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What kind of idiot is Richard? - or: Expletives in answers [duplicate]

George Edison and I got in a discussion about my April 30 Rollback to a "NSFW" version of the famous "RichardIsA...." answer to the old "Source code comments" question. While I'm in favour of not ...
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Stack Exchange is failing its community

I guess this is very much an intervention. There's a few policies in the pipeline - here's one, and there's another one that's not been officially announced that a good many moderators are opposed to. ...
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New year, new experiment: Login and Signup UI

In the true spirit of better late than never... We're on-and-off A/B testing a new UI for login and signup pages on all Q&A sites. It looks something like this: The long and short of it is ...
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How should we vote on neutral discussions? [closed]

As you probably know, "Voting on meta is used as an expression of agreement or disagreement on contributions, rather than to point out a lack of quality or helpfulness". However, this doesn't seem to ...
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How to contact Jeff Atwood? [closed]

I have a great idea for the company behind Stack Overflow and I would like to discuss it with Jeff Atwood. How can I do that?
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What's the SO policy for swearing? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Are expletives allowed on SE sites? I've had a number of times when I've wanted to use explicit language in comments (in non-offensive, possibly humorous ways), but I've ...
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Can we get an Announcement required-tag for (secondary) meta sites?

For the secondary meta sites, we have tags like discussion, feature-request, etc. I really think we could use a tag like announcement as one of the allowed required-tags. I'm thinking of questions (!) ...
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Default sounds in chat should be "only when mentioned"

The default sound setting in the chat web interface is pretty intrusive, with a bleep for every time anybody says anything. Suggest that the default sound be changed to "only when mentioned" to cut ...
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It is currently possible to notify all users in a room

My self-censoring attempt ended up highlighting for the whole room. Apparently, most combinations of three or more non-letters after the @ symbol will work, including the original @#$£ or less ...
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Why i can't vote a locked question? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is a historical lock, and what is it used for? Can someone explain to me why I cannot vote on this "f***ing" question? Joking apart, why was this decision made?
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New vote-button font hasn't been applied everywhere

A while ago, the vote buttons were changed across the network. There were a bunch of design issues and bugs that came along with the change, and though a few of them have been fixed, some still remain....
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Commenting on locked questions requires 1 reputation? [duplicate]

On locked questions and answers (example), the "add comment" button is disabled. Makes sense, since commenting is disabled on locked posts. However, it indicates a requirement of 1 reputation to be ...
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Unusual behavior logging in to stackexchange.com only (not other SE sites) [duplicate]

When I am logged in to one SE site, then type the url for another derivative SE site in a new tab, I'm already logged in there as usual. However, when I type stackexchange.com I see the page not ...
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We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows

Update This experiment has been graduated. The new styling for vote arrows is now live across the Stack Exchange network. About a year ago, the Product team, focused on improving the general ...
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