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Charles Staats comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19900)

Charles Staats — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:35:30 -0700

Emil, figuring out "what happens when I push this button" is an entirely appropriate use of the question. I just did not want people misinterpreting my earlier comment here as a request for the question to be deleted.

Asaf Karagila comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19894)

Asaf Karagila — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:50:44 -0700

Emil's last comment reminded me of this.

Emil J comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19893)

Emil J — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:08:05 -0700

Sorry, I didn’t mean to ruin the joke, I was just wondering what happens when I push this button.

Asaf Karagila comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19892)

Asaf Karagila — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:03:04 -0700

By all means, vote to undelete.

Harry Gindi comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19891)

Harry Gindi — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:50:47 -0700

Yes, deleting the question on the devsite ruins the joke.

Charles Staats comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19890)

Charles Staats — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:33:39 -0700

By the way, just as clarification: while I have no objection to people using the question to test the delete functionality (or anything else, for that matter), the thread I was suggesting might be deleted was this thread here on meta, not the sandbox question (which will disappear in any case once the actual migration happens).

Emil J comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19889)

Emil J — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:59:56 -0700

Thanks for the explanation, Asaf.

Asaf Karagila comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19887)

Asaf Karagila — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:38:58 -0700

Emil, the test site has very unusual reputation thresholds for the different privileges. I can delete, but not close...

Emil J comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19886)

Emil J — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:45:45 -0700

Hmm. I cast the third vote to delete the question. I’m rather surprised that my 7k+ rep was enough to do that, though as expected, it’s not enough to see (or undelete, for that matter) the question once deleted.

Will Jagy comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19881)

Will Jagy — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:54:06 -0700

Asaf, that sounds right, all I got was a thing about beta.

Asaf Karagila comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19880)

Asaf Karagila — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:53:06 -0700

@Will:

You need to use the link from the MO 2.0 (second post, first page) which allows a login. Otherwise you just get a notification of a private beta going on.

Harry Gindi comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19879)

Harry Gindi — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:49:01 -0700

I'm very happy that I was able to get in on this joke.

Charles Staats comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19877)

Charles Staats — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:19:29 -0700

Done. (Thanks!) As far as I am concerned, this meta thread can now be deleted.

DavidRoberts comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19876)

DavidRoberts — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:17:01 -0700

Try again, Will. The login is temperamental.

Will Jagy comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19875)

Will Jagy — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:11:49 -0700

For whatever reason, it would not let me get in. I admit, I have not been doing anything with the sandbox anyway, so there may be tricks i do not know.

Charles Staats comments on "Please get this joke to its punchline" (19874)

Charles Staats — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:04:43 -0700

I know this is really random, but would someone with >=3000 rep please supply the fifth (and final) "close" vote for the sandbox question

http://dev.mathoverflow.stackexchange.com/q/103749/5094

? [Note: this question is in the MO 2.0 sandbox--not the actual site, where I would not have the nerve to ask it.]