Questions tagged [users]
This tags is for general questions about users and user accounts.
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How can I find users from a specific country? [duplicate]
I want to know if I can search Stack Overflow users by their country. For example, I had, like, to see all users who live in the UK.
How do I do this?
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Recreate a query for the tags associated with a user based on time filter
I'm looking to recreate a SEDE query that represents the tags associated with a user based on a specific time filter. Consider, for example, the list of users sorted by reputation, filtered by week:
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Users page could be more informative as to which reputation [range] is being shown
I got caught out the other day when I visited the Users page (on ELL) for the first time. I expected to see Users listed with their total reputation, a sort of High Scores table, if you will. However, ...
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Why some superusers have Unicorn as profile pic? [duplicate]
Why some superusers(users with awesome reputation points) have Unicorn as profile pic?
I don't understand philosophy behind it.
You can check yourself ->
This account
And this account
And this ...
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For each Stack Exchange site, what is the percentage of answers contributed by Stack Exchange employees?
I would like to know, for each Stack Exchange site, out of all information available on each such site, what percentage of information (and in particular, number of answers) is provided by Stack ...
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Move the percentage below to avoid confusion in community wiki
Take a look at the image linked below.
I request that the percentage which is given in the second line "7 revs, 5 users 54%" be moved to 3rd line, such that the third line becomes "54% unknown".
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About all the things ideas one might try to promote hoping something might make it to the real world as a helpful solution to some problem [closed]
I have written a lot of questions and responses both as user 128932 and user 201044 in math, chemistry, biology, philosophy, etc. I have suggested a fair amount of really good ideas and have received ...
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Should answer-owners be highlighted like question-owners? [duplicate]
On question pages on SE, the owner of a question is easy to identify: his "post-signature" has additional css-markup: owner.
If the owner comments on the page, his/her username is highlighted, blue ...
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Requesting Expansion Regarding Old Answers
A user answered a question relevant to something I'm working on myself, albeit back in the dark ages of 2011. I don't have enough reputation to post a comment for an incredibly minor clarification, I ...
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Someone joined SE in order to stalk me, but hasn't broken any site rules
Naming no names...
I recently discovered that another user on one of the Stack Exchanges I frequent is a person I used to know in real life, who is still trying to chase after me despite my making it ...
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Mobile web: Show specific reputation change or vote / edit count on user lists
Like on the full site view, you can list users in the mobile web view. Also like the full site view, you can order users by specific metrics, like reputation gain, by votes or edits. You can even ...
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How does the number of votes voted by an user is less for this month and high for this week?
Number of Votes voted by a particular user in Pro Webmasters for this Week is 40 but for this month is 21. This count looks wrong for me since week count is higher than month count. Does it is a ...
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Is there any mechanism to deter users from unnecessarily messing with user points? [duplicate]
I had noticed that some users uses their right to vote up and down a question unnecessarily.
I was a victim of such some months back, had to abandon my account for a new one because of some, some, ...
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What's the official SE response to serious mentions of suicide or self-harm in posts? [duplicate]
Last night on Mi Yodeya, someone posted a question that was basically a suicide note, along with the question of what Judaism thought about suicide. The question was put on hold very quickly, and ...
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Is it acceptable or expected to ask a question on an SE site when you are not an expert?
I often find myself going to new SE sites when I have what I think is a fairly complicated question that experts on the subject should be able to answer.
What I hope for is a concise answer to a ...
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Why doesn't Stack Exchange open links in a new tab? [duplicate]
It's simple to add an attribute to a hyperlink as target="_blank" - but Stack Exchange prefers to open the website in the same tab.
Every time as a user, I need to take care to open in a new tab, so ...
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To be listed among editors, one has to edit 5 posts... or more than 5?
Incorrect tooltip text is not a big deal, but it might damage the credibility of math-oriented SE sites.
Should be "at least 5 posts" or "more than 4 posts".
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Can't log in to chat - it logs me with the wrong user
Tested also in a new browser with no cookies/cache. I can login sucessfully to any site and meta site of the web, but whenever I try to login to any chat, it autologins with a different user https://...
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Quality ban warning
How does the hobbling for bad askers work, on sites where the question ban isn't enabled?
In particular, as a moderator, I see repeated entries in a user's history stating
user posted after seeing ...
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Tags getting cut in Top Users Page [duplicate]
When there are too many tags associated with a single user, they got cut. It's a UI Issue.
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What defines an "avid user"?
On area51.SE and SE, you can see the stats of all sites. I'm curious about one thing: what defines an "avid user"? Reputation count? Activity on the site?
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Is there a way to find out what votes were reverted from a remove user? [duplicate]
For example a user was removed and I gained 2 reputation from them in total before. That means that I lost 2 reputation. Is there a way to find out about what sorts of voting activity was done in my ...
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No. of users online following your tag [duplicate]
Just wondering if this would be a good idea or not, but when entering tags into the Tags section of the question would it help if the tag showed the number of online users currently following that tag....
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Who does the data explorer think I am John.Doe [duplicate]
I logged into data-explorer for the first time 9I have viewed others' queries but have not created one myself). When I log in with the StackExchange Open Id provider, I am shown as john.doe13574.
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Make it easier for moderators to review all activity from/about a user
Here's something that's happened to me more than once as a moderator: I have a user who's had some problematic behavior, like rudeness or vandalism, and I want to get a "whole-user" view of recent ...
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I'd like to be able to filter users [duplicate]
Because of a particular user's constant blathering, retaliatory comments, harping on everything, and generally destroying all enjoyment I've had in the Struts 2 tag, I'm asking for the ability to ...
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Include ability to search users by created date
We have the ability to search for users by a variety of methods in the moderator tools. However, when searching it will return all matching data when we might need to be more selective in our search, ...
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How to handle users who are frequently wrong and resistant to constructive cricticism
At times I come across users who frequently post either partially or outright incorrect answers, and who are resistant to constructive criticism when it is politely given to them in comments. Normally ...
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Is it possible to find users within a geographical location [duplicate]
I want to view the users on stackexchange that are from my country (mostly for programmers and stackoverflow)
Is there any way I can get this level of information?
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Stack Exchange home page tailored to logged in users
Could the Stack Exchange home page be more tailored to each user when logged in? Maybe have a large visually appealing status of activity on their selected communities, etc. Maybe this could even be ...
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Users between 12k and 28k are not shown
Android SE App failed to show the users who are in between 28k and 12k.
In the app:
In the desktop site:
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Is there any way to create watch on someone's activity in stackoverflow? [duplicate]
If one of my friends ask a question on Stack Overflow, how do I get an alert or notification? With this feature, I can help them to solve their issue. Currently they have to inform me by email or chat....
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Some User is Shown As Greyed Out
Just a query that I came across when was searching some answers.
The OP in the following Link is greyed out. Any particular reasons. I cannot even click on that and visit his profile.
User Greyed Out:...
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Is the term USERS the right word to describe active members on Stack Exchange Sites?
Firstly, let me say that I am currently indifferent on this matter. It is just something I have thought semi-deeply about recently, and I can see reasons to keep the status-quo and reasons for ...
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Should it be possible to repeatedly create and remove a user
This question is related to "rage quitting". Example: for some time a user participated constructively on SO, but when he did not receive the desired attention for his own posts he deleted his account ...
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A person using dictator identity in profile
Currently a persistent person is creating this user account in various SE sites, and then joining various chat rooms.. RegDwight has run out of moderation options for this. Can devs or other community ...
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How to find the users by their email address
Is there a way to find out the users by their email address on a Stack Exchange site?
I tried putting the email in the search box, but I got no results.
Any other methods?
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Add a link to the chat user pop-out menu: "user profile on this site"
See this link?
This link doesn't presently exist. I'm here to request its addition, so that visiting someone's profile on the same site as the one you're chatting on won't be a potentially long path.
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Tag specific ranking for Stack Overflow [duplicate]
Is it possible to get a tag specific ranking of a user profile in Stack Overflow? In other words, I want to check if I could relatively evaluate a user with respect to certain tags like python, java ...
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Lost 40 reputation points, bug? [duplicate]
I noticed that I lost 40 reputation points on Stack Overflow today. I checked my reputation history and this is the reason it gave me:
-10 19 mins ago removed User was removed
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Username still showing old name on a question [duplicate]
From what I know, changing your username will change it everywhere but looking at this question, Robert Harvey ♦'s name is still showing as The Grinch as the name of the question OP.
It is also still ...
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Is there a council of the elders? [duplicate]
When a question is put "on hold", I verified three or four times (when my answer was ready), most of the "close" voters seem to be rather older programmers. It's not that I'm interested, but I can see ...
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Should SO members be notified if they are the topic of a discussion? [duplicate]
Often on meta sites I'll see questions asking about specific posts or users, which, for the most part, are fairly unbiased and fair. However, sometimes these posts can spiral out of control into ...
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Search query - Find all users who answered questions tagged x or y or z
How I can list all users who answered questions tagged x and/or y and/or z.
Example how I can find:
Top 100 users who answered questions tagged eclipse and/or eclipse-rcp
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Question and answer activity on Stack Exchange: Interactive and customized edition
This question relates to the following user activity on Stack Exchange and its network:
Best time to ask questions to get fastest answers
Best time to ask questions to be more likely to get answers
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Please explain how to Stack Overflow because I do not get it [duplicate]
Apparently I can no longer add answers, and I can not post comments (<50 points). I basically can't do anything to dig me out of the hole unless asking stupid questions I already know the answer to?...
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Why can't I view some user profiles from their posts?
I have searched for answers to some questions where I got a good (often the best) solution from Stack Overflow. However, I was unable to see the author's profile pages.
The link was disabled, why ...
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Searching for users? [duplicate]
When using the handy search functionality that's spread across all StackExchange sites, keywords in questions are the things that are primarily returned based on your search query. What about adding ...
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What happened to my last StackExchange account?
I tried to log in today and StackExchange said it didn't recognize the email I put. Password recovery had the same issue. This was my account https://stackexchange.com/users/2435303/raansu and one ...
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Why the users who ask more questions get more badges?
I am just surprised to see that the users who ask more questions on Stackoverflow sites get more badges than the users who give more answers.
Of course, the users who give more answers earn more ...
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