Questions tagged [users]
This tags is for general questions about users and user accounts.
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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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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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What's the policy about having multiple user accounts? [duplicate]
Take this example: all SO user accounts of user known as "icepax".
I can imagine of any human reasons to create a new user account at SO, e.g. willing to restart with a clean (reputation) history. ...
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Please charge rep for questions after threshold
There was a suggestion on uservoice - now down, that really illustrate the need to stop users from gaming the system by simply asking meaningless, ridiculous question after question to gain rep. We ...
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Is it possible to follow a user automatically? [duplicate]
I've been looking around and I can't seem to find an automatic (i.e. buzz- or Twitter-like) way to follow users inside Stack Exchange. Why haven't the developers added such a feature? It could help ...
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How can I report a specific bad user?
Every once in a while we get a question about how to report a bad user to the admins. Sometimes it's a spammer, sometimes it's a troll, sometimes it's just someone who had a momentary blip in the "...
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Can we restrict the ability of users to keep changing their names?
Obviously one of the things that this site encourages is the building up of reputation which is a reflection of how the community perceives you. However, after spending a while in any given tag, you ...
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Userscripts that will let me ignore users
IMPORTANT - Read before using...
This script is not meant to be a solution for bad behavior on Stack Exchange sites. If you feel somebody is violating the rules of this site, please contact the team ...
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Handling "Problematic" Stack Overflow participants
What do I mean by "problematic Stack Overflow participants"? Here are the criteria:
Asks dozens to hundreds of questions over a period of 3-6 months (or more).
All questions are consistently of low ...
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To reach out: on Monica, the Lavender community, and the future of the Stack Exchange network
Edit: While I do stand by my personal opinion that Monica did not intend harm, I regret posting this as if my position as a queer nonbinary person allowed me to speak for whether or not Monica Did ...
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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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Is there a way to follow people's activity? [duplicate]
Is there a way to follow a particular person (or List<Person>) easily? Some people answer the questions in a very educative way, and I don't want to miss them.
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What's the official SE response to serious mentions of suicide or self-harm in posts? [duplicate]
Last night on Mi Yodeya, someone posted a question that was basically a suicide note, along with the question of what Judaism thought about suicide. The question was put on hold very quickly, and ...
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Add warning when changing display name
The policy on changing one's display name was changed back on February 4, 2010:
only one display name change is allowed every 30 days
However, there is no warning whatsoever when actually changing ...
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Make the "past names" list public info for 30 days after changing your name
So this new feature just got rolled out...
There's a new numerical field in user profiles called "past names" which when clicked will display a dialog listing previous usernames and when ...
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