Questions tagged [profile-page]
For questions about the user profile page, which contains a list of all the questions, answers, and an audit trail of the user's activity on the site.
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Help us test the shiny new "User Activity" page! (Plus a bunch of new features.) [duplicate]
We've launched! Please give feedback here.
Today, we're shipping the new "Activity Page" of the Profile here on Meta SE, so you can test it out and hopefully share some feedback and ...
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Employee profiles are now marked with a “Staff” indicator
As of 31 July 2019, all staff member accounts have "Staff" next to their name on their user profile.
It looks like this:
(This is an updated image from the original one included in this ...
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We're working on a new stat to help convey the reach of your posts here
We've got a new statistic on the shiny new Profile Page Prototype. It's not perfect yet. And we did a pretty crap job of explaining what it's all about! Let's talk.
What you do here isn't just about ...
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What does the helpful flag mean?
I don't see "Helpful" in the list of things I can do when I press the flag link.
In my profile page I saw "6 helpful flags." How do I earn these flags? May I make them on other peoples' posts or ...
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Profile Page Makeover, Part 2: the Prototype [duplicate]
Wow, that took longer than expected (though right around the 6-8 week mark), but we finally have a semi-working prototype of the new profile page.
Recap
There’s a longer explanation on part 1 but ...
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"Autobiographer" Badge now only requires sharing what YOU want with the community
As of today, "Autobiographer" will be awarded to anyone fills out the free-form "About Me" field on their profile.
We will be awarding it retroactively, so you don't need to do anything if you ...
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Spam Profiles are getting my goat. Could we have better tools for mods to deal with profile spam?
Super User got hit by another batch of spammers creating profiles. They've got accounts on other sites from what I've heard from other mods and from the comments here.
Last time it was streaming. Now ...
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Age limit is too strict [closed]
There is a restriction on setting your birthday:
Oops! There was a problem updating your profile:
- Birthday must be after 1920/01/01
I realize the number of 90 year old users is small, but ...
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Bookmarks have evolved into Saves
Update Oct 6
Maintenance is complete: all bookmarks have been migrated to Saves across all network sites, including Stack Overflow. All saves, saved lists, private notes, and bookmarks are now ...
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Consecutive Day Count in profile
In the comments to Enthusiast and Fanatic Badge on the blog, a comment was added that a nice feature would be adding the number of consecutive days you've visited to the site to the user's profile.
I’...
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What gives SE the legal right, under the CC-BY-SA license, to modify user profiles without indicating that the content has changed?
The Terms of Service clearly indicated that all content that you provide to SO Inc is licensed under CC-BY-SA, and that would include your About Me section of your user profile, which SO Inc is ...
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Profile Page Makeover, Part 3: the Prototype returns
Update
We have done a bunch of work following your feedback - just look at all those status-completed tags on the different answers here!
The top suggestion was to do something about the badge ...
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How do I change my profile picture, or avatar?
Where does the image come from?
How do I change my profile picture, or avatar?
How do I change my profile picture on all SE sites at once?
How can I use different avatars on different SE sites?
How do ...
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The profile page is getting a makeover (Part One) [duplicate]
Update:
Since this was posted, we've taken your input below, and incorporated it into a newer prototype, described here:
Profile Page Makeover, Part 2: the Prototype
The Big Idea
Create a page on ...
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New! Smarter profile creation and syncing
We've made some changes to profile editing. The TL;DR is:
We now encourage users to set a name and picture during signup. If you sign up with Google or Facebook, we pull them in and let you edit ...
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User inactivity due to... well, death. Profile info (Age) keeps adding years [closed]
My question, I guess, is not that common. I am not even sure it is a question.
Anyway, here what pushed me towards asking this...
Last year, I was constantly bumping into one user w/ name David. He ...
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Now live: A fully responsive profile
Update
As of 2021-10-21T18:05:38+00:00 this is now live across the network. If you find any issues, you can post them as answers on this question. Try to give some details about your browser and ...
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Where did the Votes Tab go?
My profile page used to have a votes tab that showed me what my latest X votes were. It is not there anymore. What happened to it? Why was it removed? I looked everywhere but couldn't find anyone ...
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Why is my profile image different?
When I first signed up on a Stack Exchange site and got a profile image, it was this one (see my current user card I'm actually not sure what I look like any more):
Later, I got Area 51 and SEDE ...
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The site should not make speculative statements about its users
The redesigned user profile sees it fit to speculate about the motives and inclinations of the user. E.g. here:
Apparently, this user prefers to keep an air of mystery about them.
We respect a laser-...
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Can moderators from other sites be differentiated here?
I am active mainly on Programmers now, but keep an eye out on meta and stackoverflow for questions about Programmers. Several times I have seen questions/answers from our moderators, but the only ...
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Is it time to reconsider Social Media links in "Share" and User Profiles, etc?
2013 called and it wants it's social media links back.
The social media landscape has grown far more varied, controversial and complex in the past decade, but Stack Exchange still seems to promote a ...
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What would be good "call to action" elements for "Reinstate Monica" profiles?
Following ideas put up by others, I changed my nickname and profile information to inform potential readers of my content on "other" network sites about the ongoing struggle.
Right now, my ...
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Can we have a square or triangle or heart or *something* after employees' names?
Given that not all employees have a diamond:
All Stack Overflow employees aren't given a moderator diamond; the Community team has tightened up internal policies regarding who gets one and who ...
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New profile pages are out - bugs and feedback master list
Update:
Thanks for all the feedback and bug reports! I am locking this thread so people don't keep answering it when we no longer monitor it.
If you see a bug or want to raise a feature request, ...
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Why does it incorrectly say I lost 8,000 rep?
How'd this happen? I thought that these votes were old enough to not cause such a significant loss. Due to the daily rep cap of 200, I didn't even gain 8000 rep from that answer which was posted less ...
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Make the "past names" list public info for 30 days after changing your name
So this new feature just got rolled out...
There's a new numerical field in user profiles called "past names" which when clicked will display a dialog listing previous usernames and when ...
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Don't hide the "closed", "duplicate", or "migrated" state of questions on user question lists
The redesign of the activity page of the user profile broke a lot of workflows for moderators. One important purpose of that page was to gain a quick overview about what kind of posts a particular ...
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What does #Soreadytohelp mean?
I saw that some of the user profiles contain #Soreadytohelp.
Do they simply mean something?
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Is it acceptable to insult god in a user profile?
Like always I hang around in Stack Overflow's chatrooms. Today, someone posted a link to his new "reloaded" user profile.
Along the lines I read in Arabic "god is a pig". So I asked him to remove it:
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"Ban myself" button in user profiles
The purpose is to help the addicted user stick to a decision to concentrate on a different, short-term real-life problems s/he urgently has to deal with.
I've seen this feature on some high-activity ...
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Should the number of helpful flags be public to anyone?
This discussion came up here, by a comment from Oded:
We are discussing internally whether there is a good reason to hide this value from everyone. If not, it might do a comeback.
I know it is a ...
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How are profile views counted?
This is related to the 'number of times your profile is visited by others'.
How exactly does it work? For example, in my profile page, profile view count is 171.
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Can't track Tag Badges without 20k rep?
This is a repost of my earlier answer (25 votes) on the New Profile feedback master list. According to Oded's edit, that thread has been abandoned and we should raise our issues through the usual ...
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Add a "recently viewed" tab in the user account page
I'd like to see a list of questions that I've recently viewed. This might go on the user page (but only for the user - not for all to see).
This would be different from favorites, as it would only be ...
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Help us improve the user profile and settings
Update: Findings are shared here.
You might know the user profile and settings. It’s what appears after you click on your profile picture.
Maybe you come here to track your Q&A activity or to ...
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How can I change my name on a Stack Exchange site?
How can I change (or remove / reset ) my name on a site in Stack Exchange network?
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Can we not rel=nofollow links in profile About Me for users with 3000+ rep?
Presently, users with reputation over some threshold don't get rel=nofollow on their "official web site" link in their profile, which is nice. Can the same apply to links in the About Me section of ...
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Link to chat user from profile page
Recently I've had to look at the recent chat activity of some users (moderation/etc). The chat profile links to the parent site profile, but none of the SE sites (including SE.com) seem to link back ...
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My profile's about me randomly changed across all sites [duplicate]
I have two styles for my user accounts:
Accounts under the Peilonrayz pseudonym.
Same username and picture, similar about me.
Accounts that have been anonymized.
Random name and picture, and no ...
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If I have flagged a post, show me a "flags" link in my profile
The Problem
Currently if I flag a post, I cannot check the status of the flag unless I have prior helpful flags. This means, for example, that a new user who wants to check the status of his first ...
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Display the Number of Comment Upvotes In Recent Activity Pages
It would be helpful if we could see the number of upvotes cast for our comments, or other people's comments in response to us directly in the user profile in either the activity tab or the response ...
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"Last seen" time appears on Google and SE profile pages and should be removed
I've just noticed that someone can Google my name and instantly know If I'm on Stack Overflow, because it shows the "seen 6 minutes ago." It's shown on the results screen, the searcher doesn't even ...
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We need a "former staff" account flag
Not too long ago a flag in user accounts was added to help denote SO staff
The catch here is that it doesn't indicate who was previously staff. This problem was originally limited to tertiary ...
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Using pictures of kidnapped kid and pretending to be them?
I saw this profile today. Wow I thought. Such a young kid and so accomplished already. I felt bad. But hey, it seems to be a joke. Let's search for his profile picture on Google! Oh..
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Add a "voted to close" activity event somewhere on the user profile page
Often when I vote to close, I want to go back and check the comments on the question, to see if it's been improved, to comment further, or to answer the question.
It would be helpful to add a bit of ...
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SE is a dating site (revisit the last seen field)
We have amongst others:
Please make the "last seen" entry optional (which is not a duplicate of)
"Last seen" time appears on Google and SE profile pages and should be removed
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What is "People helped" and why does it exist at all?
I wonder what is "People helped" (PH) stat supposed to signify. From what I read in Profile Page Makeover, Part 3: the Prototype returns, it stands for cumulative number of views on some (...
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The "about me" placeholder contains a malicious URL
This is the placeholder text everyone sees in the edit tab of a profile if the "about me" section is empty (emphasis mine):
BY DAY: Alt-Rock Ninja Cowgirl at Veridian Dynamics.
BY NIGHT: I ...
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Flag offensive user profile [duplicate]
This has been raised many times, and marked duplicate, but recent circumstances have not been the same as before (I believe), and it is time to revisit the question with a different perspective... ...
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