Now whenever I get to a SE answer from Google, the site yells at me:
Welcome back! If you found this question useful, don't forget to vote both the question and the answers up.
Is there a way to disable it? I'm quite aware of how to vote on questions and answers and it's annoying to see it every time I click on questions (sometimes many times in a day). Perhaps this could go along with some rep requirement. At least have an option to only nag me once a week or something like that?
This message:
Welcome back! If you found this question useful, don't forget to vote both the question and the answers up.
Only appears if:
Therefore, you shouldn't ever see it more than once every 2 days per site. Also, if you are on the target site(s) frequently enough, you may never see it.
I get this message also on sites where I just registered to be able to vote. I find the message counterproductive.
Using the Stylus Firefox/Chrome extension you can disable it this way (replace/add the domain names of your choice):
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("askubuntu.com"),
domain('superuser.com'),
domain('serverfault.com')
{
#overlay-header {display:none !important;}
}
One suggestion for improvement: don't show this message to someone who has a Civic Duty badge on any other site. They know about voting...
You can block the element in Adblock/uBlock by adding this to your adblocker's filters:
askubuntu.com###overlay-header
serverfault.com###overlay-header
stackexchange.com###overlay-header
stackoverflow.com###overlay-header
superuser.com###overlay-header
You can be sure you have all of them by generating the file "se.txt" with this Python script:
import json
import requests
response = requests.get(
"http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/sites#filter=!SmNnfYtt-R(6Wq2POT")
data = response.json()
sites = set()
ht = len("https://")
for site in data["items"]:
url = site["site_url"]
sites.add(".".join(url[ht:].rsplit(".", 2)[-2:]))
with open("se.txt", "wt") as f:
for site in sorted(sites):
print(f"{site}###overlay-header")
f.write(f"{site}###overlay-header\n")
They address why this even happens on Stack Exchange Podcast #2 as a way to remind people to upvote useful and helpful questions:
Jeff Atwood:
Now, one thing we have done to help with this is if you come through a web search engine and you arrive on say Stack Over, or Server Fault or any Stack Exchange site, and you actually hold a cookie for that account, meaning you have an account on the site and you are able to vote, we will gently remind you, "Hey! You arrived here through a Google web search. If you found this question useful, please vote it up and the answer."
Podcast time point: 51:24
Because, if you found the question through an external search and it's helped you, or it's well written, bump up the question with an upvote.
It helps with their algorithms on what to show regular users. Like the one that is used to float the good questions that deserve more natural attention to the top over the dregs.
Joel Spolsky:
Question score will make something more likely to appear on the homepage. So we need to teach people to vote up questions that are well asked.
Podcast time point: 48:15
Another alternative for Chrome to tell the big ugly banner to go sod off: Referer Control
You can import the following site filter string which should block all Stack Exchange sites:
[{"id":"defaultAction","val":"dummy","type":"normal","filter":"","is3rd":true},{"id":1403555615182,"val":"http://*.stackexchange.com/","type":"normal","filter":"","isregexp":false,"isfrom":false,"isto":true,"is3rd":true},{"id":1403555648816,"val":"http://stackoverflow.com/","type":"normal","filter":"","isregexp":false,"isfrom":false,"isto":true,"is3rd":true},{"id":1403555658762,"val":"http://superuser.com/","type":"normal","filter":"","isregexp":false,"isfrom":false,"isto":true,"is3rd":true},{"id":1403555691289,"val":"http://serverfault.com/","type":"normal","filter":"","isregexp":false,"isfrom":false},{"id":1403555708104,"val":"","type":"normal","filter":"","isregexp":false}]
The userscript Stack Overflow Extras (SOX) supports hiding this banner.
Report issues: Remove the welcome back message · Issue #315 · soscripted/sox
Install https://www.tampermonkey.net (available for Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Opera Next, and Firefox)
Go to Dashboard:
Go to add user script:
Create the following user script:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Close Stackexchange Up Vote Notifications bar
// @namespace *
// @version 0.1
// @description https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89045/disable
// @author You
// https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/81379/can-we-have-a-list-of-all
// @include https://*askubuntu.com/*
// @include https://*mathoverflow.net/*
// @include https://*blogoverflow.com/*
// @include https://*serverfault.com/*
// @include https://*stackoverflow.com/*
// @include https://*stackexchange.com/*
// @include https://*stackapps.com/*
// @include https://*stackmod.blog/*
// @include https://*stackoverflow.blog/*
// @include https://*stackoverflowbusiness.com/*
// @include https://*superuser.com/*
// @include https://*tex-talk.net/*
// @include https://*thesffblog.com/*
// @require http://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
let keepclosing = async () => {
let closebutton = $('#overlay-header');
if(closebutton.length) {
console.log('Close Stackexchange Up Vote Notifications bar');
closebutton.remove();
setTimeout(keepclosing, 500);
}
}
setTimeout(keepclosing, 500);
})();
Press Ctrl + S to save it:
Reload your Stack Exchange page and that banner will be automatically closed.
These related questions are both about removing annoying things from pages. The first removes the GitHub top notifications, which is the same thing as this question about removing the Stack Exchange top (begging) bar. The second is about removing the annoying YouTube viewed videos. This second question uses hide instead of remove due to YouTube page nature. The second question helps as a remainder/example that instead of removing things from the page, you could just hide them.
