Linked Questions
25 questions linked to/from Remove the shortened URL from the Post-Ban-Message
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Use the new helpcenter for the question/answer ban message
Related: "We're no longer accepting" message should not be hosted on meta
The helpcenter has an entry for the question ban message. It still links to the meta page for further details. ...
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Is there Markdown to create tables? [duplicate]
It seems like a lot of people try to display tables in Stack Overflow questions, but don't do a very good job. Is there Markdown syntax that supports creating a proper table?
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Let Me Flag That For You - URL Shortener Cleanup [closed]
The Request
I set out on the Crusade for the Holy Grail of no-redirections (named by Denilson Sá) to eliminate every shortened URL on Stack Overflow (except in comments and code). But the foreign ...
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What can I do when getting "We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account"?
If you are reading this, you may have been affected by one of our post quality bans. If so, it is important that you read the following information to understand what has happened and how to regain ...
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Stack Exchange is too harsh to new users—please help them improve low-quality posts and avoid being uncivil [duplicate]
Note
Please see my answer below. I am deeply sorry for having strayed so far from the principles of Stack Exchange. I have edited the post to remove the "wait before voting" text.
I've asked a ...
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"We're no longer accepting" message should not be hosted on meta [duplicate]
When users receive a question ban they see a message that links them to a post on meta in the faq tag.
I would like to put forward the hypothesis that this is the way most of the users who post ...
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Stack Exchange user page URL is frightening!
I'm pimping myself networking on other sites, and rather than linking to my stackoverflow profile, I'm considering linking to my Stack Exchange profile.
I didn't realize I had such a scary looking ...
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Just fix the Stack Overflow "Quality Question" text
There has been an obvious problem with newbies getting the dialog when they have been question banned, and they don't understand the basics of clicking on the link to get the answer to why it happened....
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People using URL shortcuts like http://goo.gl/ to bypass jsfiddle filter
See this answer for example:
The link leads to http://jsfiddle.net/PcANy/6/ and it's quite obvious the user first tried to post with original link, got blocked due to not posting code so decided ...
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Suspended user cannot award bounty
I asked a question on Stack Overflow: Refactoring and creating separate methods.
I want to award my bounty to this answer by user NetMage
However, my Stack Overflow account is suspended recently for 7 ...
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Convincing the community: Should we rephrase the post-ban faq?
We all are aware of the many questions we get on automatic post-bans. Often we simply close them as a dupe of "What can I do when..." because the OP simply did not read it. On rare occasions ...
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Down votes should not have any side effect, on meta [duplicate]
After my first suggestion, I've now got a new suggestion: down votes should not have any side effect in meta.
By side effects, I mean something like banning me from asking questions due to too many ...
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Why is the "user was removed" message so vague? [duplicate]
The message that appears in the reputation tab of a user's profile when they gain or lose reputation due votes disappearing when another user is deleted is simply:
user was removed
This message is ...
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Do the question and answer ban rules need to be secret?
The exact rules for the automatic question and answer bans are not public; we know some general principles behind them, but not much more. I agree that some automated mechanisms like this are ...
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Kill Unicode bidirectional override in comments
Alright, we've all been having fun with the Unicode mirror character here on meta.
And now we all know how to do it.
Yes, I'm a culprit here as well, and I accept that.
But I just realized that it ...
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