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 support, it's probably a discussion.
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Why are there three ways to reach the dupe menu? [duplicate]
There are three different ways to flag/vote to close a question as a duplicate in the UI:
Flag -> A duplicate
Flag -> Needs improvement -> Duplicate
Close -> Duplicate
Admittedly, the ...
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Is reputation harder to earn today?
I recall seeing on another, non SE website:
Most reputation that will ever been earned on this website has already been earned. For new users, it's a slog to the top.
That is, older users with a few ...
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Why are users allowed to upvote their own Community Bot comments?
When doing my daily reviews across the network, I the often leave a pre-written, generic Community Bot comment on questions/answers.
But once, I accidentally upvoted my own Bot comment. And obviously, ...
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Proposal to award the gold Copy Editor badge multiple times
Nearly four years ago during major updates to how the review queues worked and following discussion on the matter, we decided to award the gold Steward badge multiple times for any given review queue ...
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We have a bad case of socks on ELL, please help [migrated]
I suspect there are at least eight sockpuppets operating on ELL. I've downvoted, I've flagged, I've commented but to no avail. After 18 hours of abuse, their accounts are still working, and "...
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Would it be a good idea for Stack Overflow to have Stack Overflow Fridays?
Recently on Stack Overflow's official Twitter account, there was a tweet:
What's on every developer's dream holiday wish list? 🎁✨ Stack Overflow Fridays to spend dedicated time giving back to the ...
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When is the company planning to suspend the genAI policy on the network?
The company embraces the AI hype and that's great. Together with the ethicalest and socially responsiblest AI providers1 the company is ensuring the internet is in the right hands. Naysayers will ...
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Updates to the 2024 Q4 Community Asks Sprint
TL;DR We will not hold a Community Ask Sprint this quarter, but instead, will try using a two week sprint in March 2025.
In the previous two quarters, we have held Community Asks Sprints where all ...
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What is the reason for gaining 2 reputation points on accepting someone else's answer? [duplicate]
This question has been bothering my mind for quite some days now. When a user accepts an answer to their question, they gain 2 reputation points unless it is a self-answer. What is the reason for this?...
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Notifications are either not marked read soon or at all [closed]
I've been seeing this on Firefox Floorp & Zen Browser (all Firefox-based) for months. I just tried this: either get a new notification, mark it as unread, right > open link in new tab, then ...
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