Linked Questions
15 questions linked to/from Rules for Profiles
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Can I link to my Male Enhancement Pills site on my profile? [duplicate]
There was a bit of a hubbub on gaming.stackexchange.com recently, where some people thought links to gold-farming sites should not be allowed in profiles, while others thought they should. I took the ...
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Digging Deep into the Profile page - About me section [duplicate]
I have a quick question about profiles or the "about me" section of your profile, I know a lot of people might feel it's nonsense but hey: I respect your opinion so don't brush off, just let me know ...
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Foul language on profile info [duplicate]
I see no foul language on comments, answers or questions, but what about profile info?
Is foul language allowed there? Check out this profile
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Spam in About Me Section [duplicate]
If a user has a link to a website such as www.enlarge-your-brest.com (no kidding, I've encountered some) in their About Me Section or the user card, should the moderation be alerted?
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Why is the f word still allowed in profiles?
Waffles is getting upset.
The management, with its magnificent reality distortion field, seem to have a Stalinesque attitude towards the F-word, with one notable exception: user profiles.
Sometimes,...
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Is spam in the "about me" field a reason to worry? [duplicate]
There are many inactive user profiles on SO that were clearly registered by spammers. The spam posts (if there were any) are already removed but the profiles remain. Some of them put their spam text ...
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What is the policy on destroying users with very spammy profiles but have not posted spam yet?
A little bit of background first: Over on Puzzling.SE, we've been nuking users that look very spammy, before they've had a chance to post anything. It began with posts like this, which advertised ...
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The 'nofollow' attribute is set in user profile website link... why?
I understand that from an SEO perspective it is beneficial for Stack Overflow to have the nofollow attribute on the website link for user profiles. Especially if people will just create an account to ...
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Is it allowed to have non-English text in the "About" section of the user profile page?
Are profile pages (about section) required to be written in English?
For example, this Stack Overflow profile that I found is entirely in Italian.
Stack Overflow is an English-only site, and that ...
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One user is putting another user in the pillory on his profile page. Is it really ok?
I found a user's profile, where the user puts another (already suspended) user in the pillory in his description. It is not me, but I think this behavior is not ok.
So I flagged it, but my flag got ...
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Can I give out my e-mail here?
Can I give out my e-mail address here, or are users not supposed to do that?
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How much advertising is allowed on userinfo pages?
Users often put links to their projects on the userinfo pages (for example, Jon Skeet has a link to Amazon selling C# in Depth) and that looks quite allright. However some users push this to the limit ...
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Stack Exchange Moderator FAQ
As per the FAQ for Stack Exchange sites, this FAQ will serve the following purposes:
To be the canonical reference for moderators across the Stack Exchange sites for things that are beyond question (...
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F-words in nicknames. Is it still allowed after 10 years? [duplicate]
If go to https://meta.stackexchange.com/users and find some f-words we can find a lot of users with such words in their nicknames. Is it legally now? If not why they are not renamed (automatically)? ...
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Which links to user profiles on other networks are allowed?
What are all the possible links that a user can have to profiles on other networks, such as LinkedIn or GitHub? I saw these two, but am not sure whether Stack Overflow allows only these or are there ...
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