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17 questions linked to/from How addicted to Stack Overflow are you?
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Mobile optimized version of Stack Overflow [duplicate]
I found this one on UserVoice, and I thought it was fitting to bring it up here for further discussion.
"Stack Overflow already works with Mobile Safari, but the experience is far from optimum.
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"Ban myself" button in user profiles
The purpose is to help the addicted user stick to a decision to concentrate on a different, short-term real-life problems s/he urgently has to deal with.
I've seen this feature on some high-activity ...
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Is Tactical Down-Voting ever valid?
Has anyone noticed any tactical downvoting of their, or other people, answers? For example, in a recent answer to a question, my answer described a possible solution. Shortly afterwards, another ...
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Benfords law as it relates to SO reputation [closed]
This isn't really a question but I thought that it may interest people here to see that SO reputation seems to follow Benford's law
Here's the data I got from statoverflow (I omitted accounts with ...
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What do you dislike with Stack Overflow? [closed]
Recently, there has been a poll about peoples' addiction to Stack Overflow, and justifiably so, there is a lot to like here. But what are the things you dislike?
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Is it possible to recover an account deleted by SE staff?
Is it possible to recover an account that was explicitly deleted by a Stack Exchange staff member (as opposed to an elected diamond moderator)? That is, the kind of account where the user requested ...
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Is this the way a Moderator should handle questions?
Recently I asked a question here about the design of the website. Not being a designer myself I do not know all the standards of doing things, I mostly talk from my experiences as a website user.
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Is Stack Overflow a code writing service? [closed]
I saw a comment to a question about sending data from an iPhone to a PHP webservice that stated
Stack Overflow is a code-writing service...
At first I was taken aback. It was only a few hours ...
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How do YOU use Stack Overflow? [closed]
I've found it more difficult than I expected to get drawn into Stack Overflow. It works great for when I have a question - I can almost always find the answer or ask new questions and quickly get an ...
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Are you ever tempted just chuck the whole thing and scatter your reputation points to the wind? [closed]
I'm sitting here at my desk sucking up my entire lunch break, thinking this Stack Overflow thing is taking up way too much of my free time. It's like the Hotel California - "you can check out any ...
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Allow customizable "magic links" on a per-site basis. [duplicate]
When writing comments, you can type certain "magic links" to link to common help pages. For example, if a new post is lacking a minimal, complete and verifiable example, I can just write
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Move "Add Comment" button to below comment box, otherwise it can be covered by ad
I've seen the button in the links area (two questions) due to text overflow, but that's nothing compared to this:
On my phone browser, the button is usually completely covered by ad.
I think a very ...
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Shouldn't we be scared to gain the Fanatic badge on SO?
I didn't go through all badge definitions. But this one should be considered an alarm sign for people, shouldn't it?
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My inbox takes me to the wrong question when question is closed as dup and I'm not logged in on target site?
I have an incognito browser window open that is logged into Programmers, but not to StackOverflow. I have a separate browser window that is logged into all SE sites. (If you must know, my StayFocused ...
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Why answer questions on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
This is my second day on Stack Overflow (my current reputation is 72). Why should I answer questions on Stack Overflow? I have no problem helping people, but as I understand it, even if I earn 1,000,...
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