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Freelance copy-editor.


You can read my irregular waffles at advogato.org/person/chalst/.


Jun
15
comment /faq HUHN! What is it good for?
@Won't just as easily: I don't think so, unless people are to memorise question numbers or we are to have an ever-growing table of nicknames for FAQ qns.
Jun
15
comment /faq HUHN! What is it good for?
pointed them to the appropriate FAQ page - Right, and the new "magic link" syntax will make this easier and hopefully a more widespread behaviour. See meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/92060/…
Jun
9
comment Add data.SE style “magic links” to comments
@balpha: Your wish is my command!
Jun
9
answered Add data.SE style “magic links” to comments
Jun
9
comment Add data.SE style “magic links” to comments
From the meta sites, I think we most often want to link to the FAQ of the main site, not of the meta site. Can we have a magic link along the lines of [mainfaq#dontask]?
Jun
6
comment Is Changing the Accepted Answer Frowned Upon?
"frustration by the answering parties" - I don't think this is much of a consideration: there's likelihood of annoyance by the unaccepted answerer, and little expectation by new answerers of having the accepted mark moved because it is fairly rare to do this. The only reason to change is that it makes the Q&A thread better.
May
16
comment How can I change my question back from a community wiki?
Good to know. Is it announced anywhere?
May
11
awarded  Nice Question
May
9
comment Stack Exchange network with overlapping questions
@Steven: Well, the issue there is that these should not be different sites, since there are not different kinds of expert here: any C# expert is expert by the standards of SO and Code Review. The solution to that problem is a change in how we present different views onto one body of expertise. If that is the problem your suggestion is trying to solve, then I guess I don't have a strong opinion on your proposal, and we are headed for another similar gaggle of problems with the various area51 language-specific proposals.
May
9
comment Stack Exchange network with overlapping questions
@Steve: You misunderstand my point: you solve a problem for questioners and for the area51 issues of site structure, but I think you undermine the attractiveness of SX for experts. Since attracting experts and making them want to share their knowledge in a problem-solving way is the fundamental thing the sites must do, I think this is bad.
May
9
answered Stack Exchange network with overlapping questions
May
9
asked Do tag RSS feeds attract many viewers?
Apr
21
comment Show the total reputation across sites in the Stack Exchange user profile page
It does look like something should go in that wide white open space. Either a reputation score, or maybe a unicorn.
Apr
19
answered What if the duplicate is better than the original?
Apr
19
revised Can we have a better name for the 10k “Moderator tools”?
ps
Apr
19
answered Can we have a better name for the 10k “Moderator tools”?
Apr
8
comment A request for clarification about licensing of code from SE
This was not clear to me from the threads. OK, I think the solution of having most (if not all) contributions in one LPPL package, and the stragglers in a CC-WIKI package would work well here.
Apr
8
comment A request for clarification about licensing of code from SE
strongly opposed to publish LaTeX packages under anything else then LPPL - even packages of compiled examples?
Apr
8
answered A request for clarification about licensing of code from SE
Mar
20
awarded  Nice Answer
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