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Deleting an answer to one's own question will have a negative impact on your accept rate [closed]
I has happened twice to me now that a moderator deletes the answer to my own question and converts it to a comment on the original post. This, however, negatively affects my accept rate unless I ...
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Charts on Questions for Programming Language [closed]
I remembered that the number of monthly questions for each language could be a nice indicator of the programming language popularity, at least here on stackoverflow. Would you consider to implement ...
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Banned from posting questions on SO, caused by Spam downvoting [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What can I do when getting “Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account”?
Hey guys yesterday and today I've had a few people who I will not ...
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How to Submit a Comment? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do comments work?
OK I give up. How do I post a comment on a question or answer without offering a fully-blown response? I can see ways to mark a post as being a favourite,...
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Why is 'cancel accidental upvote' inconsistently implemented? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I be able to cancel my up-vote on a comment?
Related: Cancelling upvote on comment?
The above question is closed as status-declined, but I can't find the reason ...
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How does "migration" out of the Facebook portal work?
The Facebook portal requires you to use a Facebook-related tag. I foresee people (especially coming from Google) just adding a Facebook tag to their non-facebook question just to make the warning go ...
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Partial rendering on Questions list
I've noticed that the home page of StackOverflow never reloads unless I refresh my browser.
Are there any plans on changing this so that questions can be loaded into the list via a link such as 'x ...
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Cache downvote count in profile for longer
I find it excruciatingly annoying when people strategically down vote competing answers in a new question in order to gain an edge in the up voting.
I've realised that it's actually quite easy to ...
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Badge Suggestion: Modernizer
Duplicate questions are discouraged, but an answer that was up-to-the minute last year may be fairly tired this year, so to encourage people to keep answers up-to-date, particularly the more highly ...
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Launching BIG site - HELP! [closed]
My group and I have a site that we feel could seriously benefit from the SE2.0 infrastructure, and we feel that we could draw in at least 100 seriously avid users and a crowd of at least 10,000 ...
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Do not disable submit button when editing a question/answer
Please do not disable the "Save Edits" button when editing something. Sometimes I notice another typo/mistake right after clicking the button and use either escape to keep the form open or - more ...
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Why is a specific search resulting in a blank question list? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Blank page on search
When I search for "subversion vs git" on StackOverflow, the results show up, then are shortly replaced by blank space.
Other searches are working OK. ...
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Localize SO and SE?
I saw this post on Area 51, spurring me to request that SO and perhaps the rest of the SE sites be "localized". However, this would lead to an additional requirement: Anyone using SO would need to ...
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How can we get Gravatar Hovercards on SO?
Recently, Automattic (the people behind the Gravatar service) announced a new "hovercard" feature for gravatars. When you hover your mouse for a moment over a gravatar, it rotates slightly, then pops ...
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Add a "ClearType On" option for the new flair
You know the rule - for every feature (15) users want, there are (3) that don't want it.
I'm referring to this completed feature-request: Disable ClearType (subpixel rendering) for image-based flair
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The tag synonym system allows a malicious user to permanently destroy popular tags
Inspired by Possible invalid merge of [cpp] into [c++].
Currently once a tag synonym is accepted by being upvoted by 3 people with 2000 or more reputation, the tag with the lowest count is ...
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Add "Donate" to Member [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How come no option to ‘tip’ answerers?
Just an idea and im sure the the developers have come across the idea but i was just bringing up the thought again and ...
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What kind of questions about development tools are appropriate for Stack Overflow? [closed]
I use Emacs, and so I monitor the Emacs questions (mostly as a way to learn, I can't answer most of them) and Emacs is pretty customizable. But I imagine that other development tools are filled with ...
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Can we have the pre tag work as the code tag does for angle brackets?
Extends.
The <code> tag works really great:
test < less than > but markup still works
< and > don't get parsed out as tags.
The <pre> tag operates different:
test but markup ...
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Should questions be assigned a skill level? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How about a difficulty rating for questions?
When browsing the questions I feel I can answer, I am often frustrated by the fact that there are questions above and below the ...
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Question-shaping pop-up
I am picturing here a system wherein if you ask a question without specifying some key information that is almost certainly required to answer the question correctly, a pop-up (just like the "please ...
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Intelligent Question Routing
Is there any work going on to try to put questions in front of the best people to answer them?
As an example, when somebody like John Resig logs on, it should be very easy for him to see a few jQuery ...
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What counts towards the score? [duplicate]
I am a bit confused by how the score system works, and I did not find any post online to address my question.
If for example, I have an answer with one upvote - does that count towards the score of ...
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Outdated screenshot of set bounty dialogue in Help Center
The screenshot of the set bounty dialogue in the set bounties privilege page of the Help Center is outdated. The order of the buttons has been reversed:
Now the Next button precedes the Cancel link ...
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On which Stack Exchange site can I ask about getting information of YouTube's views?
I want to know how I can get the links of all YouTube videos with 100 million + views, so on which Stack Exchange site can I ask such a question?
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Automatic edits prevent users from edit when retagging only [duplicate]
Usually it is possible to add a missing tag to a question without editing the question.
However, while editing some questions, the editor makes invisible changes automatically, as for example in ...
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Where can I find statistics about deleted questions related to Stack Overflow? [closed]
For my research, I need statistics on deletions between July 1 2013 and March 4 2019 related to Stack Overflow questions. Since the repositories do not contain deleted questions and this data is not ...
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How do I earn the Proofreader badge? [duplicate]
How does one go about earning the Proofreader badge? I have attempted looking at other answers and couldn't find much.
Is there a detailed process that could be explained please?
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Where can I ask for algorithm recommendations? [duplicate]
I recently asked this question on Stack Overflow, now moved to Software Recommendations.
Where can I ask about algorithm recommendations? Because there are two algorithms for what I'm trying to ...
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Where to ask about Steemit? (except Steemit itself)
I have some questions about Steemit, so I'd like to try some Stack Exchange site. What would be the best for that purpose?
I was thinking about https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/ (as it is about ...
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Where can I ask about example.com?
I recently discovered that some URL paths on example.com cannot be used as valid URLs. Certain paths result in "Encoding error" or "Site cannot be reached"
Valid: http://example.com/user_settings, ...
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Why am I forced to give away half the bounty on a question even if the answers are incorrect? [duplicate]
I found a pretty cool question which justified a bounty. I didn't receive a correct answer and the bounty is about to expire. Instead of extending the bounty I MUST pick an answer or half a bounty ...
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Difference between Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow [duplicate]
I am new to Meta stack Exchange.
I don't know the difference between Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow.
I have been using Stack Overflow for more than 2 years. I know SO is for programming related ...
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Notation or indicator for sample-data provided
As an active user on dba.stackexchange.com and gis.stackexchange.com I find some questions to be problematic (more often on GIS) because of the failure to provide sample data. On dba.stackexchange.com,...
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Could I receive bounties back if the question hadn't the attention that was needed? [duplicate]
I've opened a bounty of 50 reputation on one of my question: How could I create gaze buttons using React VR? but it didn't receive an answer that could help me from any other Stack Overflow user. ...
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Serial voting reversed and recidivism prevention [duplicate]
I recently seen a message called serial voting reversed.
In my "reputation" in my user profile on Mi Yodeia,
there was 62 downvotes canceled and 5 of my downvote canceled. There was also 8 upvotes ...
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Add a “re-render markdown” button to posts
This button could allow people to re-render the markdown if a bug is fixed in the parser.
To prevent DoS attacks, it could be available only to people with a certain amount of rep.
Screenshot:
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Why do upvote on questions fetch different reputation than upvote on answers? [duplicate]
An upvote on a question fetches +5. Whereas an upvote on an answer fetches +10. Why is this so? Isn't asking the right question important to get the right answer?
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Renaming tag for renamed js library [closed]
Is there a way to formally submit a change of tag name to moderators? The tag in question is redux-simple-router which about a month ago officially switched to react-router-redux. It seems like it was ...
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What is considered 'superfluous or actively harming readability' edit and 'deviating from the original intent of the post' edit? [closed]
I suggested an edit to this answer which consists of:
Changing W3Schools link to an appropriate W3C one.
Changing JSON's formatting from:
{"key1" : 0,
"key2" : "str"}
to:
{
"key1": 0,
"...
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Show the badges you can't earn apart [duplicate]
This an extension to a previous question:
Don't show Cleanup badge until you can earn it
For example: If I can't earn the Cleanup badge, show the badge separated from the others I can earn. And ...
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Is database in data.stackexchange 4 days behind? [duplicate]
I wrote a simple query to get latest posts
SELECT TOP 10 * FROM Posts
ORDER BY CreationDate DESC
and the result it returns are dated 2015-07-12 (today is 2015-07-16).
Is the data 4 days behind?
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Where should I post my question about network operators?
I have a question about why some mobile telephone companies charge subscribers on free apps usage.
Where should I post this question?
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What does Qupdated mean in the formula for selecting hot questions?
The formula:
(log(Qviews)*4) + ((Qanswers * Qscore)/5) + sum(Ascores)
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((QageInHours+1) - ((QageInHours - Qupdated)/2)) ^ 1.5
What does ...
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Allow changing the order in which accounts are displayed on the user profile
On everyone's user page, in the summary tab, there are sections.
One section is called accounts.
It displays the accounts from most rep at the top, to lease rep at the bottom.
What if I wanted it to ...
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Remove comment notifications when I load the question
When I post a question on which somebody comments, I get a notification. This is good.
However, if I visit the question without clicking on the notification and loading the comment url (Such as this ...
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Web only app for iOS devices <iOS7
Now that the mobile theme for Stack Exchange sites was refreshed, can we have an app that simply displays this site in a headless webview? (I mean no navbar and hide the tab, bookmarks, and backward ...
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Users page not sorting correctly
Exhibit 1
I have 51,500 hard-earned rep, but for some reason I'm not showing up as #2 in the users page, sorted by all-time reputation.
Exhibit 2
Pork-chop sandwiches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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Feature a R&E login option? [closed]
The research and education sector (worldwide) operate highly homogeneous identity ecosystems (aka identity federations). The community of R&E federation operators conducted a survey in 2009 and ...
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Deletion/merger of a particular duplicate question [closed]
It is known that deletion of duplicate questions is not encouraged, but in this particular case, I feel that the question needs to be either deleted or merged with its duplicate.
The question in ...
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