Timeline for Why was my popular question about spaces in filenames closed?
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| Oct 5, 2012 at 20:44 | comment | added | Chris W. Rea | Call me a sucker for punishment. | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 20:36 | comment | added | random Mod | Yes, it would be better for UX, if they wanted it | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 20:31 | comment | added | Chris W. Rea | Would you say the same thing about this question? superuser.com/questions/60499/… ? | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 20:29 | comment | added | random Mod | Your question is about users and why they continue to do what they do and you want them to back it up with research. Not about why an OS or compiler is putting a belt around its neck when it sees a filename with a space. | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 20:27 | comment | added | Chris W. Rea | I disagree on that. The no-spaces workarounds have grown out of technical limitations in computers: command line interfaces, protocols used by tools like web browsers, etc. Nothing to do with "productivity". It's technology, man. | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 20:09 | comment | added | random Mod | Same arguments then on this: meta.superuser.com/questions/4699/… | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 16:34 | comment | added | Chris W. Rea | Now that's ridiculous. The conditioning may be psychological, but the reasons sought are technical and live in the computing domain. | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 16:32 | comment | added | random Mod | Then your question is better suited to Psychology or one of the other brain sciences or cognitive understandings | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 16:29 | comment | added | Chris W. Rea | Personal preferences? Nah. It isn't a "personal preference" if a person has been conditioned to not use spaces because of, say, a C++ compiler not accepting spaces in filenames on the command line. That's not personal preference. That's a root cause of conditioning, an answer to the question "why?". This vestigial practice has a host of underlying reasons and the question seeks to discover those reasons. Personal preference answers would be "I do it because I have a visceral hatred of unnecessary whitespace." The question seeks the reasons. | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 16:11 | history | answered | randomMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |