Timeline for What should we do about existing extra long list answers?
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| Oct 15, 2015 at 16:01 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | @Aequitas: An enumeration proves it just as well and is more illustrative. You're just negating the proof... | |
| Oct 15, 2015 at 0:58 | comment | added | Aequitas | @TomWijsman no it's not, if I write a list of 100 items that can be found in chests, that doesn't prove at all that no other items spawn in the chests. The fact that an item doesn't spawn in chests shows it. You could've just said "source code of chests shows that x is not included in the list of possible items it can spawn with" you could have an image of a search of the class returning no results if you wanted to illustrate it more clearly. | |
| Oct 15, 2015 at 0:24 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | @PrivatePansy +1 agreed, not saying that it's not a problem. | |
| Oct 15, 2015 at 0:22 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | @angussidney: Haha, yeah! Just getting a message across to avoid future lazy mistakes, don't really mind this removal. Just saying it's too easy to fall into a habit of "oh, this looks long, I'll just shorten or remove it" and "this is outdated, I'm lazy, I'll just remove instead of correcting it" when doing too much meta stuff... | |
| Oct 15, 2015 at 0:19 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | @Aequitas: An enumeration of the items from the source code is proof. | |
| Oct 14, 2015 at 10:49 | vote | accept | angussidney | ||
| Oct 13, 2015 at 5:40 | comment | added | angussidney | @TomWijsman Yes, I appreciate the effort. That is the only thing that stopped me from editing the whole thing out instantly. However, as Trent said, just some links to the rocket boots page and the various chest pages would have completed the job much better. I tried doing this before I made this post, but because of the number of chests in the 1.3 update it was taking forever. | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 4:52 | comment | added | Aequitas | @TomWijsman the fact that other things drop other things doesn't mean something else doesn't drop other things. It's as effective a proof as just saying that rocketboots aren't dropped from anything. How does saying x drops y prove that x doesn't also drop rocketboots? | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 4:28 | comment | added | Trent Hawkins | @TomWijsman I'll admit proving a negative is difficult, but I don't think the way to go about it in this case was to list every other single thing ever. While I don't know about the state of the game's wikis at the time of answering, a link to the page with rocketboots and outlining how that page explains where/how to obtain them, and a link (many links?) to page(s) about chest loot would have been sufficient to demonstrate the question's assertion that they might be found in chests is false. Listing every single piece of loot in the game was superfluous. | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 4:11 | comment | added | Private Pansy | @Tom The list is outdated by two major updates. A cursory glance at the wiki shows that the list is incomplete and obviously superceded by a superior source. Leaving incorrect information on this site where it is already recorded better elsewhere is actively harmful to anybody coming across this information now | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 23:06 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | Oh, come on! What on Terraria are you stranded people doing these days?! That list that was edited out is absolutely relevant, it is an independent confirmation of whether or not it is dropped somewhere as requested by the OP in the last paragraph of his/her question. Yes, OP asks proof, only my answer provided that before it was edited. The answer obtained 22 upvotes and this bothers you just now because you didn't mind to actually read the question and saw a long post? The idea of the Stack Exchange network's guidelines is to add proof, not remove it; you're doing it wrong... | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 8:11 | history | edited | angussidney | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 12, 2015 at 7:49 | history | answered | angussidney | CC BY-SA 3.0 |