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32 questions linked to/from A Terms of Service update restricting companies that scrape your profile information without your permission
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When did Stack Exchange start to dual-license user content?
Stack Exchange currently dual-licenses user content, which allows them to sell user content without attributing users. When did the dual-licensing start?
The Wayback Machine's first save of the ToS ...
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Why not showing individual votes summary instead of daily votes summary in a post's timeline? [duplicate]
Particular a post's actions timeline by clicking the
option.
I can see all actions with dates and times except votes. It shows the daily votes summary,
Example: Link to the post timeline
Is there a ...
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Accept vote isn't shown in an accepted answer's timeline [duplicate]
Checking the timeline of an accepted answer of mine, I can't see the accept vote for my answer.
As per https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/271754, it should be available:
The accept vote is available ...
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Add 'Export as Markdown' option to SEDE
Now that Markdown tables are a thing, can we please have an option in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer to export the data in a format that's ready to paste in a Stack Exchange post?
I mean, I can do ...
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New Feature: Table Support
Update: I've just enabled this feature network-wide. All sites across Stack Exchange are now able to use tables. Thanks for all the feedback. We'll keep monitoring this question and we'll continue to ...
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"Show more comments" not working in a deleted question
If some comments are hidden in a deleted question engaging in trolling about the Holocaust, they don't appear when I click on "Show more comments":
By contrast, it does work on a non-...
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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 ...
user287266
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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
tl;dr: Right now we're not allowed to upload any images we don't own (fair use does not apply on this site, see the link). Let's make this a bit clearer in the image upload form.
When you try to ...
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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 ...
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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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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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Sandbox archive
This post exists purely to house answers formerly attached to the formatting sandbox. You can safely ignore it.
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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 [email protected] 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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"Expand all comments" button
When there are lots of comments under a post, they're automatically collapsed, and if you want to find (Ctrl + F) a specific word/phrase on the page, you have to look for and click the show (n) more ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 wrong ...
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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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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 ...
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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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Could I hire someone on Stack Overflow to do some projects for me?
Occasionally I come across a good programmer that I could use to do some projects for me. I have lots of ideas and need help sometimes. I wondered if it's allowed to hire someone?
user219273
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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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