@lephe it's an even better performance than you think, given that there have been several persons in the house since (boyfriends, friends, relatives etc)
You're only in this flat for a short time during your internship right? So by the time there's new tenants you'll have gone, and they won't know who "$MYNAME" is
Or on your last day ask if anyone else has noticed wifi and then inform them that they can look up credentials, then when they shriek just laugh maniacally
@Jenayah I'm no sure what equipment you have, but I think you can script the change and then do it at a fixed date, provided you're connected to the flat's network at the time.
Let's be more concrete: basically you fill in the form from a shell script or similar program, then you send it using a command-line tool like curl. The router program will not see the difference. Then you can schedule the submission of the form using a cron job or something along this line.
@Mithrandir Ah, it looks like the gargoyle question has come up. ^_^ In my defense, I didn't know if you actually planned on writing an answer at the time.
@FuzzyBoots I wasn't sure at the time either :P I was digging through a pile of magazines, and was about to give up when I saw it. Lesson learned for me, though ;)
scifi.stackexchange.com/a/192848/4918 "Late 1960's Comic Book with H shaped space ship" good story-id question and answer. pity the ship is so large that there's not much point to add hand-drawn red circles
@Randal'Thor Yes, though note that the accepted answer was given as a comment first. It might be better to upvote that comment so the guy who identified it (and explained that SE didn't allow him to post a third answer for some reason, I don't know what that could be) gets a little rep at least.
@b_jonas We should upvote the answer not because it's a brilliant answer, or to give the OP rep, but just so that the correct answer is at the top of the page with the default sorting.
@NapoleonWilson The Tour specifically says "Good answers are voted up and rise to the top.", so upvoting answers so they rise to the top isn't a bad reason I think
@Edlothiad In theory, yes. But as soon as you come up with bullshit reasons for upvoting, this on-paper awesomely laissez faire attitude breaks down with regards to what's good for the site.
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First of all, at the risk of repeating myself:
Users Should Downvote However They Want
Downvoting on Stack Exchange is anonymous for a reason. As long as a user is not abusively downvoting (that is, they are targeting a specific user, and not the questions the...
While specifically about downvotes, it applies to upvotes to.
@NapoleonWilson Yes, and I think the content is good enough to upvote. But the reason I'm asking for more upvotes here isn't because the content is "OMG so brilliant it needs more votes".
I think we should separate story-ID questions from the other ones wrt that matter; story-ID is kind of the exact situation where you can accept an answer "objectively"
@Edlothiad Worth noting that the other answer on that thread is (very very slightly) higher voted. Mike's answer may be accepted, but it's not a clear consensus.
As Sam I am notes, it's a judgement call...
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I think I didn't use to agree with this answer ^ (at least I haven't upvoted it) ... but after more experience with meta, I'm seeing the sense in it.
Ok, a harder one (I'm going through a tag search; also should I put this in the comm'y cleanup room or keep it here?) scifi.stackexchange.com/q/11954/4918 "Which world-renowned fictional hero was the first to wear a skintight costume and a mask with no visible pupils?" [character-identification] remove or keep? already has the correct [history-of], asks for first of a trope
@b_jonas Ehhh, could go either way on that. Technically it's about identifying a character, but it's not what we'd usually expect from a character-identification question.
@Randal'Thor That's an excellent answer. Sometimes people just need to be able to employ common sense and careful consideration and raise beyond just counting numbers. Or else you end up with situations where people point to dubious or downright contradictory half-explanations and cry "policy!".
@TheLethalCarrot But what is gained by posting it as a comment? Whatever you put in the comment box you can put in the answer box in the same amount of time. If someone can post a better answer building off of yours they can still do so. If you're afraid of losing reputation to downvotes (despite @Edlothiad's point that it's pretty negligible) you can always delete the answer if it gets too many downvotes.
Anyway, if it answers the question it is unlikely to get too many downvotes; at most it would probably get comments asking for more detail/sources/evidence/etc. When you get the time you can always come back and improve the answer (if someone else hasn't already done so) or delete it and post a new answer. If, on the other hand, the comment doesn't actually answer the question then it's not relevant to this discussion. Of course that should be a comment and not an answer.
@Randal'Thor I would guess that that's because most one liners don't actually answer the question. But if something does answer the question, even if it could be improved it is still an answer.
@Edlothiad well excuse me for taking the time to link to other SFF posts, adding quotes etc before sending the whole package rather than editing afterwards :D </rant>
You're supposed to write a one-liner, then delete, then edit, and then undelete to have an awesome answer posted 5 seconds after the question was asked and rake in the cred!
@NapoleonWilson Still doesn't work. The problem is that if your answer isn't there quickly after the question was posted, many people will never reopen the question thread and never see your answer.
scifi.stackexchange.com/q/68648/4918 "Who is Gilderoy Lockhart based on?" currently [harry-potter] [character-identification] [inspiration]. does it need the character-identification?
I'm trying. And my common sense is saying that these are questions that story-id experts can answer, because they need you to hunt through an unknown number of old comic books, like scifi.stackexchange.com/q/78565/4918 which doesn't yet have the story-identification tag. Should it need that? I can see now that it should have the character-identification tags
@Jenayah Ok, I'll just leave it like that. I'm not sure I really have a feel for how these tags should work, and what the useful tagging rule would be.
@b_jonas out of the hat, I'd say character only for questions that ask the character, such as "what's this cosplay/who was that" and don't care about the place they read it in first, story-identification for when OP really wants the book/issue/movie etc in order to rewatch/read/etc it and the character description is only a means to an end, both for when they want both the work and character (such as the Star Wars above)
@b_jonas in that case, OP doesn't ask for "what was that comic" but "what is this character" (it's been in the question since the first post), so yeah character
@b_jonas same, this one asks for the character (doesn't really mention what kind of story OP read with said character), so character
And by the way, the accepted answer could at least use an image of Raven
I had one repair this year for a damaged main cable bundle. Cost estimate was 1040.39 €. They said it should take one whole day; however, I expected much more. And it took much more.
I don't know what the bill was in the end because BMW paid for everything. :-)
This is not asking what the room's limits are, but asking why Harry doesn't frequently use it. How is this a duplicate of a question that asks what the limits are when this question explicitly states that this is not what is being asked here? None of the answers to the other question address why the room isn't used more often for the things that are within its limitations. — Alex1 min ago
@Jenayah It was closed after the edit (granted some of the votes might have been before the edit), but even with out the edit the question was still clearly asking why it's not used more often.
And this is perhaps a problem if A is similar to B and B is similar to C , but A is not similar to C.
@Jenayah It probably should. And if necessary, it can be fixed with a simple edit. However, I think it is likely that the question wasn't meant to be specifically about Harry; it wanted to know why the room is in general underused. The part about Harry might have been thrown in just to make it more clearly not a duplicate. Either way, an incomplete title shouldn't make something a duplicate.
@Alex well, if it's "about people in general", I fail to see how that's not included to the full potential one (which, if I'm following you, should then be reopened too?)
@Jenayah It gets trickier once there's the middle question. I could see why someone would close that one as a duplicate of the "What are the limits?" one since the main thrust seems to be about the extent of the rooms powers. I could also see why someone would close the "underused" one as a duplicate of the "potential" one because the last line of "potential" throws in a question about under usage.
But once you bypass the middle question, the first and third are asking two completely different things. This is what I alluded to above with A, B, and C.
@Alex yeah, untransitive. But that also opens the door to each and every "Why didn't X character use the RoR" question there might be. Also, as per why they eventually used Umbridge's office I was sure a question asked that already but didn't find it back
In any case, I'm typing slower and not really making any more sense, I reckon - and worse than that, I'm starting to remember mathematical properties, so I think it's time for me to go to sleep...
Just wanted to forewarn you so that you didn't think I ditched you ;D
@Jenayah A question of "Why didn't X use..." can potentially be closed as a duplicate of a "why didn't people in general use..." My point is not that it's not a duplicate because it specifies Harry, but that it's not a duplicate because it is a fundamentally different question.
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First of all, at the risk of repeating myself:
Users Should Downvote However They Want
Downvoting on Stack Exchange is anonymous for a reason. As long as a user is not abusively downvoting (that is, they are targeting a specific user, and not the questions the...
As Sam I am notes, it's a judgement call...
Meta sites are a perversion of the Stack Exchange model, discussion sites implemented using a Q&A engine. This works surprisingly well, if you keep the limitations of both in mind at all times:
Voting isn't limited - you can post an opinion and down...
