling in OS X Lion? is very useful, so I would like to learn how to find these settings.
How can I find out what these variables are so I can turn them off without needing to find a question here one by one?