Linked Questions
31 questions linked to/from Visual design changes to the review queues
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Award additional badges for above 2,000 review tasks [duplicate]
While some gold badges are cumulable without huge effort, like
Famous Question (10,000 views) or Great Answer (score of 100), it seems that the time spent in reviewing cannot be rewarded anymore past ...
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73answers
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The Many Memes of Meta
Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence "going viral"). As ...
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89answers
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Opt-in alpha test for a new Stacks editor
TL;DR: We are testing our new open source Stacks editor that offers both Markdown and rich text input options. If you’re interested in testing it out and giving us feedback, you can opt in by visiting ...
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27answers
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The current review system encourages fake reviews; some people upvote everything rather than actually fixing problems
I went to a Late Answers review queue that had four items in it and started reviewing the first one by editing it into shape rather heavily.
By the time I was done, someone else had reviewed the ...
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27answers
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Improving Review Queues - Design overview I: Onboarding and updating workflows
This is one of three project announcements for Improving Review Queues. We’ve summarized the project objectives and goals here.
As a reminder, this project is still in the early stages of discovery. ...
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13answers
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Dark Mode for Stack Exchange sites
Each Stack Exchange site should provide users the option of using a dark mode design/theme.
Why is this feature missing?
The major IDEs are already a letdown regarding dark color schemes.
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12answers
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The problem with extrinsic motivation
TL;DR: Stack Exchange favors standard, fast, and complete answers at the expense of novel, creative, and excellent answers. This bias results directly from reputation ratings, badges and other ...
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8answers
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Improved experience for users with review suspensions
This post details the first in a series of releases related to the ongoing work on Review Queues. It focuses on changes to the ways in which users who have been suspended from reviewing are notified ...
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1answer
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The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide
I noticed that I can only perform certain actions such as commenting a finite number of times in a given period of time. Obviously, rate limiting is in place to prevent accidental misuse or ...
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12answers
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Improving Review Queues - Design overview II: Changing review bans and other new features
This is one of three project announcements for Improving Review Queues. We’ve summarized the project objectives and goals here.
As a reminder, this project is still in the early stages of discovery. ...
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1answer
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What is migration and how does it work?
I posted a question which was closed as off-topic and it seems like it could fit on another site in the network. How can I go about moving it there?
What is migration?
When can a question be migrated,...
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2answers
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The Community Teams @ Stack Exchange and how we work together
I wanted to share with you about who the people that work on our Community are, and how we are organized. For context, I am the head of Product, Community, Design and Engineering, a combined Chief ...
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Gold badge parity and balance - award criteria of the steward badge changes
As some have noticed, the steward gold badge is now awarded repeatedly for every 1000 additional reviews in each queue.
Prologue
The first mention of (possible) upcoming changes to the badges came ...
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2answers
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What is a Curator? What is the Curator Team?
The recent Stack Exchange platform roadmap makes many references to "Curators", a "Curator Team", and a "Curator Support Team":
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/28/the-...
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1answer
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Steward badges being re-awarded suddenly?
I suddenly got four Steward badges re-awarded on SFF. I actually earned these between 2016 and 2020, but now they're awarded twice (?), and the old ones say:
for 1000 reviews, over 200 actioned in ...