Timeline for Seeing my question forced into community wiki mode is aggravating beyond belief!
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| Jan 14, 2010 at 20:32 | comment | added | ChrisN | You're right. It's pointless to get angry over this. I regret even posting this on meta. All it has done is make me even angrier. I should have just gotten over the auto-CW thing, and gone back to not using SO like I have been for the last several months. Thought I'd give it another try, but I see now that was a mistake | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 20:04 | comment | added | Andomar | +1 Right, this also makes sense. Perhaps there could be a warning for the edit that would trigger community wikiness. | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 19:48 | comment | added | alex | You don't seem to get it. Your intentions are good, but you're one of the few people with good intentions. Most will try to game the system. There are mechanisms put in place that prevent this, yet a few good people might also suffer from it. It's not that big of a deal. You're getting angry over some virtual points? There are plenty things in this life more important than 20-30 points lost due to CW. | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 19:15 | comment | added | ChrisN | My question was complete when I posted it, other than some typos in my code. I fixed those, over a few edits. Then the answer provided helped me track down where I had things wrong, so my question morphed. If author-edits didn't trigger CW then I also wouldn't run the risk of CWing my question accidentally, no? | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 9:53 | comment | added | womble | Perhaps you should formulate your question a little more completely before posting it originally; that would save you having to run the risk of CWing your question accidentally. | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 9:40 | comment | added | alex | @Arjan van Bentem He didn't lose existing rep, only potential rep after the question became CW. | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 9:33 | comment | added | Arjan | (I don't think existing rep was lost, was it?) | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 9:14 | comment | added | Dominic Rodger | @sliderhouserules - the problem is that users who are trying to game the system need to be prevented from doing so. How would you suggest the system distinguish between users trying to game the question, and what you did? | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 8:57 | comment | added | ChrisN | What you're talking about is a broken mechanic that's easily exploited, and is no reason to punish legitimate users trying to hone their question so that people see the true intent of the poster in asking for help. | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 8:52 | comment | added | alex | It's not, but there's no way to differentiate between your behavior, and the one I'm talking about. If someone sees your question on the first page on SO every day, and all that's changed is the question, eventually he's going to get pissed off. | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 8:50 | comment | added | ChrisN | I know about the bumping "problem". I addressed it in the original question. That's a spurious reason to have my own edits turn my own question into "community" wiki. There's nothing community about my editing my own question or answer. | |
| Jan 14, 2010 at 8:47 | history | answered | alex | CC BY-SA 2.5 |