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I see “say thanks for this answer” near of answers. What is the meaning of this?
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Surely this should be being shown to the OP(?). Or should I give myself a pat on the back too?
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We will stop accepting contributions to Documentation on August 8 2017 On behalf of everyone who worked on Documentation, I want to thank all 15,451 users who contributed. We particularly want to ...
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Editors note: For the Ask Question Wizard 2022 see Feature Test: Ask Wizard for New Users (trial has completed) I'm really happy to announce that the Ask Question Wizard is now live on Stack Overflow!...
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Downvoting is a bigger privilege than upvoting and it plays a crucial role in keeping the content on this site clean. Downvoting is our most powerful tool for us, non-moderator users. Downvotes are a ...
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Prologue Since late 2019, I have been investigating why posts are ending up in the Help & Improvement (H&I) review queue when it should have been closed in Triage. Unfortunately, due to the ...
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Editor's note: This has been implemented. This post details the outcome of an experiment that reduced the thresholds for closing and reopening questions to 3 votes on Stack Overflow. Warning: ...
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I'm very hesitant to ask this. I hope it won't be interpreted as me trying to make some kind of statement or encourage people to do something or other. I'm not talking about my own opinions on any of ...
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The most recent Stack Overflow election brought up some great new moderators, including Andy, who has for the past ~3 years been running a comment flag bot to automatically flag comments for removal. ...
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Update April 2nd, 2025 As of today, we are returning the commenting experience to how it was before the commenting experiment. We have shared our learnings in a separate post: What We Learned About ...
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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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About a year ago, Stack Exchange removed "Hot Meta Posts" (HMP) from Stack Overflow's sidebar, giving moderators exclusive, manual control over which questions were "featured". The ...
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In connection with the ongoing moderator election, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. The top questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall ...
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TL;DR: Yes it can. Background On June 27, 2014 Skynet awoke. It looked at Stack Overflow and thought "Why are all these people being so chatty and talking about obsolete things? I should nuke ...
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Update The Downvotes survey was turned off Nov 12. It ran for four weeks and produced 1,455 responses. View the results Original post Starting tomorrow, we are launching a survey to gain insight into ...
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