Questions tagged [discussion]
Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If your question isn't a bug report, feature request, or request for support, it's probably a discussion.
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"No migration allowed after 60 days so we delete instead" policy [migrated]
It was requested that migration of questions to other StackExchange sites be forbidden after 60 days due to some issues it causes with regards to points/reputation, and it appears that this was then ...
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Stack Overflow Jobs is expanding to more countries
After more than 6 months of availability in the United States, Stack Overflow Jobs, powered by Indeed, is expanding to several new geographic regions in Europe. As part of the next iteration of this ...
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Why was my question closed for lack of context? [migrated]
I asked a probability question on the math site
Formula for Probability of rolling higher
The question was closed, saying I needed more context. I clarified a bit more, thinking that would be enough, ...
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What’s on your mind?
You. Yes, you: What’s on your mind?
When you think about the future of the network - years from now - what worries you? What makes you anxious? What do you look forward to? What might make you hopeful?...
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Why are there three ways to reach the dupe menu? [duplicate]
There are three different ways to flag/vote to close a question as a duplicate in the UI:
Flag -> A duplicate
Flag -> Needs improvement -> Duplicate
Close -> Duplicate
Admittedly, the ...
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Is reputation harder to earn today? [duplicate]
I recall seeing on another, non SE website:
Most reputation that will ever been earned on this website has already been earned. For new users, it's a slog to the top.
That is, older users with a few ...
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Why are users allowed to upvote their own Community Bot comments?
When doing my daily reviews across the network, I the often leave a pre-written, generic Community Bot comment on questions/answers.
But once, I accidentally upvoted my own Bot comment. And obviously, ...
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Proposal to award the gold Copy Editor badge multiple times
Nearly four years ago during major updates to how the review queues worked and following discussion on the matter, we decided to award the gold Steward badge multiple times for any given review queue ...
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We have a bad case of socks on ELL, please help [migrated]
I suspect there are at least eight sockpuppets operating on ELL. I've downvoted, I've flagged, I've commented but to no avail. After 18 hours of abuse, their accounts are still working, and "...
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Would it be a good idea for Stack Overflow to have Stack Overflow Fridays?
Recently on Stack Overflow's official Twitter account, there was a tweet:
What's on every developer's dream holiday wish list? 🎁✨ Stack Overflow Fridays to spend dedicated time giving back to the ...
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When is the company planning to suspend the genAI policy on the network?
The company embraces the AI hype and that's great. Together with the ethicalest and socially responsiblest AI providers1 the company is ensuring the internet is in the right hands. Naysayers will ...
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The Winter 2024 Community Asks Sprint has been moved to to March 2025 (and lengthened to 2 weeks to compensate)
TL;DR We will not hold a Community Ask Sprint this quarter, but instead, will try using a two week sprint in March 2025.
In the previous two quarters, we have held Community Asks Sprints where all ...
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What is the reason for gaining 2 reputation points on accepting someone else's answer? [duplicate]
This question has been bothering my mind for quite some days now. When a user accepts an answer to their question, they gain 2 reputation points unless it is a self-answer. What is the reason for this?...
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Notifications are either not marked read soon or at all [closed]
I've been seeing this on Firefox Floorp & Zen Browser (all Firefox-based) for months. I just tried this: either get a new notification, mark it as unread, right > open link in new tab, then ...
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Our robots.txt file is changing to allow only CloudFlare's verified bots
I’m elo, Stack Exchange’s Director of Reliability Engineering. I’ve been employed at Stack Exchange for just over three years - but this is my first time posting here on Meta!
On December 10th, our ...
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Is there a meta site to ask questions regarding life as an IT professional, other than technology?
Here is sample of the type of questions I am referring to
"As IT professionals, we are told that we constantly need to keep learning and upgrading ourselves with whatever new comes out there. ...
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Why do comments also show up when you want to edit a post? [duplicate]
Why do comments under a post show up when you want to edit that post?
I know they should show up for moderators to review suggested edits. But why should the one who wants to edit also see the ...
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The text of the previewed body is clickable while the body edition place exists itself
The body activates and keyboard pops up when you accidentally click on the white background or the text of the previewd body, which is unnecessary I think:
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Difference between clicking the words "Title*", "Body*", and "Rev" on the edit page
If you click on the word "Title*" on the edit page (Chrome for Android) you can type in your desired title to edit the previous one. If you click on the white background to its right nothing ...
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The last activity timestamp (if answered) in visited questions doesn't differ from a non-visited link
I just observed the last activity timestamp on question list for visited links doesn't differ from the non-visited links if the activity is answering.
As you can see in the picture, both links are ...
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Please make the links in "Related" and "Hot Network Questions" only touchable when clicked on the text
In the "Related" questions and "Hot Network Questions" under a question post even if you accidentally click on the white background you will go to that question page.
Please change ...
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Question closed because t is not about programming [migrated]
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Could someone please explain why Wndows update killed the program is not about development?
I explicitly mentioned that before the update the program I have been working on worked fine inside ...
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'User was Removed'. Why can't we know who that used was? [duplicate]
Question's in the header. It would be of interest to me at least, knowing the questions/answers involved.
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Think before closing question [closed]
I just asked a question at math stack exchange and someone kindly gave me an answer. I wanted to continue discussion but some cruel guy closed the question instantly and it no longer is available.
A ...
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How does this processing meet the company's legitimate interests?
To quote Bella_Blue's 2024-06-17 answer:
The objection to legitimate interests selection does not apply to “Necessary cookies only” due to the ‘strictly necessary’ exemption. When the “Necessary ...
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Launching “We’ll Be in Touch” as a new Stack Overflow Podcast series
I wanted to announce a fun new project I’ve been working on with the Stack Overflow Content Team to launch a new podcast series. We’re launching a new show called "We’ll Be in Touch," ...
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Action should be taken about VictoriaMetrics's spamming [duplicate]
I'm doing some research about Prometheus setup these days, and something very much annoying and frustrating is happening to me.
On lots of posts and questions on stackoverflow and other places like ...
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2024 Community-a-thon Recap
This past October, we hosted our fifth annual Community-a-thon, a special time when our team dives deep into the Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange communities to experience (again) what it’s like to ...
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Moderator-run AI detection accuracy experiment: results
Back in November 2023, we ran a moderator-run experiment (moderator-only link) on the accuracy of identifying AI-generated vs human-written content, where the participants have access to the context ...
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Summary results of the 2023 company-run GPT content detection study
I’d like to share with you the summary results of the study on LLM detection we’ve been conducting over the last several months. The study (link only accessible by moderators) was designed to measure ...
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Why is it difficult to compute the number of views a question received after an answer was posted?
I was reading this thread to see how views on answers are calculated and added to the people reached counter. I couldn't understand the reason for this point:
Plus, we can't really even count the ...
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How does downvote feedback work? [duplicate]
If you don't have the necessary reputation to downvote something on a given site, it'll say:
Thanks for the feedback! You need at least 125 reputation to cast a vote, but your feedback has been ...
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How long should I wait before posting a second answer to a question I have already answered?
When I have just answered a question and a second approach strikes me a few minutes later, should I post it right away or wait for some time? Is it acceptable if I post it a few minutes later? I would ...
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We are performing maintenance on our authentication service on November 19th
On November 19th, 2024 (next Tuesday), we’ll be performing maintenance on our authentication service, which controls user sessions and logins, in order to migrate it to Google Cloud Platform. We ...
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Hiding controversial comments disrupts the flow of the discussion
SE hides comments with low or no upvotes in long discussions to prevent the comment section below a post from getting too long and the user having to scroll to see the next post.
This is usually a ...
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Can I ask and self-answer a question where there's an ongoing investigation into possible/better solutions (by myself and others)?
I like the policy of self-answered questions, as it's a good way to document things I discover for my own use with the additional benefit of possible commentary by others.
However, a recent issue I ...
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Should we block the [disputed-review-audits] tag on this site?
The tag disputed-review-audits here on this site was previously used for reporting bad audits in the review queues.
However, questions about specific review audits are, by definition, site-specific, ...
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We’re (finally!) going to the cloud!
Stack Overflow has existed since 2008. At that time, it was a logical choice to run this from our own hardware in a datacenter. The company started with a small group of people who owned every aspect ...
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How does a user whose account was created 15 days ago have posts from 2015 and 2017? [duplicate]
I see a user at a stackexchange site whose main account and meta accounts are both reported to have been created 15 days ago.
However, their meta account at that site posted a question in 2015 and ...
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More network sites to see advertising test [updated with phase 2]
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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Upcoming research on Stack Overflow and across the SE network (Nov 2024)
Today, I shared an update on the blog about the research we will be conducting over the next quarter.
TL;DR – this quarter’s research focus is as follows:
Motivation, incentives, and gamification
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Why do mods have unrestricted access to users' followed posts but not saved posts and other private data?
I recently learned that moderators have unrestricted access to users’ followed posts simply by viewing their profiles. It's worrying and seems odd, especially considering that saved posts and voting ...
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Is there any site on SE where a question about cultural trends in search engines are allowed?
I have asked this in two places and it has been "off topic" both times.
How did "near me" become a common search qualifier?
How did "near me" become a common search ...
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Unable to copy edit question link when don't have edit privilege and the suggested edits queue is full
When adding a comment to request clarification on a question from a new user I try and start the comment with "please edit the question..." where "edit" is a hyperlink to the /edit ...
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Should you report an account you think is bought online?
I noticed a user post a question that looked rather basic. I looked at their previous answers formulated in an other style and have a sort of senior level (even on answers from more then 10 years ago)!...
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Why does the community bot only have 1 reputation? [duplicate]
I recently edited my post from an unlogged browser, and the edit goes to the community bot, as its profile also says:
I do things like
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Own suggested edits from anonymous users
So why can't it ...
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Is there a table that holds the badge name, its description, and retired status?
SO has badges that are awarded to users for completing some tasks. I was playing around with SO Data Explorer and noticed there is no table for badge definition itself.
So for example if I want to ...
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Confusing declined flags: proposed actions taken despite declining
As I was reviewing my flagging history, I noticed multiple flags that I raised on posts with the status-review tag were declined with the generic decline message*. Interestingly, the intended actions (...
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Thoughts on the CEO update Blog Post "Building trust in AI is key to a thriving knowledge ecosystem"
In the tradition of posting meta posts for feedback, in the hopes that it'll be conveyed to the relevant people, and at the very least, have a space to discuss the most recent blog post by the CEO.
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Why not delete users who haven't come back for a certain amount of time? [duplicate]
I might be the only one who thinks this, but I find it rather annoying that there are a million derelict, unused profiles, especially unregistered ones, that ask (or occasionally answer) one, singular ...
