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12 questions linked to/from Make Stack Overflow more friendly: remove the stigma of duplicates?
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Include OP's name when they agree community's suggestion to close as duplicate (per my sole VTC)? [duplicate]
I was the only one who cast a VTC on a question, and then it was promptly closed by community. I just learned from here:
Why does this question show as “marked as duplicate by Community♦”?
...that ...
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Can we make it more obvious to new users that downvotes on the main site are not insults and in fact can help them help themselves?
So, going through the questions about the blog post, it's stirred an old question in me I've wanted to ask for a while. To be clear, I have been sitting on this question for a while, not quite ...
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People MUST be rewarded with reputation for finding duplicates [duplicate]
And the reputation gained should count towards their ability to close the questions themselves single-handedly. Otherwise this site will continue to be the endless stream of extremely low quality ...
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How can we improve the question asking process on Stack Overflow?
A lot of questions that get asked on Stack Overflow simply don't do well on the platform. 20% of questions that get asked today get deleted, 22% are closed, and 36% survive but don’t get answered. ...
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How will Stack Exchange Overhaul their Q&A Format?
Given the recent blog post, an overhaul of the Stack Exchange Q&A model now seems inevitable.
This image apparently illustrates what Stack Exchange thinks of its own model nowadays.
But all of ...
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How to vote to close questions and be welcoming at the same time [duplicate]
I have some dupehammer privileges.
And I stand up and cheer when I read Jay Hanlon's post about making Stack Overflow more welcoming. With the possible exception of Jon Skeet, we were all n00bz once.
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Can users be educated without it being branded a "slinging match"?
By "educated" I mean: "be aided in their personal improvement as a developer, and their use of the site" but that was a bit wordy. I don't mean it in a condescending way.
This evening I happened upon ...
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Change the stigma regarding signposts
Plenty of Stack Overflow users have told me over the years that having great signposts is a sought outcome because it helps researchers (and search engines) to find the desired content. However, for ...
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Should we add more explanation when closing as duplicate?
There are a lot of duplicates closures all the time, and I often close as duplicate linking to one or several original Q&As I know.
We're refraining from answering and gain rep of course, but we ...
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Merged Q/A pages instead of "duplicate question" links
I've changed this from a feature-request to a discussion, since my ideas weren't (and probably still aren't) well formed enough to constitute a solid proposal. Thanks for pointing me in that direction,...
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Recently gained C# badge - can I still vote to close by committee? [duplicate]
I recently gained the C# badge, which lets me unilaterally close as a duplicate any question with the C# tag.
Can I turn this ability off, or selectively apply it? I prefer to vote by "committee" ...
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