Timeline for Silly Season should not mean crazy voting
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| Dec 29, 2011 at 22:00 | comment | added | Shane Madden | @JohnGardeniers That Powershell/adminCount answer was a situation where Mark answered the question in chat, but they posted it for posterity; if he was rep harvesting, then he wasn't doing it for himself. On the topic: I think we could probably clean that question up to a more general "What partitioning, formatting, and file system options do I need to pay attention to for a given storage use case" question and we could do a community-wiki treatise.. but I can see the Too Localized case, and voted Not Constructive myself because he's asking for the "best" general options, which is opinion. | |
| Dec 29, 2011 at 21:07 | comment | added | Wesley | @JohnGardeniers Oh come now, questions are made to be answered, not only because you don't know the answer, but also because you want to share an already known answer. I believe that is officially sanctioned in some meta.SO conversation somewheres. | |
| Dec 29, 2011 at 21:03 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @Chris, that's just rep harvesting. | |
| Dec 29, 2011 at 2:34 | comment | added | Chris S | "We're participating in [Server Fault] ... to collectively build something great for the community" Ref. My question on adminCount, it's no coincidence that the Answer was posted less than 1 minute later as I already knew the answer but wanted it posted solely for the community's benefit. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 22:02 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @Chris, the idea that the question under discussion is local is absurd. In reality EVERY question is local by your definition simply because no two situations are ever identical. It follows therefore that because each is unique it must by your definition be too localized for SF. I'll also argue that every question is first and foremost for the questioner. I've never seen anyone posting a question just because they thought it might benefit the community and not themselves. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 14:23 | comment | added | Chris S | People seem to forget, Question and Answer are not for the sole benefit of the Questioner (that's what ExpertSexChange is for). This site is for the community. If the Answer is of no benefit to the community, how should we allow the Question to clutter the knowledge base? | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 14:21 | comment | added | Chris S | I see the word "optimal" as being just as bad as "best". The person is asking us to do their job for them, or worse doesn't realize what is involved and is blindly asking for any solution. Best and Optimal vary by situation, if there was a silver bullet for everyone then we'd all be using it by now. Asking for solution suggestions is again just as bad because it's a shopping/discussion question. Too Localized seems to fit all of these sorts of Questions just fine; the "correct" Answer will be completely localized to their situation and almost certainly irrelevant to everyone else. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 14:18 | comment | added | Chris S | +1 I didn't vote on this one, but would have voted Too Localized. @JohnGardeniers I think you misunderstand the concept of local. In fact, there are two concepts. 1. It might be localized to a particular geographic region. 2. It might be of use to such a minority, edge cases, that it can not be usefully answered for the general case (localized to the situation). I believe this Question falls into the latter. The fine details of the use case will determine if an optimal layout even exists. It might well be the case that any common partitioning is just as good as another. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 4:33 | comment | added | Wesley | @JohnGardeniers You are as awesome as a henway. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 4:27 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | as you've asked - A piece of string is 1376mm. I just measured it. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 2:58 | comment | added | Wesley | @JohnGardeniers Yes, I should have been more clear. I updated my post. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 2:58 | history | edited | Wesley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 28, 2011 at 2:56 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | I thought you were claiming the credit/blame for one of the TL votes. It appears now you're playing the Devil's advocate. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 2:23 | comment | added | Wesley | @JohnGardeniers Updated! | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 2:23 | history | edited | Wesley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 28, 2011 at 2:06 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | I believe you are completely misunderstanding the concept of local. You don't need to know or understand the use case for such questions, just as it's not necessary for anyone to know why I want to generate images programmatically, as per my most recent question. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 1:02 | history | answered | Wesley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |