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22 questions linked to/from A Terms of Service update restricting companies that scrape your profile information without your permission
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What gives SE the legal right, under the CC-BY-SA license, to modify user profiles without indicating that the content has changed?
The Terms of Service clearly indicated that all content that you provide to SO Inc is licensed under CC-BY-SA, and that would include your About Me section of your user profile, which SO Inc is ...
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What events trigger an inbox notification?
The global inbox was once introduced because it became hard "to keep track of all your questions, answers, and comments across every site you participated on".
The small red number tells you how ...
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A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What should I do?
Since day one of Stack Overflow, all content posted on Stack Exchange sites by their users (i.e. you wonderful people) has been provided to the whole universe under the CC BY-SA license. For my fellow ...
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Can one take the entire Q&A base and move it to a new site?
In the light of all recent moderators and experienced users quitting, I was wondering if anyone is allowed to take the entire Q&A set of a site, and move it to a new site, with new rules?
I think ...
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Is it okay to use Data Explorer as a recruiting tool?
It occurred to me that the Data Explorer makes enough user information publicly available that it can be an effective recruiting tool. I.e. it is easy to get a list of users in a particular location, ...
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Make it clear that you need to have the right to license any pictures under CC BY-SA 3.0
When you try to upload an image it says
User contributions licensed under cc by-sa 3.0 with attribution required (content policy)
My proposal would be to change it to something more along the ...
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Is Gravatar a privacy risk?
I ran across the comment below at http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/02/protect-your-privacy-delete-internet-usage-tracks/#comment-58200 about Gravatar. I'm particularly curious of Meta Stack Overflow's ...
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Shouldn't the Terms of Service use Stack Overflow, Inc.?
The Terms of Service still uses the term Stack Exchange, Inc.
However, I believe that the name is now Stack Overflow, Inc. , so I believe that should be changed to that. It is weird to have the ...
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Are comments indexed by Google?
Are comments made on SE sites indexed by Google? Or is the site configured in such a way that only questions and answered are "seen" by Google robots?
I know this question appears related, but its ...
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Is my script in violation of new TOS?
I have a userscript that I wrote to see who downvoted my answers on Stack Overflow. It does so by requesting and parsing other users' profiles via AJAX. Is this in violation of the new policy?
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Why cut off some of the question's title in the link?
Take the hyperlink for this question, which is:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/277369/a-terms-of-service-update-restricting-companies-that-scrape-your-profile-informa
which is missing, ...
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Why is the company email still “at stackoverflow” [duplicate]
I got a mail from the Stack Exchange Travel Site that I am one of the top users this month.
In the email, I saw:
Email us directly at team@stackoverflow.com any time
Why are they putting @...
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(How) should I report someone abusing data from Stack Exchange for spam?
Disclaimer: the email below has turned out to be from the person signed below it
The general question in title still stands.
So I got this spam from Gmail address address removed since it turned to ...
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How can I report Spam sent via my Stack Exchange profile contact info?
I received spam via my website contact form from somebody who specified that he got my contact via one of the Stack Exchange's sites.
I understand that Stack Exchange may not have to deal this kind ...
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Is this data broker violating SE terms of service?
Recently SE amended its terms of use to prevent automatic scraping of site information by third parties for information brokering (at least, that's what I gathered from it).
I just read about a new ...
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Color the background of block quotes on mobile
The desktop site has a nice yellow background for block quotes.
As an example, this post shows block quotes like this on the desktop:
But like this on mobile:
In my opinion, the background is ...
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How to indicate “useful” vs “agree/disagree” on site metas?
This problem just came up on a site meta: A user commented on a question,
I can't decide whether to upvote because this is a good topic or
downvote because I [disagree with the proposal].
So, ...
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Sudden increase in off-topic posts on MSE
It seems that the Updated Terms of Service message linking to the MSE post discussing it had a undesired side effect: there is a huge increase in off-topic (mostly programming) questions. (Not to ...
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Statistics regarding users who recently flooded MSE with blatantly off-topic debugging questions
Related:
Sudden increase in off-topic posts on MSE
Ways to give users some specific education about question quality and topicality
Block migration if user is suspended/question-blocked at ...
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Is “About me” portion of my profile licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0?
I recently read this comment, which is quoted below (without its inline links):
@Robotnik, here's your profile page, which contains information that you, as a user of the Stack Exchange service, ...
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Profile Images with copyright
What happens if a user uses a copyright image as a profile image on SO or any other site?
Is it ok to use such images because according to law it is illegal to use anything which has a copyright?
My ...
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Someone contacted me by email but my email is not public
Last week I got an email to my email address saying "I saw on Stack Overflow that you were interested in.." and the content of the question I asked.
The email suggested I'll star a bug \ feature ...