Timeline for How to Reopen and Vote to Migrate?
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| Jun 20, 2014 at 7:46 | comment | added | Fazer87 | The logic is that this site is about learning. I was hoping that by providing a starting-point answer, then the asker would attempt to expand my script into something that would fit his requirements. Turns out I was wrong to hope for that - still, the script written will likely one day help someone so still worth it. | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 11:24 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Mokubai: Oh I have no doubt that he acted in good faith; I'm only questioning his logic ;) | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 11:23 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | @lightness I would have to say that initially the question was low quality but could maybe have been improved at the time when Fazer answered. It quickly became evident that it was unsalvagable in the comment replies that Fazer received as a result. I suspect Fazer did not initially know that it was low quality and unsalvagable, he acted in good faith. | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 9:14 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Fazer87: If you know that a question is very low-quality and will be closed, why are you encouraging its author (and others like him/her) to continue posting such questions, by answering it? | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 9:13 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @CanadianLuke: Compilation isn't necessarily inherent to programming. Some languages are interpreted. More to the point, though, a good question about a programming language sticks to the abstractions of that language, so even with C++ it doesn't really matter that you're going to translate your program to machine code with the help of a compiler: you're asking about C++, not the compilation process. | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 18:20 | comment | added | Kevin Panko |
No, the lack of a compilation step does not make it on topic, because many languages work that way and are still professional computer languages. To my mind, writing programs is for Stack Overflow, and using them is for Super User. Example: writing a spreadsheet program and the code for drawing menus is Stack Overflow but writing a macro for Excel is Super User. A .vbs program is on topic at Stack Overflow, but only when the question is of interest to a professional programmer. A non-programmer using VBS to launch Excel might be on topic at Super User.
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| Jun 12, 2014 at 18:53 | comment | added | Canadian Luke |
Just to add to that: I was always under the impression that since items like .cmd, .bat, and .vbs type files do not compile code, but keep the code bare, that it was on topic for us. If that is wrong, let me know.
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| Jun 12, 2014 at 12:11 | comment | added | Fazer87 | As the guy who posted the answer - don't re-open it! The guy knows nothing about VBS or scripting in general. While I don't have a problem with this and am always happy to help, the lack of willing and the obvious wanting for a free rent-a-coder to do everything for him makes this too lower quality for any SE site | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 17:32 | history | answered | MokubaiMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |