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17 questions linked to/from Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?
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An apology to our community, and next steps
I’m David Fullerton, Stack Overflow’s CTO, responsible for the product, engineering, and community teams.
I joined Stack Overflow in 2010 because I believed in the vision and mission of Stack ...
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Where do we go from here?
I came across the resignation letter by Robert Harvey by pure coincidence, a few minutes after he wrote that. Since then, I paid close attention to what happened on MSO and MSE.
I think we have seen ...
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Stack Overflow is not trying to start audio
After a thorough investigation and inquiry, we were able to get an update on this. The ads in question were not intending to start audio but were rather checking to see if there was an audio player ...
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Is SE allowing ads to use fingerprinting to track users?
This is pretty much a follow-up to this meta announcement by SE. Ideally that announcement would have resolved the issue, but the language in it was vague and evasive, and there have been no ...
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Hiding downvoted questions silences important discussions on Meta
I just noticed a particular MSE post today on a topic I care about that was posted almost a week ago, which I entirely missed before. I'm a pretty avid MSE user, and this happens quite rarely to me.
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Why does Stack Overflow seem to be less welcoming to its top contributors?
Note: by contribution I mean all effort put into growing the community starting from useful edits and ending in moderation
The recent events that involved lots of moderators leaving as a protest made ...
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Should we have a tag for significant points in time?
There are many discussions about the current incidence. For example:
Summing up the main issues (The Story So Far)
Disclose the discussion that started the current SE-moderators debate
An Update to ...
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What sort of ads should SE managers accept?
Everybody seems to complain about the inappropriateness of some ads which have been posted so far, be it for sexual or other “sensitive” issues that may have disturbed some users.
We all would be ...
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Today's inappropriate ad: fixing bunions without surgery (and probably without any doctor) on Chemistry
Five days ago, I wrote:
Yeah I'm aware that "a tool to manage ad experience" is currently being developed, but as long as it's not available, I'll keep on reporting these. I'll also keep on ...
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NSFW video and annoying animated advertising on Music SE
I'm seeing this annoying animated advertisement on Music SE. Somehow saving the gif was impossible, so I recreated it as well as I could from screenshots (first image). The actual thing is even more ...
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Show MSE posts authored by staff members on the homepage regardless of the vote count
I strongly suggest to always allow showing posts created by SO Staff members on the frontpage of Meta SE. Currently, if the post reaches "−8" vote count, it is hidden from the frontpage. While this ...
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Microsoft Azure advertisement breaks the back button behaviour
There is a Microsoft Azure banner style advertisement (present on several sites, targeted to Dutch speaking users it appears) that breaks the behaviour of the back button. It adds the page URL to your ...
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Is Safe Frame added yet?
It looks like for a couple months, SO has been trying to add Safe-Frame. (And indeed implement Feature-Policy.)
...We are testing deployment of Safe Frame to all ads... We are trying to deploy the ...
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Why can't SE use a non-Google captcha that invades my privacy less?
One reason that I do not like using SE is third-party elements that track me and invade my privacy: specifically, Google captcha, which I am forced to use even when logged in. I use various blockers ...
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Why is Stack Exchange allowing Google ads though they have their own profitable revenue model via https://stackoverflow.com/jobs? [duplicate]
Why is Stack Exchange allowing Google ads though they have their own profitable revenue model via https://stackoverflow.com/jobs?
I mean, I just recently saw Google ads here. Don't you think it adds ...
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Migration lets me vote twice on posts [duplicate]
I've noticed this before, but I didn't have enough data to tell if this is a repro, or if it was a one-off error.
Yesterday, two questions (audio ads and jQuery CDN) were migrated here to MSE from ...
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An Update to our Community and an Apology
Last week we made an important decision for our community. We removed a moderator for repeatedly violating our existing Code of Conduct and being unwilling to accept our CM’s repeated requests to ...