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People using comments to answer questions [duplicate]
I have been noticing new questions often have answers in the comments instead of the answer list.
What is the rationale behind this?
I have seen this with users that have a lot of reputation too, so ...
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Would the striking moderators welcome a user strike? Should we, the users, go on strike?
As we know, there is a call for a strike from the moderators on the entire network. I support the moderators.
It occurred to me, perhaps a little late, that my participating on the site as usual — ...
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View "people reached" data/trend through time for user
Is there a way to view a trend (graphically or tabulated) in the number of "people reached" per user per site?
E.g., to see how many people a user's posts impacted monthly or annually, etc.
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Help us identify new roles for community members
Update 2 (March 6, 23)
We made a shortlist of the most promising suggestions from the answers provided, and we then shared our findings with Philippe Beaudette, our VP of Community. After some ...
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Community service hours on SE
If high-schoolers or other eligible individuals wish to amass community service hours by participating in Stack Exchange sites on a volunteer basis, is there/can we implement a mechanism by which ...
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How can you merge accounts when you've not got access to old email? [duplicate]
I have this old account and I can't log in to the email associated with it anymore:
https://stackoverflow.com/users/847047/avenas8808
https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/171485/avenas8808
How can I ...
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Can I ask a question about a great Stack Overflow contributor who has just not been active for the past several years on any Stack Exchange site?
While going through a post on Stack Overflow I went through the answer and could identify the answerer has a lot of Stack Overflow reputation. I sometimes go through people's Stack Overflow profiles ...
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Are there any (research-based) classifications of user types for sites like Stack Exchange?
In the game industry, we have the Bartle taxonomy of player types which is a way to classify users into four main categories: Achievers, Explorers, Socialisers, and Killers. I was researching if there ...
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Why are there some users named userxxxx and I can't view their profile? [duplicate]
I saw some users with userxxxxx with some of them blue and grayed out. Why are some grayed out?
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The Stack Exchange Active User Base
I have this question related to the Stack Exchange active user base.
According to this webpage, currently, there are around 661,293 Stack Overflow users who have at least 200 points as their ...
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Does the Age Eligibility section of ToS apply to biological or mental age? [closed]
Current version of the Public Network Terms of Service (accessed 2021-02-13) includes a section about underage users:
3. Age Eligibility
You must be at least 13 years old to access or use the Network ...
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What is a Curator? What is the Curator Team?
The recent Stack Exchange platform roadmap makes many references to "Curators", a "Curator Team", and a "Curator Support Team":
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/28/the-...
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How can I sort users by how many of my questions they close voted?
I posted questions. Some got closed. I'd like to see which users close voted them most often.
E.g., display: user X close voted to close 23 of my questions, user Y close voted to close 17 of my ...
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Why are Unicode characters allowed in usernames?
I find it to be very informal,
Some names can vary between Japanese letter/words (for example!) or mathematical notations.
It makes it way harder to find these accounts in a simple search.
For a site ...
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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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