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Automatic deleting of highly inactive questions
No, I'm strongly opposed to this. High quality, even mainstream questions and answers would be culled for no good reason at all. Lack of SEO to bring in views? Failure to expand the active voting ...
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The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working? What's not?
Simple answers to common questions get lots of reputation.
If you are lucky or, old enough to answer a question that is easy to understand and commonly asked, you'll likely get lots of reputation. ...
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How to delete a post completely
You can't. Moderators have a redaction tool to delete the confidential information specifically - it dosen't delete the post totally though, just lets you remove the information.
Generally try not to. ...
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How do I ask long clarifications on an answer?
Most of your comments simply agree with the code review suggestions. Instead of commenting, simply upvote and/or accept the answer if you think it is a good one.
Some of your comments indicate that ...
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How do I ask long clarifications on an answer?
Note: This answer is written to answer the question more generally, without much reference to the specifics of what the comments the asker made were. For a more context-sensitive answer, see Robert's ...
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Which site should I post on regarding advanced Gmail filtering?
First check out Web Applications. [gmail] has 4,321 questions [gmail-filters] has 472 questions, but you might try searching https://stackexchange.com
By the way, in Gmail a filter is a built-in ...
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We've added a "Necessary cookies only" option to the cookie consent popup
While I think that this is great news, I have to point something out:
You are only getting back into compliance with the law!
This change should have been done at the latest when the GDPR took effect. ...
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Maybe we need a 'generic' account for some staff activities
TL;DR:
There is not a life-changing need to have an accepted answer in Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange, so for that case there is no need to have a "generic" account.
Also content ...
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The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working? What's not?
A frustration for me (I currently have ~1300 reputation on Stack Overflow) is that when I want to edit posts, I usually get an error saying the review queue is full. I can't do anything about this ...
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The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working? What's not?
There is currently no consideration for reputation across sites when performing cross-network actions, specifically, in terms of migration. Here's a concrete example:
A user has lots of reputation on ...
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Maybe we need a 'generic' account for some staff activities
It's not a bad idea, but if it's just for this post, it's probably easier to special-case it and give all users with a [Staff] label access to change the accepted answer if (Site == "Meta" &...
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