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31 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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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