People editing posts
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<rant> Looking through the quick answers, it appears that several people are simply trying to rack up as many "Editor" reputation points as possible, and it's fricking annoying! I saw one where someone had edited someone's answer by adding a period to the end of a sentence. What the frick? Was that really necessary? And I've seen people removing a blank line or adding a line between sentences. Piddly little crap like that. One was even a CP team member. Seriously...what the frick is up with some people? Sure, if someone didn't add the <pre> tags or capitalized every single word, or asked the same question 16 different times in a post or if English wasn't their first language and it needed a little clean up, go ahead. But adding a period or removing a blank line? Find another hobby. </rant>
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<rant> Looking through the quick answers, it appears that several people are simply trying to rack up as many "Editor" reputation points as possible, and it's fricking annoying! I saw one where someone had edited someone's answer by adding a period to the end of a sentence. What the frick? Was that really necessary? And I've seen people removing a blank line or adding a line between sentences. Piddly little crap like that. One was even a CP team member. Seriously...what the frick is up with some people? Sure, if someone didn't add the <pre> tags or capitalized every single word, or asked the same question 16 different times in a post or if English wasn't their first language and it needed a little clean up, go ahead. But adding a period or removing a blank line? Find another hobby. </rant>
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<rant> Looking through the quick answers, it appears that several people are simply trying to rack up as many "Editor" reputation points as possible, and it's fricking annoying! I saw one where someone had edited someone's answer by adding a period to the end of a sentence. What the frick? Was that really necessary? And I've seen people removing a blank line or adding a line between sentences. Piddly little crap like that. One was even a CP team member. Seriously...what the frick is up with some people? Sure, if someone didn't add the <pre> tags or capitalized every single word, or asked the same question 16 different times in a post or if English wasn't their first language and it needed a little clean up, go ahead. But adding a period or removing a blank line? Find another hobby. </rant>
What do you expect when people are encouraged to value a set of numbers as their "reputation". Personally, I don't look at how many post someone has made, and I sure am not interested at all in their reputation scores. I will judge a post by what it says, not by who said it. If I judge a poster at all, it is from experience/memory of previous posts.
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<rant> Looking through the quick answers, it appears that several people are simply trying to rack up as many "Editor" reputation points as possible, and it's fricking annoying! I saw one where someone had edited someone's answer by adding a period to the end of a sentence. What the frick? Was that really necessary? And I've seen people removing a blank line or adding a line between sentences. Piddly little crap like that. One was even a CP team member. Seriously...what the frick is up with some people? Sure, if someone didn't add the <pre> tags or capitalized every single word, or asked the same question 16 different times in a post or if English wasn't their first language and it needed a little clean up, go ahead. But adding a period or removing a blank line? Find another hobby. </rant>
Indeed: someone edited one of my posts and it took me a while to see what they had done. Bloody cheek: maybe how I wrote it was how I wanted it: what bloody business it is of theirs to stick their point sucking nose in? Anyway, I just edited the edit because I could: dumb system.
me, me, me "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
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<rant> Looking through the quick answers, it appears that several people are simply trying to rack up as many "Editor" reputation points as possible, and it's fricking annoying! I saw one where someone had edited someone's answer by adding a period to the end of a sentence. What the frick? Was that really necessary? And I've seen people removing a blank line or adding a line between sentences. Piddly little crap like that. One was even a CP team member. Seriously...what the frick is up with some people? Sure, if someone didn't add the <pre> tags or capitalized every single word, or asked the same question 16 different times in a post or if English wasn't their first language and it needed a little clean up, go ahead. But adding a period or removing a blank line? Find another hobby. </rant>
I'm one of those who often corrects "upper" and "lower" case. But then, I really hate it when I go to answer a question and what I see posted is "how can i make a variable readonly" At least let the question be punctuated / cased properly - "How can I make a variable readonly?". I try and make it a rule to format only those questions that I am answering.
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I'm one of those who often corrects "upper" and "lower" case. But then, I really hate it when I go to answer a question and what I see posted is "how can i make a variable readonly" At least let the question be punctuated / cased properly - "How can I make a variable readonly?". I try and make it a rule to format only those questions that I am answering.
Your point of view is fine. But I would rather go with William. If you do it for a poster for the first time and it is not repeated by him/her, then it makes sense. I usually see that the posters don't care until we make them realize. (I am one of them, when i was very new.. ;P ) Anyway I would invest my time doing something interesting rather than editing the post to just put a period/punctuation or remove a blank line..(I don't mean you when I am saying this but the people, William was talking about) :)
Computer programming is an extraordinarily precise activity, be precise.