Timeline for Mute down the protected message for advance user
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| Feb 26, 2013 at 2:39 | comment | added | Alois Mahdal | The issue is that abusing certain form (the greyish box) to display redundant messages over and over again results in users building up resistance to these messages, taking down useful ones with them. It's similar as to how most users ignore Yes/No dialogs from OS. | |
| May 17, 2012 at 16:01 | comment | added | Alois Mahdal | It's not about how many these questions exist, it's about questions that are worth getting back to. For me it just builds my own resistense to these messages. | |
| May 19, 2011 at 15:14 | comment | added | Pollyanna | @Shay Consider using stackprinter to produce an HTML file you can use locally on your computer to read the question and answers. It won't have the alert message, you'll be able to read it without paging through 6 pages of answers, and you don't even have to wait for it to load - reading it from your local hard drive will be very fast. | |
| May 19, 2011 at 13:49 | comment | added | juan | @Shay, ah, the problem is that that question shouldn't exists at all ;) | |
| May 19, 2011 at 10:20 | comment | added | Shay Erlichmen | For example Hidden features of Python which I visit a couple times a week. Also its not only two lines of redundant text, its 80px (height) of my screen. | |
| May 19, 2011 at 10:15 | history | answered | Jeff Atwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |