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18 questions linked to/from Eeeek! "Community" user got sudden rep boost.. how come?
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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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Bounties from deleted accounts should still be awarded; at least, the indicator should be removed
It might be from a bounty of 500, from a user who deleted his account. But the blue +500 flag is still attached to the question, so everybody who sees it will think that I have only about 300pt apart ...
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How do suggested edits work?
When clicking "edit" I see:
Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.
We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because ...
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“Javascript” tag showing up as “javas” on main page
This is one of the weirdest bugs I've ever seen, I think.
One of the tags on this question is "javascript" but on the SO homepage, it shows up as "javas." If you click on it, that even takes you to ...
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Is Community ♦ supposed to have 1 rep?
After finding Community♦ has gone crazy on Code Review meta, I thought about inspecting Community's ♦ profiles. What did I notice? Community ♦ have more than 1 rep on some meta sites.
Code Review ...
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Who is Community, and why are they incorrectly editing questions for technical content? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community♦ user edit: How does it know what to edit?
Those of us who hang around StackOverflow a bit have probably seen unanswered questions getting bumped by Community, the ...
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Community♦ user edit: How does it know what to edit? [duplicate]
I just noticed that the Community♦ user edited a ~1 year old answer of mine. As you can see, the method call was changed from getSfGuardUser to getGuardUser:
Now I checked the documentation and it ...
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Is everyone in favor of the new “everyone can edit” idea? Is this really such a good idea?
As originally requested here and described in Diff is Hard, Let's Go Shopping!:
[The team is] planning to open the floodgates and allow everybody to submit content edits on posts
Am I the only ...
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What would the community user's reputation be if it was actually counted? [closed]
Looking at the community user for SO you can see there are a lot of votes. Surely some of those hit the rep cap etc etc. Is it possible that someone could calculate the community user's actual ...
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Community ♦ user dismissing close-flags as helpful, stealing credit from mods
It seems like recent changes to the way flags are handled has introduced some strange behavior.
A little bit of background
Users who don't yet have the reputation to vote to close can flag for ...
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Community user - Bounty reputation
Mr. Community♦'s profile occasionally shows negative reputation for bounties.
However, I cannot find any link or reason for the negative reputation. The Bounty tab does not show any relevant activity ...
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Community should associate its accounts
Community really ought to associate its accounts, so that it's easier to take a look at its statistics all over the network.
Who knows, it might even get a rep bonus!
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Why is the Community user accruing reputation from accepts?
I've noticed that Community is earning reputation from accepting answers:
Digging a little deeper, I realized all these posts have been migrated from some other SE site. So it looks like instead of ...
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Why is Community getting reputation? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Eeeek! “Community” user got sudden rep boost.. how come?
Is our favourite bot, Community, supposed to be getting reputation from suggested edits?
I thought it was ...
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Community user earned reputation? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Eeeek! “Community” user got sudden rep boost.. how come?
I just noticed that on Mathematics, the Community User currently has 3 reputation points! According to the ...