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Is it worthwhile to try to engage spammers?
I used to have an in-your-face attitude toward people who posted spam, often adding mocking comments in their own broken-English style of writing (e.g. "high qality SPAM, download now, click here flag ...
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Should any Meta post that calls out a user by name be deleted, not just downvoted?
How can I report a specific bad user? suggests that calling out by name is, at the very least, discouraged.
The context is when the Meta post reports "bad behavior" and suggest a ban for the user. I'...
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What does a person gain ultimately by being and participating on a site like Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
Is it just the regular give and take knowledge site or is there much more to it?
I have personally started liking this site a little too much!..I mean I downloaded the app to stay updated(never really ...
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Tracking potentially problematic situations in SO
First of all, I want to highlight that I am aware about the feelings of this community regarding keeping track of friends/foes: in SO specific persons are not important, but questions/content.
I do ...
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When enough is enough [closed]
This user has now probably made around 15 accounts. He consistently uses the python, python-3.x, mod-wsgi, wsgi and mysql-python tags, and does not ever do anything constructive. This deleted question ...
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Is there a system for voting against moderators/high rep users?
If you disagree with a moderator/high rep user is there any way to flag this for further review? Or to even keep track of moderators/high rep users who consistently are disagreed with by the ...
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Why do some people only post answers, and not questions?
Why do some people not ask questions on SO? If it is only for reputation (which basically boosts their CV), they could instead do some investigations in spheres that interest them. So what's the point ...
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Angry answers from users?
A lot of the time I see an honest question. Aside from the wrong assumptions that a user can make, the answers that are provided by some of the users aren't well...user-friendly. It starts to become a ...
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What are the most annoying user behaviors you have seen? [closed]
For example, I don't really like it when people say thank you by answering their own question.
When people just think about winning reputation more than help users. I know that the reputation is used ...
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Dealing with non-accepting and non-voting users?
Newer users sometimes overlook the accepting and voting part of Stack Overflow. No big deal as this mostly resolves itself after they are pointed to it.
Recently, however, I stumbled upon more users ...
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What do you do when someone ask for clarification after clarification in the comments of an answer?
For many questions on Stack Overflow, I am glad to spend a few minutes giving the best answer I can think of at the moment, and sometimes my answer however naive, even seems to be useful to someone.
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Is editing someone else's question's title completely justified and proper or self serving? [closed]
So Mr Jeff Atwood decides to completely change my question title. And that was after it was changed by another person. I find this act annoying and disingenuous. I understand some people didn't like ...
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Why do you think people use Stack Overflow instead of Google?
Beset by the world covered by the couch surfer and idle wild. The people, hoi polloi, have gotten lazy.
I should know. I'm one of them.
Praytell, fellow thee, when did the world of programmers turn ...
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Perfectly Valid Questions with bad wording and people jumping on them
I just saw a few questions that were in itself perfectly valid, but badly worded. I do not mean the problem where the author is not native English and comes across rather harsh unintentially.
I mean ...
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(long) Fixing the unfixable: parting thoughts on social behavior
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Downvotes appear to be pure evil
Meta in a Nutshell
The vote system is heavily flawed, and being actively exploited.
Why am I posting this?
I'm leaving the Trilogy; as such, I ...