Comment by svick on What can I do if a user removes a question after I've...
@in4001 A talk page on Wikipedia is on a separate page, you have to make some effort to see it. Comments are more like [citation needed] or references [1]: they're always visible, even though you can...
View ArticleComment by svick on How do I contribute to Stack Overflow?
Yeah, some of the most satisfying answers to me were those where I had to do a lot of research, learned a lot, and then received a tiny amount of reputation for it.
View ArticleComment by svick on Is Unikong about Jon Skeet?
I wonder what genre of music are J. Skeet and The Trolls making.
View ArticleComment by svick on Region names in English cause surprise
@TafT I don't think it has anything to do with being a colonial power. My country, Czech Republic, was never any kind of power, and we rename everything anyway. It's not Wrocław, it's Vratislav. It's...
View ArticleComment by svick on 2017 Survey: Vim is for old people? (joking!)
"differences in data are ignored, but similarities are stressed" How does the original post do that?
View ArticleComment by svick on Is it legal/accepted to copy content for documentation?
BTW, some of docs.microsoft.com content, including .Net docs and at least some of Azure docs, is licensed under CC-BY for text and MIT for code, which I think should be compatible with CC-BY-SA used by...
View ArticleComment by svick on Merge tag vs2017 into visual-studio-2017
@psubsee2003 Because Stack Overlow Inc. doesn't care about this enough to actually make the tag synonyms feature work.
View ArticleComment by svick on Can we work with Microsoft to improve the quality of...
@SamHanley Hypothetically, if someone did that, it would be nice if they posted the link back here. cough cough
View ArticleComment by svick on How do you know Stack Overflow feels unwelcoming?
@BilltheLizard I'm looking for actual data, not for community discussion or specific people complaining about SO. As far as I can tell, only one answer on that question talks about relevant data.
View ArticleComment by svick on Announcing the Stack Overflow Time Machine
@j08691 There's a separate visitor counter (with a Matrixy color scheme) in the upper right corner of every question page.
View ArticleAnswer by svick for Edit hunting and possible reputation farming - how should...
If you believe that the edit actually improves the question (I do), just vote to accept it. They did some (trivial) amount of work to improve this site and so they receive (a trivial amount of)...
View ArticleManually editing post after I approved an edit but before it's approved by...
On this question, I approved this suggested edit. But before the edit was approved by enough people to be applied, I decided to make an edit of my own; basically I changed my mind from "Approve" to...
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Country bubbles are in weird positions in the survey map
When you zoom in on Europe on the survey map, it seems that the bubbles are in the right countries, but in weird positions:I first noticed it with Czech Republic, which has bubble way to the east, but...
View ArticleAnswer by svick for I am nervous about ever asking a question again, what...
However, I found out that deleting one's own questions can get one banned, and I really need Stack Overflow at the moment.I think it's important to point out that asking too many bad questions or...
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Answer by svick for Warlords of Documentation: Your Quest(ions Answered)
Regarding versioning: what about cases where version is not linear?For example, here is what version information for .NET on MSDN looks like:Will Stack Overflow documentation support something similar?
View ArticleNo straighforward way to access the text of deleted answer with a single...
When I view this deleted answer (link won't work for users with less than 10k rep), it shows this text instead of the actual text of the answer:*This answer was marked as spam or offensive and is...
View ArticleMerge [dotnet-core] into [.net-core]
.net-core has currently 1022 questionsdotnet-core has 36 questionsdotnet is already a synonym for .netI think those 36 questions tagged as dotnet-core should be retagged to .net-core and then...
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High-rep user cards wrapping again
It seems the bug reported in User profile badge text wrapping issue is happening again (or still?). This is what I see at default magnification in FF 43 on Win 10:Based on the above linked question, I...
View ArticleComment by svick on Is it okay to create a tag based on a user name?
Are you saying the knuth tag mentioned above should be removed too?
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