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@Sven has your threshold for what's offensive always been this low? Regardless, I'm not arguing, and there's a larger issue here. The site's highest rep user, one of the small number of remaining, regular contributors, is saying that he feels disrespected by an edit that introduces a major change to a four-year old post. Your response to that is going to do more than just determine the content of an old answer. It's really no skin off my nose, but it seems to me like it might be in [what's left of] the community's best interests to give your response a little more deliberation.
@AndrewB If you feel that strongly about the supplementary opinion, it's the better option than just editing out whatever part of the post you disagree with.
So what if it's disrespectful? How much respect does a man who murdered his mail-order-bride really deserve? Like it or not, undesirable personalities in lead project developers is a factor in product selection. For example, I know of multiple companies that are moving or have moved off of Observim (onto a fork) because they're sick of Adam Armstrong's flaming jackassery.
Yup, but that's the license and the way things go around here. Author's original intent isn't nearly as important as they like to pretend, or say to the sub 2k peons.
@Alex Once upon a time, we did do shopping questions. Feel free to search them out if you want to find practical examples of why this kind of question doesn't hold up well to the test of time.
@Rob-d Better yet, just don't bother at all. If they can't be bothered to RTFM, commenting isn't going to do any good. As Jenny answered, just throw on a downvote and/or close vote and move on. shouldn't we make them be better admins Not for free, and not for lazy, jerkoff help-vampires, no. It's not what they want anyway, they just want the codez/someone else to do their job for them. By downvoting and close voting, you get them to a question ban quicker, which means less dealing with their particular crap.
@Rob-d That's the SE stance, yeah. "Not Paris!" "Purple?" and "Washington D.C." all count as answers to the question of what Norway's capital is. Before he deleted it, someone posted an answer with SE's stance on what constitutes an answer. Like it says, think of them as apples. A rotted-out apple serving as bug food is still an apple.
@KatherineVillyard Careful, now... sounds like you're disagreeing with someone there. Even worse, it could be taken as agreeing with someone else. Someone could take such a thing personally, you know.
Conversely, a lot of crap gets upvoted when it shouldn't, so maybe upvotes should be moderated too. Given that no one around here votes much anyway, it wouldn't be much of an added burden either, so that's another argument in favor of the idea.
@MichaelHampton Q: Why is Apache trying to access something in the DocumentRoot? A: [because] your access control syntax written for httpd 2.2. That's an answer. A wrong answer, and not a very good answer, but an answer, nonetheless. Back when I bothered to flag things much at all, I was reminded on a semi-regular basis that a wrong answer or a bad answer is not the same thing as not-an-answer.
