Questions tagged [users]
This tags is for general questions about users and user accounts.
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How to report a user? [duplicate]
A new user with an inappropriate username joined a Stack Exchange site today and started posting overly graphic sex jokes, as answers.
They are clearly just a troll account. How would I go about ...
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Where do I find the official guidance that I can link to regular users about handling posts from apparently suicidal users?
This came up again recently, with a post from an apparently suicidal user. In this case, the problem was exacerbated by the post itself including profanity/cursing too, which is usually cleaned up ...
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Can we see user reputation by tag? [duplicate]
Can we choose a tag and see what users have most reputation in this tag?
Example: A list of users that are ordered in a descending order by reputation gained with the tag [ggplot2]. This would show ...
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In a chat room, what are the full mechanics of being "in the room"?
In a chat room, what are all the mechanics around being listed as "in the room" or not?
The various states of being "in a room"
I know of at least three states that a chat user can ...
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Is it possible to start a chat with a user? [duplicate]
I'd like to start something like a private chat room and invite a user to it to discuss possible research. Is this possible on Stack Exchange?
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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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How are users' tags determined?
I've looked at this question, but it's still not clear to me.
Searching https://stackoverflow.com/users/ my user tags are HTML, JavaScript and jQuery. This is the case for all filters (week, month, ...
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Is it possible to manually update one's display name on comments/answers/etc. to avoid deadnaming? [duplicate]
Two months ago there was a question asking about whether it would be possible to implement some semi-automated tool for changing one's username in past comments, answers bodies, etc.
I've recently ...
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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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Verify users like Instagram's blue tick [duplicate]
Stack Overflow is no more just a simple ask/answer website. For me as a consultant and manager in industry, when I want to hire an engineer, watching the profile and the score of that engineer is a ...
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Name changes: updating past comments, alerts, and similar upon specific request
Alright, so - there have obviously been past questions about updating one's username, e.g. Changing user name does not update @lerts / cites?, Change all @username references in comments when a user ...
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Where are the names of the user(s) that closed a question displayed?
My SO question has been closed.
Now, there is an official SO help page for people who disagree with the closure reasons. One of its paragraphs says:
If a moderator (user with a ♦ symbol after their ...
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User search field temporarily enlarged while waiting for results
On the user list page, there's a search field, which temporarily enlarges while the page is loading results. This leads to a strange animation, especially visible on slower connections. Here is an ...
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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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How do I search for posts involving two users?
I want to find posts (on some specific SX site) in which each of two users either wrote the question or wrote an answer, i.e. both users interacted with the question in some way - either by authoring ...
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