Linked Questions
16 questions linked to/from Create a separate, independent Advanced SO focusing on being a knowledge library (but still part of the network)
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An account of my meeting with the Stack Overflow management team
Recently, Prashanth Chandrasekar introduced himself on Stack Overflow Meta and engaged with us. I, Aaron Hall, a moderator, wrote up my synthesis of where I think we currently stand, and I offered to ...
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CEO's 2020 Kickoff Blog: Where do you see Stack Overflow going?
Hello members of the Meta community - I wanted to share the blog post I wrote to kick off 2020 and reflect on my first 90 days at the company. It’s intended for a wide audience, the tens of millions ...
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Introducing the Staging Ground, an attempt at improving the first-time asker experience - What was asking your first question like?
Stack Exchange sites are some of the best knowledge resources available. The Stack Exchange network is built on the premise that good questions (asked with a good process behind them) can get good ...
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How can we stop failing the users who we actually want to join, and remain as, members of our community?
For context, please read this excellent answer by Scratte, one of the very users this question is concerned with.
What was your reaction to that answer? Sadness? Shame? Despair? Because those were ...
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Is being welcoming mutually exclusive to question quality?
I'm interested in people's ideas about this statement:
Being welcoming is not mutually exclusive to question quality.
I first saw a variation of it in a comment from the CEO.
Respectfully, we ...
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Why do people answer inscrutable questions?
Consider this question:
Members of a class in C++
In object oriented programming is objects are member of a class in
C++? If not classes member of what?
class Name{
public:
private:
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Why is there such a large quantity of beginner Python questions that concern Pandas?
Something that I've noticed during my time on here is an excessive quantity of programming questions related to Pandas. Normally, given the package's popularity, this wouldn't raise any eyebrows. ...
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Stack Overflow needs an entrance exam
Every day, we see hundreds of questions asked that are of such low-quality one might wonder why Stack Overflow even allows to post it. We keep closing and downvoting them, but the problem doesn't end. ...
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Duping to require permission from OP before being actioned
I was a little startled yesterday when in a comment to a short-lived grumblepost on SO Meta, another member reflected that I should consider being a little more grateful to someone who had duped my ...
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Having multiple user levels (or leagues) based on reputation to reduce [duplicate]
One of the big issues that SO had (still has?) is that experienced users are stumbling across low-quality questions, typically asked by newbies.
I am wondering about defining several levels (or ...
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Is it OK to point out to a moderator suspected serial downvoting? [duplicate]
A certain user has been downvoting a lot of perfectly good answers. I know this because I've seen their reputation go down point-by-point since yesterday, and I see no downvotes in the rep history.
I ...
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Content relevance (filtering) for different levels/types of developers
Please note: This is not about forking/splitting Stack Overflow into "beginners" and "advanced" (as discussed e.g. here, here, and here, tag: split-stack-overflow). It's about ...
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Would it be a terrible idea to split SO up into a tiered platform?
It seem that with the sudden increase in popularity, SO is developing some problems, bad/lazy questions (I'm guilty of this myself, it's hard to get a grasp on the SO atmosphere when you first start), ...
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Unable to post question due to large number of characters
I am trying to ask a question about HTML and XPath. It requires HTML code to fully understand the issue, but the problem is that whenever I try to post it this message appears saying that you cannot ...
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Feature test: Thank you reaction
We just announced a new feature test for the "thank you" reaction on The Overflow blog.
We discovered that “thanks” appears in 1 of 6 comments left under answers. Although it's less common ...
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