Timeline for Dealing with "Find out who's going to buy the croissants" [closed]
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| Jun 12, 2018 at 22:21 | history | rollback | Shadow Wizard |
Rollback to Revision 9
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| Jun 12, 2018 at 22:15 | history | edited | Jeremy |
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| Jul 28, 2017 at 14:18 | history | edited | Mark Booth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Jan 17, 2015 at 3:32 | history | closed |
user206222 animusonStaffMod Martijn Pieters random Braiam |
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| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:50 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Migration of MSO links to MSE links
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| Nov 19, 2013 at 20:39 | comment | added | Lance Roberts | Looks like someone got their dream and had it deleted, and Stack Overflow is a sadder place because of that. | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 12:25 | comment | added | sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio | I read a MetaMeta question, with a lot of answers, about a Meta question I can't read (deleted)... I am having a croissant instead. | |
| Jul 31, 2013 at 8:51 | answer | added | Daniel Daranas | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 30, 2013 at 16:01 | history | notice removed | user102937 | ||
| Jul 30, 2013 at 11:10 | comment | added | gnat | ...sort of ironic to see objections against too much attention to the meta question which is, in turn, related to questions receiving too much attention from collider | |
| Jul 30, 2013 at 8:47 | comment | added | gnat | @CodyGray what about people reading the question and the answers posted and thinking about these? as far as I can tell, this also qualifies as attention, doesn't it | |
| Jul 30, 2013 at 6:08 | comment | added | Cody Gray | @gnat "This question has not received enough attention"—really? It's received at least as much attention as the original question, if not more. What other answers or types of discussion are you hoping to attract with this bounty? Don't the answers we have just about cover all the bases? | |
| Jul 30, 2013 at 5:56 | history | notice added | gnat | Draw attention | |
| Jul 26, 2013 at 10:08 | comment | added | Manishearth |
This meta post seems to be gaining hotness too (even though it doesn't show up in the multicollider). Next up: Dealing with 'Dealing with “Find out who's going to buy the croissants”'
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| Jul 26, 2013 at 9:04 | answer | added | Pieter B | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 25, 2013 at 22:59 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jul 25, 2013 at 20:53 | vote | accept | Mark Booth | ||
| Jul 25, 2013 at 17:57 | answer | added | gnat | timeline score: 50 | |
| Jul 25, 2013 at 5:06 | answer | added | Shog9 | timeline score: 26 | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 23:48 | comment | added | nhinkle | That revision history is an epic tale in and of itself. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 22:21 | comment | added | gnat | "Hotness score" of this question is about 2/3 fake, as usual - 11 of 16 answers score less than 1/10 of top-voted one, but each of these meh answers brings solid 10 points to question score thanks to bug in the formula. Unnaturally high position at collider damages a reasonably okay question, as usual. - What should we do about this question? - Fix the freakin' bug in hotness formula that causes drama like that | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 22:05 | history | edited | gnat |
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| Jul 24, 2013 at 21:50 | answer | added | Rex Kerr | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 20:37 | answer | added | user229044 | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 19:57 | answer | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 18:10 | comment | added | Pollyanna | I disagree that the question should be locked while we debate it here. For more on this meta-meta-question, visit meta.stackexchange.com/questions/190171/… | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 16:48 | answer | added | Pollyanna | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 16:08 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | @casperOne because People Are Having Fun. This Must Be Stopped At All Costs. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 16:07 | comment | added | Ry- Mod | @MarkBooth: *its. Also, I agree that it’s a wrong question, but it seems like anything else would probably just kind of annoy a lot of people. And then it’s no longer a rep-farming bit of horribleness. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 16:05 | comment | added | Mark Booth | @minitechη If the answer is a CW question, then you're asking the wring question. community wiki is pretty much deprecated for questions though it does still has its place for answers. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 16:00 | comment | added | Ry- Mod | Maybe making it CW is a good starting point? | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:45 | answer | added | user102937 | timeline score: 67 | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:38 | comment | added | Shog9 | We don't need an official policy for every little edit, @Ben. If you think it makes the post better, just do it. If folks disagree, rejecting or reverting the change is trivial. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:30 | comment | added | Ben Barden | @Shog9 actually, I couldn't. I could propose the edit, but I don't have the points to edit it myself. Also, it is not currently policy, and until it is policy, I have no justification for the removal. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:25 | comment | added | user200500 | @casperOne "2) a write your code service 3) like a dumping ground of total crap that the laziest of programmers go in the hopes that rep-hungry users will do their work for them?" | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:24 | comment | added | casperOne Mod | @Asad 2 and 3 of what? | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:23 | answer | added | Ben Barden | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:22 | answer | added | Florian Margaine | timeline score: 48 | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:22 | comment | added | user200500 | @casperOne Doesn't this question satisfy both 2 and 3 (except the OP is asking us to write him an algorithm, not code per se)? | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:21 | comment | added | Shog9 | Or you could just edit it out, @Ben. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:12 | comment | added | Ben Barden | I suspect that part of the upvoting has to do with the enormous picture of a croissant - put in to appeal to the users, and not actually clarifying the question in any way. Perhaps we should have some rule against non-pertinent images? | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 14:51 | answer | added | SklivvzMod | timeline score: 22 | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 14:26 | answer | added | chue x | timeline score: 33 | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 12:58 | comment | added | George Stocker Mod | @ChrisF Thanks for taking the time to address my issue. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 12:40 | comment | added | ChrisF Mod | @GeorgeStocker - I understand that. However, curing one problem on site A is not an excuse for causing another on site B. The answer is to simply close as "off topic" (for what ever reason). | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 12:39 | comment | added | George Stocker Mod | @ChrisF The issue it causes for me is if we have an immediately popular question that is demonstrably off topic (I don't believe this question is -- but for the sake of argument let's say it is) for one site but not for another, we can't migrate it. So while this particular case may not be trouble, the general precedent is hard to get behind. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 12:29 | comment | added | ChrisF Mod | @GeorgeStocker - the votes and answers things still apply regardless of the age of the question. The communities on SO and Programmers are different and what one site thinks is good isn't necessarily what the other one thinks and having a highly voted questions and answers that don't "fit" with the target site distorts the "tone" (for the want of a better word) of the site. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 12:25 | comment | added | George Stocker Mod | @ChrisF I'm a bit surprised at your reasoning for not migrating it. It's literally a day old -- the only time to migrate it would be now (answers and upvotes notwithstanding). | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 12:05 | answer | added | ben is uǝq backwards | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 11:43 | comment | added | casperOne Mod | @BoltClock'saUnicorn Touche. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 11:40 | comment | added | BoltClock's a Unicorn Mod | @casperOne: Because Stack Overflow is a debugging service. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 11:38 | comment | added | casperOne Mod | Why focus so much energy on this question when there's literally millions of questions that are so much crappier than this that make the site look like (multiple selections allowed): 1) a debugging service, 2) a write your code service 3) like a dumping ground of total crap that the laziest of programmers go in the hopes that rep-hungry users will do their work for them? | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 11:35 | comment | added | JonW | @CodyGray: Shouldn't that really be: whyArePeopleSoSurprisedThatProgrammersLikeCamelCase | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 10:17 | comment | added | Cody Gray | WhyArePeopleSoSurprisedThatProgrammersLikeCamelCase? | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 10:12 | comment | added | Daniel Daranas | Indeed, a search in the main site for "stackoverflow" (the wrong single-word version of the site name) gives 38,971 results, while one for "Stack Overflow" (the correct two-word version of the site name, plus actual stack overflow problems) 15,215 results. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 10:05 | comment | added | Daniel Daranas | @CodyGray Oops! You're right, I'll revert my fix. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 10:04 | comment | added | Old Checkmark | You all got it wrong. Croissant is a snack. It should be Snack Overflow! | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 10:03 | comment | added | Cody Gray | @Mark It is stylized as one word in the logo, but that is not how it is spelled out. You don't have to browse the legal mumbo-jumbo and trademark guidance stuff, it's right there on the About page. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 10:02 | comment | added | Daniel Daranas | @Mark I fixed it back to StackOverflow. I don't care about the croissants, but StackOverflow is StackOverflow. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:56 | history | edited | Cody Gray | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:52 | comment | added | Old Checkmark | Honey, @CodyGray shrunk the croissants! | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:48 | comment | added | Mark Booth | The annoying this is that it could have been phrased as a legitimate, if rather basic, question on Programmers. It could have been migrated there earlier. It could have been treated fairly and objectively by all of the high rep users who re-opened it (around 200k rep between them!). The OP really should have known better, and it's an excellent example of why the stack exchange network needs the human exception handlers we call Diamond Moderators. Sadly, they can't be around all of the time. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:47 | comment | added | J. Steen | I prefer muffins/cupcakes. That way you don't actually have to eat breakfast first. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:44 | comment | added | Krishnabhadra | It is closed again!! Don't know how long it stays closed.. Croissant's are too much attractive.. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:44 | comment | added | Cody Gray | Would have been a better question if it were about donuts. Seriously, who cares about croissants? | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:43 | answer | added | Caleb | timeline score: 20 | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:42 | comment | added | Thomas Owens | It's not really a good Programmers question, IMO. It's a "gimme the algoz" question. It reads like he just wants someone to write the algorithm - is that appropriate anywhere? If anything, perhaps Code Golf and Programming Puzzles? | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:41 | comment | added | J. Steen | @BoltClock'saUnicorn Funny, and rings of truth. It's such an academic, hypothetical issue that no-one is ever going to benefit from it. =) | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:38 | comment | added | BoltClock's a Unicorn Mod | How about "This question appears to be off-topic because it is too popular to be of legitimate value to anyone in particular."? | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:37 | comment | added | Caleb | @JonW So is: I have a 3/4" spade type drill bit but the end of the cord I'm need to get through a hole on my desk is 1 1/4" wide. What's the best way to drill side by side holes without catching and splintering the surface? That is "practical, answerable question to an actual problem". The point is it should be asked on Home Improvement not Super User. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:35 | comment | added | BoltClock's a Unicorn Mod | @Rob W: Yes, it does seem to have been inspired from that. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:35 | history | edited | Mark Booth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:34 | comment | added | Rob W | Looks like a variant of the Sock pairing question, which is still open. Those croissants look more tasty, though. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:34 | comment | added | ChrisF Mod | @Caleb - The number of answers would still be a problem :) But I take your point about resetting votes. As for getting rid of bikeshed questions - they should be just closed and deleted. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:34 | comment | added | Old Checkmark | [Now contemplating a basic algorithm question packaged as something about kittens...] | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:32 | comment | added | Caleb | @ChrisF If SE would reset votes on migrated questions already this wouldn't be a problem. I wouldn't care if they kept their rep on the originating site and started fresh on the target and got two mortorboards out of it. The point is the question is on the wrong site. If we cant' migrate, close, lock, make the OP copy paste and link all the folks to the new target. Silly, but why let it become the next impossible to get rid of bike shed question that isn't even on topic? | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:28 | comment | added | JonW | Isn't that question completely within the requirement of a 'practical, answerable question based on actual problem' though? Yes, it's possibly OT for SO but it still fits within that criteria. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:26 | comment | added | ChrisF Mod | @Caleb - it should have been migrated to Programmers just after it was asked. As it stands now - with so many upvotes and lots of answers - it's not really a suitable migration candidate. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:26 | comment | added | Old Checkmark | Man, people sure do like 'em croissants. Look at the view (and the number of votes)! | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:25 | comment | added | Caleb | Hear hear! This seems to be a real algorithm question with a bunch of trappings to make it interesting, but if anything it should belong on Software Engineering. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:22 | history | edited | BoltClock's a UnicornMod |
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