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Ban ImageShack images because they are reusing old URLs for advertising
In the post here about Stickers for Stackers I've just had to edit out the ImageShack images from two separate posts because they've been reused as advertisements:
Can we block ImageShack across …
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The 2022 Community-a-thon has begun!
chat so don't be surprised if you see some newer Stackers in The Tavern or in some of the site-specific chat rooms. … Also similar to the last two years, some Stackers may be participating with their staff accounts while others may be using brand new accounts. …
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Should 'Hi', 'thanks', taglines, and salutations be removed from posts?
I feel this strikes a good balance and I've hoped that other Stackers aren't bothered by it. …
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Can we ban the term "Stacker"?
I didn't know we were being called "Stackers" now. This is the first I've heard of it, and I hate it, too. On the subject, though, what are people calling themselves over on SF? Serverers? …
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Why do Stackers consistently vote down humorous responses?
I've noticed that humorous responses tend to get voted down quickly and regularly. Typically software developers have a keen sense of humor, and nurture it as a survival instinct. It does not make se …
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Stickers for Stackers (i.e. post your sticker shots!)
UPDATE: For those feeling left out of the sticker party, details on how to obtain stickers are now on the blog!
Look what arrived in the mail yesterday - stickers! Thanks Jeff!
First, I put a StackO …
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Question/answer ratio etiquette in Stack Overflow?
There are a lot of stackers eager to answer them! …
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A Moose, Some Silly Putty ... And A Desperate Plea For Help
Recommended for achievements earned by Noog-stackers (name, and lawsuit, pending), this hat will start their journey to new heights.
Post your first answer and have it reach five upvotes. …
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Community-a-thon 2024 kicks off on October 18th
be surprised if you see some newer Stackers in the Tavern or in some of the site-specific chat rooms. … Some Stackers may be participating with their staff accounts, while others may be using brand-new accounts. …
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Practical effects of the October 2023 layoff
numbers for these "big three" diversity measures (race, gender, sexual orientation), for the company as a whole at the start of the year vs now vs the makeup of the large combined cohort of laid-off former-Stackers …
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Humor in Comments deleted? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why do Stackers consistently vote down humorous responses? …
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So what do we call ourselves now?
Apparenly "Stackers" was the early accepted answer for SO, and I'm sure there are "fault tolerants", "meta junkies", and "super friends" out there as well. …
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Should accepted answers change over time? [duplicate]
I could use the advice of some more experienced Stackers. …
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Community-a-thon 2023 kicks off on October 13th
chat, so don't be surprised if you see some newer Stackers in the Tavern or in some of the site-specific chat rooms. … Also, similar to the last three years, some Stackers may be participating with their staff accounts, while others may be using brand-new accounts. …
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Is “Stacker” a common term for Stack Overflow members?
Prashanth had recently left Rackspace, where it seems that employees were known as "Rackers", so "Stackers" was a comfortable term for the CEO. …
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Announcing the Stack Overflow Student Ambassador Program
It will be a closed space for them to engage with some of the Stackers who will be involved with the Hackathon Challenge. … On a personal note I attended the Hackathon this past weekend with some other Stackers. …
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What does reputation really mean and do you pay attention to anyone's but your own?
Peace, Stackers.
Well as someone who was here relatively early, I can definitely attest to the fact high rep can bring out a dictatorial streak in a wee small few. …
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Reputation and trust should be separated
So, reputation affects how much you are trusted by fellow stackers and 'trust score' affects how much you are trusted by the site system. …
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Are there Common Conventions or Etiquette for Referencing Stack Exchange, and Users? [closed]
Stackers? Editors?
Wikipedia Example
Wikipedia refers to its users, and users refer to each other as Wikipedians.
Although in practice, "Editors" seems to take precedence. …
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Adding Favorites to the Stack Exchange global inbox
hard to implement, forget it - the old functionality of always notifying would be acceptable if it does not use the global inbox, otherwise I don't think I'll opt in (it'll flood quickly for heavy-use Stackers …
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Any way to send a personal message to another user?
If some enterprising bod wants to start a 'Stackers' web site or mailing list they could but it needs to have a certain distance from SO and strictly discourage discussion of SO Q&A material so the actual …
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Some improvements to blockquotes
Was the design tested on people who were not "Stackers" or employees? …
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June 2023 Data Dump is missing
Many thanks to the stackers involved, especially Aaron Bertrand, who babysat the thing for days. …
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How can we put pressure on Stack Exchange Inc. without damaging the community?
In the first two days as CEO he talked to almost 130 Stackers which he said was an “eye-opening learning experience”, he soon realised what made the company ‘tick’ was the SO team
…(16:45) that cares … The host and guests chatted freely, little if anything seemed to be scripted, but it was clear the primary scope of the show was to introduce the new CEO to Stackers and users alike. …
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2024 Community-a-thon Recap
That is the main weapon used by "anti Stackers" i.e. people who dislike Stack Exchange, especially Stack Overflow. So I want to share my opinion about this, in the light of this discussion. …
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Is “Stacker” a common term for Stack Overflow members?
Similar search for “Stackers” returns 22 pages, but again no “The Many Memes of Meta”. …
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The Closing Problem: This needs to be reconsidered [duplicate]
It's apparent that a good deal of stackers support these two suggestions. But for some reason Jeff doesn't like them. Perhaps you could explain the rationale on why they shouldn't be implemented? …
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Growth Model for StackOverflow?
Much of the answering (in particular the accepted answers) would seem to be done be a "core group" of the top 100 or so members (Stackers?). …
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The "loop" has arrived. What does the community think about it?
The SO blog page Introducing “The Loop”: A Foundation in Listening states:
A month ago we formed cross-functional teams of Stackers (employees of Stack Overflow) to create strategies to start addressing …
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This is not the answer to my question
It will help Stackers give better subsequent answers and improve the quality of the discussion. …
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Why is down-voting a question important? [duplicate]
EDIT:
Most of the fellow stackers responded to the question saying, "You didn't provide the expected result and that's the cause." I feel "Concatenating associative arrays" conveys everything. …
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The "loop" has arrived. What does the community think about it?
Perhaps you could have a Q&A site for the network where users can weigh in and staff (sorry Stackers - so. much. cringe.) could see what the community thinks and respond where appropriate. … Either way it's almost as cringey as "Stackers" (which is surely the cringiest term for a group of employees since Apple started referring to their in-store support staff as "Geniuses") and I wish it would …
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2024 Community-a-thon Recap
We’re also looking into taking some of the elements of Community-a-thon and baking that into new employee onboarding so all Stackers, regardless of what division they are working in, learn about the Stack …
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The new CEO discusses his vision for the growth of SO, in an article behind a paywall
Now, as CEO, Chandrasekar says his goal is to meet all 300 of Stack Overflow employees, known as Stackers, and talk to them about their thoughts on the future of the business. …
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Replace Google Analytics with a transparent, privacy-respecting alternative
I'm going to try to piece this together from what Stackers have posted publicly, but if anyone at Stack Exchange could fill me in on which features you use, that'd be really helpful! …
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Thoughts on the CEO update Blog Post "Building trust in AI is key to a thriving knowledge ec...
At Stack Overflow, we’re committed to our community, whether that be our public platform users, our customers, partners, and Stackers, but we also deeply believe in building a future where our larger knowledge …
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The "loop" has arrived. What does the community think about it?
A month ago we formed cross-functional teams of Stackers (employees of Stack Overflow)
Ah, my bad; I thought "Stacker" was a term meaning a user of Stack Overflow. I stand corrected. …
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Blog post: CEO Update: Paving the road forward with AI and community at the center
Through these changes, I remain grateful for our community, which is the basis of everything we do, and for the many Stackers who demonstrate great resilience and live our mission and values each day. …
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The new CEO discusses his vision for the growth of SO, in an article behind a paywall
Additionally in the past two days I've spoken to now close to 130 Stackers either in one on one scenarios or in team settings, and it's just been a phenomenal kind of eye-opening and learning experience … So I'm constantly - you know the 130 meetings that I mentioned to you - they're all bi-directional in many ways, they're saying, what what do I need to do to make our Stackers successful? …
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Stack Exchange Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-Used Terms
Plural form: Stackers. See also this.
Stack Overflow, SO
Stack Overflow refers to the programming Q&A site at http://stackoverflow.com. …