Top new questions this week:
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Having incentive systems to participate in online communities (like Stack Overflow) is not a new concept. Basically every Q&A site or forum has had some type of points or karma system, and they …
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I noticed that it says “// TODO: Remove after April Fools 2023 is done” at the bottom of MSE… What’re y’all up to? And could you be a little sneakier? Screenshot’s off my phone cause it’s …
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I noticed there is a space missing in the bounty message on a post: Link to example post: Do you pay a gold tax when beating the final boss? The bounty has since ended on the example post, but any of …
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This is a bit of a follow up to the ‘answer’ here. From the time editing was first introduced, it’s a system that both has been refined, and occasionally has scaled poorly. In general, the mechanics …
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As announced on Stack Overflow Meta, the use of content generated by ChatGPT is temporarily banned. It was stated in Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned Stack Overflow is a community built on trust. …
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I suggested an edit on Seasoned Advice, and it said: Thanks for submitting an edit.It is only visible to you until it’s been approved by trusted community members. It should say: Thanks for …
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I’ve noticed each of the following scenarios happening quite a bit: A question is incorrectly identified as meeting a specific close reason and is closed. The author or other users comment as to why …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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I’ve just asked a question on Stack Overflow which was a prime candidate for googling. I admit it was a poor question and with a little bit of research I would have found the answer. It annoyed me …
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Executive summary Introduction of sparse hierarchy (partial inheritance relation) into the set of tags on Stack Exchange sites, in order to allow more efficient question organization/filtering/…
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There have been several proposals for how we’re ever going to get a handle on the ever-mounting close-vote queue. Dupehammer has been especially successful, and there have been several proposals …
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It seems that Stack Exchange is doing an increasingly poor job of communicating with the community about policy changes, decision-making processes, and problem solving. This has caused or exacerbated …
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One of the effects of the recategorization of Google Analytics cookie as a “Performance Cookie” was the apparent drop in visitor numbers in the 25k and mod analytics tools. This seems to cause some …
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“Vote on a post, not the user.” … is the central theme and guidance of the SE communities while encouraging the voting. However it might be neglected by some users when a particular …
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This describes flag weight meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80170/what-is-flag-weight (10k+ link) There is a link to an answer (from Marc Gravell) from another question Are the new moderator …
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Can you answer these questions?
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I visit Stack Overflow on my phone several times a week, and it seems like about once a week (maybe more?) I get this cookie banner. I make my selections, and expect the site to remember them. A week …
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A preface, as a frequent critic of the blog (lest anyone think I’m totally negative on it): this post was good! I enjoyed reading it and clicking through to the posts on some sites that I don’t …
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We have a Slack integration with stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/kedro, but from time to time we get questions that are completely unrelated and are not tagged with the kedro tag. For example, a …
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