Questions tagged [discussion]
Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If your question isn't a bug report, feature request, or request for assistance, or question with a concrete answer, it's probably a discussion.
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Perfex Leads Reset [closed]
We want to delete all of our current leads in Perfex CRM and upload newer lead file. Is there a backend way to delete the leads? Will the id# start over? Our last lead # was 1058. We want the new ...
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"See vote breakout" dialog confusing
Here the user presses "See vote breakout" but it apparently is not a button.
And the second "See votes", the one I highlighted in magenta, is apparently just a dialog title.
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Update to cookie consent modal for EU/UK users
Our sites feature a cookie consent banner to ask users for permission to store cookies on their devices. It currently looks like this:
In order for us to continue to serve personalized ads in the EU ...
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Farewell Yaakov and thanks for the haiku!
You may soon notice one fewer diamond around the site. The amazing developer, tech lead, and community advocate Yaakov Ellis - user 51(!) - has taken an opportunity elsewhere and today, December 7th, ...
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Is it possible to start a niche site / community in Area 51?
I suffer from a rare chronic health condition (CSF leaks) and it has two major groups in Facebook with over 7000 members, over 100 posts/comments per day. It's a very helpful community, but the ...
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Problem with vote buttons—color change without actually voting
I've encountered an issue with vote buttons. I think it's a real issue when using a tablet (for reasons that will become apparent), but I've reproduced it in a PC browser.
The new vote buttons can ...
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Is it not recommended to accept an answer quickly, because it might not encourage users to write more answers? [duplicate]
A moderator told me to not accept an answer too soon because it hinders users from writing more answers. But the accepted answer fits my needs, AND it even looks like a Canonical Answer to me.
Is that ...
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Is Stack Exchange vulnerable to manipulation by an artificial general intelligence?
I recently read the post Is Stack Overflow's reputation system vulnerable to manipulation? which was reassuring, but I'm wondering if it is likely that the tools and the people who use them could be ...
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Site maintenance - Wednesday, December 13, 2023 @ 01:00 UTC (Tuesday, December 12 @ 8:00 pm EST)
We have planned maintenance that will impact Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange sites. The window is scheduled for Wednesday, December 13, 01:00 UTC- 02:00 UTC (Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 8:00 PM-9:00 ...
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Has Stack Exchange started restricting the archiving of user profile pages on the WayBack Machine?
Searching the Wayback Machine for URLs of user profile pages doesn't return some user pages, eg. my user profile pages on the SE sites that I have ever joined since August (when my account was ...
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Shouldn't the "enthusiast" and "fanatic" badges count any visit to the website rather than just to the profile page?
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Shouldn't the "enthusiast" and "fanatic" badges count any visit to the website, or any action on the website, but NOT count mere visit to one's profile page?
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Does Stack Exchange have Inter-Community Mechanisms to Prevent Repercussions Against Contributors Who Fairly Challenge a Deeply-Held Community Belief?
Stack Exchange is a great Q&A site and often provides satisfying answers in a way that other curated platforms, such as Wikipedia, cannot. Underpinning this platform is a community. Community ...
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If *all* of a user's many answers promote the same thing but they properly disclose affiliation, is it spam?
I just saw a user on a small site posting a bunch of uncited AI-generated posts (which is plagiarism) that all promote the same thing. They properly disclose their affiliation in each post.
I read ...
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Seeking feedback on tag colors update
With the delivery of our new colors, we deprecated our “powder blue”. We understand that the brightness of the post summaries once the tags started using the primary blue and the lack of hierarchy ...
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Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur is ending - advance notice
Since 2010, Imgur has provided image hosting services to Stack Exchange, but that hosting contract with Imgur comes to an end this upcoming April 2024. This April will conclude a 13-year-long ...
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Please make all blue tags black and gray in per-site metas
In most per-site metas common tags have black (and gray) cards; an example is Meta Physics SE.
But there are some sites that have colored common tag cards such as Meta Philosophy SE. And the color of ...
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Most appropriate SE site for a question regarding printing data from a web portal
The question relates to printing out user submitted data on a governmental portal (Canada, not US).
While so far I found a couple workarounds using browser dev tools, I am still looking for a better ...
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iPhone push notifications
What are the current methods to get push notifications on the iPhone?
I am looking for something that would display a badge or a banner on the iPhone when someone posts an answer to my question or a ...
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Can an election happen if moderators are not stepping down? A referendum?
As far as I can tell, moderator elections happen only when there is a need for (more) moderators: either a new Stack Exchange site comes into being, a moderator resigns or the team needs additional ...
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Why we stopped using Stack Overflow for Teams, and why we won't use the OverflowAI
So, this is an attempt to give some helpful feedback about Stack Overflow for Teams, and explain a bit of why I think it's falling behind lately.
I was also very upset and mildly drunk at the time I ...
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Does Stack Overflow Inc have a 'plan B' for their current AI strategy failing?
As a long time user, I've seen SE go through multiple cycles of trying to find new revenue sources (Careers, Teams, and now AI), and when it fails we go through cycles of downsizing like the most ...
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Why are some Stack Exchange sites so inactive?
Why are some Stack Exchange sites so inactive?
For instance, Writing.SE shows questions from 2 weeks ago on its homepage, and it appears to have very low overall activity as well (including a large ...
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2023 Community-a-thon recap
I announced several weeks ago that the company was holding its fourth Community-a-thon event and that after the event I’d be posting a recap as we did last year. This year’s event was different from ...
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We're rolling back the changes to the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
I’m writing this post to let you know that we’re fully rolling back the changes made yesterday to the AUP and having them go through moderator review.
I also want to briefly talk about how it happened:...
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Updates to the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) [duplicate]
Update (21 Nov 2023):
We're rolling back this change to the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP); we will revise it and route it through the moderator review process as should have done. If you have further ...
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Lack of Company follow-through / Company failure to meet expectations
It brings me no joy to write this post.
Just over a month ago, Stack Overflow announced their most recent round of layoffs for the 2023 calendar year. Following that announcement, Philippe (VP, ...
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What's the minimum reputation required to split the score in Meta Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
I have a few reputation (126); but I'm able to split the score. What's the minimum required reputation here?
On other SE sites you should hit 1000 reputation in order to be able to split the score, ...
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Comments not allowed to contain (start with) "-1"?
Just ran into the same issue as Can't post a comment which contains -1. I did not down-vote the answer that I wanted to add a comment to. Related: Making valid use of comments containing "-1"...
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Why no rules sidebar? [duplicate]
Seems like this would save many newcomers from asking questions which get closed for being off-topic or belong on a different site, if they could easily see the rules about questions on the site on ...
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Let's talk about (community) health
In my team, we spend a lot of time thinking about the nebulously defined concept of "community health". It seems to be one of those things that everyone knows is important, but nobody can ...
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How should ask a question about involving a knowledge gap? [closed]
How should I post a question asking for help to identify a knowledge gap?
Currently, I have an issue related to database design. In the legacy database that I am now in charge of maintaining, I've ...
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Should upvotes on new answers to old/unanswered/upvoted questions be weighted differently?
Note: This question has marked as a possible duplicate of: How about a difficulty rating for questions?
However: This question is not about a 'difficulty rating' for questions based on their perceived ...
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Is the commenting/answering policy designed to force content generation, whilst maintaining a closed community?
I signed up to Stack Exchange recently, only to discover that the only way to participate in the conversation is to post questions first. This lead me to look closer at the site. What I discovered was ...
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What can be done if a user accepts an incorrect or inadequate answer to his question due to some bias? [duplicate]
I've noticed that a lot of users on Meta, especially new users, have various biases towards and against certain answerers.
I wondered what would the protocol be if a user, who already has a few ...
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How is OverflowAI search going to compete with search engine + generative AI chatbot technologies?
Note: This post is primarily addressed to the company. When I say "you" in this post, I am referring to the company.
A couple weeks ago, Microsoft dropped "Copilot" / "New ...
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How do I write an accessible Stack Exchange post?
Accessibility is important for making sure that posts and content on the Stack Exchange network can be read and understood by as many people as possible, including people with disabilities. Because ...
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Etiquette for inviting to chat: Asking about removing "noise" / "chit chat" from own Meta SE answered questions
I want to clean up my posts on Meta Stack Exchange from noise/chit-chat.
I know that these edits should not invalidate the answers. How should I proceed if I'm unsure about a part? More specifically, ...
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Can I search the posts of a deleted user for specific keywords like I can do with posts from extant users?
I remember reading a very good answer on a site from a particular user who unfortunately has deleted their account and left SE. But of course all the posts are still available as part of the archival ...
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How to ask about the origin of certain "rule" and its "ruling" attributes
How do I ask about the source of terms and "rules" not explained on a per-site Tour and Help Center without disturbing too much Meta Stack Exchange? Should I make a post for each term and a ...
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Why do magic links work only in comments?
Is there a specific reason why magic links such as [so], [meta.se], etc. do not work in questions and answers, too? Is this by design? They would be handy, especially in the meta sites.
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Cannot open https://stackoverflow.com/
I have not been able to open the link https://stackoverflow.com/ recently. The page said "You are not allowed to perform this action."
But I can open "https://meta.stackexchange.com/&...
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Incident update and uptime reporting
There has been some confusion during some recent incidents that we’d like to address. Some of the confusion stems from our status pages/banners that we’re going to update. The other point of ...
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Questions and answers containing copyrighted images
What is the official policy on questions and answers with embedded copyrighted photos? Does the fair use doctrine apply? Is there a difference between high-res "commercial" photos (like &...
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Artificial "intelligence" and Stack Overflow copyright
A comment to one of my answers:
This was a really creative way to circumvent the problem. Bing GPT gave me the exact text that you wrote here(i searched and came here to give you the very well ...
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Abusing deleted post edit history as a poor man's version control system?
I've stumbled upon this deleted answer.
It has nothing to do with the question, and the poster deleted it immediately, then proceeded to edit it 20 27 times over the next few hours, with random bits ...
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Can I voluntarily cast a single close vote despite having a gold badge? [duplicate]
Voting to close as duplicate can be done by gold-badge owners without requiring votes from other people ("dupehammer"). This is often sensible and useful. However, is it possible to ...
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Is [spoonfeeding] a meta-tag? Is it really a relevant meta meme?
I added this spoonfeeding to a question I posted a few moments ago, before that question, it had four questions closed.
I looked at the FAQ about the Meta Memes, and spoonfeeding is not included.
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Which site fits questions regarding the meaning of a portion of text in any book?
I am reading the book The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick. There are some instances where I fail to understand the meaning of a sentence the author writes. Mostly that's not ...
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Only Math SE won't stay open in Chrome/macOS, and other SE sites are fine. Is it just me?
For a week or two, I've been having trouble with the Math SE main page even though other SE main pages are okay.
The two screenshots show what happens when I toggle between Space SE and Math SE. But ...
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Update: New Colors Launched
November 22, 2023: To help with internal managing issues, you may see a reference number added next to the status tag on your post. These numbers don't determine the order or priority of issues but ...
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