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Moderator Note: This post has been locked to prevent comments because people have been using them for protracted debate and discussion (we've deleted over 300 comments on this post alone, not even ...
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It’s been 7 years and 10,000,000+ Questions since Stack Overflow was launched. The amount of good that has been done for the field - all the developers helped, all the person-hours saved, all the ...
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I'm resigning as a Stack Overflow moderator. Thank you to everyone who has worked hard to make this Q&A site what it is. I'm resigning for three reasons: Stack Overflow Inc. has forgotten how to ...
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I am extremely upset by President Trump’s executive order on immigration. It is immoral, unconstitutional, and fundamentally un-American. The community on Stack Overflow is made up of users from all ...
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I'm resigning as a moderator from all Stack Exchange sites, effective today. I didn't make this decision lightly, frivolously or suddenly. A persistent pattern of corporate missteps, and a ...
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Stack Overflow's 6th moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 3 new moderators are: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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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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I've been using Stack Overflow for a few years, and initially most questions you asked got a positive reception: happy comments and answers, people that tried to help you out regardless of the ...
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Effective immediately, I am resigning from my position as moderator on Stack Overflow. I will no longer actively participate on the site or network sites. I will move whatever discussions I can with ...
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I'm seeing a rapid trend towards worse and worse question quality. It gets to the point where I'm asking myself "Why did I even help this guy? He neither has the will nor the capacity to understand ...
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Can one ask questions about homework here on Stack Overflow? If so, how should I go about doing so? What guidelines should users follow when responding to homework questions? Return to FAQ index
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I think SO should implement dark theme. All major interfaces have a dark theme because it's better for the eyes.
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By now, everyone who follows technology should be aware of the scandals around Facebook's ethics and data privacy. Many users distrust them and are uncomfortable with their data collection practices. ...
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That close reason Yes, I believe it was condescending and somewhat rude. However there is a mass of questions that fall under a crystal clear criteria: They're poorly written. They have formatting ...
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I recently got the privilege to review questions in Triage, and I'm pretty sure I'm already doing it wrong. I've read some of the Q&A about the Triage review queue here on Meta, but I was ...
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Update: This survey is now closed. Stay tuned for release of the full results. The annual developer survey is now open: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/so-2016 It should take about 10 minutes to ...
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Over the years, users have told us that Stack Overflow is an indispensable tool for coders all around the world. Programmers know that when they get a Stack Overflow search result, it's likely the ...
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I just noticed that Gordon Linoff reached today, August 20, 2020, a million points of reputation: This comes after an astonishing amount of 71,839 answers (and 0 questions!). He only joined in 2012, ...
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It saddens me and breaks my heart in a lot of ways to do so, so I'd like to explain very briefly "why". Can't say much because I'd have to plagiarise George Stocker's resignation notice and he's ...
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I see that many moderators have resigned, citing some issues I don't know about. I don't know any of these moderators, I have no emotional connection to them, and so I don't care personally about them....
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My earlier blog post on how to write a good question is pretty long, and I suspect that even when I refer people to it, often they don't bother reading it. So here's a short list of questions to check ...
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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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Today we're proposing a new feature to the Stack Overflow community: Stack Snippets. What do Stack Snippets do? Stack Snippets make code blocks runnable. Here's an example: alert("You can even do ...
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I'm well aware that some research effort is expected of Stack Overflow users before they post any new questions, but I'm not sure just how much research effort is considered adequate. I asked a ...
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Stack Overflow sees many questions asked repeatedly, despite the large quantity of existing content. This is not always due to lack of effort - familiarity with the relevant keywords to use in the ...
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Recently, Prashanth Chandrasekar introduced himself on Stack Overflow Meta and engaged with us. I, Aaron Hall, a moderator, wrote up my synthesis of where I think we currently stand, and I offered to ...
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I visited the homepage today and saw this: Where on the right, you have 2 links to the Overflow Blog, and on the top now, you have another. I have posted about the sidebar before: Stop misusing the ...
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Yes, spring is in the air, and a Stack Overflow's thoughts turn to new moderators! This post concludes the auspicious tenth moderator election on Stack Overflow - not counting those two other ...
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Stack Overflow turns 10 years old today. In the world of Internet startups, that's a pretty big deal — most assumed we would have flopped or gotten ourselves acquired by now. Many of us have had pets ...
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Stack Overflow's November 2015 moderator election has come to a close, the robots have transferred many single votes to tally up the results, and the 3 new moderators are: They'll be joining the ...
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The Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming blog post says: Too many people experience Stack Overflow as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in ...
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I will start off by saying that I'm a bit of an oddball. I browse exclusively in private browsing mode. When I'm logged in to Stack Overflow and close a tab, I'm no longer logged in. So despite ...
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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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To an asker, their question seems pretty good. They've explained the context of their project, there's a detailed list of what they want to accomplish, and they've shown what they have tried / their ...
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Stack Overflow is beginning an experiment called Stack Overflow TV, or SOTV for short. It will be a series of fast, smart videos for experienced programmers who want to learn a new thing. The videos ...
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Accepted answers are pinned to the top of the list of answers, even when the accepted answer is outvoted by other answers (unless it was a self-answer). I am requesting that we stop pinning the ...
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It’s my birthday today and I’ve got a gift for you. 🎁 We’re lowering the close/reopen vote threshold on Stack Overflow from 5 to 3. About a month ago, Shog shared the results of our experiment ...
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Yes, it's another meta question about the "Stack Overflow isn't very welcoming" blog post. As someone who has been on this site for almost a decade, who has tried to post good questions, who has ...
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tl;dr: There is no tl;dr. If you don't wish to read the entire thing, then don't worry about it. I was hoping my month off would've cooled me off a bit or at least given me a different perspective ...
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TL;DR: Stack Exchange has a principle: the advertising is minimal, and shouldn't interfere with the contents of the sites. This works for all sites except Stack Overflow. Please fix this. Details ...
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We'd first like to take a moment to thank everyone for their patience while we put this together. Your restraint was a very big help in us handling this incident with the degree of diligence that all ...
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I often see posts in which no Answer has been offered as such, but the user's problem was solved using advice which appears in the comment section (or in extreme cases in the extended discussion in ...
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I cannot find any logout/signout button here. I have tried to remove account, it also cannot be done. Anyone know how to logout?
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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 ...
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In 2008, we set out to solve a problem that plagued every programmer in the world: the lack of an information resource that was free, vetted and maintained by programmers, where the best information ...
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Background There is a meta discussion going on, on How to deal with hugely upvoted, bad answers?. And as an answer, I wrote: You can downvote, comment, and provide a better answer, of course. But......
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Note: as part of the strike organization, this post is a mirror of a post on MSE Update On August 2nd, 2023, negotiations between community representatives and representatives of the company ...
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Today on "In Case You Missed It"… Shog9, a veteran Stack Overflow member and long-time Community Manager for Stack Exchange, recently Tweeted that he is no longer working for the company. An ...
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Stack Overflow's February 2014 moderator election has come to a close, sacrifices have been made at the altar of STV, and the 3 new moderators are: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — ...
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This question was prompted by this SO question It's a classic example of a "paste in requirements and ask for working code to solve it" (typically such questions are homework, but not always). ...
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