Timeline for What is the smallest interval between two palindromic times on a 24-hour digital clock?
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| Sep 24 at 21:26 | comment | added | TakingNotes | I'm aware of what Nautilus' original answer was ftr, I saw it about a minute after it was posted. | |
| Sep 24 at 19:18 | comment | added | Don Hatch | @TakingNotes to be fair, when Nautilus first commented on it, inklii's answer was just "The smallest interval I can find is [...]" without any further explanation. So it really was a 1-liner, and wasn't much of an answer, in my perception-- it wasn't obvious (to me) that it actually was a shortest solution at all, let alone the unique shortest one. Subsequently they edited it and added the reasoning, and now it looks like a decent answer, to me. | |
| Sep 24 at 3:32 | comment | added | TakingNotes | This question is so invariably simple and the answer is so obviously correct once you see it that a one-liner is perfectly acceptable as an answer in this case. In more complex questions where an answer isn't obvious, explanations are typically required. Not all questions are created equally, and as such the ways you can answer them will differ between them. The answer inklii provided wasn't 'sub-optimal' as you claim, and that's why it wasn't downvoted. | |
| Sep 24 at 1:29 | comment | added | bobble | @Nautilus as one of the people who posts a bunch of those "this answer needs more explanation" comments, I can assure you that I really do not care about the username. I don't even look. You, too, have the ability to contribute to moderation by posting comments, flagging answers/questions, and voting. | |
| Sep 23 at 22:19 | comment | added | Nautilus | I can respect what Jaap Scherphuis did, and maybe there's a bunch of unwritten rules here that I don't understand, but plenty of times I got called out on answering a question in a certain sub-optimal way while others got away with it in similar situations in my experience. | |
| Sep 23 at 22:02 | comment | added | Nautilus | "A one-liner is appropriate in this case" Expect if I was the one who posted it, I would have been downvoted to death. I can't believe I'm being called entitled for wanting a right given to everyone else. And if I didn't point out the hypocrisy of it all, my answer would have had a negative score. | |
| Sep 23 at 21:55 | comment | added | TakingNotes | A one-liner is appropriate in this case because the question asker doesn't necessarily ask for explanation why, and so a short answer where it's pretty obvious to see that it can't be improved on suffices. Your response was posted 3 hours later and didn't add anything to the actual answer, only the explanation behind it. Jaap Scherpuis posted an answer about one minute after inklii that gave a valid explanation that proved it was the correct answer, and instead of being sad that people didn't vote it up more he had the good sense to delete because an already sufficient answer had been posted. | |
| Sep 23 at 19:08 | comment | added | FirstName LastName | +1 thanks for adding xy:zz:yx case ... I was about to ask upon first reading. | |
| Sep 23 at 19:00 | history | edited | Nautilus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 23 at 16:50 | comment | added | inkili | I just posted a one-liner because i didn't have the time for an elaborated answer. I just added some reasoning to my answer. I admit that your answer was (and possibly still is) superior to mine. You have my upvote | |
| Sep 23 at 15:44 | comment | added | Nautilus | Sorry, but I can't stand a double standards. If I posted a one-liner, I would have been downvoted to death and we both know it. I get called out plenty of times for not offering enough explanation, so why should EVERYONE ELSE get a pass? | |
| Sep 23 at 15:12 | comment | added | Topwizard29 The gamer | The reason is that your post was submitted significantly after inkili's and fails to expand upon the problem presented since it didn't ask for an explanation. Also tbh, people will upvote a more concise answer 9 times out of 10. (Just my opinion) | |
| Sep 23 at 14:42 | comment | added | Nautilus | When I posted my answer, the one at the top that's a one-liner had a score of 5. It received 2 more upvotes since then even though mine has none. Despite me actually explaining my process of solving it and reaching the correct result, why is my solution considered inferior? | |
| Sep 23 at 12:56 | history | answered | Nautilus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |