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Deleting or destroying an account should raise a flag on any other accounts on the network

I have previously asked for a CM message to be raised when a user is destroyed for spamming Raise a Community Manager message when an account is destroyed for spamming but I have thought of a ...
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Can I use Stack Overflow usernames in an academic paper?

I am writing a paper about Stack Overflow users, and I would like to mention some interesting findings about some users of the SO community. Is it OK to do so? Do I have to ask them personally or ...
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Add link to Help Center article about moderators in the moderators tab on the /users page

The moderators tab on the /users page has some information and links about moderating/moderators on Stack Exchange. I think it would make sense to add a link to the main Help Center article about ...
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Cache (or otherwise speed up) /admin/users

When I load /admin/users on SO, I generally get a muffin or something while waiting: Those first two XHR requests (to load the all-time users-with-flagged-posts list and the 30 day one, respectively) ...
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Include ability to search users by created date

We have the ability to search for users by a variety of methods in the moderator tools. However, when searching it will return all matching data when we might need to be more selective in our search, ...
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How can these two users be a member of Meta for longer than the site exists?

During some ... research ... I encountered two users here: George Claghorn, member since 2009-06-25 Jeff Hardy, member since 2009-06-26 How can they be a member of Meta Stack Exchange for longer ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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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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Show the rest of the users you can ping in chat when there are too many to display at one time

I have recently noticed that when there are more than a certain amount of people with a similar name you get this However it is not very clear at all who the other people not listed are... So I think ...
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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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Allow moderators to see which comments are for deleted posts, on admin/users/<user id>/post-comments?state=all

When I look at admin/users/<user id>/post-comments?state=all, I cannot see which comments are for deleted posts. Could be possible to add a different background for the comments on deleted ...
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Identify unregistered users in flag queue

So far, there's only one way to differentiate posts listed in the flag queue. Between questions and answers, questions show the user-card in blue (as it always has) and answers have an additional "...
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User exists but clicking on the name shows 404 page

The following user was in the PHP room (had also visited before many times). When I clicked on the user profile on stackoverflow.com link, it redirected me to a 404 page. But the user exists if ...
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What are participation rates for Stack Overflows "was this post useful to you" button?

I just asked this question on stackexchange (webmasters) and @danlefree suggested that I try asking meta if it was possible to access some general statistics (even partial) about how high a % of ...
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Alignment issue in users page while searching user

There is an alignment issue occurred while searching the users in the Users page. The grid cells' height is increased while fetching the result. Once the result fetched, the grid's height become ...
Arulkumar's user avatar
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Mobile web: Show specific reputation change or vote / edit count on user lists

Like on the full site view, you can list users in the mobile web view. Also like the full site view, you can order users by specific metrics, like reputation gain, by votes or edits. You can even ...
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