Stack Overflow is currently doing a  to avoid use of moderator attention flags in the case where a standard flag would do. In that thread they say it's fine to use a mod attention flag if you want to clarify the reason you're flagging; for example, you might be flagging "not an answer", but want to explain why the answer isn't an answer. This use is also covered in .  However, whether or not a post is obviously not an answer is subjective, and you can end up in the weird case where you think a post isn't an answer, you use a mod flag to explain why, and it gets rejected because the post was too obviously not an answer to warrant that flag -- you should have used the standard flag instead.  My opinions on that practice aside, it seems like it could be avoided if it were possible to provide a description for the standard flags and not just mod attention flags:    Ideally the extra description would appear in the review queue.
I'm an elected diamond moderator on one site, and a user of several others. I think it would be extremely helpful for our flagging process if users had the option to enter freeform text explaining their flag on types of flags other than the "in need of moderator attention" flag.  An example of when this is relevant: Sometimes posts have had rude/abusive flags, but the rude/abusive part might be difficult to notice, or it might be a single word or sentence buried somewhere in the middle of the post. Users have to choose between "flag it as rude with no explanation" or "flag it as misc and explain what's going on". Often they'll pick the first because of course it seems like what they should do (e.g. they know the system has special handling attached to rude/abusive flags) but it means they can't explain what's going on to us, so we have to reach out directly in private to find out.  Sometimes it also helps to be able to explain why a comment is no longer needed, because past experience tells me the "no longer needed" flag on its own might be declined on a particular site -- so I pick the custom reason instead of "no longer needed" just so I can provide explanation.  I'd prefer users be able to understand they can pick the appropriate reason and be able to attach any explanation they deem necessary to further direct moderators to the issue. If not for all kinds of flags, then at least for spam or rude/abusive flags.
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So far I've got this, which on my machine gives me Tue_10_14_2008_230050_91:  rem Get the datetime in a format that can go in a filename. set _my_datetime=%date%_%time% set _my_datetime=%_my_datetime: =_% set _my_datetime=%_my_datetime::=% set _my_datetime=%_my_datetime:/=_% set _my_datetime=%_my_datetime:.=_%  rem Now use the timestamp by in a new ZIP file name. "d:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -r Code_%_my_datetime%.zip Code   I can live with this, but it seems a bit clunky. Ideally it'd be briefer and have the format mentioned earlier.  I'm using Windows Server 2003 and Windows&nbsp;XP Professional. I don't want to install additional utilities to achieve this (although I realise there are some that will do nice date formatting). 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I have a great quality camera, but the end results of the camera tracking always has the model sliding. If you have a solution please tell me. Proof of $\sin nx=2^{n-1}\prod_{k=0}^{n-1} \sin\left( x + \frac{k\pi}{n} \right)$ I have seen this identity on Wolfram mathworld and in a comment to another similar trigonometric proof:    I can't seem to find a proof to this identity online anywhere. What method is used to prove this? $2\cos^2x=1+\sin x$.  Determine the exact values of $x$ such that $0 \leq x \leq 2\pi$.    I am experiencing problems with factoring this question.  First I started by getting everything on to the left side so: $2\cos^2x-\sin x-1=0$.  Then seeing as there are two trig variable here ($\cos$ and $\sin$), I used the pythagorean identity and replaced $2\cos^2x$ with $1-2\sin^2x$ to make it into a one variable question: $1-1-2\sin^2x-\sin x-1=0$.   By collecting like terms it then becomes $-\sin^2x-\sin x=0$.  Now you could factor these with $0$ and $-1$, but then it creates uneven brackets so this musn't work.  I don't think the quadratic formula is necessary, but I am wondering if this could be treated as a difference of squares question.    If you replace the $\sin x$ and make the question into $-x^2-x=0$ it is a little easier to look at, however I am not sure if this is the right approach.  If someone could please clarify my answer, that would be appreciated! What young adult SF book is about a boy saved by aliens and domed colonies? I have the following query that sort of works, but I find it to be kludgy and inefficient.  Is there a better way to write this query?  I know this is a bit of an odd query, else I would probably have found some advice when searching, but it is necessary for our business logic.  We've been doing this in Hibernate queries and using software to output the file but we're needing to improve performance drastically and that means using raw sql.  The output of this query is to be used to partially populate a helper table that we query to figure out which of our 40-odd product tables a particular item is contained in.  Could the following query be replicated using something like GROUP_CONCAT in reverse? Note that the second and third column must be repeated on each line.  The fields all contain the same type of data.  SELECT 'Pn', 'Mfg', 'TableId', 'SourceColumn', 'OtherData' SELECT PN1, Mfg, '26', 'PN1', OtherData FROM Table  UNION ALL SELECT PN2, Mfg, '26', 'PN2', OtherData FROM Table UNION ALL SELECT PN3, Mfg, '26', 'PN3', OtherData FROM Table UNION ALL SELECT PN4, Mfg, '26', 'PN4', OtherData  INTO OUTFILE 'XXX.dat' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' ESCAPED BY '\\' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' FROM Table d;   Input looks like the following table:       |  PN1  |  PN2  |  PN3    |  PN4    |  MFG  |  TableId  |  OtherData  |     -----------------------------------------------------------------------     |  asdf |  abde |  12354  |  asdfc  |  2    |  26       |  0.2456     |     |  nupo |  1354 |  null   |  null   |  2    |  26       |  1.53       |     |  ...  |  ...  |  ...    |  ...    |  ...  |  ...      |  ...        |     |  ...  |  ...  |  ...    |  ...    |  ...  |  ...      |  ...        |     |  ...  |  ...  |  ...    |  ...    |  ...  |  ...      |  ...        |   I want the output .dat file to look like this:       "Pn","Mfg","TableId","SourceColumn","OtherData"     "asdf",2,26,"PN1",0.2456     "abde",2,26,"PN2",0.2456     "12354",2,26,"PN3",0.2456     "asdfc",2,26,"PN4",0.2456     "nupo",2,26,"PN1",1.53     "1354",2,26,"PN2",1.53     ...     ...     ...   If I take the INTO OUTFILE clause out, I get an output that looks like this:       |  Pn      |  Mfg     |  TableId    |  SourceColumn  | OtherData  |     -----------------------------------------------------------------     |  "Pn"    |  {blob}  |  "TableId"  |  "PN"          |  {blob}    |     |  "asdf"  |  {blob}  |  "PN1"      |  "PN1"         |  {blob}    |     |  "abde"  |  {blob}  |  "PN2"      |  "PN2"         |  {blob}    |     |  "12354" |  {blob}  |  "PN3"      |  "PN3"         |  {blob}    |     |  "asdfc" |  {blob}  |  "PN4"      |  "PN4"         |  {blob}    |     |  "nupo"  |  {blob}  |  "PN1"      |  "PN1"         |  {blob}    |     |  "1354"  |  {blob}  |  "PN2"      |  "PN2"         |  {blob}    |     |  ...     |  ...     |  ...        |   ...          |   ...      |     |  ...     |  ...     |  ...        |   ...          |   ...      |     |  ...     |  ...     |  ...        |   ...          |   ...      | How to get child process from parent process