Comment by DaveyDaveDave on Unnecessary secondary accounts and avoiding...
@Jean-FrançoisFabre, I'm not sure what you mean. Surely the whole question is about cornercases? I imagine the vast majority of users on SO only have 1 account.
View ArticleComment by DaveyDaveDave on Stack Overflow fails to promote well-researched,...
@yivi - totally off-topic, but possibly useful comment, the English idiom is "muddies the water" (as in, adds mud, making it less clear), not "muddles" - I'm not sure that I could tell the difference...
View ArticleComment by DaveyDaveDave on Why is "Stack Overflow for Teams" sending out...
Nitpick, perhaps a cultural difference, but in the UK "stakeholders" means anybody with a 'stake' of any sort in the organisation, which certainly does include the community and employees - we all have...
View ArticleComment by DaveyDaveDave on Why is "Stack Overflow for Teams" sending out...
"so they know there's a place to voice their thoughts where we're listening for their feedback". If only there were some other place where StackOverflow could listen for feedback... :P
View ArticleComment by DaveyDaveDave on Is it a feature or a bug that @mentioning the...
@KevinB, OK, I guess we could argue about the definition of the word "bug", but that's not really the point - is it desired functionality? Seems weird and I've never noticed it before, but I guess...
View ArticleWhat to do with an old question, with an accepted answer, that's contradicted...
I just encountered the second, more recent answer to this question in the Low Quality Posts review queue.The answer is concise, and, despite a typo does give something that most would recognise an an...
View ArticleWhat to do with a highly-upvoted, old, hot mess of a question? [duplicate]
This question showed up with an answer in the Late Answers review queue, and has almost everything wrong with it:Spring,Request method 'POST' not supportedThe main reason why I'd expect this to be...
View ArticleHow do people join communities these days? [closed]
I remember a time before Stack Overflow. Not much, and not well; there are certainly people with more and longer experience of those dark days than me (I've even heard that there was a time where...
View ArticleAbuse flag declined for a user repeatedly attacking another user
In this thread, the OP of the question received a clearly well-meaning answer, which he obviously felt was not right:Spring Boot Callback after client receives resource?He commented "Please don't...
View ArticleAnswer by DaveyDaveDave for Developer Survey 2019: Any Topic Suggestions?
Perhaps not relevant for everyone, like students or people working on small personal projects, but something along the lines of:How long did it take your most-recently-released commit to reach your...
View ArticleWhy isn't this post that doesn't answer the question - but does provide...
To me, this answer is a pretty clear cut NAA.It's not a bad answer (as evidenced by its 31 upvotes) - it's well-written, and provides some excellent background that probably couldn't have been conveyed...
View ArticleCan the text in the mod's canned response for declined NAA flags be changed?
Heavily inspired by this question, suggesting a change to the text of the NAA flag to include the typical canned response for mis-used NAA flags ("The (NAA|Not an Answer) flag should not be used to...
View ArticleIdentify answers that just copy content from the question and say nothing more
I flagged a (now-deleted) answer on this question as NAA, because it was literally nothing more than the code snippet copied from the question, and pasted into the answer box. It was identical, except...
View ArticlePut a stake through [dracula]
Sorry if I'm doing this wrong - my first burnination request, so I'm not really sure of the procedure. I suspect I was supposed to come up with a brilliant pun on the word Dracula and burning, but...
View ArticleHow should bare idownvotedbecau.se links in comments be flagged? [duplicate]
I just flagged a comment that simply consisted of several idownvotedbecau.se links and nothing else, something like:idownvotedbecau.se/nomcve* idownvotedbecau.se/noexceptiondetails...
View ArticleGuidance for when to moderator flag vs raise many standard flags
I've a feeling that this kind of comes down to individual mods' preferences, but I'm hoping maybe there's some standard guidance that I've missed.I encountered a question today which had a vast block...
View ArticleAnswer by DaveyDaveDave for Did the Through The Loop survey complete properly?
Oh, no, I've just done it again, and it did complete. It's just that the 'Thanks for completing this survey' message is blurred behind the cookies notice, and then disappears when you click to accept...
View ArticleDid the Through The Loop survey complete properly?
I've just tried to fill in the Through The Loop survey referenced here, and it seemed to end very abruptly.I answered a couple of free-form questions about what I do and don't like, then my age, gender...
View ArticleAnswer by DaveyDaveDave for Take the 2020 Developer Survey
I've completed every survey for the past several years; this year I went through the whole survey, but didn't click submit.Unfortunately this year's survey has the same feel as the general trend of the...
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Did I just get told off by email? If so, what did I do?
I just received an email from Stack Overflow with the subject "Stack Overflow - Guiding question askers - Part 1", which appears to be (quite patronisingly and passive-aggressively IMHO) telling me how...
View ArticleComment by DaveyDaveDave on Why change fonts on Stack Overflow?
IMHO it's an improvement on my Linux Mint and OSX devices. All the examples @EricLeschinski posted above look exactly as they should to me.
View ArticleComment by DaveyDaveDave on Is SO suffering from its own success?
Not anything that hasn't already been said, but, prompted by this post I just had another stab at reviewing. A few years ago, I quite enjoyed reviewing as a way to randomly stumble across interesting...
View ArticleComment by DaveyDaveDave on Two candidates in the moderator election have...
Thanks @CodyGray, it's early for me, I should have thought of both of those :D Having answered the question, I'm in two minds about whether or not to leave this post here. It feels a little unfair to...
View ArticleAnswer by DaveyDaveDave for Congratulations, Zoe
Shree, I'm also glad to see that you are OK.It was my question which highlighted the similarities and kicked things off. I'm sorry that I did it in such a public way, and that it led to some negative...
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