Timeline for Removing greetings and taglines
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| Jul 9, 2013 at 6:35 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @MadScientist: Ah. I did not know that, but that makes sense. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 6:06 | comment | added | user35354 | @AsafKaragila There is an automatic removal of greetings, but not of signatures or taglines. Greetings have the disadvantage that they replace actual content in the small excerpt on the frontpage and on question lists, making it less useful. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 0:31 | comment | added | user9072 | @AsafKaragila: thank you for the reply. It might be active on MO though. We could test it. But also as some evidence search on main for "hello" an sort by newest. The last question starting "hello" dates june 20th, before that there are numerous. This might be a coincindence. But I doubt it. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 0:25 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @quid: I don't think that there is an automatic removal of greetings, but even if there is - it seems like a feature which needs to be activated by a request from th community, rather an automatic thing. Either way, I don't recall seeing this on MSE. | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 23:30 | comment | added | user9072 | Sorry to continue this a bit tangential discussion, we can then remove it if you like: you said in your second comment where A refers to the greetings being gone "If we get A as the result of the edit, the edit should be avoided". Now, this means to me that an edit of a post (for completely unrelated reasons!) should be avoided if the post starts with "Hello" (since editing the post will remove the hello even if the person editing it does not actually remove it; the person editing it I think does not even really see they removed it while editing). | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 23:22 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | Petition a feature-request that stops this from happening. It will most likely be rejected, and some of us will be minorly unhappy for a small amount of time, and the world will move on. | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 23:19 | comment | added | user9072 | But if (and I think this is the case) the software deletes all by itself, what to do? | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 23:15 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | No, @quid. It means your edit should not remove the Hello. | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 23:14 | comment | added | user9072 | Assuming what I say in my comment on OP is true, and taking you comment to the end, this would mean one must not edit any post that contains "Hello" at the start. This seems a bit extremme to me. | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 23:10 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | Editing greetings out accomplishes $A$ and $B$. If something else removes $B$ from being an issue (such as, the edit also fixes something that was actually broken), we still get $A$. Neither $A$ nor $B$ is desirable. If we get $A$ as a result of the edit, the edit should be avoided. | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 23:08 | comment | added | user9072 | François G. Dorais said: "Is it appropriate to edit greetings out along with another edit?" (my emphasis). Cluttering the the front-page thus seems not like reason against it. | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 22:49 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | Related. | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 22:47 | history | answered | Andrés E. Caicedo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |