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28 questions linked to/from What is FGITW and SCITE?
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The Many Memes of Meta
Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence "going viral&...
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What can be cut away, and why?
In my last question, I asked what you thought the public really needed from us, with the goal of seeding discussion around our common identity as the people who co-create this network and maintain it ...
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Is using reputation to scale the number of close votes the best way?
When we were working on the last se-quality-project, I wanted to introduce something into the review system that I still feel is pretty lacking. There's no way to really track your efficacy as a ...
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What has happened to the sorting of answers on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Has the sorting of answers on Stack Overflow been changed? Because I've realised that the answers aren't sorted by
Votes -> Time
anymore, and they are sorted in a different way. It appears the ...
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Should we require minimum reputation to continue asking questions?
We are reevaluating this based on community feedback. The new heuristic to prevent questions being asked will probably be based on a combination of question closes, question deletes, question flags, ...
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When should I vote?
I have seen a few questions here on Meta Stack Exchange that cover parts of this, but they are often too local, and none of them seem to cover all the relevant scenarios.
I will break it up ...
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The editing race - the slackers always win
I'm having a pretty big problem with the way the editing system is working lately. I think it was a recent change, but there no longer appears to be a warning message when another user has edited the ...
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Is there any benefit to allowing code-only answers while blocking code-only questions? [closed]
There have been several discussions regarding code-only answers (answers that contain only code blocks with no textual explanation whatsoever):
Down Vote "code only" answers?
Explaining ...
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When is an appropriate time to edit an answer after its been published?
10 seconds?
20 seconds?
60 seconds?
When is an appropriate time to give the original answer author enough time to edit his / her own answer?
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Closing a question as a duplicate of an off-topic question
What should I do when an off-topic question is asked that is also a duplicate of another closed off-topic question?
Close the new question with the off topic reason?
Mark the new question as a ...
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Which answer should I mark as correct - the first comments or the first answer?
After asking Player disappears when it collides with a tagged object, one user, in the comments section, asked one question and, with my answer, he asked another question and added a consideration ...
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Fishing for reputation on hot questions/answers?
Mostly, I only answer and comment on "hot questions". I have legitimate reasons for doing so, but sometimes I worry I am "fishing" for easy reputation on popular questions while other hard-working SE ...
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Is the order of answers with equal votes still random?
Is Jeff Atwood's comment still up-to-date? Will the order of answers be random if the score is equal or is there an algorithm implemented?
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How to give a chance to my cheesy riddle?
I submitted a poor answer on the competition Who Cut the Cheese? Then, I put a lot of effort into making an online cheesy riddle, but I couldn't create a new post, so I edited the bad, negative-scored ...
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Should voting be limited on a question said user also answers? [duplicate]
Consider...
A "downvote" will move an answer farther down the page, (an upvote, vice versa).
According to the instructors of this Udemy course, internal social media research found that ...