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Jira has a nice feature which shows the icon (favicon), title, and meta thumbnail of the page (if available) that the link or URL is pointing to. A real example issue in Jira containing many links: ...
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I assume that people asking questions should not be using Pastebin, because: Its license doesn't match SO Questions should be self contained. I just asked a user not to use Pastebin (they had put 50 ...
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For removal of "link only answers" the reason is given that if link changes the answers become invalid. I have a few points here: There are other software changes which make answers or both ...
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There are 20 posts containing a link to ctxt.io, some of which are questions not providing any minimal reproducible example. The site itself states “This paste expires in <30 days.”. Thus, most ...
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I was looking for a solution to a problem related to rendering a JSON file in HTML. I searched on Stack Overflow and found the answer to a similar question referring me to another question which was ...
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I found an answer to a Stack Overflow question from a GitHub issue. The solution posted in the issue is short and to the point. Is it ok that I quoted the GitHub comment verbatim and posted it as my ...
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I noticed this article (now deleted) that was posted recently to the Google Cloud collective. It's essentially a link-only article: Seeing that articles (at least technical ones) are similar to ...
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I see that many SO users have buy me a coffee links in their profiles, is this something that one should do? Is this in accord with SO guidelines? I can't seem to find information about this subject.
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In light of bobpowell dot net having been taken over by malware, as noted in How to report malware to Stack Overflow, does anyone have any objection to me editing the 26 posts I found with "...
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The question found here, How do I receive emails in e-commerce website on Laravel?, contains a link to what I assume is a personal Zoom meeting room. Is this considered acceptable? I do not find ...
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My reputation is more than 2000 on Stack Overflow, but still, my links are nofollow. I thought that above 2000 points the nofollow restriction was to be removed. I am giving a lot to the community, ...
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Stack Overflow "give users the benefit of a non-nofollow link in their profile (when they achieve 2k reputation)". Anything less would "open up a world of potential linkspam exploits" — Jeff Atwood ...
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Are questions that already MCVE, but have external files related to the question valid? how run javascript with php variables I think it is one of the example, which OP already posted the code to ...
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Today I found this question, where the author posted an external link to the whole project, instead of putting the key pieces of code into the question (before edition): Running locally working app ...
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Stack Overflow has updated the insert link wizard Unfortunately the https:// that is automatically in the box is not highlighted. This means you can't just paste the link into the box anymore as you ...
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The site whyandroid appears to have been a legitimate site at one point but is now redirecting in a very suspicious way. (After multiple redirects it either asks you to install an addon to your ...
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I tried to add a LMGTFY link in a comment to see what happen (I know that's it's banned). There's an error message, with a link to Google: I understand why LMGTFY are banned, but why link to a Google ...
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Same reasoning as Trigger MCVE error on paste.ofcode.org: the content of https://expirebox.com is always temporary, and as such has a negative value for Stack Overflow. Current usage: 80 posts
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A reminder of a common close reason (bold from me): Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as ...
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I came across a reddit post stating that unfortunately Chip Pearson has passed away, reference. With him his site ( www.cpearson.com ) went offline. It was a great repository for Excel (VBA) based ...
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I read with interest this question about an audit fail: Audit Fail on Possibly Correct Answer to Obviously Poor Question The issue was a link where the text read like a Facebook URL, but the actual ...
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There are 263 posts containing paste.ofcode.org, some of which are questions not providing any MCVE. The site itself states “Your code is always private, and always expires in one week.”. Thus, most ...
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While editing this answer to a generic question, I was adding Wikipedia links, I noticed that the other existing (also Wikipedia) links where all HTTP, though mine were HTTPS. Shouldn't they have ...
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I was looking at old (2+ years) questions with the owl-carousel, owl-carousel-2. In some of them users added links to the documentation. For some reasons those links aren't related now to the project, ...
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My question in general is whether it's ok, in an answer to a Stack Overflow question, to put links to pages for which there's some reason to believe (not certainty) that they might be violating some ...
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