Timeline for Let's agree on some commonly accepted formatting guidelines
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| Jun 10, 2016 at 8:01 | answer | added | Severus Tux | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 3, 2016 at 16:29 | answer | added | Elder Geek | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 3, 2016 at 15:58 | vote | accept | Andrea Lazzarotto | ||
| Jun 2, 2016 at 22:32 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/AskUbuntu/status/738498575659880448 | ||
| Jun 2, 2016 at 13:33 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | «Obviously not the whole code block in bold» Exactly. :D | |
| Jun 2, 2016 at 13:23 | comment | added | Jonas Czech | Regarding bold in code: I think it can be useful sometimes to have bold in a code block, perhaps to highlight changes you made or important parts. Obviously not the whole code block in bold though.. | |
| Jun 2, 2016 at 8:52 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | @RolandiXor actually all comments are still showing here. | |
| S Jun 1, 2016 at 18:07 | history | mod moved comments to chat | |||
| S Jun 1, 2016 at 18:07 | comment | added | RolandiXor Mod | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 13:30 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto |
@anonymous2 I think your edit is perfectly fine. Maybe also xymon-client could have been made xymon-client but italic text is still acceptable IMHO.
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| Jun 1, 2016 at 13:28 | comment | added | anonymous2 | Question, @AndreaLazzarotto - what about the use of the backtips in askubuntu.com/questions/596133/…? Should I have edited it to something else or just left it without any marking? | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 12:58 | comment | added | anonymous2 | Thanks for the guidelines, @AndreaLazzarotto. Editing has sometimes been guesswork - this will help a bunch. +1 | |
| May 31, 2016 at 19:21 | answer | added | thunderblaster | timeline score: 14 | |
| May 31, 2016 at 7:18 | answer | added | tudor -Reinstate Monica- | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 30, 2016 at 19:52 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | @ParanoidPanda thanks for fixing my grammar! I'd like your opinion on the things you disagree with. :) | |
| May 30, 2016 at 13:55 | comment | added | user364819 | There are a few things in the post that I disagree with, but overall it's good so a +1. | |
| May 30, 2016 at 13:54 | history | edited | user364819 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 30, 2016 at 10:07 | comment | added | AlwaysTalkingAboutMyDog | @ByteCommander Hmm, alright. Thanks for the info. | |
| May 30, 2016 at 10:06 | comment | added | Byte Commander Mod |
@Zzzach... Please, don't use HTML tags for tasks you can achieve using Markdown. There are cases where going directly for HTML is necessary to achieve a thing, but they are rare. Also simply writing <pre>...</pre> is not the same a s a Markdown code block indented with 4 spaces. It's <pre><code>...</code></pre> instead - and you have to pay attention to your line breaks or it will look weird! TL;DR: The average poster/editor should normally not use any HTML.
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| May 30, 2016 at 9:41 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | Ah right, I forgot I also sometimes find suggested edits polluted by overused HTML tags. :D The easiest way is actually using the {} toolbar button after selecting the code. :) | |
| May 29, 2016 at 21:30 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | «Code blocks should only be used for stuff people might copy and paste somewhere, or to read shell output and errors» Yes, agreed, that's exactly what is written in my Q as well. «reject and edit is your friend» The point of the Q is that it would be much easier if suggested edits were formatted properly in the first place. One would hope that the majority of edits could be approved even without editing. | |
| May 29, 2016 at 21:05 | comment | added | Braiam | Oh, btw, reject and edit is your friend. Meet with him. He's useful | |
| May 29, 2016 at 21:04 | comment | added | Braiam | Any formatting that doesn't make sense shouldn't be used. Bold and italics should be sparingly used, and most of posts don't need them. Code blocks should only be used for stuff people might copy and paste somewhere, or to read shell output and errors. Most of my post use very little or no formatting, therefore they are easy to read. | |
| May 29, 2016 at 16:40 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | By the way, it would be nice and beneficial for all of us if the people who downvoted the question could also share their opinions on the topic. If we don't know why you disagree with formatting posts in a way accepted by consensus, how can we listen to your point of view? | |
| May 29, 2016 at 14:52 | history | edited | Andrea Lazzarotto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 29, 2016 at 14:52 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | There are more I am sure, I will post them if I find them, having a new question to remind people never hurts :) | |
| May 29, 2016 at 14:51 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | I didn't found that link before, thank you for pointing that out. I will post it at the top of my Q. | |
| May 29, 2016 at 14:48 | answer | added | Mark Kirby | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 29, 2016 at 14:44 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | Sure, I will make it a wiki for others to add what annoy them about edits too. FYI, I agree with the rest of the post, I just don't think that one thing is a big deal. Here is a related question too meta.askubuntu.com/questions/89/… | |
| May 29, 2016 at 14:41 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | By the way I totally forgot about the useless tags, especially version tags. Would you mind posting that as an answer? | |
| May 29, 2016 at 14:39 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | «you will never get every one to agree on guidelines» You misunderstood the post. I am not forcing these specific suggestions as law. This Q has been opened to come up to guidelines together. «they are mostly your subjective opinion» Actually they are based on the semantics of different Markdown blocks (or HTML tags) and typographic conventions used in the western world as documented in many books about type and graphic design. | |
| May 29, 2016 at 14:39 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | It really does not matter that much as long as it is emphasized is my point, there are bigger issues to worries about when editing. | |
| May 29, 2016 at 14:37 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto |
Menu entries are not code. Do you type File > Edit somewhere? Maybe the HUD... :D But seriously, those are things you click on. Italics are semantically made for emphasis. That's what they have been used for since people invented them here a few centuries ago. ;)
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| May 29, 2016 at 14:33 | comment | added | Mark Kirby |
"What are the most common issues you encounter while approving suggested edits that deal with formatting?" My pet hate is edits that just add useless tags while missing images, code, spelling, grammar etc, I just rejected like five of these in review. This comes up from time to time, you will never get every one to agree on guidelines, they are mostly your subjective opinion, for example, your Menu entries, I have no issue with using code for this, it makes it stand out, I see no reason why italics is better, you just seem to like italics.
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| May 29, 2016 at 14:25 | history | asked | Andrea Lazzarotto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |