Timeline for Dealing with "Find out who's going to buy the croissants"
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:48 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://cs.stackexchange.com/ with https://cs.stackexchange.com/
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 7:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ with https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:50 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Migration of MSO links to MSE links
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| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:41 | comment | added | Shog9 | Good - you should always think twice when migrating anything. There should be a good reason for it, something valuable that would be lost but for the migration. If you don't think the votes are justified by the quality of the question and/or answer, then... Don't migrate. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:37 | comment | added | Caleb | @Shog9 Unhappy coincidence than it's an SO/Prog thing. I can see why there is doubt as to whether it's a good prog question. However this case being a bike shed question that might not be good anywhere does't mean the feature request is bogus. It just should be used to fix unrelated problems. There are lots of day to day questions with ~5 votes that I'd like to have reset when they migrate between C.SE and BH for example. Those are the ones feeding my desire for this function, this just happened to be a popular bandwagon to which I hitched my hobby horse. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:35 | comment | added | Shog9 | There's some debate as to whether this is even off-topic, much less a great question for Programmers. Vote-resetting on migration here sounds like a plea for the return to the "Progse as a dumping ground for questions SO finds embarrassing" idea that we abandoned years ago, with slightly less guilt involved. Toilet-bowl Lite - less filling, tastes... uh... | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:26 | comment | added | casperOne | @MarkBooth That's splitting hairs when dealing with algorithms. You're automatically throwing algorithms into the same bucket as shopping questions. Many of the questions on Stack Overflow that are more code-based have different code that solve the same problem, but those aren't shopping questions. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:15 | comment | added | user200500 | @casperOne Here's an example. "I was playing tic tac toe with my friend, and I keep losing. How can I play a perfect game? Oh, and I'll be writing an android app some day to help me keep track of the optimal move in any situation, so now this question is on topic for SO." | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:13 | comment | added | Old Checkmark | You know what, I'm really curious how Programmers would respond to this croissant question if it is actually posted there. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 15:03 | comment | added | user200500 | @casperOne If the requirement is simply that a program can be written to demonstrate/implement the algorithm, I think pretty much any and all algorithm questions would qualify, regardless of their relevance to programming. The socks question would certainly pass that bar. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 14:45 | comment | added | Sklivvz | A small point. It's not a question about programming at all. It's a question about an algorithm, yes, but it is not about computer "Good methods how to pick who's 'it' at the playground" is a rephrase that makes this more evident. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 13:49 | comment | added | Mark Booth | The OP specifically says "I want an algorithm to decide" based on these criteria, so there are many equally valid answers. Not only that, but the most highly voted answer would be more suitable on workplace than on Stack Overflow. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 13:37 | comment | added | casperOne | @MarkBooth I fail to see how the question in its original or current form is a shopping question. If the question was "what kinds of algorithms can I use to solve this type of problem", then that's a shopping question. As it stands now, there's a specific problem and answers are being provided. It's also on topic because while about algorithms, it's an algorithm that a program can be written for to solve the problem as presented. Right now, the answers are not recommendations, but actual algorithms. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 12:32 | comment | added | Mark Booth | @casperOne - Are your seriously suggesting that algorithm shopping questions are on topic because they are algorithm questions? | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 11:35 | comment | added | casperOne | Your premise that it's off topic is wrong, from the FAQ: What topics can I ask about here? but if your question generally covers... a software algorithm. Do I like the presentation? No, we really don't need a picture of croissants, and it's goofy, but there's a legitimate on topic question there. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 11:27 | comment | added | Thomas Owens | This question is not suitable for Programmers. Like Stack Overflow, we don't do work for people. We have the guidelines about explaining what research or work has already been done to solve the problem and expect the asker to have a "minimal understanding of the problem being solved". This question, in its current form, is purely asking for someone to write an algorithm and would be closed on Programmers. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 10:11 | comment | added | ChrisF Mod | @OldCheckmark - I know :( | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 10:08 | comment | added | Old Checkmark | @ChrisF, you totally made a typo on the word "typo" | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 10:04 | comment | added | Caleb | @OldCheckmark The feature request is about auto-resets but one way they could fulfill it is with a manual tool too. At least the more people that think its an issue the more likely it will get some sort of solution. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 10:03 | history | edited | ChrisFMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2013 at 10:02 | comment | added | Old Checkmark | @Caleb: Already done that. I thought the mods can override the votes (and I thought the feature request was something about resetting votes automatically upon migration) | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:59 | comment | added | Time Traveling Bobby | @Caleb: Also, you most likely want to read this, and then follow the linked questions down into that rabbit hole...it goes deep...very deep... | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:58 | comment | added | BoltClock's a Unicorn | @Caleb: We haven't - I don't see anybody on the mod team or The Meta Police having voted to reopen the question. I'm just saying. No need to get defensive. (Wait, that sounds familiar...) | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:58 | comment | added | Caleb | @OldCheckmark Votes are locked in. Migrated questions with negative votes rest to zero but positive vote counts get locked in and even mods can't reset this. Please see the linked question and vote up so we could someday get a tool to fix this! | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:56 | history | edited | Caleb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:56 | comment | added | Old Checkmark | Can't the mods at the receiving end on migration manually reset the vote on a migrated question? Or are the votes locked in? | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:51 | comment | added | Time Traveling Bobby | @Caleb: Yeah, I'm all for it, we could rename it to "Garbagecan SE" or something and use it to keep all those users away from the main sites which do not bother to ready anything... | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:50 | history | edited | Caleb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:49 | comment | added | Cody Gray - on strike | @bolt I don't know, we've had 3 people within the last day or so posting feature requests for a separate site where they can ask their bad, off-topic questions. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:49 | comment | added | Caleb | @BoltClock'saUnicorn I get that. There are lots of those people. But since when did we start pandering to their vision for SE? Why don't we just let this proposal through while we're at it? | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:47 | comment | added | BoltClock's a Unicorn | Nah I'm pretty sure people just wanted it to remain on Stack Overflow. A lot of people can't accept that there exists a diversity of Stack Exchange Q&A sites for various topics, and insist that SO be a catch-all for questions of any sub-topic of software development. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 9:43 | history | answered | Caleb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |