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Thank you for posting the methodology! That's a step forward. Unfortunately, there's a critical flaw in your methodology: you assume that In principle, if people are copying and pasting answers out o …

There is no protection against directed findings The only people who can take decisions on moderator removal and reinstatement are community managers (CM). All CM are part of the same corporate hiera …

A worryingly high number of bad suggested edits get accepted. For example: edits that add bad formatting to random words edits that break the formatting of a block of code edits that add wrong tags …

Stack Overflow will have a blank, empty child meta site just like every other site Oh dear, you're still doing it wrong. With this approach, we're going to end up with Meta Stack Overflow, the …

No matter who Monica may have (inadvertently) hurt with her (non)-usage of pronouns, in this particular discussion, she was clearly the victim. …

Better automatic guidance when questions are closed Thousands of questions get closed every day over the network, and newer users are more likely to get their questions closed. Yet little guidance is …

That's a lot better! Remarks on the content Don't expect new users to know the rules “the rules” → “all the rules”. Saying that new users don't have to know any rule won't go well. We're pr …

Consistency between SO and SE network sites In order to integrate navigation (as it is on SO) we would need to revisit each of the site themes and we don't have the resources for that now. So al …

Ouch. Whatever made you think this is a good idea? Well, ok, I can see how it would be appealing. But have you considered the potential downsides from labeling new users with a target marked “NOOB”? …

The whole piece was redesigned, so making status-completed. Let me know if you feel that's off-base. (expanding on animuson's comment) The rows of dots illustrating badges is silly. It doesn't conve …

Very occasionally you may want to ask substantially identical questions on two sites, to reach different communities. This is the exception rather than the rule. The question you ask has to be on-topi …

A key characteristic of Stack Exchange, which distinguishes it from other forms of knowledge sharing on the web such as discussion groups and blogs, is that its tidbits of knowledge are searchable. …

What? I already very reluctantly made my browser window wider to accommodate Stack Exchange's current width. It's already too wide for comfort, it doesn't leave enough room for a decent-width window o …

I feel your pain. Following the terms of CodeGnome, there are two opposing factions: the fast-answerers, and the most-canonicalers. You're in the most-canonical camp: you like to write detailed, docu …

Why is the URL for stackoverflow em Português (or Stack Overflow em Português?) https://br.stackoverflow.com/ rather than https://pt.stackoverflow.com/? br is the language code for Breton. It's also …