Timeline for How do we clean this up?
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| Apr 8, 2021 at 13:42 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | Ive left the "can't be done" answer as it is at least closing the loop of this specific question being unanswerable and cleaned up a few of the others. The remaining answers might help a future visitor, but the "that guys answer worked for me" answers are gone. | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 11:29 | comment | added | Ramhound | @chx - Hardware Recommendation Stack Exchange is a separate community. What’s submitted there is separate from what’s submitted here. | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 7:58 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | You ask them by posting a comment. We may not have DMs but that does not preclude you from posting a comment asking if you can help improve their answer. If they answered in the positive then others could see a definite indication that both you and the original answerer agreed to go the route you did, if not then comments could be cleaned up without mess. | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 7:28 | comment | added | user41259 | OK if I write this up on hardware recs is it possible to get a pointer there from a more prominent place than a buried comment? Also how on earth would I ask anyone on this site when there's no DM? | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 6:38 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | @chx from my perspective your answer is continuing the tradition of "bad" answers. You give a product name, suggest eBay as a potential source and completely avoid any attempt to answer the question of why. I cannot "restore" your edit and neither should I. It is up to the answer poster if they want to make it community wiki. Have you tried politely asking them if they would mind a more collaborative answer rather than simply barging them out of the way? | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 6:31 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | @chx It can be fixed if we want it to be but not by forcing your own content into current answers. If a new question were asked and properly curated against becoming the mess we currently have then the current one could be closed as a duplicate. The problem is that people coming from Google likely just want more of the current "here's the device you're looking for" answers which isn't what we want as a site. For now closing the question as not being the kind of content we want is the best way to tell people that this is not what we want here. We have Hardware Recommendations for that sort of thing. | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 5:21 | comment | added | user41259 | They were not accurate when they were submitted either rather they were completely useless back then and still are. The Dell WD19 was the first USB C hub to pass on a DP signal to downstream, all others are not. | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 3:55 | comment | added | Ramhound | @chx - “This is not adequate.” - It will have to be adequate since the author has rollback your edit proposals. The existing answers will not be deleted, nor should they be deleted, they are accurate answers based on when they were submitted. My suggestion is to leave the answer you have been trying to edit alone. | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 3:29 | comment | added | user41259 | This is not adequate. The question comes up extremely high on Google when searching for this and whether wanted or not, we have what we have and now it can't be fixed either. The existing top answer should be converted to a community wiki, all others deleted, and my content restored because it's up-to-date -- while all others are not. | |
| Apr 4, 2021 at 8:11 | history | answered | MokubaiMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |