Questions tagged [visibility]
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Make it easier to determine the question's programming-language on Stack Overflow [closed]
Often, I find it difficult to quickly identify the language I'm looking at. Sometimes it is not obvious, and I need to scroll down or look in the tags. I feel like it should be specified right at the ...
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Certain escape characters can be copied while editing, but not after
(First off, this has nothing to do with backslashes) While editing my answer to a Code Golf challenge, I noticed that a certain escape character behaved in an odd way.
The specific character is \x1b. ...
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Should I be able to read/interact with a deleted post?
I was on the Biology Stack Exchange (where I have in the low 100 area of rep currently) and stumbled across a deleted answer:
It's harder to read the text through the screenshot, but it states:
i ...
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Indicating education status on Stack Exchange forums
In the age of information and, subsequently, misinformation, I was wondering if sites such as Stack Exchange (and all its companion websites) have considered allowing for users to verify educational ...
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Can you add tags in 'Similar questions' block for each displayed question?
I read that 'tags' on Stack Exchange are 'prohibited' in titles.
Should questions include “tags” in their titles?
So, to clearly identify a question, we need to read its title... and the tags.
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Permanent deletion, perhaps [duplicate]
Do we have a way to permanently delete posts? My mobile browser accidentally submitted a half-answer on this question, and in a fit of idiocy I wrote another answer from scratch and 'deleted' the old ...
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Why does sometime a question only get visible publicly after 3-6 min of posting?
As far as I have observed, after posting a question, the post is not publicly visible for like 3-6 mins or maybe less. After that, the question shows up.
However, the question is visible to those who ...
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What affects the visibility of a question?
I have been a regular user of the UX Stack Exchange website for about 2 years and I have always wondered about what brings more views to the question. And not just within the aforementioned site or ...
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Reputation still showing for hidden communities on network profile
I've noticed that, for users with hidden accounts, it's still possible to see reputation changes on their hidden communities from their network profile, yet it is not possible to see the hidden ...
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Make self-accepted answers rise to the top
There has been a very large amount of confusion about self-accepted answers not rising to the top of all other answers. For a while, it wasn't possible self-accept answers. Then this blog post came ...
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"Votes" is not a good representation of activity on a question
On the front page of any SE site every question has tallies for Votes, Answers and Views. However, Votes does not properly tally the actual amount of votes, rather it shows the net total of vote ...
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How do I look into the gift horse's mouth? (aka, how do I find out why my old answer got many upvotes today?)
I come to SE one evening, and to my vast happiness discover that I have just earned 70 rep points due to 7 upvotes on a single answer.
This causes me to think deeper. No, not about whether it's ...
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any option to show my answer above upvoted answers? [duplicate]
I have answered a question. I would be the 25th to give the answer. My answer is shown at the last in the list. I am sure that my answer is correct and will solve the questioner's problem. How can my ...
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Do bounties have more effects on a question's visibility?
As we know, a question with an attached bounty will most of the time get a visibility boost, mainly for two reasons:
Users will be attracted by the potential reputation gain and will check the ...
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Change the threshold for migrated questions showing up on the front page
If a question is scored at -4 or below, it doesn't show up on the front page of the site. This is current functionality
When a question is migrated to another site it is locked on the origin site. ...
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