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46 questions linked to/from Why "What Stack Overflow is Not" was deleted
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What Happened to "What Stack Overflow is Not"? [duplicate]
I use this post frequently to post comments on SO questions that don't meet the quality guidelines for the site. I find it helps me to do my part in helping the moderators keeping the site clean. It ...
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Why is the link to the question about SO not being a recommendation engine closed? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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What Happened to “What Stack Overflow is Not”?
Recently one of my SO questions was closed because it was said to be asking for a recommendation....
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Stack Overflow is doing me ongoing harm; it's time to fix it!
Over the last month, Stack Overflow has violated its own policies
and precedents to cause egregious and unnecessary harm to me -- to my
reputation (personal and professional), to my health, and to my ...
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Should 'Hi', 'thanks', taglines, and salutations be removed from posts?
I edit a lot of posts every day. I often run across posts with 'Hi' and 'Thanks' on the top and the bottom of the post respectively. I also run across things like:
--User
Should these items be ...
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Are answers that just contain links elsewhere really "good answers"?
I have often wondered at the practice on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and the other sites where someone will ask a question and an answer will come in that says "Look here: https://link ...
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Ban LMGTFY (let me google that for you) links
I've just asked a question on Stack Overflow which was a prime candidate for googling. I admit it was a poor question and with a little bit of research I would have found the answer. It annoyed me ...
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Operation 'Split, All The Metas!' Shall Commence On April 16, 2014
Update 2014-04-17 04:47 UTC: Stable, with some odds and ends to clean up
The main MSO/MSE sites are stable, but there are plenty of corners left to sweep. For details, see: The Status Of The ...
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How does accepting an answer work?
What does it mean to accept an answer?
How do I accept an answer, and what are the rules?
Can I accept my own self-answer?
What are the reputation benefits?
Which answer should I accept?
Should I ...
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The Help Vampire problem
What is the best long-term solution for the Help Vampire problem?
Adapted from the above article:
Identifying Help Vampires can be tricky, because they look like any ordinary person (or Internet user,...
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Repository of useful pro-forma comments
Every tag has its questions that make the same mistake(s) over and over and over again. (But some tags more than others.)
That's where Benjol's pro forma comments script comes in. The only downside to ...
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Deleted Meta Questions Archive
Some keep deleting questions with a lot of discussion, both relevant and/or historical, and we can't search on deleted questions. Some of them are locked so that they cannot be undeleted, so I'm ...
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Should questions include "tags" in their titles?
I've seen questions edited to remove the language name from the title. Won't search engines - and folks using search engines - have an easier time finding them if these "tags" are kept as ...
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Can we agree on a review 'policy'?
On the review page, there is a one-sentence guideline on reviewing. I think that as the number of reviewers increase, it is going to become increasingly necessary to come to some kind of agreement ...
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Formal adoption of Pro-forma comments script into SE engine proper
My Pro-forma comments script has now gained quite a following (and it - allegedly - just got bust by upgrading to jQuery 1.7.1). This is a personal request to the team to consider adopting it.
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Are Stack Overflow people *still* nice?
The title is a reference to Why are Stack Overflow people nice?.
We had the good fortune, to start this experiment with a really positive culture and have managed to hang onto it through vast growth ...
