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Why is there now a long list of tags and badges recently achieved by named individuals down the right hand side of the Stack Overflow homepage?
Whilst logged into my account, there is now a long list of tags and badges recently achieved by named individuals appearing down the right hand side of my screen when I navigate to https://...
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Another new user complaining about the site being unfriendly and elitist ... what to do differently?
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The fire-script of the 'MachineGun script (js)' does what he wants (from https://answers.unity.com/questions/207890/shoot-when-gui-is-pressed.html)
The answers of https://answers.unity....
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Should unnecessary formatting (that serves to draw attention) be considered an antipattern?
I've noticed a pattern recently (though it's probably not new) of answers using formatting to grab attention. For example, this answer uses a H1 and a blockquote to make the answer really stand out. ...
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Why isn't Internet Explorer showing the Winter Bash icon or hats?
The Winter Bash icon is shown in Edge, but not in Internet Explorer.
Microsoft Edge 40.15063.674.0
IE 11.726.15063.0
Why doesn't IE show the icon?
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How do you show words surrounded by angle-brackets (< >)?
Because of the Stack Overflow's Markdown editing system, I can't find a way to show words surrounded by angle brackets (< >). When text is placed inside these brackets, it is thought to be a ...
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Why is the Citizen Patrol badge awarded in a different way than Deputy / Marshal badges?
I'm pretty new on the site so I might be wrong, but from what I understand from the descriptions of the "Deputy" and "Marshal" badges, your flags have to be labelled as helpful by a moderator. I ...
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How can I find why a user was suspended?
I recently found that one of the helpful users was suspended. Is there any way to find out exactly why they were suspended?
Their profile says nothing except:
This account is temporarily suspended ...
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Not suitable question going to be removed, what about good answers to this question?
I do not have a lot of answers, I can be proud of, and one of them is to the question which is not a good fit for SO. The question is going to be removed soon, but nonetheless the question is not good ...
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Do I really have to accept answer when people think the answer is ok?
Well I have added a question in StackOverflow: How to make WebRTC peer server.
And I think in deep it is an advanced question. And I was imagining how great answer I will get.
What happened is that ...
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Are questions about making a toolchain appropriate?
I understand that some questions that are not directly about programming are nonetheless related and thus appropriate for Stack Overflow (e.g., help with installing a package with pip). However, is ...
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Is it okay to give one's under-rep chatbot special access to their chatroom for typical chatbot testing & such?
I've been told in Stack Overflow chat that it's not okay to give one's chatbots without enough rep special access to their room just so that it could chat. I took that advice and kept it at Meta Stack ...
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Is it possible to have Python code snippets in Stack Overflow?
Is it currently possible to have Python snippets on Stack Overflow?
Python is getting increasingly popular and is also currently the most tagged language in Stack Overflow. It has got 1177 questions ...
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Has the time come for SE to stop adding the first tag to the question page's <title> element?
Years ago Stack Overflow started to include the first tag from the question in the <title> tag. This was done to help with SEO:
Jeff Atwood SE Meta:
Sorry, this is absolutely necessary, ...
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What tag should I use to ask questions about the P programming language?
Microsoft recently open-sourced their P programming language. I don't see a p or p-lang tag. If I wanted to ask a question about the language, what tag should I use? If a new tag were to be created,...
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User created a Duplicate of own question, then deleted previous one
I was scrolling through the regex questions today, when I came across this one. I had seen a very similar question the previous day (that I had answered), and after checking it out and realizing it ...
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