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14 questions linked to/from I’m Jody, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Stack Overflow. Let’s talk about the site redesign
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In our blog post last month on our Community & Public Platform strategy & roadmap for Q1 2021, we announced an initiative to address outdated answers on Stack Overflow. Today, I'll give you ...
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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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Is there a way to encourage reviewers - especially new ones - to use "Skip" button when they are hesitant and not 100% sure what to do? For example, this edit was approved, although it is 100% ...
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TLDR; The question promotion algorithm favours questions that are hastily asked first and then actively followed up, but neglects questions that are meticulously written and as a result received ...
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After reading Sympathetic up-votes, it reminded me a bit of Why is Stack Overflow so negative of late? (I'm in group 4) as well. Reflecting on the second question in the post on sympathetic up-votes ...
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In light of recent discussion, the quality of questions on Stack Overflow is dropping rapidly, and as such, I find myself being more of a critic than I used to be a year ago. Questions which hardly ...
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Sometimes my post receives downvotes with no explanation on what I've done wrong. Even worse, sometimes I just get snarky comments! It seems like this is especially bad for new users, who are made to ...
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I came across this question on meta that talks about the barrage of down votes that posts can receive, which, after an edit or two become good questions and answers. The problem exists however, that ...
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I am a conscientious reviewer, and the conduct of some of my fellow reviewers, especially in the suggested edit queue, MAKES MY SOUL BURN WITH FIERY HATRED is sometimes imperfect and could be improved ...
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TL;DR: We are more than just another Yahoo Answers or forum, but we are presenting ourselves in exactly the same way; just another Q&A site. Although technically correct, due to our rules and ...
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In the wake of the famous blog post, I'd like to propose a rework of the reopen system. The problem: Poorly asked questions by newbies often get downvoted and closed. Sometimes, helpful users try to ...
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Last week in the beta announcement, we mentioned that we had a desire to move away from question closure as a primary curation tool. While closure was an effective tool to manage higher volume in the ...
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Post notice for a duplicate question This question may already have answers: Create copy of sheet and rename with todays date +4 days (2 answers) Answer box For testing purposes, I posted an answer ...
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Update February 26th,2026 As was mentioned on February 20th, we have another post covering more of our thinking and plans on how we are going about improving question closure. Update February 24th, ...
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