Questions tagged [stack-overflow]
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How can I encourage Stack Overflow to rein in the 'subjective' vigilantes? [closed]
I'm on SO pretty much every day researching something to do with programming, and over the last month or two, I find I'm growing frustrated and a little disgusted at how many interesting questions ...
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Huge close votes review queue on Stack Overflow [closed]
Today, the size of the close-votes queue is 55k questions and growing. Is that a problem?
Which action could be taken to clean it up? It seems to be growing faster than Stack Overflow members ...
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Is it okay to use Stack Overflow as the support forum for a product or project? [closed]
I recently saw a question about a problem (or possible bug) with some product on Stack Overflow. At first, I wanted to suggest that the asker post his question to that product's support forum.
When ...
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Should I not answer my own questions? [duplicate]
I asked a question recently, looking for examples of an online tool. Per the FAQ, I answered my own question with a few examples that I had already found. I did this so that these examples would be ...
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Why are the moderators being so strict with quality related flags recently?
I recently flagged a question as "very low quality", just like I've flagged many questions in the past. However, my flag was found to be unhelpful this time. The same thing happened when I recently ...
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Stack Overflow is getting a Meta of its own
We've grown considerably as a network since the days of the original trilogy, when the prospect of growing into a network of over 100 thriving Q&A sites was a distant glimmer in a cloudy night sky....
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Update Migration Path List for Non-Moderators [closed]
Currently the migration path options from SO are:
Meta.SO
Serverfault
SuperUser
Webmasters
Programmers
If we are going to be limited to 5 options, shouldn't we periodically re-evaluate which sites ...
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Do I have to worry about copyright issues for code posted on Stack Overflow?
I was wondering about the copyright of code snippets from answers. Let's say you ask a question and the solution consists of ten lines of code, which are given in an answer. Are there any restrictions ...
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Mobile optimized version of Stack Overflow [duplicate]
I found this one on UserVoice, and I thought it was fitting to bring it up here for further discussion.
"Stack Overflow already works with Mobile Safari, but the experience is far from optimum.
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"What have you tried" epidemic
Statistics
The usage of "what you tried" (WHYT) is growing (v2)
In Q1 of 2012 - 0.0134 such comments per question (~1.33%)
In Q2 of 2012 - 0.0167 such comments per question (~1.66%)
In Q3 of ...
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Why "What Stack Overflow is Not" was deleted
I just deleted What Stack Overflow is Not, a collection of various explanations for things that Stack Overflow doesn't do, wasn't meant to do, or shouldn't be used to do. Several people put a fair bit ...
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Force Accepted Answers on Questions by Inactive Users
As a disclaimer, I must admit this may benefit me (I haven't checked), but probably not as significantly as most others. This issue is also something that has prevented me from answering questions by ...
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Stack Overflow technology makes me write bad answers
Update: After all those years I came up with the idea, how to make Stack Overflow a friendly and helpful place.
Today I had some time and felt like writing a relatively good answer on Stack Overflow; ...
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Close all the typo questions [closed]
Update 2013/03/06: I've been playing around in the Data Explorer (first time I've used it) and put together a basic query to help identify typo related posts a little better, improvements welcome:
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How does a new user begin using Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange?
As a new user, I find it impossible to contribute to the community or to even begin contributing. I know why the reputation system is in place and I respect it, but at the same time it is too hard on ...
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