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I never claimed it wasn't confusing, thanks for the strawman. But your proposal seems no less confusing, yet you present it as though it's obviously superior. I think you guys would have whinged no matter what I had done - I'm so tired of the whining when anything changes...
I still disagree that labeling it a "Hot Meta Topic" is any less confusing. Also, how "wildly incorrect" is the date the bug was publish? I curious to know what date you think would have been wildly correct.
Most of the downvotes came after. It was at +2/-2 when I did the edit. I suspect some of the downvotes are from the Question being posted in The Comms Room.
Completely agree except the assembly being easy part. Putting parts together is quite easy, almost all things only physically fit where they're supposed to go. Ensuring they'll actually work together and do what you want is horribly complicated (and a big reason most IT people don't try to DIY - that and the bus factor).
@NilsToedtmann You immediately solve the XY Problem when you mention X (that bit about the 50%, local cache, and all that). This is exactly what we're talking about. When you mention X and Y we might know a better Y and write an answer about that, or maybe Y doesn't even solve X. When you only mention your Y and leave out the X then you'll miss out on the better solution. Also this tends to crop up with weird and outlandish "Y" solutions, where the proposed solution runs upstream to all "normal" configurations and is likely to cause it's own problems.
Yeah, we purposely designed the ads to have a clean, no border look (I'm fine with the border, but it wasn't listed as a requirement or even mentioned until just now). If you want a border why not add it to the CSS and not rely on users? Also, how much time did you spend updating all these ads when 1 line of CSS could have fixed it?
