Linked Questions
99 questions linked to/from Jon Skeet Facts
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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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Who cut the cheese? [closed]
UPDATE: JNat will be sending out emails to collect addresses from the lucky users getting a cheese board — be on the lookout for those! :)
We've moved quite a bit of stuff around this year, and you'...
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The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working? What's not?
Having incentive systems to participate in online communities (like Stack Overflow) is not a new concept. Basically every Q&A site or forum has had some type of points or karma system, and they ...
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Careers 2.0 Featured Listing: Web company needs successor for retiring unicorns
You know what day is coming up, right? Just to get you up to speed:
Stack Overflow's first April Fool's day came with glitter, cornify buttons, lots of pink, and Comic Sans.
Last year, all user ...
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New swag for Stack Overflow's 10th birthday: wear-ables or desk-ables? [closed]
Stack Overflow is turning 10 soon, and we're going to be throwing some shindigs here and there to help celebrate it. While some of it will be exclusively on MSO, quite a bit of it will be asking all ...
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New post lock available on meta sites: Policy Lock
We have just released a new type of post lock on meta sites called the Policy Lock. This lock can only be used by our Community Team, and when applied to a question or answer it will prevent any edits ...
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Dennis Ritchie goes into the night without a quote on Stack Overflow? [closed]
Alas, Dennis Ritchie is no longer with us.
But I don't see a Dennis Ritchie quote on Stack Overflow. Why is this so?
I think he deserves it. Out of 100 programmers (Stack Overflow's audience last ...
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Jon Skeet now #2 in Reputation Leagues!
Title speaks for itself. An obvious bug.
Jokes aside, there's a lot of other users showing up in the list twice at the moment.
P.S. If anyone was wondering, this appears to be the case for every ...
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Reputation for comments?
I have seen many good comments that really improve the quality of questions and answers, and I think they deserve a bit of reputation (maybe just 1 point) for a upvote.
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What is the reasoning behind the reputation cap?
There has been a lot of talk about the daily reputation cap and what counts and what doesn't count and so on. But why is there a cap at all? I've seen lots of questions about whether the cap number ...
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How to get over 200 reputation points every day [duplicate]
I was watching the top users and saw the honourable Jon Skeet profile with his 136k+ 558k+ 1M reputation. This man has a lot of quality posts and I respect him a lot. He deserves the reputation he has,...
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Is losing privileges after placing bounty OK?
My rep went over 2,000 today which meant I could edit other people's posts. Great! Then I added a bounty to a previous question, which brought me back down to 1,984...and I can no longer edit other ...
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Direct Link to a Comment
The increase in the character limit of comments has led them to become as important as the questions and answers that spawn them. On several occasions (especially on meta) I've found reason to want to ...
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Stack Exchange Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-Used Terms
What are the common phrases, words, abbreviations that are used on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, Meta Stack Overflow, and the other Stack Exchange sites?
This is meant to be a very quick ...
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What's StackExchange-ese for "OP"?
As in "Original Poster". How do I refer to the user who asked the question in the third person, other than by account name?
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