luvya2003
2003-04-29 11:05:11 |
Deleting my own pending problems
How would I delete my own pending problems? Since a few are lateral thinking puzzles, I would rather not cause the voters the trouble of tu-inf them. |
levik
2003-04-30 02:22:43 |
Re: Deleting my own pending problems
Don't you mean TD-ing :)?
Anyway, put a bunch of stars in the beginning of the problem names (****) and I will go through the queue ina day or so to delete them. |
Ravi Raja
2003-04-30 05:12:41 |
Re: Deleting my own pending problems
Do not go for deleting the problems luvya. Why don't you submit some other puzzle in their place. I mean why not riddles? At least they will not be given TDs (Thumbs Down), or any other problem belonging to some other categories, say Algorithms, the NEW one. But yes if others permit you to do so. Or else....you know what. You have no other option but delete all those problems that you have submitted (only the Lateral Thinking ones). |
Alan
2003-04-30 10:47:57 |
Re: Deleting my own pending problems
ummmm Ravi that would not be quite fair. As we have said before doing that is pretty much "reserving a spot in the queue. Please luvya this is taboo so don't do it. On top of that please don't give any other new users the idea of doing it. |
Gamer
2003-04-30 15:07:08 |
Re: Deleting my own pending problems
I was thinking the same thing along the lines of Alan, but I think when you edit the problem it posts the new date on the problem... That is what happened when I (unknowing that this would happen) added solutions to many of my problems.
I think a delete problem would be useful. Sometimes I submit a problem only to see I overlooked it in the problem archives. |
Ravi Raja
2003-05-01 04:04:41 |
Re: Deleting my own pending problems
Actually Alan, I did not give luvya the permission to do so as is clear from one of the lines in my post which says: "But yes if others permit you to do so." Or else who am I to ask him to do things on a site whose director is someone else, that is, if the site belongs to someone else. So please do not take it otherwise. I did not want luvya to break the rules of this site. |
friedlinguini
2003-05-01 06:06:40 |
Re: Deleting my own pending problems
But that puts the burden on us. By default, a submitter should not be able to change a problem to a completely different one. The suggestion shouldn't even come up. |
DJ
2003-05-01 06:29:29 |
Re: Deleting my own pending problems
I've wanted to delete a few problems that were duplicates of other problems that appeared after I had first submitted it. And I have, not knowing the 'taboo,' changed a couple of those problems to new ones (with the same topic). I figured that would be easier than having to wait for it to get into the voting queue only to be thumbed down anyway. Also, I didn't know the datestamp on the problem changed when you update it? I have been pretty often modifying the title, or tweaking the wording of the problem or the solution, on problems that are waiting. Does that push them to the back of the queue again? |
levik
2003-05-01 08:53:58 |
Re: Deleting my own pending problems
Gamer: the behavior you describe (in requerd to the date changing after you edit a problem) is not intentional, and is probably a bug. A person should not be penalized for fixing errors in the problem
If you could email me to tell me exactly what you edited and at what stage in the problem's life cycle (was it pending, approved, or solved?) I will look into the behavior. |
Jon
2003-05-01 09:52:41 |
Re: Deleting my own pending problems
I believe that a delete problem button would be helpful, but what is wrong with lateral think puzzles?
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Alan
2003-05-01 10:23:55 |
Re: Deleting my own pending problems
Well i can pretty much put it this way. A lateral thinking problem has no wrong answer. At flooble we want people tio try to figure out the answer. there is nothing to figure out if there is no wrong answer. Hey if lateral think was a university course (I'm talking about using only types of problems like "how'd he die" or "what happened") then every student might as well just get 100% |
DJ
2003-05-01 14:38:33 |
Re: Deleting my own pending problems
Yeah, deleting problems would be a good feature. . I keep finding more and more problems that I have submitted that are duplicates of other ones, either problems that were still in queue but ahead of mine when I put them up, or ones in the wee back corners of the site that I am just now coming across. Plus, I don't see really what there is to abuse about letting people delete their own queue problems. If the problem is a duplicate, it will prevent more unnecessary waiting for them to be voted TD, and will also prevent "reserving" a spot in the queue when someone changes a submitted problem to a new one.
The only thing about such a feature, the "one-click" design of the rest of the page should probably be modified to have some kind of "Do you really want to delete?" confirmation page or popup. Submitting a partial comment or something is one matter, but accidentally deleting a problem that has been sitting in queue for a month and a half is quite another. But I really think that such would be a useful feature with not many potential abuses that I can recognize.
//On a side note, "queue" is a really fun word to type.
//queuequeuequeuequeuequeuequeue. . .. |
Gamer
2003-05-02 02:04:45 |
Re: Deleting my own pending problems
When I looked I think just the date changes and not the queue order. I still don't understand why my problems are ordered the way they are in the "__ problems pending" page. |
