Timeline for Removing greetings and taglines
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| Jul 9, 2013 at 12:38 | comment | added | user9072 | @AndresCaicedo: I did not notice any automatic thing related to this; but I could not edit in a "hello" at the start. So the script seems to run also on edits not just OP. To Joel Reyes Noche: it might be, but it is hard to tell, as the user editing it seems from SO, and in other edits did also minor formatting things that are not automatic (in fact some of my test were motivated by seeing what they did and what might be automatic). [To be clear the edits were all reasonable in SO mainstream culture they just might or might not conflict with MO mainstream culture. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 10:25 | comment | added | JRN | Not sure if the greetings here were automatically removed: mathoverflow.net/posts/115967/revisions | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 3:05 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | @quid I noticed you also tested other features (automatic removal of spaces, etc). What were the results? | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 2:03 | comment | added | user9072 | My testing is done. Thanks at the end remain, it seems, as the page says. What I wanted to test is if they also stay if done in a very clear way. But greetins are as said autodelted. And I am now quite sure this would also happen if we edit an existing post still displayed with greeting. For it not to happen they would have had to built in something sophisticated into the script to preserve them (really doubt that as they want to get rid of them). Otherwise how should the script "know" that edit with the hello in it was an old hello and not a new one. (And new ones go, also in edits.) | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 1:55 | history | rollback | user9072 |
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| Jul 9, 2013 at 1:54 | history | edited | user9072 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2013 at 1:49 | history | rollback | user9072 |
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| Jul 9, 2013 at 1:48 | history | edited | user9072 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2013 at 1:45 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | My suggestion worked. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 1:43 | comment | added | user9072 | One note: I would really like to ask not to use MathJax tricks for this. Depending under which conditions one uses MO the MathJax can be a problem. I would consider it as rather rude to cause the site working worse for some, just for being 'polite'. If you need to greet, choose an original greeting the system does not know, this would at least be interesting. (Of course as a test it is interesting the MathJax here, I mean if this habit should become popular, I would consider it a problem.) | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 1:40 | history | edited | Andrés E. Caicedo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2013 at 1:38 | comment | added | user9072 | I will allow myself to make another test or two with this answer, thanks for the partial conformation. It might be hard to test this with a newly created post, as they run throught the process. The issue is with existing one since this process will likely run on (re)posting the new version on edit but they did not run the script over everything upon import so the legacy thing exist until they are edited. The post says thanking at the end is more complex so they do not do it. They might meanwhile in simple cases this is what I want to test. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 0:52 | comment | added | JRN | I earlier said that "quid is correct" but I just realized that he was talking about automatic removal when doing edits (not automatic removal when submitting answers). I wasn't able to test quid's claim. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 0:47 | comment | added | JRN | I've made my answer community wiki so that anyone can experiment with the system using my answer. @AndresCaicedo, feel free to try your suggestion. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 0:45 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | Try "$ \$\{\}\$ $Hello ...." | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 0:44 | comment | added | JRN | @Quid is correct. My answer above started with the paragraph "Hello everyone." and when I submitted my answer it was automatically removed. The software didn't remove my last paragraph ("Thank you very much for your time."), though. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 0:44 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | :-)${}{}{}{}{}$ | |
| S Jul 9, 2013 at 0:43 | history | answered | JRN | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Jul 9, 2013 at 0:43 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by JRN |