Questions tagged [description]
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Make it clear in the bounty dialog that it's not possible to reward your own answer
When a user sets a bounty on a question, the system doesn't allow them to reward their own answer:
Can I award a bounty to my own answer?
No. This used to be possible, but it has been disabled. The +...
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Should the wording "Want to start your own Stack Exchange Q&A site?" be changed?
From the bottom of the sites page:
It feels like Want to start your own Stack Exchange Q&A site? is the wrong phrase: people cannot create their own Stack Exchange Q&A site through Area ...
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The Area 51 lookup link redirects to the wrong site proposal page for sites that have been proposed more than once
Currently if you go to the newly launched beta site for AI.SE you'll see the:
To log in, you must have commited to the Area 51 site proposal and received the invitation email. Click the invitation ...
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Why is Stack Overflow the only Stack Exchange site with a search engine description?
Edit: Due to the new banner shown to new users, all sites now have an accurate search engine description.
According to these posts, StackOverflow's description in search engines ("A language-agnostic ...
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Quorum badge on Stack Overflow?
The description for the Quroum badge on Stack Overflow says:
One post with score of 2 on meta.
Sounds to me as if I need exactly one post with precisely a score of 2.
Wouldn't this be a better ...
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Change description of Stack Exchange?
Feel free to respond with what you think it should be. Clearly there is some disagreement
In the description of Stack Exchange, it says on its homepage:
...diverse topics from software programming to ...
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One or two paragraph description
I'm looking for a succinct one or two paragraph description of the stackexchange concept. Especially for non-techie types. I'd like to do more sharing/promoting of a few proposals in Area 51, but I'm ...
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Area51: automatically detect the word 'for' in the proposal description
In Area51, the description automatically begins with the word "For", and sometimes users, when writing the description of the proposal, do not realize this and write "for" again, resulting in "for for"...
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I am not an electronic gadget!
The site descriptions at https://stackexchange.com/sites are inconsistent. According to the list:
SO is for programmers
SU for computer enthusiasts
SF for administrators
Webmasters for pro webmasters
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Add a description to site proposals?
Currently, Area 51 site proposals can only contain their title and the "Proposed Q&A site for ..." section.
How about adding a description field where the proposal author can detail a little more ...
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Populist badge - what does "votes" mean? [duplicate]
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Is the Populist badge broken? Or have I misunderstood?
I find the description of the Populist badge confusing. It says:
Provided an answer that outscored an accepted answer ...
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Unusual spacing in the description text of careers [duplicate]
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Unusual spacing in the description text of careers
This is happening again. the url for the spacing issue is here: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/cv/view
The image is an ...
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Unusual spacing in the description text of careers
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