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Jeff Atwood
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720 votes
37 answers
225k views

Six simple tips to get Stack Overflow reputation fast

541 votes
1 answer
280k views

What HTML tags are allowed on Stack Exchange sites?

319 votes
12 answers
97k views

Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered, zero-score questions after a year?

306 votes
7 answers
5k views

The future of meta.stackoverflow and meta.stackexchange

272 votes
5 answers
15k views

How do I audit my reputation?

250 votes
34 answers
16k views

Can we prevent some of the low-quality questions from entering our system?

240 votes
42 answers
12k views

Should the weight of downvotes be increased?

238 votes
26 answers
9k views

Replace accept rate with citizenship level

211 votes
32 answers
27k views

What formula should be used to determine "hot" questions?

180 votes
85 answers
38k views

Open Source Advertising - Sidebar - 1H 2010 [duplicate]

170 votes
1 answer
16k views

Are expletives (cursing, swear words or vulgar language) allowed on SE sites?

169 votes
65 answers
23k views

Will Open Sourcing Stack Overflow Destroy Our Business Model?

146 votes
5 answers
19k views

About your f***ing website

140 votes
19 answers
16k views

What can we learn from Quora?

140 votes
99 answers
9k views

A Stack Overflow brick in the Computer History Museum wall

137 votes
23 answers
6k views

Should downvotes on questions be "free"?

132 votes
44 answers
6k views

Propose a new 20k reputation privilege [closed]

116 votes
19 answers
3k views

Should Community Moderators be "elected for life", or have terms?

101 votes
28 answers
22k views

Amusing 404 "Page Not Found" Images for Trilogy sites?

98 votes
9 answers
2k views

Is there an actual "pity" or "sympathy" upvote problem?

93 votes
22 answers
4k views

Heuristics for detecting a bad answer?

90 votes
11 answers
11k views

Auto-inserting Stack Overflow affiliate into all Amazon links [closed]

88 votes
12 answers
7k views

Free Vote-Based Advertising for Open Source Projects

87 votes
13 answers
3k views

Anonymous user feedback now in testing

87 votes
37 answers
4k views

Should we cap reputation gained from questions at +2000?

78 votes
18 answers
6k views

Should the weight of question upvotes be reduced?

78 votes
23 answers
2k views

Handling "Problematic" Stack Overflow participants

77 votes
12 answers
2k views

Should questions closed as "not a real question" and "off topic" get an automatic downvote?

76 votes
10 answers
29k views

Help design our Stack Overflow t-shirts [closed]

75 votes
35 answers
5k views

Help us redesign the Stack Overflow homepage [closed]