Timeline for How can the "What Stack Overflow Is Not" post be improved? [closed]
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:34 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Migration of MSO links to MSE links
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| Jul 13, 2012 at 15:33 | comment | added | teresko | .. sometime is think that SO needs annual "worst decision of year" price. | |
| Jul 13, 2012 at 15:21 | comment | added | user102937 | @teresko: see meta.stackexchange.com/questions/137795/stack-overflow-is | |
| Jul 13, 2012 at 6:36 | comment | added | teresko | Why was the "What Stack Overflow Is Not" topic removed ? | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 13:28 | comment | added | John Dibling | The WSOIN post could be improved by un-deleting it. | |
| Jun 27, 2012 at 14:52 | history | closed | user102937 | too localized | |
| Jun 8, 2012 at 16:19 | answer | added | eykanal | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 23:25 | comment | added | Zelda | I like your edits so far | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 22:15 | history | notice removed | user102937 | ||
| Jun 7, 2012 at 20:31 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard | Since we're in middle of a moderator election, I just want to point out to everyone that I think this is a good example of top-notch site moderation. Not only did Robert go out of his way to create a canonical reference for us all to use to try and help get people to improve their posts, but he's following up on it after finding out that people aren't 100% satisfied with it. This is the kind of thing we're looking for more of. Thanks Robert. | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 20:21 | answer | added | Jon Ericson | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 20:16 | comment | added | Lix | Instead of linking to WSOIN, send clippycorn to pass the message :P | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 20:07 | comment | added | JimmyPena | If someone reads that post (or gets sent a link to it as a response to one of their questions) and thinks the tone is condescending, they need to check their premises. SO isn't able to coddle new users. I don't know about the rest of you, but I simply don't have the time to explain the rules to everyone. The people who take offense to that attitude are usually the ones who need the most meta-help, i.e. how to ask a question. If I had a vote, I would vote that "What Stack Overflow is not" remain as it is, possibly expanded to include more bullet points. | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 20:05 | answer | added | Lix | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 20:03 | answer | added | Bill the Lizard | timeline score: 29 | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 20:03 | answer | added | Pops | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 19:49 | comment | added | Bart | Are we completely settled on the "is not"? If you allow some deviation from that you could say something like "SO does not know what you're thinking or seeing" instead of "SO is not a mind reader". Perhaps that will allow for a more friendly tone. | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 19:37 | answer | added | Siddharth Rout | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 19:28 | comment | added | vcsjones | I think how it is delivered to people is also a problem. Often times I see links delivered to people in comments that contain just the posts's title, like "Stack Overflow is not your personal research assistant", and that's all. It comes off very declarative. Somewhat similiar to this question. | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 19:13 | comment | added | Zelda | The condescending tone (especially of not your research assistant and mind reader) is the only problem I have with them. Many of them (especially the Forum one) are very neutral. The not a forum one is an example of a neutral, informative tone | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 19:04 | comment | added | user102937 | How can we fix the titles? | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 19:03 | comment | added | Oded | Understood, but that brevity (including the "is not" in the titles) is one of the things that may be causing the perception issue. | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 19:02 | comment | added | user102937 | @Oded: Possibly. But one of the characteristics I was going for was brevity. I think people mostly have a problem with the titles, like "Stack Overflow is Not a Mind Reader." | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 19:01 | comment | added | Oded | We can expand on the reason for each topic and how to deal with it constructively. | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 19:01 | history | edited | user102937 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2012 at 18:58 | comment | added | Zelda | "Stack Overflow is Not cold and pricky" :P | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 18:56 | history | notice added | user102937 | Needs detailed answers | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 18:55 | history | asked | user102937 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |