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I googled that for you [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Embrace the non-Googlers
How should we deal with Google questions?
I have been going through a lot of questions that I have skipped, because when I read them, I think: "That ...
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Shameless use of the site for homework problems [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to ask and answer homework questions?
What's the policy for brazen use of the site for homework, like this?
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Ethics for SQL insert queries vulnerable to SQL injection [closed]
I've come across and helped lots of people with SQL INSERT queries, where nothing about the values being from the user and form input is being mentioned. The main point of the questions vary from ...
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How do I tell a user that they are out of their depth?
I came across this question today, in which the asker was clearly out of their depth. What bothers me more than anything is that they said "I have to give a presentation to client that wants such a ...
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Undo a revision [duplicate]
I was just curious, if I make an edit, then realize that my edit made a question or answer to be incorrect: is there a way to revert back to the original other than editing it again, back to the ...
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Questions closed because they are unpopular, but on-topic? [duplicate]
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Questions with nefarious intent?
Every so often, we get a question like this on SO:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8452855/how-can-i-hide-my-program-from-task-manager
I ...
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Is there some mechanism for preventing a two-person team from farming rep?
Does Stack Overflow have any mechanism to guard against "mutual" cheats?
I noticed that sometimes, when someone asks a stupid and easy-to-answer question, almostly instantly, a full, good answer from ...
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Should we and how can we report suspected vote rigging?
An example:
I noticed a user who received 90 points of votes in the space of 5 mins on 9 different answers. This looked suspicious as the user hasn't been very active and usually gets votes every few ...
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Question with answers deleted without discussion after like 20 minutes? [closed]
I've responded to this question (the link is for 10k users; the cached version before removal is here), and put quite some effort into my answer that received 2 votes. I wanted to look at it again and,...
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How do we evaluate an editor stealing an answer?
I was looking at the unapproved edits when I came across Javascript in Wicket 1.5.
The editor describes it as "moved the self-answer to a real answer." Basically, the OP had edited their question ...
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What is the best way to contact a moderator about a user?
I suspect a user is cheating. He's cheated in the past but I don't want to get into it here. Instead I want to contact a moderator about this. What is the best way to go about this? Should I send an ...
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What's wrong with asking for an algorithm? Much better than please-debug-my-code
Inspired by this post and its comments. It seems to me that there is some fashion here at SO that prefers 'please-debug-my-poor-code' questions over 'what-would-be-the-best-algorithm-to-do-this'? I ...
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Is the user a serial google-copy-paster, or a part-time bot?
I just noticed a particular user that has a large amount of throwaway answers. They seem to almost always take the form:
This may be of help [or another generic phrase]:
[link/pasted code]
And that’...
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Lack of down voting, and the public image of a down vote
While searching for similar topics I found several discussions which mainly discuss whether or not to down vote in a particular situation. Typically, I agree with the accepted answers. It seems that (...
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Is it OK to use a hidden HTML hack to circumvent minimum answer length?
I've followed the advice of this possible duplicate so far: Is it ok to flog people for circumventing the minimum answer size?
There may be other similar questions asked, but I've seen none that ...
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Should SO get the proceeds from iPhone apps coded by answers?
I couldn't sleep last night, so I started browsing posts on SO, including older ones. I noticed a pattern from a certain user. So I clicked on that user's profile, just to browse his questions. He has ...
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Web Scraping, Intellectual Property and the Ethics of Answering
Twice today I have come across questions requesting assistance scraping data from copyrighted web pages. Both questions listed the site in question which, after a quick visit, shows the site content ...
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User asking to remove upvote so he would get the "Unsung Hero" badge
I got this unusual request today after up-voting someone's answer in a sportsmanship spirit.
How to use Validation Control Properly in Webpage
If you were the one who gave me the vote, would you ...
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Anonymous users editing questions as if they are the author - what should we do?
Now that I see the pending edits, I come across such suggested edit - since I can't know for sure that anonymous user is the author "pat1234" I've rejected the edit - what if it's just some troll?
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Is this normal behaviour or is somebody cheating in an exam?
I just answered a question from this user. Then, I looked into the profile and it looks like he just registered 2 days ago and asked two questions. The first question is obviously either homework or ...
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Is it fair to wait for the bounty to expire and then select the highest voted answer?
Recently I have answered a bounty question I'm looking for a way to add my own file template to Eclipse. How to do it?, to my surprise the person who asked the question waited till the bounty got ...
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Is answering homework question considered cheating? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Is [homework] an exception?
How to ask and answer homework questions?
It's bothering me if someone was asked to do report or has a homework question and asks for help here ...
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Helping a Phisher? [closed]
I'm commenting on this question about parsing data in a BrowserField on Blackberry. I was suspicious about why someone would do this, and tried to persuade the questioner to use other methods of ...
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Close questions based on moral objections?
Sparked by this question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5571561/bypass-school-firewall-with-a-proxy
Which should have been moved to a different SE site (ServerFault or SuperUser), but seemed ...
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How to deal with rep beggars?
Sometimes I read annoying comments asking for, and eventually demanding upvotes or acceptance of some answer.
While for the demanding tone I have a clear position (flag!), the usual case is a user ...
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Is it fair to edit a question I've answered to bump it to the top of the questions list?
Hey all-
I discovered recently that any questions I edit get put back up at the top of the questions queue. This means that if I answered a question and didn't feel like I got enough upvotes, I ...
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Does Stack Exchange prevent cheating with "fake" accounts?
I've been thinking how easily a user could create a fake account to upvote all his own questions/answers. I didn't think of doing it myself; I like to win my reputation the right way, but I'm sure ...
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Recommended course of action if you see users attempting to game the rep system?
Just wondering what the recommended course of action is if you see a user attempting to game the reputation system? (In this instance, they were asking someone to hold off/remove an existing upvote ...
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Is this ethical? Copying unvoted answer into upvoted deleted answer after question merge
Earlier today, I wrote a quick answer on a question, and received an upvote. I then saw a comment on the question identifying it as an exact duplicate (the asker had asked the same question twice ...
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What percentage of questions asked here are people doing their homework?
I've long been out of college, never cheated, but knew plenty of students who cared nothing about learning and would cheat anytime they could. I can't help but think that a large percentage of ...
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Golfscript in Codegolf on SO — cheating or not? [closed]
I think, it needs a discussion.
Accordingly to https://stackoverflow.com/tags/code-golf/info and Acceptable level of code golf questions?:
have built-in-to-some-languages solutions excluded
but ...
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Sporadic, explicitly shuffled page loads
On a question that has a lot of answers, it's possible that a very good but late-coming answer gets buried near the bottom: few people may scroll down that far, and so the answer never attains the ...
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Has there been an uptick in spam votes against established questions? [closed]
The last few days seem to have seen the resurgence of some old conflicts on Stack Overflow. In particular there have been attempts to delete some old and popular but non-technical questions(*) and a ...
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Is rep discrimination OK or not?
Many times when I'm reading a very poorly written question, I look at the asker's rep. If it is low, I usually go on with my day because "they are new and haven't gotten the hang of things."
However, ...
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Comment links be greater than Question links? It's just not fair!
Look at the comment I posted below! If you hover over the link you'll see a nice title text with the title of the question. But but. With this link link text or this one: New reason to close question: ...
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What are your up/downvote ethics?
I'm upvoting questions if I think they can be useful (maybe I need an answer later on)
also on answers, or things I know they're correct
I don't upvote to answers on the same question when I already ...
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Anti-plagiarism feature/API
Given that the better SO does its job the better a resource it is for cheating on homework, should it have an API for teachers/instructors/professors to use to detect it?
I'm thinking of something ...
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Homework questions are one thing... but what about exams/quizzes?
I know that there are a lot of homework questions here, but do you think it's possible that SO enables people to get help with exams? Many computer science exams are open-web.
Is this something that ...
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Downvoted by others because they want credit [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is Tactical Down-Voting ever valid?
How does this work? In a high-pace situation (question, minutes old, currently does not have satisfactory answer), are answerers obligated ...
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To close or not to close questions that are very poorly made?
Hello, recently there has been a disagreement with me and another user over if This Thread should be closed. Put simply, someone gave a big chunk of code with a (disguised) comment stating what the ...
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Spam without links?
So I just visited the front page of SO and noticed this user had bumped like 5 questions that were all very similar and all about Algorithms. I suspected spam, so I looked on all of them. He posted ...
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Forcing a CW without being a mod
I came up with an idea while reading mmyers recent post.
We all know that there are some good questions out there that are subjective. They of course get closed because they are not Community Wiki.
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downvoting on ethical grounds [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Technically valid answers that raise questions of morality
How far should we go in judging question ethics?
What does everyone think about a downvote for a question ...
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Is it ethical to downvote answers so my question is unanswered again?
Is it ethical to downvote answers so my question is unanswered again? In my specific example here, I have two answers, each with one upvote, neither of which seem to get the point of the question (if ...
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Is it wrong to ask questions "for someone else"?
Hello, I read quite a few forums and well, some of these forums are not all that alive(topics get answered in a day or two usually) and while these questions are perfectly suitable for SO/SU/SF, the ...
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Is Ethics a valid tag for Stack Overflow? [closed]
I have seen questions of all kinds on Stack Overflow, many have something to do with sofware development but never seen an ethics tag?! Kind of weird. Is this kind of question allowed of what to do ...
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Should SE use copy-and-paste traps to alter text copied from its sites?
Have you seen the New York Times article on CS cheating at Stanford? Here it is.
I wonder if SO should have copy-and-paste traps like the kind used on New York magazine's site. When a user copies ...
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Is campaigning acceptable?
For nominees who are actively answering questions, is it acceptable for them to mention their nomination in comments when others express an appreciation for their efforts?
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Technically valid answers that raise questions of morality
Similar to Questions with nefarious intent?, but different, and more about voting than “Is it possible?”, versus “Is it a good idea to try?”.
If someone posts an answer to a perfectly normal question,...
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Do we answer questions that may have malicious intent? [duplicate]
What do we do if we come across a question that could have malicious intent behind it. I found one such question and don't know what the normal practice regarding these questions is.
Do we flag them? ...
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