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User activation: Learnings and opportunities
I felt something odd about it for a while, but couldn't put my finger on it.
Then I read this comment by curiousdannii:
"Activation" is a really dehumanising
And it hit me. That was ...
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User activation: Learnings and opportunities
The same feedback always gets brought up over and over with voting in that there always seems to be a lack of insight into teaching new users what should be upvoted (or downvoted) according to the ...
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
I believe this could be a quick fix/addition, that would really improve the editing flow at times:
Add an option to leave a "This is a duplicate answer" comment when voting to delete an ...
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User activation: Learnings and opportunities
We then examined how often users tried to vote or comment. This percentage represents attempts to take these actions from users who do not yet have the necessary privileges.
Out of curiosity, how was ...
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User activation: Learnings and opportunities
I think you guys are are taking the right steps trying to increase Acquisition/Activation/Engagement for new users. I'm not critical that way unlike some other users.
But, in my experience, it took me ...
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User activation: Learnings and opportunities
I don't really see or understand how experimenting with tags or the new user homepage helps with any of the hypotheses. If Stack thinks the barrier to new user activation is rep... how would changing ...
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User activation: Learnings and opportunities
I'd like to share my perspective as a newly "activated" user:
First as a student and then as a very junior developer and sysadmin, I have always enjoyed SE (SO, superuser and serverfault, ...
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Upcoming sign-up experiments related to tags
This announcement started being about tag hovers ended up changing the tag wiki page and how links to the tag leaderboard page are layed out.
I just found out there's no top link to the top users page ...
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Join Stack Overflow’s CEO and me for the first Stack IRL Community Event in NYC on October 10th, 2024 (space is very limited)
Just for what it's worth, this is not actually the first.
Back when SO was (fairly) new, they had a few in-person events. I went to one at the office in Denver (which I'm not sure exists any more, but ...
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AI generated answers promoting a personal app
For sites with a Gen AI Ban
First and foremost, remember that some sites have a Gen AI ban. You can check for this at the site's Gen AI policy page, which will be at its version of /help/gen-ai-policy....
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Join Stack Overflow’s CEO and me for the first Stack IRL Community Event in NYC on October 10th, 2024 (space is very limited)
status-completed
The options format in the last question is weird.
You should be using a radio button instead of checkbox.
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Join Stack Overflow’s CEO and me for the first Stack IRL Community Event in NYC on October 10th, 2024 (space is very limited)
I'd suggest streaming the meeting on Twitch and YouTube if you want the event to have reach. That's what everyone else seems to be doing these days.
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Join Stack Overflow’s CEO and me for the first Stack IRL Community Event in NYC on October 10th, 2024 (space is very limited)
For clarity, will those attending the event earn Not a Robot badges on Stack Overflow?
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Join Stack Overflow’s CEO and me for the first Stack IRL Community Event in NYC on October 10th, 2024 (space is very limited)
I can't take part as I'm bit too far, however I'll ask some questions for the benefit of others.
Are there any requirements related to the SE profile of the one who send the request?
If not, how ...
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Do we want questions about Staging Ground on Meta SE?
Should questions about the Staging Ground, provided they don't have broader network implications, be off-topic here and migrated to (or encouraged to be reposted on) Meta SO?
In my opinion, yes, at ...
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
Bringing Meta and Chat to the sidebar
copied nearly in its entirety from here - much like Bernie Sanders, I am once again asking :D
In the old days, the links to meta and chat were front and center ...
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Formatting Sandbox
Testing font support for the glyphs used by the programming language Uiua in default monospace fonts for StackExchange on different systems.
◠ (above)
⌵ (absolute value)
+ (add)
⍤ (assert)
∠ (atangent)...
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Is Replit suitable for the Stack Exchange Network?
Issues with using/configuring Replit are on-topic for Stack Overflow, since that is a software tool primarily used by programmers. However, questions have to be otherwise on-topic for Stack Overflow, ...
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
Are there any issues that you’d like to see us explore either in this Community Asks Sprint or a future one?
Since you asked, here's a subset of my personal wishlist (I didn't include some stuff that ...
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If a post seeks general advice on dealing with a perceived problem in a community, should we always migrate it into that community's meta?
While I will address the specific migration question, I wanted to start by talking about why many questions are better served on child metas than main meta. I'll also note that only mods/staff can ...
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
Improve suggest edits
The implementation of the request Tell users when edits have been rejected simply does not work.
Please just add a regular notification, as you already do with approved edits! ...
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What are some deferred, ignored, or sunset projects we wish SE would work on to facilitate the community?
Tell users when edits have been rejected
Just as with approved edits, rejected edits should cause a notification for the editor.
The request is (IMHO) wrongly tagged status-completed. Currently, there ...
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
Can I request rethinking how associated with 𝕏 (Twitter) we want to be?
In particular: Is it time to reconsider Social Media links in "Share" and User Profiles, etc?
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
The flag/close dialog has several serious issues. The easiest way to see these is to review the responses to Question Close Updates, most of which have been unacknowledged (publicly) by staff.
Issues ...
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
Another inbox-related request, but it'd be great if filtering unread inbox notifications actually showed my unread notifications.
I still have two unread messages and gosh do I wish I knew what they ...
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
There's a discrepancy in how URL links are validated on posts, that cropped up around the time of the Imgur migration earlier this year.
The post validation no longer allows protocol-relative links ...
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
some of my friends call me Carot. (...) I’m also a first time Meta poster
Hi Carot
Sprint is dedicated time
and Usain Bolt is the GOAT
Can you fix New activity indicator (bullet/dot) in Custom ...
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Is cross-posting wrong (to an external site)?
I would say policing cross-posting on the internet, outside SE, doesn't make any sense.
The only way it does make sense is if certain power users are spending lots of time checking, which really is ...
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Formatting Sandbox
It is a “lose-lose scenario” or a “lose-lose situation”,
in which, no matter which path you take, you lose.
Merriam-Webster
presenting two options both of which put one at a disadvantage
(example ...
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
Please fix this bug preventing us from submitting edits that contain an image. This has been reported on Meta Stack Overflow here: False-positive "Your post is mostly images."
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
You asked what we'd like to see you work on. I think it would be great to implement the change proposed by Shog9 and Robert Cartaino:
Under each question, rename "Add a comment" to "...
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
In the previous community ask sprint, we have introduced the suggested edits canceled and Tell users when their edits are rejected features in Meta Stack Overflow.
But I find a bug that related to ...
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
My two cents bugs that I'd like to see fixed:
Follow popup won't clear (without refresh)
Can't delete the filter called My Filter
Both are old time bugs, and likely easy (?) to fix.
Thanks!
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
I'm not sure if this is the place to ask this, but it seems like you're asking for suggestions on things to look at so I'll bring this up here. Over a decade ago 15 years ago, this request was status-...
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
It's already tagged with status-review, but I have to point a big sign at Flag window redux: proposed syntax. This is a mini-overhaul on the wording used in the flagging dialog box.
The language ...
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Upcoming Community Asks Sprint Notice - September 2024
Please fix the fix you had for Inbox notifications not consistently marked as read after clicking title I'm clicking the same message multiple times to get it to clear, is it broken, or is ...
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What can I do if originally accepted and upvoted answers suddenly got a large number of downvotes?
Looking at your SO profile, some user is serial downvoting you and they are doing it slowly to avoid triggering the serial voting reversal script.
The solution is: be more proactive when a user ...
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Dealing with old MSE questions specific to Stack Overflow
According to the faq staff can apparently circumvent the 60 day age limit on migrating posts. But it's only done in very, very rare cases. So, I'd say, start a discussion on MSO if you think there are ...
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Does Stack Exchange allow registration with "disposable" email?
There's no allowlist of approved mail servers - nor does it make sense to share a blocklist of blocked email providers that have been used for abuse. Some servers might be blocked by various means due ...
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Does Stack Exchange allow registration with "disposable" email?
Didn't work with yopmail.com:
Error message and background could be improved.
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Data Dumps - updates and bug fixes
The data dump access form states:
I understand that this file is being provided to me for my own use and for projects that do not include training a large language model (LLM), and that should I ...
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Data Dumps - updates and bug fixes
A sede-and-data-dump-schema.md is present inside each .7z, which is a
snapshot of this answer's markdown at generation time. These are
present in regenerated files for the 2024-Q2 dumps, now available ...
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Please welcome Spevacus and rene to the Meta Stack Exchange moderators team!
When I was reached out to about becoming a moderator here, I was quite surprised. All previous Meta SE moderators were already established moderators elsewhere. I've never been a moderator on the ...
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Accepted
Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange points system exploit discovered
There is a way to flag this: flag as “In need of moderator intervention”, describe the issue, and the moderators will take care of it.
There are some automatic systems in place to detect voting fraud. ...
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How can I deal with a helpful, but abrasive, answerer?
From the question
How does the community suggest handling situations, in general, where a user is truly helpful, but also rude in their help? Should I:
Ignore the user, ignore the downvotes, and move ...
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Please welcome Spevacus and rene to the Meta Stack Exchange moderators team!
Congratulations and I hope and know you two will make great moderators.
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How can I deal with a helpful, but abrasive, answerer?
whose answers are perceived to be phrased in dismissive, abrasive terms?
Perception depends on the audience, not just the one responsible. If something appears to violate the Code of Conduct, of ...
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Please welcome Spevacus and rene to the Meta Stack Exchange moderators team!
Congrats and welcome, Spevacus and rene! I know you'll both do great.
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Please welcome Spevacus and rene to the Meta Stack Exchange moderators team!
Brazilian greetings to the two new members of the MSE Moderator team.
Success on this journey to rene◆ and Spevacus◆. 🥳🥳👍👍
PS: Now, as MSE moderators, are you going to fix Stack Snippets, which ...
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Please welcome Spevacus and rene to the Meta Stack Exchange moderators team!
Congratulations and welcome, Spevacus and rene. I hope that two of you can moderate this site well with other moderators. It maybe not easy to balance this voluntary job with real life, but I believe ...
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