Linked Questions
34 questions linked to/from The problem with extrinsic motivation
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Stack Overflow is doing me ongoing harm; it's time to fix it!
Over the last month, Stack Overflow has violated its own policies
and precedents to cause egregious and unnecessary harm to me -- to my
reputation (personal and professional), to my health, and to my ...
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Visual design changes to the review queues
The Public Platform team would like to announce another release in a series of planned work for the Review queues. This release focuses on refreshing the queue user interface in preparation for ...
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What privilege should 30k users get?
The last time we lifted the level cap was in 2015. In 2014, we added a unilateral close-as-duplicate power for gold tag badge holders, but no new reputation level. So we've been thinking about giving ...
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Why is Stack Overflow - and Stack Exchange in general - so scary?
I have been an SO user for quite some time and not an entire dimwit when it comes to my languages of choice. SO is a very useful resource and has helped me out of a pinch many a time. However, when it ...
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Open hostility from SE staff towards the community - trying to understand it
Upon multiple occasions SE staff members have expressed open hostility towards the community as a whole, as well as towards specific members of the community. Specific references are avoided here ...
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What aspects of psychology does Stack Overflow take advantage of?
I think it's interesting the way Stack Overflow has garnered such a following.
I think that the success of Stack Overflow has a lot to do with how Stack Overflow is taking advantage of how people ...
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Is Stack Overflow a type of game?
I hope this question isn't perceived the wrong way. I am sincerely interested in hearing some of your thoughts about the title of this post.
Sometimes, answering a question on Stack Overflow is an ...
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Make public Q&A a nonprofit
It is not news that the relationship between the community of invested Stack Overflow users and the company is at an all-time low. The core reason is arguably an unresolvable tension between their ...
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With your permission, can I send you some stuff?
From time to time, companies and project teams approach us about sending users stuff as a special thank you for participating in a particular tag or other activity on the site. Historically, our ...
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Introducing donations to authors
A high-rep user normally invests a significant amount of time at SO, and normally contributes with awesome questions & answers. I frequently see extremely good content and I think the effort put ...
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Where is the Stack Overflow I joined two years ago? [closed]
I've been an active member of Stack Overflow for three years and four months now. I remember the beginnings of the first Stack Overflow subsite, and how it began to be popular. Back in those days, ...
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How can Stack Overflow encourage more thorough answers?
Several times over the past week (meaning 7 days, not the Stack Overflow week for which I still cannot figure out the schedule), I've written up a quick answer to a "Please debug my code and/or ...
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Does moderation impacts a moderator's involvement to answer a technical question?
I see that the moderators have had been answering a lot on technical questions in the past. I don't see the same enthusiasm/involvement with technical questions. I see a lot of moderators quite active ...
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Who answers questions on Stack Overflow? [closed]
When I post a programming question on Stack Overflow, I usually get a response pretty quickly, and to my surprise, the responses are very detailed. Some even have code and links to articles.
I am ...
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Could account association cheapen the Yearling badge?
According to the badges page, the requirements for Yearling are:
Active member for a year, earning at least 100 reputation
However, the bonus for associating SO-family accounts is 100 rep, as long ...