Comment by Nisse Engström on A list of tag synonyms which are not proposed in...
va-arg is exclusive to c, c++ and objective-c while varargs is also used with several other languages. I don't know if it should be synonymized, burninated or given its own tag description.
View ArticleComment by Nisse Engström on Why would you mark an answer as Community Wiki?
As far as I know, the OP can not delete a question that has an upvoted answer, or more than one answer.
View ArticleComment by Nisse Engström on Why are we reviewing edits of deleted posts?
Posts do get undeleted for various reasons - I know, I've undeleted a few of my own from time to time. As such, I can see why it is of some importance that any pending edits still get properly reviewed.
View ArticleComment by Nisse Engström on Deleted lines in review and revision-history...
It should be noted that this happens only when you use the markdown view.
View ArticleComment by Nisse Engström on How do I view the time a flag was handled?
No tooltip on my phone. :-(
View ArticleComment by Nisse Engström on What percent of Meta feature requests are read...
There can be several feature requests for the same or similar feature, and they don't all get updated when the feature is implemented. I had to flag a moderator a couple of times to get the...
View ArticleComment by Nisse Engström on Why is the moderator icon showing up in red
@Daniel: I have 57. I recently trimmed them down from 72.
View ArticleComment by Nisse Engström on Is it rude/abusive to include junk text to...
I would edit the post into better shape, and then vote on the end result. How it got there, or who posted it is irrelevant.
View ArticleComment by Nisse Engström on How is this a bad answer?
@Servy: It does happen. I managed to fail an audit when I recommended deletion of an answer that was already deleted (as I recall it).
View ArticleComment by Nisse Engström on ♦ moderation queue priority concerns
@FrankerZ: As I understand it, the standard flags can be handled quickly in bulk. It's the custom flags that take "30 minutes".
View ArticleComment by Nisse Engström on Was this review audit valid?
There is no such thing as salvageable spam. If you can see that it is spam, you should have voted to have it deleted. I would have failed the same review because it looks like a legitimate question to me.
View ArticleQuestion should not have been closed [closed]
This question was recently closed for being unclear. I think the question was perfectly clear even before the edit. In fact, the question was put on hold very quickly without so much as a comment...
View ArticleAnswer by Nisse Engström for Numbered list not starting at 1
This feature has now been implemented. Old posts will not be re-rendered until they are edited. See Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange for more details.
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Confusing styling of block quotes and code blocks [duplicate]
ProblemThe styling of block quotes and code blocks on Stackoverflow are indentical on the full site, while on the mobile site they are clearly distinguishable. This is particularly noticable when there...
View ArticleAnswer by Nisse Engström for Was this answer flag disputed because of an upvote?
I'm one of the reviewers who disputed your flag.Of the over 2,000 Low Quality Posts that I have reviewed, there are a large number of answers that are so utterly terrible that reviewers have to step in...
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Answer by Nisse Engström for Increase reputation requirement for triage
Most reviewers are probably following the instructions in the review queue to the letter:Almost anything can be edited by the author into something that is clear and answerable, and so, many reviewers...
View ArticleAnswer by Nisse Engström for How to balance personal style vs. language...
Sometimes, Stack Overflow itself compels some editors to make questionable changes to other user's language.Here's what I think happened:The user wanted to improve the formatting of the code by adding...
View ArticleWildly different rejection counts for same user [duplicate]
When I look at old suggested edits, and click on the (more) link to view the accept- and reject-counts, I get wildly different rejection counts (on myself) for no apparent...
View ArticleAnswer by Nisse Engström for What to do when a tiny edit would markedly...
In this particular case, I would change the list markers from 3) to 3.. This will cause the text to be marked up as a proper HTML list.If you then prefix the code block with eight spaces, it will be...
View ArticleNumbered list not starting at 1
I recently wanted to quote a part of a technical document, such as this:6.2.1 Scopes of identifiersAs a special case, a type name (which is not a declaration of an identifier) is considered to have a...
View ArticleOutdated link in syntax highlighting help page [duplicate]
Not exactly a broken link, but:The help center page on syntax highlighting contains a link to one of the supported prettify language codes.The details in this answer have been removed and the link...
View ArticleAnswer by Nisse Engström for How should I review a low quality question on...
Images of code and error messages are not very useful since they won't be indexed by search engines and you can't (easily) copy them to your favourite editor, where you can search and replace, compile,...
View ArticleAnswer by Nisse Engström for Updating an old answer broke all of the links
Here's what the Markdown help has to say:Block-level HTML elements have a few restrictions:They must be separated from surrounding text by blank lines.The begin and end tags of the outermost block...
View ArticleAnswer by Nisse Engström for Why would you mark an answer as Community Wiki?
When I come across an old question where the user has edited their solution into the question, and the user is no longer around, I sometimes remove the solution from the question and repost it as a...
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Code snippet breaks Markdown parser
When editing a post, the Markdown parser in the Preview seems to break down after a code snippet. Everything (except the pre-formatted text) following the code snippet in Example A below appears...
View ArticleHiding attribution of quoted material
I recently came across a suggested edit which I found questionable. Most of the edit was good, so it was finally approved.However, one part of the post, similar to this:Quoted material from external...
View ArticleAnswer by Nisse Engström for Burninate [codepen]?
It seems to me that quite a few of the [codepen] questionsare actually about CodePen and how code hosted on CodePen behaves differently than code hosted elsewhere.My opinion is that:the tag can stay...
View ArticleAnswer by Nisse Engström for The use of for formatting code hides symbols
When you use the {} code formatting tool, it indents your code by four spaces. This indentation is then converted by the Markdown parser into a <pre><code> block with all the special...
View ArticleAdd notice to disabled Stack Snippets
I recently learned that Stack Snippets are disabled automatically when a post's score drops below -2.This can cause confusion when the Snippet mysteriously fails to work for no apparent reason.Instead...
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