Comment by Rawling on Answers that use a different technology than what is asked
completely different code that works, but doesn't show the OP what he did wrong+1. I don't like to see an answer with all-new code when the original code is very nearly correct.
View ArticleComment by Rawling on Why Can't I Override An Incorrect Warning About Code...
That's how it appears on your screen What if he'd written this as a Winforms app rather than a console app? Same program, same text, but it no longer appears monospaced.
View ArticleComment by Rawling on Why was this edit approved for my answer?
@Lundin If only high rep were a guarantee of good behaviour...
View ArticleComment by Rawling on What does reputation represent?
How happy you are answering easy duplicates rather than flagging them...
View ArticleComment by Rawling on Should we discourage leading +/-1 on comments?
@Shog9 mods creating a hostile atmosphere - you don't say...
View ArticleComment by Rawling on How to explain "instant" answers? Is there a secret...
In particular, make sure not to waste time looking for duplicate questions. You'll never get high rep if you do that.
View ArticleComment by Rawling on Please bring back the bluish syntax colouring
Even when Visual Studio went beige, it kept coloured syntax highlighting.
View ArticleComment by Rawling on Has somebody already created a user style of a more...
Why is everything !important? Shouldn't user styles override site styles by default?
View ArticleComment by Rawling on "Serial downvoting" of one question and its answers
The downvote tooltip says "this answer is not useful". Are good answers to terrible questions useful? Is encouraging terrible questions useful?
View ArticleComment by Rawling on A Post-Mortem on the Recent Developer Story Information...
@ken2k I assume that means something like "there's so much HTML source, you'd have to ctrl-f the email to find the phone number, or vice-versa", which doesn't sound very reassuring.
View ArticleComment by Rawling on A dot makes mentions (`@`) work funny
@LightnessRacesinOrbit Unless I've missed something, I don't see any indication in that thread of what the regex they actually use is, or even if they do. (Although how else would you do it?) \b...
View ArticleComment by Rawling on When is Stack Overflow going to stop demonizing the...
You can welcome and encourage someone while still recognizing that their question is a duplicate and has an answer elsewhere on the site.
View ArticleComment by Rawling on Why does the [C#] tag now have a green square next to...
When a tag is sponsored, is there nothing added to the tag page to explain who's sponsoring it? I can't see anything in this case, but I also can't see anything on the other sponsored tags that show up...
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