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What kind of user is this? [duplicate]
I found https://stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community user at stackoverflow today, but not getting what kind of user is this, is it from StackOverflow or its a fake account which is only made to cast ...
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"My tags" tab for main question page
Inspired by the new behavior for my tags: (see meta:1338)
Can we get a "My tags" tab for the main list of questions at https://stackoverflow.com/questions?
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Using SO to petition support for [your favorite programming cause]
I just ran across this question on SO, and was completely thrown for a loop. I wanted to upvote it, downvote it, and close it all at the same time.
It isn't truly a question - the poster is stating ...
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Split the concept of community-wiki?
I'm not sure what the original idea behind community wiki was, but as it is now it has very little to do with the wiki aspect and a lot to do with reputation.
I suggest that community-wiki be renamed ...
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Is StackOverflow still Using LINQ to SQL as the ORM? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What ORM does Stack Overflow use with their ASP.Net MVC project?
The ADO Entity framework, as we all know, is replacing LINQ to SQL as the default ORM Microsoft recommends.
I ...
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Merge question after finding it as a duplicate- Feature request
Hi,
What is the best practice after finding a question as a duplicate to another one?
Anyways the question will get closed eventually. But what if it was possible to merge the question to the ...
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Change OpenID provider from Blogspot to Google Account
I use my blogspot account as my OpenID login account to log into StackOverflow ( and other openid enabled website). On a second thought, I believe that maybe using my Google account is a better idea.
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Adding a Comment on an Inactive Question
Is it correct to add a comment on thread that has not seen activity in a while? Is it correct to do it when your addressing an issue in another comment, and not answering the main question?
I would ...
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Is there any way possible to ask legit Adult based questions?
Just after SO dropped out of BETA, I asked an Adult related question which got deleted.
I'm not going to ask the same question here (it got deleted for a point, right!) but but was asking a question ...
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Should the answer threshold for forcing community wiki be decreased on SO?
In wake of SUs lower threshold of posts for a community wiki switch.
Should SO follow suit, what is the magic number?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/193551
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...
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Allow tags to be edited on 'moved' questions
From this Uservoice Item:
If you look at this question there's a tag called 'ass-kicking' that no one can get rid of since the question was locked and moved to serverfault.com . I'm not sure what the ...
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Possibility to order favourites by "most recently changed"
Until April 2009 "most recently changed" was the default (and only) way favourites were ordered; then it was changed so that you can sort them by views/newest/votes.
I have some 170 questions ...
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Why am I no longer allowed to delete comments on stackoverflow.com? [closed]
I added a comment to a post, but now the post was updated and my comment no longer applies, so I would like to delete it. I was able to delete comments some days ago, today I noticed this is no longer ...
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Give "Citizen Patrol" badge for flagging comments too
The "Citizen Patrol" badge is given out for "first flagged post". I'd suggest that this also include comments. In other words, if a user flags a comment before ever flagging a post, you should give ...
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How were the family sites bootstrapped in terms of rep?
I'm interested in how the SO family sites were bootstrapped in terms of the reputation value? E.g. if everyone starts at rep 1, they would need a fair amount of time to gain valuable capabilities like ...
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Preserve revision history on migrated questions
When a post is migrated from one site to another, the revision history is lost. I think that it's important to retain this history even if the post is moved to a different site.
There is also a ...
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Time of Day, Day of Week and Question Popularity
In my experience, question popularity has a lot to do with what time-of-day it's asked. Also, I suspect that the day of the week is important too. These are just suppositions, however. Does time of ...
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Migration causing duplicate questions - How to manage this?
With the ability to migrate questions, I have found quite a few duplicates on both SU and MSO due to questions being migrated from others sites.
Do we handle these as normal duplicates or should we ...
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Bug report: "next" button in search changes the search term
Go to the Stackoverflow home page.
Type into the search box:
utf-16
Press enter
Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Click "Next"
The page that comes up is https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=...
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Disallow voting on comments if a post is locked
Disallow voting on comments if a post is locked. Why show the buttons for voting, etc. if the post is locked and no changes can happen.
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Why Aren't Answers Associated With The Revision Of A Question That Was Asked?
When an answer is given to a question, there should be an indication somewhere to show what revision of a question that answer was associated with.
This helps in that questions can change drastically ...
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Ability to downvote comments [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should downvoting be allowed on comments?
And if it's declined: Is there a reason this is not supported?
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Low views and no answers to my question after a few days, what next?
I can imagine that after a few days my low viewed question with no answers is just going to be un-answered and un-viewed forever. I guess there isn't much interest in "Implementing a ...
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Human verification on fail to submit
When you can't submit the question for any reason (ie: must include tag), and you fix the issue and click "Ask your Question" again, you are prompted with the human verification captcha
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Naming of the belongs on or to?
I'm not a native English speaker, but whenever I see the label "Belongs on ..." makes me feel it should be "Belongs to ..." somehow? Can someone explain the wording?
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Why are the badge counts displayed beside the poster's avatar?
I wonder why the user's badge counts are displayed beside the avatar/reputation value? What was the reason behind showing the counts anyway, as to see what those actually are, the user needs to click ...
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What SO topics would you like to see discussed on the podcast?
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'd like to hear more from Jeff and Joel (and particularly a proper back-and-forth discussion between them) about the purpose of the reputation cap, and why/whether a time-...
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Post closed arbitrarily
There was a post on Kids PC or Mac games that on SuperUser that has been closed because it was "not computer related". Can someone please correct this! Last time I checked PCs and Macs were both types ...
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Should users answer homework questions? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Homework on StackOverflow
I've seen a pattern on StackOverflow where people often get very snippy when someone asks what is obviously a homework question. They say, "go do ...
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Should SO/SF/SU support stoplivinginthepast movement against internet explorer 6
Jeff Atwood said something about "ie6 and the sites" on twitter recently, then I thought maybe SO/SF/SU may support the movement "stop living in the past" and show a nice banner to warn ie6 users...
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How can I ask my closed question in a better manner?
I recently posted a question on SO and within minutes it was slammed shut offensively without any help as to how I could make it better. Furthermore, it got saddled with the 'subjective' tag, when if ...
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Tracking a post [duplicate]
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Mark questions to receive notifications and updates?
In stackoverflow and related sites, you get alerts only if you have got something to do with the post i.e. you asked the Q,...
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Is there a FAQ on "My questions was migrated, what next"
My question was migrated from SO, I linked my SO account to Meta-SO, but I can't edit or mark my question as answered. Is it [closed], and therefore should I just forget about it?
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Two kinds of vote
Propose two types of upvote:
Normal upvote. Current upvote. Has the meaning "This answer is helpful"
I like that. This kind of upvote means the answer is pleasing somehow, but not necessarily ...
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How do I provide a link to a comment in a StackOverflow post? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Direct Link to a Comment
How can I construct a link to a comment in one of my posts?
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What tag did I win a taxonomist badge for? [duplicate]
Duplicate/Related:
Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge
Taxonomist badge: what counts as “creating” a tag? And what prevents gaming the badge?
How can I find out what the tag ...
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The Civic-Duty Badge
Does anyone else feel that the Civic Duty badge just gives noobs an excuse to upvote like hell. I know I did it just to get my first silver badge and it didn't take surprisingly long.
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Would it be useful to show percentage votes in polling questions? [closed]
It just seems that so many poll type questions are thrown out in all the trilogy sites. I figure it might be of some use to provide simple stats on a polling type of question. For instance, if a ...
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Can we get a [block] or [ignore] feature so we never have to see someone's posts again? [duplicate]
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Add the ability to ignore users
I'm not really sure the details on how this would work, except to make the person disappear as though they never existed (so remove all their ...
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Should link to other SO sites when searches don't pan out
When you do a search and come up with nothing, there are a bunch of search suggestions, such as surrounding your search in quotes or using Google.
You should also include links to search the other ...
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Anti-gaming algorithm details
Regarding the same question that this question covers, if I were to go into that thread and downvote every answer sm1 made in response to his own question, would the nightly anti-gaming algorithm undo ...
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Indexed badge
Indexed (silver) & Highly Indexed (gold) - Question has X page views from referal sites; google, yahoo and the like.
The idea is that questions that are more relevant to the "outside" world (IE ...
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Please remove sobot from the IRC channel [closed]
It's annoying
It's useless
If I wanted to see questions I would go to SO site
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Is Stack Overflow using google search API? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is SO/SF/SU search not good or am I using it wrong?
Is Stack Overflow using google search API? and why or why not?
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Filter your questions and answers [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ability to search my stuff?
Sometimes I want to go back to an answer I got from a question or check an answer I answered, say, last year but I wouldn't be able to find it......
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Bug: time stamps in user profile page are wrong
I looked at my user profile and saw that a question is listed as having been posted 2 minutes ago, but when I clicked through to the question it said it had been posted 8 minutes ago.
Normally I ...
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Odd capatilisation error in a tag feed
This link
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/Agile
Takes me to a list of questions with the tag "gile"
I use it as a "live bookmark" in firefox, and as far as I can see the list there is up-...
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Research/Articles about reputation on sites like SO?
Hello,
Can anyone recommend some articles or papers about the psychology behind online reputation/karma? In addition to any external resources, I'd love to hear thoughts people here have. I'm ...
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Add year to question and answer dates
Seeing as how SO's one year anniversary is coming soon, question and answer dates are going to need to display the year.
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The numbered list button in the editor does not behave as expected [duplicate]
This is what I want to do, and is a very common pattern in just about any editor that lets you create numbered lists.
I want to create a list by typing each step on a new line.
step one
step two
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