Timeline for Are "hidden features" questions allowed in super user?
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| Jun 17, 2010 at 19:11 | comment | added | Chris S | @Tom: I've thought about it again, and I still stand by the assertion that in most of the particular cases cited here the poor answers are generally a product of the poor questions. The same generalization can be applied to most questions and answers I believe; if you ask a vague question you'll either get a vague answer, or possibly a totally wrong one. In either case you're very unlikely to get a "correct" answer, and the question's lack of specifics are the root cause. | |
| Jun 16, 2010 at 16:59 | comment | added | Tom Brito | @ChrisS lack-luster quality of answers means poor question quality? You should think better about this. | |
| Jun 14, 2010 at 17:20 | comment | added | Chris S | Also, over half of the "Answers" to the hidden-features in Vista "question" are wrong, most of those features were available in previous versions of Windows. The lack-luster quality of the answers reflects the poor question quality. | |
| Jun 14, 2010 at 12:43 | comment | added | Tom Brito | I still think we should be allowed to discuss what we want to discuss.. The system should be made to the system's users.. | |
| Jun 11, 2010 at 18:12 | comment | added | Gnome | @aarobot: You're absolutely right, actually. It's apparent people want to copy other questions with these series (including the later "Urban Myths" and others), but it doesn't help that the currently highest voted question is a hidden-features either -- it really sends the wrong message. | |
| Jun 11, 2010 at 17:45 | comment | added | Aarobot |
And @mmyers, if you're referring to my comment about hidden-features questions not actually being hidden, look at the C# hidden features question. Which ones are actually "hidden?" The question would be better worded as "post your favourite C# language feature", but of course that would get closed, so we resort to misleading titles instead. And at least one of the highest-voted answers is actually advocating a horrible practice.
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| Jun 11, 2010 at 17:42 | comment | added | Aarobot |
@mmyers: That's a bug, not a feature. ;) It also works with the text this app can break, and almost any other sentence with 4 words of those exact lengths.
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| Jun 11, 2010 at 17:40 | comment | added | mmyers | @Aarobot: Why do you say that? | |
| Jun 11, 2010 at 17:39 | comment | added | mmyers | @Aarobot: Put "bush hid the facts" as the only line, then save, close, and reopen. (Works with some other sentences too, but I don't know them offhand.) | |
| Jun 11, 2010 at 17:38 | comment | added | Aarobot |
@Gnome: That feature actually is hidden, and therefore invalid. True hidden-features questions are only allowed to list well-documented, mundane, totally ordinary features that excite the sorts of programmers who write a lot of empty catch blocks - like the ?? operator and lambda syntax.
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| Jun 11, 2010 at 17:20 | comment | added | Gnome | @aarobot: Put ".log" as the first line; open, save, close it, and repeat in notepad a few times. | |
| Jun 11, 2010 at 16:31 | comment | added | Earlz | @aarobot I also made some and thought I'd put them in this list | |
| Jun 11, 2010 at 15:42 | comment | added | Aarobot |
Also Hidden features of ping and Hidden features of NOTEPAD.EXE.
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| Jun 11, 2010 at 14:21 | comment | added | BalusC | I like Hidden features of parsing HTML with regex. | |
| Jun 11, 2010 at 14:14 | comment | added | Tom Brito | "everyone changes their minds", or the users will be others in the future.. :) | |
| Jun 10, 2010 at 14:18 | comment | added | Andy E's head |
Right, I'm off to create 100 sock puppets so I can upvote Hidden features of parsing HTML with regex 100 times.
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| Jun 10, 2010 at 14:11 | comment | added | quack quixote | i can see the user-suspension email now. "dear Gnome: you have been suspended from Super User until the end of time for an excessive amount of truly stupid posts. hidden features of god? really??" | |
| Jun 10, 2010 at 13:49 | history | answered | Gnome | CC BY-SA 2.5 |