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4 answers
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Badge for questions asked for a week [duplicate]

Is there any badge for more questions asked ?,lets say i have asked 10 questions in a week - Out of the none is closed or moved to another SO affiliate site.Do you guys award a badge for these type of ...
Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy's user avatar
948 votes
56 answers
20k views

Why aren't people voting for questions?

While at least some answers from every question seem to have been up-voted as a "helpful" answer: about 49% of questions have score of 0 or 1. another 21% of questions have a score of 2. Most ...
250 votes
34 answers
16k views

Can we prevent some of the low-quality questions from entering our system?

Stack Overflow has been wildly successful. And maybe in some ways too successful. I am concerned that Stack Overflow is being inundated by a stream of low-quality questions from users who are ...
286 votes
7 answers
44k views

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,...
Barry Kelly's user avatar
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178 votes
11 answers
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Asking days badges

A couple of months ago, I suggested a set of badges for asking questions. The responses were... mixed. The top answer can be summarized: In practice, all this would do is encourage people to ask yet ...
Jon Ericson's user avatar
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10 votes
7 answers
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50 question per month limit? [duplicate]

I get a message: Sorry, you are only allowed to ask 50 questions in a 30 day period Why is there a question limit? 50/month is just not enough :)
Blankman's user avatar
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81 votes
4 answers
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Misleading description of new Curious badge

The description of the new Curious badge currently reads: Asked a good question on 5 separate days, and maintains a positive question record. The term "good question" seems to be defined by the ...
Raphael's user avatar
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25 votes
2 answers
756 views

(How) Can SE sites change their reputation payout?

A recent question on Puzzling Meta reminded me that there is a longstanding meta post at PPCG about awarding 10 rep per question upvote. This is mainly due to the relative difficulty and usefulness of ...
Geobits's user avatar
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-3 votes
6 answers
490 views

Could a significant reputation requirement for asking questions be ethical and/or practical here? [closed]

I imagine that this will be highly controversial but, well, we're here to ask and discuss, right?! In the tags that I frequent, namely c++/php/javascript on SO, it feels to me like we have reached a ...
Lightness Races in Orbit's user avatar
2 votes
5 answers
217 views

Badge for asking questions

Hello, I've been(and still am) getting the best ever solutions to the questions I'm asking everyday at SO.The community is just more than great,I'm even advertising SO to my friends. The amount of ...
Ivan Prodanov's user avatar
25 votes
1 answer
326 views

Will all questions eventually become popular, notable and famous? Do we have a problem with that?

I'm no longer active on Stack Overflow, but it seems that any time I land on the site there's a notification that I've earned a badge for a question that has become "Popular" or "Notable". It seems ...
Jon Ericson's user avatar
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2 votes
3 answers
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Suspicious upvotes

I realise that everybody has the right to vote however they like, but there has been a pattern of very suspicious upvoting recently. This question is 3 minutes old and has been upvoted once already, ...
Lightness Races in Orbit's user avatar
0 votes
3 answers
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Shouldn't tactical upvoting be discouraged? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is voting to balance in the spirit of the site? Here are the guidelines for upvoting questions. Unfortunately, it seems like people are upvoting some medium-quality questions,...
Lightness Races in Orbit's user avatar