Questions tagged [users]
This tags is for general questions about users and user accounts.
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Add the ability to ignore users
Stack Overflow has successfully borrowed at least one XBox feature (Achievements). I'd like to see another feature borrowed as well.
Let's say I'm playing Halo online and another player is being a ...
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Is it possible to send a request to a person by a private message? [duplicate]
Is it possible to request the person by PM?
Scenario:
Someone asked a question.
He is asked to show the code.
The code was used unfortunately in pastebin.com
1 week later session expired pastebin....
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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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I can not upvote to the answer [duplicate]
I have accepted one answer and I had given one up vote to the answer and again tried to give one more upvote then the vote count was decremented to the answer and now I can not upvote the answer like ...
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Don't throw away all votes when a user is deleted
Currently, when a moderator deletes a user all of the user's votes are removed along with the user themselves. I was pretty surprised at this behaviour when I first heard about it, and I don't think ...
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How can I mention/tag any user in a post?
Is there a way to mention/tag a user in a question or answer?
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Disallow user names which result in unclickable links
This is not a duplicate of Why are usernames allowed to be composed entirely of non-visible Unicode characters? as that simply asks why this ability exists. This is a feature request asking for this ...
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Where in the world do Stack Overflow users say they are from?
I wanted to know more about where in the world Stack Overflow users come from.
Is there any way I could get more data for this?
Are there any more maps or charts to further identify where users are ...
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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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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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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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User littering old questions with link to website [duplicate]
User jaimeiniesta has been posting links to his website on practically anything related to w3c-validation. Some of them aren't even answering the question (ie How to setup W3C Unicorn validator for ...
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Does SE track previous website access?
I am wondering if math.stackexchange.com tracks or otherwise has a record of specific user-initiated access to the site, from a certain device at a specific time and date.
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To estimate how much time I've spent on SE, what tools are available to help, or at least how can I "vacuum up" all of my timestamps?
I just wrote the following comment:
While SE isn't social media per se I've asked about 1,500 questions in SE, and I could probably reconstruct a metric for total hours spent if I applied some ...
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Why is Stack Overflow - and Stack Exchange in general - so scary?
I have been an SO user for quite some time and not an entire dimwit when it comes to my languages of choice. SO is a very useful resource and has helped me out of a pinch many a time. However, when it ...
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