Re:Announcing the Windows Bounty Program
by kazinator on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:39PM
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Not complaining, but technical question: how did that get a downvote when it was 3 minutes old? I have a 5 minute delay configured!
I saw "0 points"; then refreshed browser; still said "3 minutes ago". Rubbed eyes, checked profile settings: "delay 5" still configured.
"delay" is a profile parameter which specifies the number of minutes which elapse from when you initially create a comment to when it becomes published. This gives you a chance to edit or retract your comment before it is subject to public criticism. I've never before seen a voting or reply event occur on a comment prior to the expiry of the delay.
(Maybe some clocks are way out of sync between some distributed servers, so 3 minutes old here means 5 minutes old there? Or maybe NTP suddenly stepped a lagging wall clock forward by a couple of minutes?)
To the topic: how much $ can I get out of this? ;)
I saw "0 points"; then refreshed browser; still said "3 minutes ago". Rubbed eyes, checked profile settings: "delay 5" still configured.
"delay" is a profile parameter which specifies the number of minutes which elapse from when you initially create a comment to when it becomes published. This gives you a chance to edit or retract your comment before it is subject to public criticism. I've never before seen a voting or reply event occur on a comment prior to the expiry of the delay.
(Maybe some clocks are way out of sync between some distributed servers, so 3 minutes old here means 5 minutes old there? Or maybe NTP suddenly stepped a lagging wall clock forward by a couple of minutes?)
To the topic: how much $ can I get out of this? ;)