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Let's say I organize a group of users (or fake users/bots) with malicious intent to inflate reputation. They will ask questions and upvote each others' answers. To keep things safe, questions will ...
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I see an increasing number of stupid questions ridiculously upvoted, and socalled "answers" incomprehensible upvoted. How can we avoid that? Reason: Misuse of the system and the whole Stack-concept.
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I've been a "passive user" for years. I have derived enormous benefit from it, and I decided to become more active. It seems difficult for a "new" user to get started. I finally ...
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605 votes
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We’ve been there, we’ve done that. I know. But I have to air a feeling of powerlessness against certain disruptive users, and I think that Stack Overflow should have a better mechanism of mitigating ...
Konrad Rudolph's user avatar
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22 answers
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This experiment has concluded. We've gathered and analyzed the results in Results of the Trending sort experiment. As we’ve been moving forward on the Outdated Answers project, one of the things that’...
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6 answers
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As a new user (well new by reputation points standards), I sometimes run into limitations posed by the small amount of rep that I have, the most common being the ability to comment. According to Stack ...
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This question is based on a recent case of a user who came to meta and complained about their plagiarized posts being deleted by a moderator, who did not receive any punishment except for losing the ...
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Even a simplest one? Say, if some user gets all their downvotes reverted pretty fast, no matter how old and inactive the question is. And, I bet, the only activity of a Good Samaritan is to support ...
Your Common Sense's user avatar
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3 answers
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I've gotten a LOT from this site, and I'm trying to start answering questions lately. I recently provided an answer to someone with a fair question about image resizing. However, instead of trying my (...
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4 answers
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I would vote a question or an answer if I could learn something new or when the answer is very genius. However, I could not understand based on what criteria the other experienced SO users (those with ...
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1 answer
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I've observed that so many unupvotes suddenly in my profile. What is the reason for this?
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I found a question that was low quality, and an answer that was even worse. Both the question and the answer had multiple up-votes within a minute or two. I looked at the OP's profile and found more ...
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3 answers
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Just having some trouble sleeping, so decided to check Stack Overflow (It's currently 1AM EST) And noticed this question with 5 upvotes within 5 minutes. Curious, I looked into it, and it had 4 views ...
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In this question, the OP posted part of a licensed function from MATLAB Central, without any kind of attribution. Users pointed the lack of authoring information in the comments. I flagged the ...
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How can this happen: I thought that new users were throttled with asking no more questions than one within 90 minutes? As @gnat stated in comments: since all the garbage they dumped is deleted ...
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