Linked Questions
15 questions linked to/from Swag is coming back! (indefinitely paused)
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Firing mods and forced relicensing: is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the community?
The last weeks and days have seen some erratic behaviour by Stack Exchange Inc., such as likely illegal changes to the content license and the firing of an upstanding community moderator with no ...
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Announcing Our Amazing 2018 Stuff-A-Way! [closed]
Mar 5 UPDATE: This order is proving a bit more laborious to expedite than our vendor had originally anticipated, so these boxes haven't been shipped out yet. Anyone who filled in a form should receive ...
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A Moose, Some Silly Putty ... And A Desperate Plea For Help [closed]
Note: This event ended on Friday, December 22. This question is now closed to prevent submissions of new answers.
Due to a rather unfortunate series of events that can be directly attributed to a ...
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Time for some more swag! [closed]
UPDATE: I just sent out emails to collect addresses from the lucky users getting these watches — be on the lookout for those, and try to fill it in the next two weeks! :)
On occasion of our ...
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What advantages do moderators enjoy?
Out of idle curiosity, are there any advantages - I mean rather material ones, besides the respect of the community and all that - that the trilogy's moderators enjoy for being moderators? Access to ...
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Can we have a list of all the Stack Exchange domains somewhere, for firewall purposes?
I work behind an really annoying firewall, and I just want the net admin to add all the SE websites to the whitelist. Right now I've lost access to Stack Overflow's authentication, but not Meta's... ...
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Will there be an Amazing 2019 Stuff-A-Way?
Almost a year ago, there was an Amazing 2018 Stuff-A-Way. It encouraged charitable giving and was rewarded with swag. I even learned new ways to give to charity. :-)
Will Stack Exchange have an ...
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Feedback for The Loop, September 2020: Summer Bridge to Tech for Kids
September’s Loop Blog post was just published: Summer Bridge to Tech for Kids. In this post, we go over the Summer Bridge program that we got to be a part of! The purpose of the program is to expose ...
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Are developers/moderators keen on adding new reputation achievements?
I recently joined Stack Exchange, and have seen the reputation "achievements" or privileges and having access to tools, e.g., moderator tools at 10K rep.
And I also have seen many people ...
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What email domains are known to be used by Stack Exchange?
Stack Overflow (the company) and Stack Exchange (the network) may send emails to their users for various reasons, ranging from support to marketing. However, it seems that there are multiple email ...
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Update wording in subject of automated "100k reputation" email
I recently received an automated email from @juan.garza of the Community Management Team.
Subject: Bicycles Stack Exchange — You're killing it.
Now my immediate thought was "what have I done ...
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My "network reputation" graph does not accurately reflect my accounts
Today I noticed that when I look at the reputation graph on my profile, I don't even belong to most of the sites it is showing. My highest reputation sites are not shown at all.
This is me:
This is ...
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Swag for non-SO folks - a couple of thoughts
The return of swag post is very welcome, however I see a couple of tiny things that we could perhaps improve.
In the early years of Security.SE, giving sec.SE t-shirts to speakers at conferences and ...
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If the mug is gone, could there by some kind of hard physical token of the 100K achievement?
My 100K moment is coming up soon. For many years I was looking forward to the mug, mainly because - unlike T shirts or socks - the mug is something I can have on my desk permanently as a reminder of ...
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Why do Stack Exchange users want to get upvoted? Are they rewarded for that? [duplicate]
Why do Stack Exchange users compete to get votes or points?
Just for the pleasure of doing it?
For public recognition?
To get job offers?
Do they receive money or gifts for it?
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