Timeline for Confused about joining the community (reputation)
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| Sep 3, 2015 at 21:18 | comment | added | womble Mod | Your idea that comments "allow everyone to evaluate what kind of community member I would be" seems to suggest that you're under the impression that SE sites are some sort of social club. They're not, they're Question and Answer sites. We don't "evaluate potential members", and rep is obtained by votes which (in general) only evaluate the question/answer being voted on, not on the good character of the person posting them. | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 14:29 | comment | added | eejai42 | Thank you @lain, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks, I think that really answers my primary confusion about why I could Edit the question, but not comment. Okay, perfect. Thanks. And I guess for now I'll just ask my question separately with a link back to the OP. I really appreciate the thorough discussion. | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 14:20 | comment | added | user9517 | @eejai42 Imagine the trouble we'd have from spammers if anyone could comment. If someone makes a change to a question or an answer or posts a new question or answer it is passed to the site front page for community oversight. This catches spam etc quite quickly. Making a comment doesn't cause the content to which it is attached to be passed on for oversight so allowing anyone also allows bots and the site could easily be flooded. | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 14:03 | comment | added | eejai42 | Thanks for the other post @reaces, but I can't participate in that question :) (meta requires 50 XP to comment). In fact, this appears to be the only question I can comment on. I guess I can comment here because I asked the question. Stack overflow sites are awesome. Well designed, with amazing content (in no small part because of these policies), but... Commenting seems like a strange thing to restrict for new community members like myself, when that seems like a great (lightweight) way to participate, while allowing everyone to evaluate what kind of community member I would be. My $.02 :) | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 7:21 | comment | added | Reaces | @eejai42 I just got a bit irritated reading this thread, and some other threads around here about duplicates (while trying to find a canonical answer to what a duplicate is). So I created a post to explain it. Hopefully it's somewhat coherent, allthough it will probably get downvoted into oblivion and closed as a duplicate. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 22:52 | comment | added | eejai42 | Thanks @lain. It would totally be a duplicate. The original post would help (if someone answered it). I really just want to comment on the original question, but Server fault won't let me participate in the original question because I don't have 20 reputation yet. But I don't have an answer, I have additional infirmation. Trying to figure out how to best contibute my information. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 21:27 | comment | added | user9517 | @eejai42 Teh current version of closed->duplicate asks the OP if the alleged duplicate helps.If yes then you get to close it. If no then you are requested to edit your question saying why it's not a duplicate. If you already know that there is a potential duplicate you show say so, link to it and say why it doesn't help you. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 19:06 | comment | added | eejai42 | Alright, I'll give it a try. Thanks. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 19:05 | comment | added | Reaces | @eejai42 Duplicates don't get removed. They get closed and a permanent link to the original is put up. However if it was put up in the queue I'm sure a lot of people would hesitate voting to close your question if the original has no answers. It wouldn't be useful. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 19:04 | comment | added | eejai42 | Thanks @reaces, this is exactly what I'm trying to figure out. Seems like my question would immediately get flagged as duplicates and removed. Appropriately arguably. This is where my confusion stems from. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 19:02 | comment | added | Reaces | @eejai42 In that case I would think the best course of action is putting a bounty on it (if the question is exactly like yours) but seeing as you have no rep, perhaps create a new question and reference the old one. I'm not sure everyone would share that opinion though. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 18:59 | comment | added | eejai42 | Or If there are no answers? | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 18:53 | comment | added | Reaces | @eejai42 Only if the answers in the existing question do not apply to you. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 18:46 | comment | added | eejai42 | Thanks reaces. The original post remains unanswered, but my question is essentially identical to his. Am I understanding you correctly that your recommendation is that I post a duplicate question, link back to the original, and then add my comments to my copy of the duplicate? This seems to violate the "search for existing questions first rule" which gets its own page before posting a question, but I'll give it a try. Thanks. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 14:17 | history | answered | Reaces | CC BY-SA 3.0 |