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How can I deal with a helpful, but abrasive, answerer?

There's all sorts of reasons this could happen - a feeling of eternal September, general unhappiness with initiatives past or presence, or generally just being a jaded. …
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Could or should the "search first, ask question later" principle be made more prominently vi...

This is more relevant on sites having a large activity and phenomena like "eternal September", as happens on Stack Overflow, people new to programming go directly to ask a question instead of studying, …
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52 votes

Feedback for The Loop, September 2020: Summer Bridge to Tech for Kids

The next sentence should've brought comfort to my gut reaction in that we're going to have another Eternal September scenario on our hands, but...it didn't? …
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-3 votes

Is there a good term/phrase to denote the "current events"?

The long-standing repercussions of the fall Let's be honest: it was much more grievous than already the Eternal September and longer than just any October I ever heard of. And it's still not over. …
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8 votes

Is there a good term/phrase to denote the "current events"?

As this seem to be a never ending story, I propose the name Eternal October of 2019 like the Usenet Eternal September brought to us by AOL. …
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Where IS the Stack Overflow FAQ?

I fondly remember participating in the (pre-Eternal-September) comp.sys.* & comp.lang.* Usenet groups. I know that probably means squat nowadays, but there may be others out there in my position. …
11 votes

Feature request to bring a host of new smart contributors

Eternal September all over again? …
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30 votes
4 answers
1k views

How should we respond to persistently low quality question askers?

You are so representative for SO's Eternal September. I recognize your question style. You've got basically 100 strips of paper with a software term on them. …
91 votes
13 answers
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Are duplicates creating broken windows?

I think the Eternal September is dooming Stack Overflow to have the same questions asked over and over again, and the people who don't want questions closed are winning. …
12 votes
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Would you fail this close votes audit?

The Eternal September, in other words. The new close reasons work so well because those questions are almost always absent the elements that we now require. Here's the catch. …
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75 votes

Has anyone ever hacked Stack Overflow?

Now, if only we could find a way to end this (eternal) September... …
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40 votes

Could we please be a bit nicer to new users?

If anything, such a fear dates back all the way to the Eternal September of Usenet, back in 1993. …
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4 votes

Are Fewer People Upvoting and Accepting Answers?

I don't think SO has ever not suffered from this problem, but it's growing ever worse as the eternal September ramps up. …
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62 votes
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Why isn't Meta funny anymore?

At some point Meta was starting to get an Eternal September of joke questions, because many new users were coming in and seeing "Hey, this place is a cool hangout!" …
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The Wikipedia of Long Tail Programming Questions

new members of a community are heavily influenced by the behaviour of the existing community, and that quality standards must be established early on and periodically reinforced in order to avoid an EternalSeptember situation. …
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