Small formatting quirk that bothers me [duplicate]

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“viewed 1 times”

Call me crazy but on a question's view if there is only one view, it states '1 views'. I have no idea why, but that really bothers me.

I do not think that it would be a big/hard change to make, simply add a line or two of code before the text is displayed:

viewSuffix = numOfViews == 1 ? "time" : "times";
var viewDisplay = string.Format("{0} {1}", numOfViews, viewSuffix);

Does this sort of thing bother anyone else? It seems like I am a minority on stuff like this, as I see the same 'mistake' on other websites/counters.

Cheers!

fair enough. my searching sucks apparently. please close this question. — Anders, Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 14:35
Why? Let's see how far we can go with Jeff's sanity ;-) Also, you can just delete the question. — balpha, Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 14:38
@Anders don't feel bad, it's not your searching that sucks, it's the site's searching that sucks. — Kip, Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 15:17
@balpha: Deleting duplicate questions is not one with the SOFU way. — Eric, Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 15:46
@Eric: should we expect a new "meta question": The Zen of Stack Overflow? — perbert, Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 17:28

6 revs, 2 users 56% unknown · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-03 13:30:57Z

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Dear Next Person Who Opens a Pluralization 'Bug', I will personally come to your house and bludgeon you to death with a giant S

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Why do you keep doing this smeagol? Arbitrary numbers are there for the pickings!
– random
Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 14:42
This way I can have an excuse for not having a big arbitrary number :)
– perbert
Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 14:48
Nuts to thats, your olds stuffs is viables for the upvotes.
– random
Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 14:51
@random: that was awesome. You just had to give me 10 arbitrary points, didn't you?
– perbert
Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 15:14
Oh, the huge manatee of it all!
– random
Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 15:19
@random: are you stalking me?
– perbert
Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 15:29
If so, I'm flattered :) random people generaly ignore me
– perbert
Commented Sep 28, 2009 at 15:39
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With a "giant S" ? Where does one get one of those ?
– Rook
Commented Sep 29, 2009 at 3:45
@Idigas: I'm pretty sure there is a Greasemonkey script for that
– perbert
Commented Sep 29, 2009 at 6:11

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Jeff Atwood · Accepted Answer · 2009-09-28 22:50:50Z

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Seriously, how long is any question going to be at ONE VIEW?

C'mon! You're not even trying to file bugs when you file this stuff! :P

answered Sep 28, 2009 at 22:50

Jeff Atwood

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