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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&...
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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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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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"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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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What happens to bounties awarded _to_ deleted users?
I just learned that bounties from deleted accounts are eliminated from history, with the argumentation that the awarded rep was gained by that user and not by the awarded one. But what about the other ...
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Shouldn't the Community user always be online?
Community user shouldn't always be online?
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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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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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Does bounty dissapear if it isn't awarded? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How does the bounty system work?
I put +250 bounty on:
Replicate PHPBB password hashing in ASP.net c#
No answers - I felt - answered the question to a satisfactory degree, ...
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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 ...