Linked Questions
23 questions linked to/from 2014 SO Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
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Fastest Gun in the West Problem
I feel like there's a problem with Stack Overflow, as the number of people prowling it increases.
Each question's answers are sorted by descending score and then by descending time of posting. This ...
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What is the Goal of "Hot Network Questions"?
There has been a tug-of-war in the hot-questions list.
Community members like JonW seem to be unhappy with the traffic that it brings to their site:
'But we want to encourage people to post, that's ...
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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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Filter "Hot Network Questions" by excluding sites
I was going to make a filter for the "Hot Network Questions" by excluding some sites from it. I noticed this answer which talks about "negative filtering" but does not explain how ...
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How can I encourage Stack Overflow to rein in the 'subjective' vigilantes? [closed]
I'm on SO pretty much every day researching something to do with programming, and over the last month or two, I find I'm growing frustrated and a little disgusted at how many interesting questions ...
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Careless review upvotes are actively contributing to the quality problem, not correcting it
Look at this reply. The question is from 2008, it has an accepted answer, and almost every other answer generally has the same theme and references the same function.
That reply, at the time of ...
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An official way of closing announcements on Meta?
Currently, many announcements are closed using reasons such as
off-topic (custom reason)
The second draft of our Code of Conduct is available for feedback and review
off-topic (can no longer be ...
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Can we get some consensus on what flag to use for link only answers? [duplicate]
Related: Since moderators are just asking users to flag a custom "Link only answer," can we permanently make this a flag option? (not a dupe, that's a feature request and was closed as a ...
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Flag declined, link-only answer subsequently deleted [duplicate]
I flagged Runtime Error 3061 Help (ms access) as very low quality on the grounds that it was an answer consisting only of links, and was notified:
very low quality – 18 hours ago declined - a ...
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Should moderators enforce NDAs for software vendors?
A rash of questions was recently flagged because they were in violation of some "Non-Disclosure Agreement.".
Is it the job of Stack Exchange moderators to enforce these agreements, and delete these ...
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The Anatomy of a Hot Question
Here is the traffic since The Workplace was created:
These are the three questions that caused those huge spikes in traffic:
Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your ...
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Close Votes review: I'm going on a strike! [closed]
I know this question is going to make me unpopular here – but I feel I have no other options.
I have been concerned by the size of the close votes review queue for quite a while.
When I ...
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Is my reasoning not clear, or am I missing something here? [closed]
I have used a custom reason while flagging this answer.
I did not ask for the answer to be removed by saying:
link-only but may answer the question, should be converted to a
comment
In ...
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Are "hot questions" being moderated too heavily?
In fact, in addition to moderation, do we have a problem with people editing these questions?
This question is largely provoked by two questions I've seen on StackOverflow:
Is a Java string really ...
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Huge close votes review queue on Stack Overflow [closed]
Today, the size of the close-votes queue is 55k questions and growing. Is that a problem?
Which action could be taken to clean it up? It seems to be growing faster than Stack Overflow members ...
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