Timeline for Correct usage of "see" vs. "watch"
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| Jan 29, 2023 at 20:35 | comment | added | John Lawler | Ten years later, I feel differently about closing. The fact is that answers don't improve, and just clutter up the landscape. I like the 3-person close rule. | |
| Sep 1, 2012 at 17:12 | comment | added | John Lawler | Well, maybe. But the fact is that most of the previous answers that get linked to are far from archetypal, and quite a few are simply wrong. Closing questions under those circumstances simply keeps answers from improving. | |
| Jul 28, 2012 at 16:52 | vote | accept | Manoj | ||
| Jul 26, 2012 at 23:31 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @John Lawler: There you go! - anyone can get get tired of repeating himself, even a guy who used to lecture for a living! One good thing about my line ("teaching" computers) is if you arrange things right you hardly ever have to repeat anything - you just "call" the routine you already wrote. Translated to ELU, that means closing a question with a pointer to an earlier answer covering the same ground. The concept's imperfectly implemented, but I like to think "archetypal" questions/answers could evolve. Surrounded by a pile of clarifications and context-specific examples. Works for me! | |
| Jul 26, 2012 at 23:18 | comment | added | John Lawler | Votes are irrelevant, and I find the whole mystique of "closing" simply mysterious, not to mention the diff between "Answers" and "Comments". I understand that this works well in some subjects, but discussing the English language using the English language, in writing only, without regard for dialect, native language, or education, seems to me an impossible task to start with, without piling on unnecessary interface distinctions. ... and, like all teachers, I suppose, I get tired of repeating myself. | |
| Jul 26, 2012 at 23:11 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @John Lawler: I think this might be the first time I've ever set an answer as "community wiki" (which I've never bothered reading up on, so I wasn't sure what it meant). As seems reasonable, I don't get points from any upvotes - though I don't see the logic of why I can't upvote it too! Having looked at that "possible duplicate", I'm not convinced it adds anything beyond blindingly obvious context-specific extrapolations from your summary. I think it makes more sense to close that one in favour of this. | |
| Jul 26, 2012 at 20:45 | comment | added | John Lawler | You're right, I wouldn't've bothered repeating it; but thank you for the compliment. | |
| Jul 26, 2012 at 20:03 | history | edited | ruakh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Jul 26, 2012 at 19:36 | history | answered | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Jul 26, 2012 at 19:36 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by FumbleFingers |