Timeline for Can we remove auto-conversion of sloppy answers to question comments?
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:12 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.superuser.com/ with https://meta.superuser.com/
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:12 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.superuser.com/ with https://meta.superuser.com/
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| Sep 26, 2012 at 6:59 | vote | accept | zero2cx | ||
| Sep 22, 2012 at 7:00 | comment | added | slhck Mod | It's not necessary to close a feature request question, you can let it stay and future users will be able to learn from that discussion. Thanks for the flag, but all we could do is "decline" it, but that is usually reserved for the Stack Exchange team, not us community moderators. | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 4:35 | history | edited | zero2cx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
add resolution tag; form of a question;
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| Sep 22, 2012 at 4:28 | answer | added | zero2cx | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 2:52 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 22, 2012 at 2:50 | comment | added | zero2cx | Thank you, @TomWijsman | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 2:49 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman |
That's not true, the first thing you are shown when answering your first question(s) is a box above it that says you shouldn't be Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. and I believe there's enough explanation in place about how to comment and answer as well. There's no indication that you should flag to turn them into comments. You have ignored those (information overload!) and thought it yourself, it's human behavior and perfectly fine. Don't worry about the moderator's response, it's merely a "warning to help you" and not a "you have been a very bad boy" message.
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| Sep 22, 2012 at 2:46 | comment | added | zero2cx | The system in place effectively taught me to leave a question comment as an aswer only because I expected it to be fixed for me. Being aware of what a non-answer entails, the intent was always to leave a comment. The friendly system was helping me accomplish that, since I could not comment without assistance as a low-rep user. Whoops. | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 2:42 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | Well, what you describe is somewhat irrelevant to this meta question; because this meta question has the opposite goal of what your previous meta question had, I think it's best to not mind about it given that it's thoroughly thought about by various people. The Stack Exchange people wouldn't put such algorithm in place until they are sure that it proves useful. There might be bad cases, but they need evidence like my first comment above. Once answered, you can't retract a question. Just leave it in place for others to learn from; or if you really must, you can try to ask a moderator... | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 2:38 | comment | added | zero2cx | @TomWijsman -- I really only know that the process confused me into reapeating discouraged behavior, like six times or more. I am clear on what your answer was and I'm still re-reading it. I did search unsucessfully. I thought it was a novel and useful proposal. I'll retract the post as just noise, then. Thanks you. | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 2:37 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | I believe this is only done to answers that contains links, but this might have changed in the mean time; see Answer appears automatically converted as a comment and Are answers that just contain links elsewhere really “good answers”? for more details why. | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 2:32 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | Have you considered why it is there in place, especially after having read the FAQ and my answer? Have you thought about the possible consequences that removing this auto-conversion that they introduced could lead to? Have you done research on Meta Stack Overflow why they introduced the auto-conversion? Why does it bother you? Why do you think it's harmful? What side effects are you talking about? I don't see how this is going to contribute to curtailing sloppy answers. Can you please elaborate? | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 2:29 | comment | added | zero2cx |
I spent the better part of a week expecting the website form to shuffle my answers into questions for me as I press Submit Your Answer. Good, of course not, but then why does the system do it at all?
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| Sep 22, 2012 at 2:27 | history | edited | Tamara Wijsman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited title
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| Sep 22, 2012 at 2:25 | history | edited | zero2cx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added warning;
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| Sep 22, 2012 at 2:18 | history | edited | zero2cx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Emphasis added; new title;
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| Sep 22, 2012 at 1:04 | answer | added | Tamara Wijsman | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 0:09 | history | asked | zero2cx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |